Broadcasting Press Guild nominees out

Alan Partridge’s Mid Morning Matters, Motherland, Mum and  Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle are all up for a comedy award.

They have been nominated for best comedy in the Broadcasting Press Guild accolades, chosen by a panel of critics.

The Partridge show, which aired on Sky Atlantic, is also up against Dave’s Taskmaster and  Richard E. Grant’s Gold documentary about Ealing Comedies for the ‘best of multichannel’ award, alongside the Sky Atlantic documentary The Fall about Zola Budd and Mary Decker and Sky 1’s The Last Dragonslayer (Sky1)

Meanwhile BBC Three’s acclaimed Fleabag is nominated for the ‘best online first/streaming’ award alongside Adam Curtis’s HyperNormalisation, Black Mirror and  The Crown.

Its creator, Phoebe Waller Bridge, is up for best writer alongside Peter Morgan for The Crown, Jack Thorne for National Treasure and Sally Wainwright for Happy Valley and To Walk Invisible. 

Gareth McLean, chariman of the BPG TV nominations, made point of noting that two out of the four best writer nominees are women, saying: ‘This is a tribute to their talent and but also to the BPG’s ability to recognise good telly when we see it.’

Taskmaster, with Greg Davies and Alex Horne, was also nominated in the entertainment category alongside Great British Bake-Off, The Graham Norton Show and Strictly Come Dancing 

And Richard E. Grant’s Ealing Comedies is in the shortlist for best documentary series alongside the likes of Planet Earth II.

The awards will be presented on March 17.

• Voting is still open in the Chortle Awards. Have your say here.

Published: 20 Feb 2017