DS Awards 2001 winners announced

Voting in the DS Awards 2001 took place through December 2001, with several hundred forum members logging on to participate. The results have now been tallied, and can be viewed in full below.

Among the highlights, a strong year for Channel 4, with Big Brother 2 being named Best Programme of the year, and new spinoff channel E4 taking Best New Channel. Kylie Minogue's "Can't Get You Outta My Head" convincingly won Best Single, and Sky One beat off close competition from BBC One to win the Best Channel category.

Category 1: Best Internet Service Provder

Winner: ntl:home (44%)
2nd: Freeserve (22%)
3rd: Blueyonder (14%)
Others: BT Openworld (12%), AOL (7%)

Category 2: Best Gaming Platform

Winner: PS2 (44%)
2nd: PC (36%)
3rd: Dreamcast (9%)
Others: PS1 (5%), Gameboy Advance (4%), Nintendo 64 (3%)

Category 3: Best Game

Winner: Grand Theft Auto 3 (46%)
2nd: Gran Turismo 3 (24%)
3rd: Max Payne (16%)
Others: Metropolis Street Racer (7%), Shen Mue (4%), Serious Sam (2%)

Category 4: Best Reality Series

Winner: Big Brother 2 (75%)
2nd: Survivor (8%), Popstars (8%)
4th: Pop Idol (8%)

Category 5: Best UK Soap

Winner: EastEnders (65%)
2nd: Coronation Street (19%)
3rd: Brookside (6%)
Others: Emmerdale (5%), Family Affairs (5%)

Category 6: Best New Channel

Winner: E4 (80%)
2nd: Smash Hits (10%)
3rd: ITV Sport Channel (9%)
4th: Dating Channel (1%)

Category 7: Best Film

Winner: American Pie 2 (31%)
2nd: Lord of the Rings (25%)
3rd: Shrek (21%)
Others: Harry Potter (17%), Pearl Harbor (7%)

Category 8: Best ITV Digital Channel

Winner: E4 (41%)
2nd: Paramount Comedy (29%)
3rd: Discovery Channel (18%)
4th: ITV Sport Channel (12%)

Category 9: Best Radio Station

Winner: BBC Radio 1 (44%)
2nd: BBC Radio 2 (21%)
3rd: Virgin (20%)
Others: Atlantic 252 (7%), Core (5%), The Mix (3%)

Category 10: Best Radio DJ

Winner: Chris Moyles (47%)
2nd: Chris Tarrant (20%)
3rd: Sara Cox (17%)
Others: Steve Penk (9%), Daryl Denham (4%), Chris Evans (2%)

Category 11: Best Sky Digital Interactive Application

Winner: Sky News Active (34%)
2nd: BBC News Interactive (26%)
3rd: Big Brother (20%)
Others: Wimbledon 2001 (18%), MTV Europe Music Awards 2001 (1%)

Category 12: Best Cable Interactive Application

Winner: BBCi (61%)
2nd: Big Brother (21%)
3rd: ITN (15%)
4th: Bloomberg (3%)

Category 13: Best ITV Digital Interactive Application

Winner: Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? (59%)
2nd: Walking With Beasts (25%)
3rd: Big Brother (8%)
Others: Wimbledon 2001 (5%), ITV Sport Predictor (2%), Survivor (1%)

Category 14: Best Music Single

Winner: Kylie Minogue: Can't Get You Outta My Head (32%)
2nd: Wheatus: Teenage Dirtbag (21%)
3rd: Limp Bizkit: Rollin' (9%)
4th: Shaggy: It Wasn't Me (8%)
Others: Hear'Say: Pure and Simple (7%), Atomic Kitten: Whole Again (7%), Afroman: Because I Got High (6%), Robbie Williams: Eternity (4%), Westlife: Uptown Girl (3%), DJ Pied Piper: Do You Really Like It (2%)

Category 15: Best Programme of 2001 (Open vote)

Winner: Big Brother 2 (15%)
2nd: Walking With Beasts (9%)
3rd: The Office (3%)
A wide variety of other entries were submitted, including many votes for Band Of Brothers, The Simpsons, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, EastEnders, Dream Team, Gimme Gimme Gimme and Star Trek.

Category 16: Best Channel of 2001 (open vote)

Winner: Sky One (15%)
2nd: BBC One (13%)
3rd: E4 (9%)
4th: Channel 4 (7%)
5th: Paramount Comedy (6%)
Many other entries were submitted in this category; most noticably, ITV1 managed to score just under 1%, having only attracted a handful of votes. MTV2 was the strongest-performing music channel, with 3% of reader votes.

Thanks to everyone who participated in this year's awards.