BAFTA TV Awards 2018 - comedy nominees
- The nominations for the BAFTA Television Awards 2018 have been revealed
- Catastrophe, Chewing Gum, This Country and Timewasters are nomined for Scripted Comedy
- Other nominees include Adam Hills, Graham Norton, Michael McIntyre and Sandi Toksvig
The nominations for the British Academy Television Awards 2018 have been revealed, with comedy shows and stars featuring in a number of categories. Notably, in a number of cases comedy partnerships have been split this year, with only one of a team nominated.
The nominations in full are:
Scripted Comedy
Comedy Entertainment Programme
Male Performance In A Comedy Programme
Asim Chaudhry for People Just Do Nothing
Rob Brydon for The Trip To Spain
Samson Kayo for Famalam
Female Performance In A Comedy Programme
Anna Maxwell Martin for Motherland
Daisy May Cooper for This Country
Sian Gibson for Peter Kay's Car Share
Entertainment Performance
Graham Norton for The Graham Norton Show
Michael McIntyre for Michael McIntyre's Big Show
Sandi Toksvig for QI
Short Form Programme
This new category sees two comedies nominated alongside factual shows Britain's Forgotten and Eating with My Ex.
Other nominations
Michael McIntyre's Big Show is nominated alongside Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway, Britain's Got Talent and The Voice UK in the Entertainment Programme list.
Comedy drama The End Of The F***Ing World is up against Line of Duty, Peaky Blinders and The Crown in the Drama category.
The shortlists were decided by 250 jurors. The results will be announced on Sunday 13th May 2018 and shown on BBC One.
Host Sue Perkins says: "I had an absolute blast hosting last year's awards and I am genuinely thrilled to be invited back. It's a real pleasure to be the master of ceremonies once more, as we celebrate the very best in British television."
Kate Phillips from the BBC says: "We are so pleased that Sue is returning to host the Virgin TV British Academy Television Awards for a second year running. She is much-loved by our BBC viewers and I'm sure that she will once again provide us with a wonderfully entertaining evening."
The comedy writing category was previously announced in the BAFTA Craft Award nominations, with the writing partnerships behind the scripts for This Country, Peter Kay's Car Share, Catastrophe and Inside No. 9 nominated.
Black Mirror, Line Of Duty, The Crown and Three Girls lead the nominations when looking across all genres in the TV awards. Full list of nominations