Royal Television Society Awards 2021 nominations
- RTS Awards Scripted Comedy nominees: Brassic, Sex Education, The Young Offenders
- Acting: Gbemisola Ikumelo, Sophie Willan, Ruth Jones, Youssef Kerkour, O-T Fagbenle, Paul Chahidi
- Mae Martin and Big Zuu are in the running for the Breakthrough Award
A number of comedies have been nominated in the Royal Television Society Awards.
The comedy-related RTS Programme Awards nominations for 2021 are:
Scripted Comedy
Comedy Entertainment
Charlie Brooker's Antiviral Wipe
Comedy Performance (Female)
Sophie Willan for Alma's Not Normal
Comedy Performance (Male)
Youssef Kerkour for Home
O-T Fagbenle for Maxxx
Entertainment Performance
Big Narstie & Mo Gilligan for The Big Narstie Show
Rob Beckett & Romesh Ranganathan for Rob And Romesh Vs
Plus Yung Filly for Hot Property
Writer - Comedy
Mae Martin and Joe Hampson for Feel Good
Peter Foott for The Young Offenders
Ghosts writing team
Breakthrough Award
Big Zuu for Big Zuu's Big Eats
Mae Martin for Feel Good
Plus Robert Softley Gale for CripTales: Hamish
Elsewhere in the nominations, BBC Three comedy drama In My Skin is listed in the Drama Series category, Big Zuu's Big Eats appears alongside Beat The Chasers and The Masked Singer in Entertainment; and Joe Lycett's Got Your Back has been selected in the Formatted Popular Factual category. Lycett is also up for the presenter award for The Great British Sewing Bee.
ITV, BBC One and Sky Arts are in the running for the Channel Of The Year title. The full list of nominations across all genres can be seen at rts.org.uk
The results will be revealed via a virtual ceremony hosted by Jonathan Ross, broadcast online on Tuesday 16th March.
TV producer Kenton Allen, who chaired the awards, says: "The standard of entries has been outstanding and demonstrated the breadth of high-quality content that has informed, entertained and kept audiences going through what has been such a uniquely difficult time. We very much look forward to and hope everyone will join us on the 16th March to celebrate the nominees and winners and another outstanding year of television."