ITV3 today announces a six-week Crime Thriller Season, leading up to the first ever televised ITV3 Crime Thriller Awards, which promises to be a glamorous star studded occasion, celebrating crime and thriller fiction from film, TV and books. Cactus Television has secured the full support of major publishers and retailers to ensure this initiative starts as a big event, with posters and stickered books in shops and supermarkets, and adverts for the nominated works in the press.

The ITV3 Crime Thriller Awards will be a glittering event at London’s Grosvenor Hotel. The awards ceremony will celebrate the crème de la crème of crime fiction with awards focusing on the best of British and International crime thriller novels. Other awards will include the Breakthrough Award for a new author of note. Read more & comment »