Comedians up for 2021 Royal Television Society Awards
Joe Lycett, Mae Martin, Romesh Ranganathan and The Young Offenders are all up for double honours in this year’s Royal Television Society Awards.
Martin’s Channel 4 series Feel Good has been shortlisted for the breakthrough category, while she and co-writer Joe Hampson are nominated in the comedy writing category, alongside the team behind BBC One’s Ghosts, and Peter Foott for The Young Offenders.
The BBC Three show about two lovable rogues is also up for best scripted comedy alongside Sky One’s Brassic and Netflix hit Sex Education.
Meanwhile, the consumer affairs show Joe Lycett’s Got Your Back is in the running for the ‘formatted popular factual’ category, with the comic himself shortlisted for best presenter for his work on BBC One’s Great British Sewing Bee.
Ranganathan is twice up against Big Narstie.
The comedian’s BBC Two programme The Ranganathan is up for best comedy entertainment show alongside Charlie Brooker’s Antiviral Wipe and The Big Narstie show.
While Ranganathan and Rob Beckett are up for best entertainment performance in Sky’s Rob & Romesh Vs, opposite Narstie and his co-host Mo Gilligan, plus Yung Filly for Hot Property.
Elsewhere, Paul Chahidi has been nominated for best male comedy performance for his role as vicar Francis Seaton is This Country – a rare acknowledgement for the actor’s work over the show’s creators and stars Charlie and Daisy May Cooper.
Also shortlisted in this category are Youssef Kerkour for Home amd O-T Fagbenle for Maxxx, both on Channel 4.
And for best female comedy performance, the nominees are is Gbemisola Ikumelo, Sophie Willan for Alma’s Not Normal and Ruth Jones for the Gavin & Stacey Christmas Special.
Winners will be announced at a streamed service on Tuesday March 16, hosted by Jonathan Ross.
Here is the full list of nominations:
Actor (Female)
Glenda Jackson: Elizabeth is Missing
Michaela Coel: I May Destroy You
Daisy Edgar-Jones: Normal People
Actor (Male)
Lennie James: Save Me Too
Paul Mescal: Normal People
Shaun Parkes: Small Axe
Arts
African Renaissance: When Art Meets Power
Keith Haring: Street Art Boy
Grayson’s Art Club
Breakthrough Award
Big Zuu: Big Zuu’s Big Eats
Robert Softley Gale: CripTales: Hamish
Mae Martin: Feel Good
Children’s Programme
JoJo and Gran Gran/It’s Time to Go to the Hairdresser’s
FYI Investigates – Brazil: Children Caught in the Crossfire
IRL with Team Charlene
Comedy Entertainment
The Big Narstie Show
Charlie Brooker’s Antiviral Wipe
The Ranganation
Comedy Performance (Female)
Gbemisola Ikumelo: Famalam
Sophie Willan: Alma’s Not Normal
Ruth Jones – Gavin & Stacey Christmas Special
Comedy Performance (Male)
Youssef Kerkour: Home
O-T Fagbenle: Maxxx
Paul Chahidi: This Country
Daytime Programme
Loose Women
The Bidding Room
Junior Bake Off
Documentary Series
Hospital: Fighting Covid-19
Once Upon a Time in Iraq
The School That Tried to End Racism
Drama Series
Save Me Too
I Hate Suzie
In My Skin
Entertainment
Beat the Chasers
The Masked Singer
Big Zuu’s Big Eats
Entertainment Performance
Big Narstie & Mo Gilligan: The Big Narstie Show
Yung Filly: Hot Property
Rob Beckett & Romesh Ranganathan: Rob & Romesh Vs
Formatted Popular Factual
Long Lost Family: Born Without Trace
The Rap Game UK
Joe Lycett’s Got Your Back
History
Lost Home Movies of Nazi Germany
Damilola: The Boy Next Door
The World’s Biggest Murder Trial: Nuremberg
Live Event
ENO’s Drive & Live: La Bohème
The Third Day: Autumn
General Election Live Results: An ITV News Special
Mini-Series
Adult Material
Small Axe
I May Destroy You
Presenter
Joe Lycett: The Great British Sewing Bee
Yinka Bokinni: Damilola: The Boy Next Door
Grayson Perry: Grayson’s Art Club
RTS Channel of the Year
ITV
BBC One
Sky Arts
Science & Natural History
Surviving the Virus: My Brother & Me
The Surgeon’s Cut
Brain Surgeons: Between Life and Death
Scripted Comedy
Brassic
Sex Education
The Young Offenders
Single Documentary
Anton Ferdinand: Football, Racism & Me
Surviving Covid
The Family Secret
Single Drama
Elizabeth is Missing
Anthony
Sitting in Limbo
Soap and Continuing Drama
Coronation Street
Casualty
Holby City
Sports Presenter, Commentator or Pundit
Michael Holding: England v West Indies
Bryan Habana: 2019 Rugby World Cup Final
Gabby Logan: London Marathon 2020
Sports Programme
England v West Indies 1st Test – Black Lives Matter
London Marathon 2020
The Open for the Ages
Writer – Comedy
Mae Martin and Joe Hampson: Feel Good
Peter Foott: The Young Offenders
Writing Team: Ghosts
Writer – Drama
Michaela Coel: I May Destroy You
Lucy Prebble – I Hate Suzie
Steve McQueen and Alastair Siddons: Small Axe
Published: 2 Mar 2021