Get the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox so you never miss a thing Screenwriter Russell T Davies called out a TV executive at last night's NTAs who dismissed It's A Sin as “that miserable Aids drama”.
The Channel 4 hard-hitting series won the National Television Awards new drama prize after receiving high praise from critics and audiences.
It stars singer Olly Alexander and follows a group of young gay men who move to London in the 1980s at the beginning of the HIV/Aids crisis. READ MORE: The Chase's Jenny Ryan looks 'unrecognisable' at National Television Awards Davies said it was his strong belief in the show that stopped him giving up after it was first turned down by the BBC and ITV, before being picked up by Channel
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