Peter Kay's Car Share leads BAFTA TV Awards comedy nominations

- Peter Kay's Car Share has four nominations in the BAFTA Television Awards 2016
- Other shows nominated include Chewing Gum, Peep Show and People Just Do Nothing
- Miranda Hart, Sharon Horgan, Graham Norton and Stephen Fry are amongst the other nominees
The nominations for the BAFTA Television Awards have been announced. Peter Kay's Car Share leads the comedy-related list with four nominations: one for best Scripted Comedy; two acting related nominations; and one for the Radio Times Audience Award, the prize voted on by the public.
Elsewhere in the list of nominees, BBC Three show People Just Do Nothing has picked up its highest-profile award nomination yet; Stephen Fry is nominated for his final series of QI; and stand-up Romesh Ranganathan has obtained his first BAFTA nomination for his Asian Provocateur travel series.
Here are the comedy-related categories in full.
Scripted Comedy




Comedy and Comedy Entertainment Programme

Charlie Brooker's Election Wipe



Female Performance in a Comedy Programme

Michaela Coel (for Chewing Gum)

Miranda Hart (for Miranda)

Sian Gibson (for Car Share)

Sharon Horgan (for Catastrophe)
Male Performance in a Comedy Programme

Hugh Bonneville (for W1A)

Javone Prince (for The Javone Prince Show)


Toby Jones (for Detectorists)
Entertainment Performance

Graham Norton (for The Graham Norton Show)

Leigh Francis (for Celebrity Juice)

Romesh Ranganathan (for Asian Provocateur)

Stephen Fry (for QI)
Channel 4's cop comedy drama No Offence is also nominated in the Drama category. For a full list of nominations across all genres visit the BAFTA Website.
To vote for Car Share in the audience award category, visit RadioTimes.com
The results will be announced on Sunday 8th May at London's Royal Festival Hall, with the ceremony broadcast on BBC One from 8pm.