Harry Hill returns to host February event
The battle for Best Independent Production Company at the Broadcast Awards 2020 will be a six-way fight between 72 Films, Firecracker Films, Fulwell 73, Rumpus Media, Sister and Studio Lambert.
All six make the shortlist for the awards, published today. Of these, only Bros: After The Screaming Stops producer Fulwell 73 was in the running for the 2019 awards, when Bodyguard indie World Productions won the category.
Sister’s Chernobyl features in the Best Drama Series category, where it is up against two BBC1 shows – Caryn Mandabach Productions/Tiger Aspect’s Peaky Blinders and Synchronicity Films’ The Cry – plus Warp Films’ Channel 4 four-parter The Virtues, ITV Studios’ ITV true-crime series A Confession and Netflix’s revival of C4 inner-city drama Top Boy, a co-pro between Cowboy Films, Easter Partisan, Dream Crew and SpringHill Entertainment.
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Last year’s Channel of the Year winner ITV will be contesting the category with BBC1, BBC2, C4, C5 and Sky Atlantic.
C4, meanwhile, has four shows in contention for Best Original Programme: dating format Flirty Dancing (Second Star), semi-improvised drama I Am Nicola (Me and You Productions) and documentaries Jade: The Reality Star Who Changed Britain (Blast! Films) and Moon Landing (72 Films).
BBC2 rounds out the category with Peter Jackson’s WWI archive doc They Shall Not Grow Old (Wingnut Films) and Studio Lambert’s fact-ent format Race Across The World.
The Best Entertainment Programme category is wide open, with last year’s winner Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway having taken a break in the judging period.
Flirty Dancing makes the list, opposite ITV Studios’ ITV formats I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! and Motion Content Group co-pro Love Island, BBC Studios’ Top Gear and Strictly Come Dancing, and Avalon’s Dave show Taskmaster.
A strong Best Comedy Programme category includes the second series of last year’s winner, C4’s Derry Girls (Hat Trick Productions), alongside the return of Stath Lets Flats (Roughcut Television), BBC3’s Fleabag (Two Brothers Pictures) and the third outing of BBC2’s Mum (Big Talk Productions), plus BBC Studios’ Inside No. 9 – Live ‘Dead Line’ special. BBC1’s debut This Time With Alan Partridge (Baby Cow Productions) is also in the running.
Channel 5’s The Abused (Brinkworth Films) is in the running for Best Documentary Programme, alongside Raw TV’s Three Identical Strangers (Channel 4) and Drowning In Plastic (BBC1), Minnow Films’ War In The Blood (BBC2) and Oxford Scientific Films’ Driven: The Billy Monger Story (BBC3).
Alongside Top Boy, Netflix has two more shows in contention, with Black Mirror interactive special Bandersnatch (House of Tomorrow) shortlisted for Best Single Drama and natural history series Our Planet (Silverback Films) picking up a nomination for Best Specialist Factual Programme.
Harry Hill returns to present the awards at London’s Grosvenor House on 5 February.
Broadcast Awards shortlist 2020
Best Children’s Programme
Sponsored by dock10
FYI
Fresh Start Media for Sky News
Horrible Histories,
Lion Television for CBBC
Jamie Johnson Phoenix Reunited
Short Form Film Company for CBBC
Leaving Care
Chatterbox Media, iPlayer for CBBC
The A List
Kindle Entertainment for iPlayer
The Athena
Bryncoed Productions for Sky Kids
Best Comedy Programme
Sponsored by Pinewood TV Studios
Derry Girls
Hat Trick Productions for Channel 4
Fleabag
Two Brothers Pictures for BBC Three
Inside No. 9 Live ‘Dead Line’
BBC Studios for BBC Two
Mum
Big Talk Productions in association with the Money Men for BBC Two
Stath Lets Flats
Roughcut Television for Channel 4
This Time with Alan Partridge
Baby Cow for BBC One
Best Daytime Programme
Critical Incident
Reef TV for BBC One
Murder, Mystery and My Family
Chalkboard TV for BBC One
Richard Osman’s House Of Games
Remarkable for BBC Two
The Chase
Potato for ITV
The Customer is Always Right
Firecracker for BBC One
The Repair Shop
Ricochet for BBC One
Best Documentary Programme
Driven: The Billy Monger Story
Oxford Scientific Films for BBC Three
Drowning in Plastic
Raw TV for BBC One
The Abused
Brinkworth Films for Channel 5
Three Identical Strangers
Raw TV for Channel 4
Under the Wire
Arrow Media for BBC Four
War in the Blood
Minnow Films for BBC Two
Best Documentary Series
Sponsored by Canon
A Dangerous Dynasty: House of Assad
72 Films for BBC Two
Arabia with Levison Wood
Blackmane Media for Discovery Channel UK
Jade: The Reality Star Who Changed Britain
Blast! Films for Channel 4
Michael Palin in North Korea
ITN Productions for Channel 5
The Great British School Swap
Top Hat for Channel 4
Yorkshire Ripper Files
Wall to Wall for BBC Four
Best Drama Series or Serial
ITV Studios & Urban Myth Films for ITV
Chernobyl
Sister, The Mighty Mint, Word Games HBO for Sky Atlantic
Peaky Blinders
Caryn Mandabach Productions/Tiger Aspect for BBC One
The Cry
Synchronicity Films for BBC One
The Virtues
Warp Films for Channel 4
Top Boy
Cowboy Films, Easter Partisan Films, Dream Crew and SpringHill Entertainment for Netflix
Best Entertainment Programme
Sponsored by BBC Studioworks
Flirty Dancing
Second Star for Channel 4
I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here!
ITV Studios Entertainment for ITV
Love Island
ITV Studios Entertainment/Motion Content Group for ITV2
Strictly Come Dancing
BBC Studios for BBC One
Taskmaster
Avalon Television for Dave
Top Gear
BBC Studios for BBC Two
Best Multichannel Programme
Bros: After The Screaming Stops
Fulwell 73 for BBC Four
Emma Willis: Delivering Babies
Firecracker for W
Glow Up: Britain’s Next Makeup Star
Wall To Wall for BBC Three
Jesy Nelson: Odd One Out
October Films for BBC Three
The Rap Game UK
Naked Television for BBC Three
There She Goes
Merman for BBC Four
Best Music Programme
Brian Johnson’s A Life On The Road
Somethin’ Else for Sky Arts
Four to the Floor
Lemonade Money for Channel 4
Jazz 625 Live: For One Night Only
Somethin’ Else for BBC Four
Stormzy at Glastonbury 2019
BBC Studios for BBC Two
The BRIT Awards 2019 with Mastercard
BRITs TV for ITV
The Live Lounge Show
Strawberry Blond TV for BBC Four
Best News/Current Affairs Programme
Al Jazeera Investigations - How to Sell a Massacre
Al Jazeera Media Network for Al Jazeera English
Hong Kong Protest Violence
Sky News for Sky News
One Day in Gaza
BBC Current Affairs London for BBC Two
The Brexit Storm: Laura Kuenssberg’s Inside Story
Vice Studios UK and The Open University for BBC Two
Undercover Hospital Abuse Scandal
BBC Panorama for BBC One
Undercover: Inside China’s Digital Gulag
Hardcash Productions for ITV
Best Original Programme
Sponsored IMG Studios
Flirty Dancing
Second Star for Channel 4
I Am Nicola
Me and You Productions for Channel 4
Jade: The Reality Star Who Changed Britain
Blast! Films for Channel 4
Moon Landing
72 Films for Channel 4
Race Across The World
Studio Lambert for BBC Two
They Shall Not Grow Old
Wingnut Film Productions for BBC Two
Best Popular Factual Programme
Harry’s Heroes: The Full English
Talkback for ITV
Long Lost Family
Wall to Wall for ITV
Our Dementia Choir with Vicky McClure
Curve Media and The Open University for BBC One
SAS: Who Dares Wins
Minnow Films for Channel 4
The Big Hospital Experiment
Blast! Films and The Open University for BBC Two
The Misadventures of Romesh Ranganathan
Rumpus Media for BBC Two
Best Post Production House
dock10
ENVY
Films at 59
halo
Molinare TV & Film
Splice
Best Pre-School Programme
Sponsored by h Studio
Andy’s Safari Adventures
BBC Studios The Natural History Unit for CBeebies
Becca’s Bunch
JAM Media for Nickelodeon
Junk Rescue
Hello Halo Productions for CBeebies
Molly and Mack
BBC Children’s In-House Productions for CBeebies
Shane the Chef
Hoho Entertainment for Channel 5
Zog
Magic Light Pictures for BBC One
Best Single Drama
Sponsored by Elstree Studios
8 Days: To the Moon and Back
BBC Studios The Science Unit and The Open University for BBC Two
Black Mirror: Bandersnatch
House of Tomorrow for Netflix
Brexit: The Uncivil War
House Productions for Channel 4
Doing Money
Renegade Pictures for BBC Two
I Am Kirsty
Me and You Productions for Channel 4
The Left Behind
BBC Studios for BBC Three
Best Soap/Continuing Drama
Sponsored by ACF Investment Bank
Casualty
BBC Studios for BBC One
Coronation Street
ITV Studios for ITV
EastEnders
BBC Studios for BBC One
Emmerdale
ITV Studios for ITV1
Holby City
BBC Studios for BBC One
Hollyoaks
Lime Pictures for Channel 4
Best Specialist Factual Programme
100 Vaginas
Burning Bright for Channel 4
Jade: The Reality Star Who Changed Britain
Blast! Films for Channel 4
Our Planet
Silverback Films for Netflix
Surgeons: At the Edge of Life
Dragonfly for BBC Two
The Interrogation of Tony Martin
Story Films for Channel 4
The Planets
BBC Studios, NOVA, WGBH Boston, Tencent Penguin Pictures and The Open University for BBC Two
Best Sports Programme
Sponsored by NEP
6 Nations Rugby - England v Scotland
ITV Sport for ITV
A View From The Terrace
Studio Something for BBC Scotland
Cheltenham Festival
ITV Racing, ITV Sport for ITV
ICC Cricket World Cup Final 2019
Sky Sports & Sunset + Vine for ICC TV, Sky Sports World Cup & Sky Sports Main Event
The Ashes
Sky Sports for Sky Sports Ashes & Sky Sports Main Event
The NFL Show
Whisper for BBC One
International Programme Sales
Sponsored by Screen Scotland
Borderforce USA: The Bridges
TCB Media Rights for Stampede Productions
Butterfly
Fremantle for Red Production Company
Ex On The Beach
Viacom International Studios for MTV International
Expedition with Steve Backshall
Fremantle for True to Nature
Patrick Melrose
Sky Studios for Two Cities, SunnyMarch and Little Island
Years and Years
StudioCanal for Red Production Company
Best Independent Production Company
Sponsored by Barclays
72 Films
Firecracker
Fulwell 73
Rumpus Media
Sister
Studio Lambert
Channel of the Year
BBC One
BBC Two
Channel 4
Channel 5
ITV
Sky Atlantic
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