Comedies vie for Broadcast awards

Detectorists and Peter Kay’s Car Share have both been shortlisted in two categories at this year’s Broadcast awards.

Mackenzie Crook’s BBC Four show about metal-detecting fans has been nominated for best comedy and best multichannel programme.

And Car Share makes the best comedy list as well as being in the running for best original programme.

The full shortlisted for best comedy is:

Peter Kay’s Car Share
Catastrophe
Detectorists
Inside No. 9
The Keith Lemon Sketch Show
People Just Do Nothing

Also shortlisted for best original programme is Murder In Successville, BBC Three’s improvised celebrity comedy whodunit, and Ballot Monkeys, the ultra-topical Channel 4 comedy set on the election campaign buses of the main political parties, written by Drop The Dead Donkey duo Guy Jenkin and Andy Hamilton.

Channel 4’s Cyberbully, No Offence and The Tribe are all also in the running for this prize.

In the multichannel category Detectorists is up against ITV2’s ancient Roman sitcom Plebs as well as The Enfield Haunting, Reggie Yates’ Extreme Russia, Sky’s General Election Night Coverage, and The Unbreakables: Life and Love on Disability.

Meanwhile Alan Davies’s talk show As Yet Untitled has been shortlisted in the entertainment category, alongside fellow Dave show Taskmaster, in which Greg Davies – aided by show creator Alex Horne – set a series of challenges for a panel of comedians.

Making up the rest of the shortlist are Sky One sports quiz A League of Their Own, ITV’s Britain’s Got Talent, Reggie Yates-fronted horror gameshow Release the Hounds, on UTV2, and hypnotism show You’re Back In The Room for ITV.

Two comedies are also nominated in the children’s category: The Horrible Histories special about ‘Awesome’ Alfred the Great; and the CBBC sitcom So Awkward.

Finally, Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror: White Christmas, House of Tomorrow; and Danny and the Human Zoo, the fictionalised account of Lenny Henry’s life as a teenager in 1970s Dudley, are both up for best single drama.

The awards will be presented by industry newspaper Broadcast at the Grosvenor House hotel on February 10.

Published: 19 Nov 2015