The programs-category ceremony of Taiwan's 61st Golden Bell Awards, the island's top television honors, was held at the Taipei Music Center, where ‘Weekend Super Big’ (週末最強大) won the variety program award. The variety host award went to Shen Yu-lin and Melody Yin of ‘11 O'Clock Hot Shop’.
According to the entertainment pages of the United Daily News, the ceremony was postponed by a typhoon and held on October 25 at the Taipei Music Center, hosted by Chen Han-dian. Nominees were announced on September 15, and the variety nominees included ‘One Word, a Thousand Gold’, ‘Hello Debate’, ‘Star Chef Battle’, ‘Weekend Super Big’ and ‘Variety Big Brother’.
광고 문의 · 300×250‘Weekend Super Big’ took the variety program award, with its team thanking supporters and saying they had bravely taken a first step. Variety host winner Shen Yu-lin drew attention for winning after an illness, joking that he had thought the curtain was coming down on his life.
Main winners by category
The reality program award went to ‘Life's Big Thing: Go Up the Mountain! Team Taiwan’, and the reality host award to Sun Hsieh-chih, Wang Jen-fu, Hsu Meng-che, Chun Chun and Tsai Huang-ju of ‘Hunger Games’. The lifestyle program award went to ‘Life on the Train’ and the lifestyle host award to Tseng Pao-yi for ‘Let's Go Home 3’. The documentary award went to ‘Paradise: Going Out Well’ and the program innovation award to ‘Grandson Goes Wild’.
In the children and youth categories, the youth program award went to ‘Swap Parents for a Few Days’, the children's program award to ‘Hey! Let Me Tell You a Secret’ and the animation award to ‘I Am Chen Pai Pai’. The most popular variety program award went to ‘Cosmic Cheerleaders’. The Lifetime Achievement Award went to Lin Teng-yi, UDN reported.
Elsewhere, the directing award went to Liu Sung for ‘South Country Revelations’, cinematography to Pan Hsin-an for ‘Straight to the Source 2’, and editing to Liu Chi-hsiung and Lu Yen-chung for ‘Documentary Viewpoint: Strangers and Their Children’. The drama categories are awarded separately and are not covered in this report.