Comedies nominated in Broadcasting Press Guild Awards
- Friday Night Dinner, Inside No. 9, Staged, This Country and The Trip are up for Best Comedy
- Best Entertainment nominees: Big Zuu's Big Eats, Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing, Taskmaster
- The results will be revealed on Friday March 12th
The nominations for the 2021 BPG Awards - the prizes handed out by the Broadcasting Press Guild - have been revealed.
This will be the 47th years of the awards, run by the guild whose members are journalists who specialise in covering television, streaming, radio, podcasts and the media. This year the results will be announced virtually, on Friday March 12th 2021, from 1pm to 3:30pm. The @BPGPressGuild Twitter account will reveal who has won.
Below are the comedy-related nominations:
Best Comedy
Best Entertainment
Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing
Race Across The World
Inside No. 9's creators Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton are also nominated in the Best Writer category.
Additionally, David Tennant is nominated for Best Actor for his roles in BBC comedy Staged and ITV drama Des; and Sky's one-off comedy drama Roald & Beatrix: The Tail Of The Curious Mouse is listed in the Best Drama Series 1-4 Episodes category.
More details on the guild and awards can be found at broadcastingpressguild.org