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Catastrophe, Car Share and Chewing Gum lead RTS Awards 2016

Thursday 3rd March 2016, 12:38pm

Chewing Gum. Tracey Gordon (Michaela Coel). Copyright: Retort

The Royal Television Society has announced the nominees for its 2016 TV Programme Awards, with Catastrophe, Car Share and Chewing Gum leading the comedy nominations.

The RTS Awards are held to "honour excellence across all genres of television programming and recognise exceptional actors, presenters, writers and production teams as well as the programmes themselves".

The nominees were determined by expert panels, with this year's line-up of judges having been changed. Awards chairman Alex Mahon explains: "I am delighted as the new Chairman to share the news that we have substantially changed the make-up of the judging chairs and the juries to a pattern that I feel is now more representative of Britain and of our viewers. This year, of the 200 or so jurors, we moved to 52% female and 27% BAME."

The winners will be announced at an awards ceremony on Tuesday 22nd March 2016 at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London.

Below are the comedy-related nominations in full:

Scripted Comedy

Catastrophe. Image shows from L to R: Rob (Rob Delaney), Sharon (Sharon Horgan). Copyright: Avalon Television

Catastrophe

People Just Do Nothing. Image shows from L to R: Decoy (Daniel Sylvester Woolford), Steves (Steve Stamp), Grindah (Allan Mustafa), Beats (Hugo Chegwin). Copyright: Roughcut Television

People Just Do Nothing

Car Share. Image shows from L to R: Kayleigh Kitson (Sian Gibson), John Redmond (Peter Kay). Copyright: Goodnight Vienna Productions

Peter Kay's Car Share

Entertainment

RTS Awards

Release The Hounds

The Graham Norton Show. Graham Norton. Copyright: So Television

The Graham Norton Show

The Last Leg. Image shows from L to R: Alex Brooker, Josh Widdicombe, Adam Hills. Copyright: Open Mike Productions

The Last Leg

Writer - Comedy

Chewing Gum. Tracey Gordon (Michaela Coel). Copyright: Retort

Michaela Coel for Chewing Gum

Car Share. Image shows from L to R: Kayleigh Kitson (Sian Gibson), John Redmond (Peter Kay). Copyright: Goodnight Vienna Productions

Peter Kay, Sian Gibson, Paul Coleman and Tim Reid for Car Share

Catastrophe. Image shows from L to R: Rob (Rob Delaney), Sharon (Sharon Horgan). Copyright: Avalon Television

Rob Delaney and Sharon Horgan for Catastrophe

Comedy Performance

Chewing Gum. Tracey Gordon (Michaela Coel). Copyright: Retort

Michaela Coel in Chewing Gum

Uncle. Andy (Nick Helm). Copyright: Baby Cow Productions

Nick Helm in Uncle

Catastrophe. Image shows from L to R: Rob (Rob Delaney), Sharon (Sharon Horgan). Copyright: Avalon Television

Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney in Catastrophe

Entertainment Performance

The Last Leg. Adam Hills. Copyright: Open Mike Productions

Adam Hills in The Last Leg

Ant & Dec. Image shows from L to R: Ant McPartlin, Declan Donnelly

Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly for their ITV shows

A League Of Their Own. Jack Whitehall. Copyright: CPL Productions

Jack Whitehall for A League Of Their Own

Breakthrough

Chewing Gum. Tracey Gordon (Michaela Coel). Copyright: Retort

Michaela Coel for Chewing Gum

RTS Awards

Richard Bentley for The Stranger On The Bridge

Car Share. Kayleigh Kitson (Sian Gibson). Copyright: Goodnight Vienna Productions

Sian Gibson for Car Share


Elsewhere in the nominees list, Channel 4 comedy drama No Offence and Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror are nominated for drama awards, whilst Channel 4's Alternative Election Night is in the list for Live Event.

For a full list of nominees across all genres visit rts.org.uk

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