Chernobyl, Fleabag and Love Island up for Royal Television Society awards

Chernobyl, Fleabag and Love Island are among the TV shows to receive nominations for this year’s Royal Television Society (RTS) awards.

Nuclear disaster dramatisation Chernobyl is up for the mini-series award, while Fleabag is shortlisted in the scripted comedy category – and creator and star Phoebe Waller-Bridge is also up for the comedy writer and performance awards.

Love Island is in the running for the entertainment award, up against Britain’s Got Talent and RuPaul’s Drag Race UK.

In the acting categories, The Virtues’ Stephen Graham, Top Boy’s Micheal Ward, Gentleman Jack’s Suranne Jones and Sex Education star Ncuti Gatwa are among the nominees.

Chernobyl also receives further nods, for best actor for Jared Harris, and the drama writer prize for Craig Mazin, while Derry Girls is also up for several awards.

Sky Atlantic, BBC Three and Channel 5 are in the running for the channel of the year prize, while Aisling Bea, Tanya Moodie and Tim Renkow are nominated for the breakthrough award for This Way Up, Motherland and Jerk respectively.

And in the battle of the soaps, Casualty, Coronation Street and EastEnders will go head to head for the soap and continuing drama award.

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Other shows to receive nominations include Celebrity Gogglebox, Brassic, Bros: After The Screaming Stops, and Jade: The Reality Star Who Changed Britain.

The RTS awards cover all aspects of television, from comedy and drama to sport and reality TV.

The nominees were announced on Tuesday and the ceremony will take place on 17 March.

Here is the full list of nominees:

Actor (Female)

• Niamh Algar – The Virtues
• Suranne Jones – Gentleman Jack
• Tamara Lawrance – The Long Song

Actor (Male)

• Jared Harris – Chernobyl
• Micheal Ward – Top Boy
• Stephen Graham – The Virtues

Drama Series

• Ackley Bridge
• The Capture
• Gentleman Jack

Entertainment

• Britain’s Got Talent
• Love Island
• RuPaul’s Drag Race UK

Comedy Performance (Female)

• Diane Morgan – Motherland
• Phoebe Waller-Bridge – Fleabag
• Saoirse-Monica Jackson – Derry Girls

Comedy Performance (Male)

• Alex Murphy & Chris Walley – The Young Offenders
• Ncuti Gatwa – Sex Education
• Youssef Kerkour – Home

Mini-Series

• Chernobyl
• The Long Song
• Years and Years

RTS Channel of the Year

• BBC Three
• Channel 5
• Sky Atlantic

Breakthrough Award

• Aisling Bea – This Way Up
• Tanya Moodie – Motherland
• Tim Renkow – Jerk

Arts

• Bros: After The Screaming Stops
• Imagine… James Graham: In The Room Where It Happens
• Superkids: Breaking Away From Care

Documentary Series

• The Choir: Our School By The Tower
• Crime and Punishment
• Hometown: A Killing

Formatted Popular Factual

• The British Tribe Next Door
• Celebrity Gogglebox
• The Circle

History

• Jade: The Reality Star Who Changed Britain
• The Last Survivors
• Spotlight On The Troubles: A Secret History

Live Event

• The BRIT Awards 2019
• The Royal British Legion Festival of Remembrance
• Stormzy at Glastonbury 2019

Scripted Comedy

• Derry Girls
• Fleabag
• Stath Lets Flats

Soap and Continuing Drama

• Casualty (BBC Studios for BBC One)
• Coronation Street (ITV Studios for ITV)
• EastEnders (BBC Studios for BBC One)

Writer (Comedy)

• Danny Brocklehurst – Brassic
• Laurie Nunn – Sex Education
• Phoebe Waller-Bridge – Fleabag

Writer (Drama)

• Craig Mazin – Chernobyl
• Neil Forsyth – Guilt
• Roy Williams – Soon Gone: A Windrush Chronicle

Children’s Programme

• The Athena
• Step Up to the Plate
• Zog

Daytime Programme

• Beat The Chef
• Good Morning Britain
• The Repair Shop

Entertainment Performance

• London Hughes – Don’t Hate The Playaz
• Mo Gilligan – The Lateish Show with Mo Gilligan
• Stephen Mulhern – In For A Penny

Presenter

• Fred Brathwaite – A Fresh Guide to Florence with Fab 5 Freddy
• Mobeen Azhar – Hometown: A Killing
• Vicky McClure – Our Dementia Choir with Vicky McClure

Science and Natural History

• 8 Days: To the Moon and Back
• The Parkinson’s Drug Trial: A Miracle Cure?
• The Planets

Single Documentary

• David Harewood: Psychosis and Me
• Undercover: Inside China’s Digital Gulag
• War in the Blood

Single Drama

• Brexit: The Uncivil War
• Doing Money
• The Left Behind

Sports Presenter, Commentator or Pundit

• Alex Scott – 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup
• Gareth Thomas – 2019 Rugby World Cup
• Nasser Hussain – The Ashes

Sports Programme

• 2019 Rugby World Cup
• ICC Cricket World Cup Final
• FIFA Women’s World Cup 2019 – Semi Final: England v USA

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