KOI 2019 Television Shortlist Announced

	Philip Brines' design for Proms in the Park Belfast 2018, shortlisted for the DTS Award for Events, in the Television category of the 2019 Knight of Illumination Awards. Photo Credit: BBC

The Television judging panel for The Knight of Illumination (KOI) Awards, a celebration of video and lighting design, reveals the 2019 shortlist for the Television category.

KOI's Television judging panel is made up of television critics and designers. The judges for the 2019 Awards were television editor for The Times James Jackson, critic for FT Weekend Susie Feay, art director and production designer Fleur Whitlock, lighting director John O'Brien, lighting designer and programmer Ross Williams, and television critic for The Guardian Lucy Mangan. The meeting was led by lighting designer and longstanding KOI chair, Stuart Gain, of the Society of Television Lighting and Design (STLD).

The DTS Award for Events
Philip Brines for Proms in the Park Belfast 2018
David Gibson for BBC Football World Cup 2018, Russia
Tim Routledge for Stormzy at Glastonbury 2019

The Altman Lighting Award for Small Production
David Bishop for Made in Chelsea Big Christmas Quiz
Duncan Elsam for Jeremy Vine
Martin Kempton for Inside No. 9 - "Dead Line"

The Green Hippo Award for Video Design and Graphic Display
59 Productions for Five Telegrams at BBC Proms Royal Albert Hall & Edinburgh Festival
David Newton for Strictly Come Dancing 2018
Natasha Syganevich (Freckled Sky), Irina Zhivotko (Front Pictures), Nataliia Rovenska (TRI.Direction) for James Arthur on Britain's Got Talent

The JLLighting Award for Light Entertainment
Nigel Catmur for Young Dancer of the Year
Chris Kempton for Comic Relief
Tim Routledge for The Greatest Dancer

The Ayrton Award for Drama
Martin Kempton for Upstart Crow -- Christmas Special
Stephan Pehrsson for Les Misérables
Anna Valdez-Hanks for Clique -- Series Two

"This year saw the greatest number of entries ever received for the TV category," says TV chair Stuart Gain. "Coping with the very varied types of shows and scales of talent on display proved quite a challenge this year, with the judges having a really interesting afternoon choosing the winners."

The winners will be announced at the 2019 Knight of Illumination Awards ceremony and gala dinner, to be held on September 15 at the Eventim Apollo, Hammersmith, London.