Rose Matafeo leads BPG Awards winners with breakthrough prize

Friday 25th March 2022, 2:00pm

• Rose Matafeo has been awarded the Breakthrough prize at the 2021 Broadcasting Press Guild Awards
• Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing was awarded the Best Entertainment title, whilst Alma's Not Normal picked up Best Comedy
• YouTube comic and entertainer Chunkz was recognised in the Emerging Creators Award

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The winners of the Broadcasting Press Guild Awards 2022 have been announced.

The BPG Television, Streaming and Audio Awards - for work commissioned or premiered in the UK and screened in 2021 - are voted for independently by TV and radio correspondents, critics and previewers.

Rose Matafeo has won the BPG Breakthrough Award for her BBC Three sitcom Starstruck. The comedian, who won the Edinburgh Comedy Award in 2018, writes and stars in the comedy, which recently completed its second series on BBC Three.

Best Entertainment

Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing
In the latest run of their hit series, comics Paul Whitehouse and Bob Mortimer returned to Britain's lakesides and riverbanks to engage in more refreshing, relaxing outdoor larks whilst attempting to catch a bite. Other nominees were: Mel Giedroyc: Unforgivable, Michael McIntyre's The Wheel, Strictly Come Dancing and The Masked Singer.

Best Comedy

Alma's Not Normal
This northern comedy series follows a dysfunctional family of strong women, navigating mental health, employment, family and relationship woes, all whilst combatting one-size-fits-all social services. Other nominees were: Sex Education, Stath Lets Flats and Starstruck.

BPG Emerging Creators Award

Amin Mohamed aka Chunkz, for his YouTube content.

The results of the BPG Awards, sponsored by YouTube, were revealed at a ceremony in Central London today. Other winners included Stephen Graham, Claire Foy, Russell T Davies, A Very British Scandal and It's A Sin. A 'Harvey Lee Outstanding Contribution to Broadcasting' prize was given to outgoing Channel 4 News anchor Jon Snow.

Full results across other categories can be seen at broadcastingpressguild.org

Grant Tucker, chair of the BPG, said: "In their 48th year, the BPG Awards remain true to the values on which they were founded: celebrating the best work on TV and radio, voted for by those whose job is to write about broadcasting.

"2021 was a fantastic year for British television. The industry bounced back from the worst days of the pandemic with record levels of investment and programming, and our winners announced today are testimony to that creative explosion. It is also evident that, despite reports of their death, our public service broadcasters are very much alive and thriving."