Edinburgh TV Festival Awards nominations announced
- Edinburgh TV Awards nominees include This Country, Derry Girls, Car Share, Inside No. 9, People Just Do Nothing, GameFace, The Graham Norton Show, Taskmaster & Harry Hill's Alien Fun Capsule
- Daisy May Cooper & Charlie Cooper, Daniel Lawrence Taylor and Rachel Parris are in the Breakthrough category
- The awards will be presented in the Scottish capital on Thursday 23rd August
Nominations have been published for the annual awards at this year's Edinburgh International Television Festival.
The festival is one of the world-renowned Edinburgh arts festivals, taking place each summer in the Scottish capital. It will run between Wednesday 22nd and Friday 24th August this year.
Comedy nominees appear in a range of categories, with the acclaimed E4 series The End Of The F***ing World nominated for Best Drama.
Best Comedy Series
Best Entertainment Series
Celebs Go Dating
Love Island
Taskmaster (Series 5)
Gogglebox
Harry Hill's Alien Fun Capsule
Best Breakthrough Talent
Daisy May Cooper and Charlie Cooper (This Country)
Daniel Lawrence Taylor (Timewasters)
Rachel Parris (The Mash Report)
Letitia Wright
Other categories include Best Popular Factual Series and Best International Drama Series.
Nominated for Production Company of the Year are Big Talk Productions, CPL Productions, ITN Productions, Kudos, Studio Lambert and World Productions.
Best Specialist Channel nominees are BBC Four, Sky Arts, CBBC and CNN International; whilst the prestigious Channel of the Year prize is shortlisted for BBC One, BBC Two, ITV, Channel 5, ITV2, and the online-only BBC Three.
Winners will be announced at an awards ceremony to take place as part of the TV Festival's line-up on the afternoon of Thursday 23rd August [y]21018[/y].
The eligibility window for the 2018 awards was programmes broadcast between 1st April 2017 and 31st March 2018. Full nominees and booking information to attend the Edinburgh International Television Festival can be found at thetvfestival.com