Comedies up for RTS Awards 2019
- Famalam, Detectorists and Derry Girls have been nominated in the RTS Awards 2019
- Lesley Manville, Sian Gibson and Daisy May Cooper are up for Female Comedy Performance
- Other nominations include The Last Leg, Don't Hate The Playaz and The Big Narstie Show
The nominations for the Royal Television Society Awards 2019 have been revealed, with comedy shows and performers featuring in many of the categories.
The comedy-related nominations are:
Scripted Comedy
Comedy Performance (Female)
Lesley Manville (for Mum)
Sian Gibson (for Car Share)
Daisy May Cooper (for This Country)
Comedy Performance (Male)
Samson Kayo (for Famalam)
Steve Pemberton & Reece Shearsmith (for Inside No. 9)
Alex Murphy & Chris Walley (for The Young Offenders)
Entertainment
Britain's Got Talent
Entertainment Performance
Michael McIntyre (for Michael McIntyre's Big Show)
Big Narstie and Mo Gilligan (for The Big Narstie Show)
Jennifer Hudson (for The Voice UK)
Writer (Comedy)
Stefan Golaszewski (for Mum)
Jamie Demetriou and Robert Popper (for Stath Lets Flats)
Lisa McGee (for Derry Girls)
Elsewhere in the shortlists, Romesh Ranganathan is nominated in the Presenter category for The Misadventures Of Romesh Ranganathan, alongside Michael Palin (Michael Palin In North Korea) and Bobby Friction for Pump Up the Bhangra.
Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing appears in the Formatted Popular Factual shortlist, alongside The Real Full Monty: Ladies Night and Gordon, Gino and Fred's Road Trip: The French. Meanwhile, Mo Gilligan receives another nomination in the Breakthrough Award, appearing alongside Informer star Nabhaan Rizwan and Save Me's Alice Feetham.
The Royal Television Society says: "The RTS Programme Awards are one of the gold standard awards for our industry and an important showcase of the extraordinary talent evident across the UK's television industry. The awards seek to recognise programmes which, in the year in question, have made a material and positive contribution to their genre: either because their originality in form or content has in some way moved the genre on, or perhaps created a new genre; or because their quality has set standards which other programme-makers can learn from and emulate."
Killing Eve, screen-written by Phoebe Waller-Bridge is nominated multiple times, with stars Jodie Comer and Sandra Oh up for acting awards, and the show itself up for Best Drama Series alongside Peaky Blinders and Save Me. The full list of nominations can be seen at rts.org.uk
The results of the awards will be announced at a ceremony at Grosvenor House Hotel on Park Lane on Tuesday 19th March.