Star Awards 2013
Star Awards 2013 (Chinese: 红星大奖 2013) was a double television award ceremony held in Singapore. It is part of the annual Star Awards organised by MediaCorp for the two free-to-air channels, MediaCorp Channel 8 and MediaCorp Channel U. Star Awards 2013 was broadcast live on Channel 8, on 21 April 2013 and 28 April 2013. The first ceremony was held at the MediaCorp TV Theatre while the second ceremony was held at the Marina Bay Sands. The ceremonies were also broadcast on 8 International and the second ceremony on Astro AEC & Astro Quan Jia HD  for the first time in HD. As with the previous three years, viewers were able to catch the presentation of the Professional awards (given out to backstage crew and scriptwriters) on Channel 8. The ceremony was aired live on 21 April, while the annual Star Awards prize presentation (for performance based and popularity awards) was aired on 28 April. A post-show was held after the awards ceremony on 28 April, which was broadcast on Channel U at 2200hrs. 20 programs (eight dramas, nine variety/info-ed, and three current affair programs) won at least one award, the largest representation  of programs with one awards tying the last year's ceremony's count. Best Drama Serial "Pillow Talk" won only one award, its lowest count of awards for a winning Drama Serial, while "Unriddle 2" won the most awards for the ceremony with five (two were from the big four major acting categories, and three from Show 1). "Joys of Life" won three awards out of the largest count of nominations for the ceremony (13), all awarded from Show 1. Only two variety/info-ed programs won multiple awards, which were "Find Me A Singaporean 3" and the last year 's "Star Awards" ceremony, the latter retaining the three-year winning streak for Best Variety Special. This was the second ceremony, since 2007 to not present the All-Time Favourite Artiste, in the place was the newly-introduced Honorary TV Award. Show 1. The first show, titled "亮闪八方" (Shining Light) was broadcast on 21 April 2013 at the MediaCorp Studios at Caldecott Hill. In place of the usual opener, artistes and nominated backstage personnel were directly ushered to their seats on Show 1, in view of a special tribute for late television icon Huang Wenyong, who died the previous day . A five-minute segment begins with host Lee Teng delivering his eulogy, then 30 seconds of silence was observed, and a video of his contributions was played. The show later opened after a commercial break at 7.08 pm. Show 2. The second show was broadcast on 28 April 2013 at the Marina Bay Sands Grand Theatre. Special Award. The Honorary TV award is introduced as a special achievement award given out posthumously to past artiste(s) to honour contributions made to the local TV industry. The wife and daughter of Huang Wenyong represented the late television icon to receive the Honorary  TV Award in recognition of his contributions to Singapore's television industry. Top 10 awards. Similar to previous ceremonies, The Top 10 Most Popular Male Artistes and Top 10 Most Popular Female Artistes will be decided by telepoll and online voting; each carrying a 50% weightage towards the final result. The telepoll lines was announced and opened on 15 March 2013, and would run until 28 April at 8.30 pm. The temporary results (Top n) are not publicized on TV but through the Toggle Now app, which users can download from the App Store or Google Play. The nominees are  listed in telepoll line order. The results of the Top 10 awards are not in rank order. Summary of nominations and awards (by programme genre). Most nominations. Programs that received multiple nominations are listed below, by number of nominations per work: Presenters and performers. The following individuals presented awards or performed musical numbers. Star Awards 20 nominations. The 2013 ceremony won all three nominations, which were Best Set Design, Best Variety Research Writer and Best Variety Special, on the following ceremony next year; for the latter it was "Star Awards" fifth win for the Best Variety Special, and the fourth  consecutive time on doing so.