This Country stars lead comedy-related RTS Awards nominations
- People Just Do Nothing, This Country and Chewing Gum lead the RTS Awards 2018 comedy nominations
- Stars of Murder In Successville, The Last Leg and Timewasters are also nominated
The nominees for the Royal Television Society Awards 2018 have been announced.
This Country stars Daisy May Cooper and Charlie Cooper lead the list of comedy-related nominations, having been shortlisted in four categories, whilst People Just Do Nothing and Chewing Gum feature in three categories.
Murder In Successville and The Last Leg and Timewasters are also nominees.
The RTS Programme Awards "honour excellence across all genres of television programming and recognise exceptional actors, presenters, writers and production teams, as well as the programmes themselves".
The shortlists featuring comedy-related nominations are as follows:
Scripted Comedy
Writer - Comedy
Steve Stamp and Allan Mustafa for People Just Do Nothing
Daisy May Cooper and Charlie Cooper for This Country
Comedy Performance
Daisy May Cooper and Charlie Cooper for This Country
Tom Davis for Murder In Successville
Entertainment
Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway
Love Island
Entertainment Performance
Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly for I'm A Celebrity...
Adam Hills, Alex Brooker and Josh Widdicombe for The Last Leg
Claudia Winkleman for Strictly Come Dancing
Breakthrough Award
Daisy May Cooper and Charlie Cooper for This Country
Daniel Lawrence Taylor for Timewasters
Molly Windsor for Three Girls
The awards ceremony, hosted by Vernon Kay, will take place on Tuesday 20th March 2018 at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London.
For a full list of nominations across all genres visit rts.org.uk