Broadcast Digital Awards 2017: shortlist revealed

Sky Atlantic, Dave and E4 are to face off against three BBC channels for the top prize at this year’s Broadcast Digital Awards.

BBC3, BBC4 and CBBC are all in the running for the Channel of the Year award, which was won last year by E4.

Dave, BBC3 and E4 are also competing in the Best Entertainment Channel category, where they come up against MTV UK and Viceland. BBC3 is also up for Best Original Web Channel.

BBC4 is vying with History, National Geographic and Horse & Country TV for Best Factual Channel.

BBC3 dominates in a new category, Best Documentary Programme. American High School, Reggie Yates: Life And Death In Chicago and The Brit Who Tried To Kill Trump are all up for gongs, alongside Netflix doc Captive, Viceland’s Europe Or Die and Julian Clary’s Passions doc on Noel Coward for Sky Arts.

The online-only BBC channel also has three scripted nominations (Fleabag, Murdered By My Father and This Country) against Sky Atlantic’s two (Alan Partridge: Scissored Isle and The Tunnel: Sabotage) and last year’s winner, E4’s Chewing Gum.

This year’s event also recognises excellence in the growing field of virtual reality, with an award for Best VR Experience. Projects for BBC Taster, The Guardian, Sky and the Science Museum are all in the frame.

Comedian Katherine Ryan hosts this year’s awards, which will take place at London venue The Brewery on 5 July.

• At the Races
• BBC Sport
• CBeebies Playtime Island
• Channel 4 Rio 2016 Paralympics
• Sky News

• Black and British Social Media Campaign BBC, Black Cultural Archives, Heritage Lottery Fund, National Archives,  BFI and Historic England for BBC
• Crackanory Audible for Dave
• Driven to Distraction Little Dot Studios for Aviva Insurance and All4
• Formula E Season 3 Little Dot Studios for Aurora Media Worldwide for Formula E
• Pop up start up Alibaba.com for CNBC international
• SKODA Tour De Celeb Skoda for Channel 5

• Beano  Beano Studios for Beano.com
• Secret Life of Boys Zodiak Kids Studios for CBBC
• Selfie Shootout Megalomedia for CBBC
• Something Special - The Looking Game BBC Children’s In-House,  BBC D&E and Aardman Digital for Cbeebies
• The Pixelarity Maker Studios for YouTube
• Worst Witch CBBC In House Interactive and Goodboy Digital for CBBC

• Big Brother & Celebrity Big Brother Digital Initial Television and Endemol Shine UK Digital for Channel 5
• Big Life Fix BBC Studios Digital, BBC Factual Commissioning and BBC Taster for BBC Two
• Black and British BBC Studios Digital for BBC Two, BBC Three, BBC Four, Radio 1xtra and BBC Taster
• MTV.co.uk MTV.co.uk Shows Editorial Team for MTV.co.uk
• This Morning, This Morning Digital Team for ITV

• All 4
• BBC iPlayer
• BBC iPlayer Kids
• ITV Hub
• TVPlayer
• UKTV Play

• American High School Swan Films for BBC Three
• Captive Lightbox for Netflix
• Europe or Die VICE News for VICELAND UK
• Passions; Noel Coward by Julian Clary Saffron Cherry TV for Sky Arts
• Reggie Yates: Life and Death in Chicago, Sundog Pictures for BBC Three
• The Brit Who Tried to Kill Trump, Firecracker Films for BBC Three

• BBC Three
• Dave
• E4
• MTV UK
• VICELAND

• Celebrity Juice Talkback for ITV2
• Love Island ITV Studios and GroupM Entertainment for ITV2
• Murder In Successville Tiger Aspect for BBC Three
• Release the Hounds - Famous & Freaked Primal Media for ITV2
• Taskmaster Avalon for Dave
• Unspun Avalon for Dave

• Camps to Champs: The Power of Sport for the Displaced ITN Productions for Olympic Channel
• Channel 4 News - Inside Aleppo, ITN for Channel 4 News
• Ireland’s Forgotten Mixed-Race Child Abuse Victims The Guardian for theguardian.com
• Life and Death Row: Love Triangle, BBC Studios Digital for BBC Three
• Radio 1’s Playground Insults - Jennifer Lawrence vs Chris Pratt BBC Visual Radio for BBC iPlayer and Radio 1’s YouTube Channel
• Things People With Down’s Syndrome Are Tired of Hearing Mentorn Media for BBC Three

• Barcroft TV
• BBC Three
• Cooke Optics TV
• Mashed
• The Football Republic
• TrueTube

• Celebs Go Dating Lime Pictures for E4
• Hate Thy Neighbour Viceland In-house for Viceland
• Needles and Pins Viceland In-house for Viceland
• Obesity: The Post Mortem 7 Wonder Productions and Third Street Studios for BBC Three
• Portrait Artist of the Year 2017 Storyvault Films for Sky Arts
• Sex Pod Crackit Productions for Five Star

• Cleverman BBC Three
• Game of Thrones Sky Atlantic
• Legion Fox
• Locked Up Walter Presents
• Roots BBC Four
• Search Party All 4

• #HoodDocumentary Fudge Park for BBC Three
• Bad Snappers Factory Films for Comedy Central UK
• Fright Bites Fruit Tree Media for All 4
• Frightbusters Me + You Productions for Sky Arts
• Like Me CTVC for TrueTube.co.uk
• Refugee CTVC for TrueTube.co.uk

• Alan Partridge: Scissored Isle Baby Cow Productions for Sky Atlantic
• Chewing Gum Retort for E4
• Fleabag Two Brothers Pictures   for BBC Three
• Murdered By My Father BBC Studios for BBC Three
• The Tunnel: Sabotage Kudos and Shine France for Sky Atlantic
• This Country, BBC Studios for BBC Three

• #SherlockLive Hartswood Films for BBC One
• Hollyoaks #MyJadeIs, Lime Pictures for Channel 4
• Humans 4Creative and OMD for Channel 4
• Moment Of Fame – The #Nickschoolofrock Challenge Nickelodeon In-house for Nickelodeon
• Sky News #OceanRescue Campaign Sky News for Sky Atlantic
• The BRIT Awards 2017 Somethin’ Else for ITV

• BBC FOUR
• History
• Horse & Country TV
• National Geographic

• BBC News Channel
• Cbbc
• CBeebies
• Sky Arts
• Travel Channel
• Walter Presents

• 2016 Rio Olympics BBC Sport for BBC Four, BBC Red Button, BBC iPlayer and BBC Online
• BT Sport - UFC 205 BT Sport In-house for BT Sport
• MotoGP 2016 North One TV for BT Sport 2
• Premier League Tonight Sunset + Vine for  BT Sport
• Sky News EU Referendum Night Sky News In-house for Sky News
• UEFA Champions League Final BT Sport In-house for BT Sport Europe

• 6x9: A virtual experience of solitary confinement The Guardian and The Mill for www.theguardian.com
• Easter Rising: Voice of A Rebel Crossover Labs and Vrtov for BBC Taster 
• Giselle Factory 42 for Sky VR
• Home: VR Spacewalk Experience BBC Studios Digital in collaboration with BBC Learning and BBC Studios Science
• Space Descent VR with Tim Peake, Alchemy VR for Science Museum (London)
• We Wait Aardman Animations for BBC Taster

• BBC Three
• BBC Four
• CBBC
• Dave
• E4
• Sky Atlantic