Comedy shows nominated in Edinburgh TV Festival Awards 2020
- Best Comedy nominees: Defending The Guilty, Feel Good, GameFace, Mum, Sex Education and Stath Lets Flats
- Best TV Presenter: Adam Hills, Ant & Dec, Big Narstie & Mo Gilligan, Graham Norton and Kathy Burke
- Taskmaster, Hypothetical and The Graham Norton Show are in the running for Best Entertainment Show
The Edinburgh TV Festival, which is taking place this week as a virtual event, has revealed the shortlist for its annual awards. Below are the comedy-related nominees.
Best Comedy Series
Best Entertainment
Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway, Gogglebox and The Rap Game UK are also nominated in this category.
Best TV Presenter
Channel 4's hit comedy drama The End Of The F***ing World is in the running in the Drama category. Meanwhile Charlie Brooker's Antiviral Wipe and Comic Relief's co-produced special The Big Night In appear in the specially created one-year-only Creativity In Crisis shortlist.
Additionally, This Way Up creator Aisling Bea, Feel Good creator Mae Martin and The End Of The F***ing World actor Naomi Ackie are amongst the nominees for the Breakthrough category.
The results of the Edinburgh TV Awards 2020 will be revealed on 18th November 2020. Full nominations across all the genre categories can be seen at thetvfestival.com