Comedy actors and writers up for RTS Awards

Tuesday 3rd March 2020, 11:05am

• Phoebe Waller-Bridge leads the list of comedy related nominations in the Royal Television Society Awards 2020
• Fleabag, Derry Girls and Stath Lets Flats are up for the Scripted Comedy prize
• Aisling Bea, Tanya Moodie and Tim Renkow are shortlisted in the Breakthrough category

17th March: Winners revealed

Fleabag. Image shows from L to R: Fleabag (Phoebe Waller-Bridge), The Priest (Andrew Scott). Copyright: Two Brothers Pictures

The list of nominees for the 2020 Royal Television Society (RTS) Programme Awards has been announced, with comedy performances and shows represented in a number of the shortlists, including all three spots in the Breakthrough category. Phoebe Waller-Bridge leads the list of comedy-related nominations, appearing in three of the categories.

The winners will be announced at a ceremony hosted by Paul Merton on Tuesday 17th March, at The Grosvenor Hotel in London.

The comedy-related nominations are:

Breakthrough Award

Aisling Bea for This Way Up

Tanya Moodie for Motherland

Tim Renkow for Jerk

Comedy Performance (Female)

Diane Morgan for Motherland

Phoebe Waller-Bridge for Fleabag

Saoirse-Monica Jackson for Derry Girls

Comedy Performance (Male)

Alex Murphy & Chris Walley for The Young Offenders

Ncuti Gatwa for Sex Education

Youssef Kerkour for Home

Entertainment Performance

London Hughes for Don't Hate The Playaz

Mo Gilligan for The Lateish Show With Mo Gilligan

Stephen Mulhern for In For A Penny

Scripted Comedy

Derry Girls

Fleabag

Stath Lets Flats

Writer (Comedy)

Danny Brocklehurst for Brassic

Laurie Nunn for Sex Education

Phoebe Waller-Bridge for Fleabag

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For the full list of nominations, which includes Neil Forsyth nominated in the Drama Writer list for his scripts for comedy drama Guilt, visit rts.org.uk