Black Ops leads the comedy field

Bridget Christie, Rhod Gilbert and Black Ops duo Gbemisola Ikumelo and Hammed Animashaun are among the comedians up for Royal Television Society awards this year.

Judges have announced their nominees for the society’s programme awards, which will be handed out in London on March 26 at a ceremony hosted by Tom Allen.

Disney+ has received its first ever nominations, with Extraordinary up for best scripted comedy and  Máiréad Tyers up for best female comedy performance. But the BBC leads the shortlists, with 51 nods across the 30 categories.

Black Ops has a strong showing, as it is up for best scripted comedy and best comedy writers, as well as the nods for its stars.

Such Brave Girls follows with three nominations, for best scripted comedy and with creator Kat Sadler  and co-star Freddie Meredith up for performance awards.

The nominees in the specific comedy and entertainment categories are 

Comedy Drama

Big Boys (Roughcut TV for Channel 4)
Juice (Various Artists Limited for BBC)
There She Goes (Merman Television for BBC)

Comedy Entertainment

Rob & Romesh Vs. (CPL Productions for Sky Max)
Taskmaster (Avalon Television for Channel 4)
The Graham Norton Show (So Television for BBC)

Comedy Performance – Female

Máiréad Tyers – Extraordinary 
Gbemisola Ikumelo - Black Ops
Kat Sadler - Such Brave Girls  

Comedy Performance – Male

Freddie Meredith - Such Brave Girls 
Hammed Animashaun - Black Ops 
Jon Pointing - Big Boys 

Entertainment

Michael McIntyre's The Wheel (Hungry McBear for BBC)
Squid Game: The Challenge (Studio Lambert & The Garden for Netflix)
Strictly Come Dancing (BBC Studios Entertainment Productions for BBC)

Entertainment Performance

Hannah Waddingham - Eurovision Song Contest 2023
Noel Fielding and Alison Hammond - The Great British Bake Off
Rob Beckett and Romesh Ranganathan - Rob & Romesh Vs

Scripted Comedy

Black Ops (BBC Studios Comedy Productions and Mondo Deluxe Productions for BBC)
Extraordinary (Sid Gentle Films Ltd for Disney+)
Such Brave Girls (Various Artists Limited for BBC)

Writer – Comedy

Bridget Christie - The Change
Jack Rooke - Big Boys (Roughcut TV for Channel 4)
Joe Tucker, Lloyd Wolf, Gbemisola Ikumelo & Akemnji Ndifornyen - Black Ops

Gilbert is up for best presenter for his Channel 4 cancer documentary A Pain In The Neck, and has been nominated alongside Chris Packham for Inside Our Autistic Mind and Stacey Solomon for Sort Your Life Out .

Published: 7 Mar 2024