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Edinburgh TV Festival Awards 2023 nominees

Tuesday 27th June 2023, 8:50pm

Taskmaster. Image shows from L to R: Greg Davies, Alex Horne. Copyright: Avalon Television

The shortlists have been announced for the Edinburgh TV Awards 2023, the awards run by the Edinburgh TV Festival. The results will be announced at a ceremony on Thursday 24th August.

The comedy-related nominees are...

Best Comedy Series

Big Boys

Derry Girls

Don't Hug Me I'm Scared

Everyone Else Burns

Extraordinary

Trying

Best TV Actor - Comedy

Gemma Arterton (for Funny Woman)

Jamie Demetriou (for A Whole Lifetime With Jamie Demetriou)

Jim Howick (for Here We Go)

Martin Freeman (for Breeders)

Sinead Matthews (for Hullraisers)

Taj Atwal (for Hullraisers)

Best Entertainment Series

Late Night Lycett

Taskmaster

The Graham Norton Show

The Masked Singer

The Rap Game UK

The Traitors

Best TV Presenter - Entertainment

Anthony McPartlin & Declan Donnelly (for Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway)

Claudia Winkleman (for The Piano)

Graham Norton (for The Graham Norton Show)

Greg Davies and Alex Horne (for Taskmaster)

Mo Gilligan (for The Lateish Show With Mo Gilligan)

Rob Beckett and Romesh Ranganathan (for Rob & Romesh Vs)


Elsewhere in the nominations, Jordan Gray's guest spot on Friday Night Live appears in the Breakthrough Presenter category, as does Sorry, I Didn't Know team captain Eddie Kadi.

Bad Sisters is one of the programmes nominated in the Drama category, whilst Trip Hazard, the programme presented by Rosie Jones, is in the Best Popular Factual Series shortlist.

The Breakthrough Actor category features Aliyah Odoffin from Everything I Know About Love, Amy James-Kelly from Everyone Else Burns, and Extraordinary's Máiréad Tyers alongside Lewis Gribben (Somewhere Boy) and Mia Threapleton (I Am Ruth).

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