Comics up for Edinburgh TV awards 2024

Including Joe Lycett, Bridget Christie, Rose Matafeo and Rhod Gilbert

Joe Lycett, Bridget Christie, Rose Matafeo and Rhod Gilbert are among the comedians nominated in this year’s Edinburgh TV Festival awards.

Lycett is up for best entertainment presenter while his show Late Night Lycett is in the running for best entertainment series; Matafeo and Christie are up for best TV actor for Starstruck and The Change, respectively, with the latter also shortlisted for best comedy; and Rhod Gilbert is up for best factual presenter for the documentary A Pain in the Neck, about his cancer treatment

The full shortlist for best comedy is: Big Boys, Black Ops, Boarders, Extraordinary, Such Brave Girls and The Change.

And for best TV actor in a comedy: Bridget Christie in The Change; Dylan Llewellyn in Big Boys; Gbemisola Ikumelo in Black Ops; Máiréad Tyers in Extraordinary; Nicola Coughlan in Big Mood: Rose Matafeo in Starstruck

Comedy also features strongly in the breakthrough talent category, which recognises G’wed’s Dylan Thomas-Smith for G’wed, Boarders star Josh Tedeku and Oliver Savell, who plays a young Alan Carr in Changing Ends, as well as Bilal Hasna and Vivian Oparah for Prime Video's comedy-thriller Dead Hot and Levi Brown for the 1980s drama This Town.

Up for best entertainment series are: I Kissed A Boy, Late Night Lycett, Squid Game: The Challenge, Taskmaster, The 1% Club , The Traitors

Best TV presenter (entertainment): Amol Rajan for University Challenge; Claudia Winkleman for The Traitors;

Graham Norton for The Graham Norton Show and Joe Lycett for Late Night Lycett

Best TV presenter (factual): Emily Victoria - A Paedophile in My Family: Surviving Dad;

Louis Theroux - Louis Theroux Interviews…; Nadifa Mohamed - Britain's Human Zoos; Rhod Gilbert - Rhod Gilbert: A Pain in the Neck

Big Zulu is chairing this year’s juries made up of industry names. He said: 'Between the pandemic, the strikes and the recession, it has been a really challenging couple of years for our industry. The talent on display in this shortlist is a timely reminder of how valuable our sector is, so I am really excited to be a part of this year’s process.’

Awards will be presented in Edinburgh on Thursday August 22.

A full list of nominees is available here.

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Published: 26 Jun 2024