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<\/a><\/p>\nSince I first attended Banff World Television Festival (bwtvf)<\/a> as a CTV Fellow in 2006, I have reported on\u00a0Banff and NextMEDIA<\/a> conferences every year since. I was thrilled to attend Banff and report on CTV Flashpoint<\/a>, ran into Brett Wilson & Sarah McLachlan <\/a>and interviewed Brett<\/a>, interviewed Ron Moore (Battlestar Galactica)<\/a>, watched Doug Ellin (Entourage)<\/a>, and interviewed David Hoselton (House)<\/a>.<\/p>\n Every year, I eagerly await announcements of exciting events or speakers that will lead me to block off my time and decide I will attend bwtvf and NextMEDIA conferences. OK, I know it is a short drive from Calgary to Banff, but I don’t want to report simply because I have to. I want to attend and report because I LOVE to!<\/p>\n Well, for 2010, because of one man, I am again going to attend and report from Banff World Television Festival<\/a> with the most excitement and eagerness because I just LOVE\u00a0Ricky Gervais<\/a><\/strong> and consider Ricky one of the most talented comic mind and producer\/creator of shows in our time.<\/p>\n If you are remotely connected in the entertainment business, find time to attend 2010 Banff World Television Festival<\/a> and you will learn a lot, plus you get to meet Ricky. Here is the press release from Banff<\/a> about\u00a0Ricky<\/a>.<\/p>\n ***<\/p>\n Ricky Gervais to be Awarded Sir Peter Ustinov Comedy Award at BANFF \/ nextMEDIA 2010 –\u00a0British comedian and recent Golden Globe host to participate in tell-all interview about his career and success<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n February 8, 2010, 9:10 pm<\/p>\n Banff, AB \u2013 The Banff World Television Festival and nextMEDIA are delighted to announce that Ricky Gervais will be presented with the Sir Peter Ustinov Comedy Award, at this year\u2019s event taking place June 13-16 at the Banff Springs Hotel in Banff, Alberta. The award acknowledges outstanding comedic performances \u2013 prominent comedic actors who have received this prestigious award include John Cleese, Bob Newhart and Kelsey Grammer.<\/p>\n In addition to being recognized for comedic excellence, Gervais will also chart his career and success to date, in an interview, which delegates can attend.<\/p>\n Over a 10-year period Ricky Gervais has become the most influential British comedian since Charlie Chaplin. He is an award-winning stand up and his tour \u2018FAME\u2019 became the fastest selling UK stand up show in history, selling an untouchable 100,000 tickets in 9 minutes.<\/p>\n Named one of the 100 Most Influential People In The World by Time Magazine, one place behind Nelson Mandela, Ricky has also won two Emmys and three Golden Globes. \u2018The Office\u2019 is the most successful British comedy of all time being shown in over 90 countries with seven remakes.<\/p>\n “This is probably the greatest honour of my career. Only the Nobel Peace Prize can top this, but I will only accept that in person if the ceremony is held somewhere as beautiful as Banff. I think they Fedex, luckily<\/strong>,” says Ricky.<\/p>\n <\/span>\u201cWe could think of no one funny man so deserving of this prestigious award this year, than Ricky Gervais. The Office is the most critically acclaimed sitcom of all time and Gervais\u2019 worldwide influence in the comedy industry is unparalleled,\u201d says Peter Vamos, Executive Director of the Banff World Television Festival.<\/p>\n This year\u2019s Banff World Television Festival announced an innovative strategic partnership that will combine nextMEDIA and the Banff World Television Festival (BANFF) into a joint event at the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel on June 13\u201316, 2010.<\/p>\n Combining nextMEDIA and BANFF is a response to delegate feedback on the emerging opportunities\u2003between television and digital media platforms. During the enhanced four-day event in Banff, some of the biggest names in broadcasting, television production, distribution and digital media from North America will come together to experience industry insight and the synergy connecting the media community. Over 1500 delegates are expected to attend.<\/p>\n About Ricky Gervais<\/p>\n At the turn of this century, Ricky was preparing to star and direct a pilot he had written with Stephen Merchant for the BBC, called \u2018The Office\u2019. It went quite well and a series was commissioned. It first aired at 9.30pm on Monday 9 July 2001 on the BBC. The rest as they say is history. It is the most critically acclaimed sitcom of all time becoming the first British comedy to win a Golden Globe. In all, Ricky has won two Primetime Emmys, three Golden Globes and seven BAFTAs. The beginning of the next decade is looking good for the fat bloke from Reading too. He started the year as the first host of The Golden Globes since 1995, with an estimated world TV audience of 250 million. www.rickygervais.com<\/a><\/p>\n *** Filed under: bwtvf<\/a>, bwtvf-nextMEDIA<\/a>, Comedy<\/a>, Fun<\/a>, Television<\/a> Since I first attended Banff World Television Festival (bwtvf) as a CTV Fellow in 2006, I have reported on\u00a0Banff and NextMEDIA conferences every year since. I was thrilled to attend Banff and report on CTV Flashpoint, ran into Brett Wilson & Sarah McLachlan and interviewed Brett, interviewed Ron Moore (Battlestar Galactica), watched Doug Ellin (Entourage), […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":841,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/841"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/RAmm0uD_7io\/2.jpg\")
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\nRicky is a super funny man. Here is he on Ellen DeGeneres Show before the Golden Globe.
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