RTS Awards 2024: Happy Valley, Lewis Capaldi doc and Strictly Come Dancing nominated - see full list 

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7 Mar 2024, 12:35

The Royal Television Society has announced its nominations for its 2024 Programme Awards.

Shows including Sally Wainwright’s Happy Valley, Netflix’s Lewis Capaldi documentary How I’m Feeling Now, Channel 4’s The Great British Bake Off and BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing have all received nominations in the awards' varied categories.

Stars including Slow Horses’ Gary Oldman, Time’s Jodie Whittaker and Tamara Lawrance, and Sort Your Life Out’s Stacey Solomon are all up for respective acting or presenting nods as well.

Meanwhile live events such as the 2023 Rugby World Cup, 2023’s Eurovision Song Contest and the Coronation of King Charles III are also nominated for awards.

This year’s full list of RTS Awards nominations are:

Arts

Becoming Frida Kahlo (Rogan Scotland for BBC)

Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World (BBC Studios Specialist Factual Productions for BBC)

Lewis Capaldi: How I’m Feeling Now (A Netflix Documentary/BMG Presents in association with Quickfire Films/A Pulse Films Production for Netflix)

Breakthrough Award

Ashley Thomas - Great Expectations (Hardy, Son & Baker, Scott Free Productions, BBC Studios, FX Network for BBC)

Hamza Yassin - Hamza: Strictly Birds of Prey (Silverback Films for BBC)

Lucy Edwards - Japan - The Way I See It – The Travel Show (BBC Current Affairs for BBC)

Children’s Programme

A Kind of Spark (9 Story Media for BBC)

FYI Investigates: Kids Who Vape (Fresh Start Media for Sky Kids & Sky News)

Tabby McTat (Magic Light Pictures for BBC)

Comedy Drama

Big Boys (Roughcut TV for Channel 4)

Juice (Various Artists Limited for BBC)

There She Goes (Merman Television for BBC)

Comedy Entertainment

Rob & Romesh Vs. (CPL Productions for Sky Max)

Taskmaster (Avalon Television for Channel 4)

The Graham Norton Show (So Television for BBC)

Comedy Performance – Female

Máiréad Tyers – Extraordinary (Sid Gentle Films Ltd for Disney+)

Gbemisola Ikumelo - Black Ops (BBC Studios Comedy Productions and Mondo Deluxe Productions for BBC)

Kat Sadler - Such Brave Girls (Various Artists Limited for BBC)

Comedy Performance – Male

Freddie Meredith - Such Brave Girls  (Various Artists Limited for BBC)

Hammed Animashaun - Black Ops (BBC Studios Comedy Productions and Mondo Deluxe Productions for BBC)

Jon Pointing - Big Boys (Roughcut TV for Channel 4)

Daytime Programme

Good Morning Britain - Matt Hancock Interview (ITV Studios for ITV1)

Junior Bake Off (Love Productions for Channel 4)

Scam Interceptors (BBC Studios Documentary Unit for BBC)

Documentary Series

Evacuation (Wonderhood Studios for Channel 4)

Kids (Expectation for Channel 4)

Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland (KEO Films & Walk on Air Films for BBC)

Drama Series

Happy Valley (Lookout Point in co-production with AMC for BBC)

The Gold (Tannadice Pictures, part of Objective Media Group, for BBC and Paramount)

Top Boy (Cowboy Films, Easter Partisan Films, Dream Crew and SpringHill Entertainment for Netflix)

Entertainment

Michael McIntyre's The Wheel (Hungry McBear for BBC)

Squid Game: The Challenge (Studio Lambert & The Garden for Netflix)

Strictly Come Dancing (BBC Studios Entertainment Productions for BBC)

Entertainment Performance

Hannah Waddingham - Eurovision Song Contest 2023 (BBC Studios Entertainment Productions, Windfall Films for BBC)

Noel Fielding and Alison Hammond - The Great British Bake Off (Love Productions for Channel 4)

Rob Beckett and Romesh Ranganathan - Rob & Romesh Vs. (CPL Productions for Sky Max)

Formatted Popular Factual

Banged Up (Shine TV for Channel 4)

Sort Your Life Out (Optomen for BBC)

The Piano (Love Productions for Channel 4)

History

Britain's Human Zoos (Red Bicycle with Milk & Honey for Channel 4)

The Man Who Played With Fire (Raw TV for Sky Documentaries)

White Nanny, Black Child (Doc Hearts/Tigerlily Productions for Channel 5)

Leading Actor – Female

Jodie Whittaker - Time (BBC Studios Drama Productions for BBC)

Sarah Lancashire - Happy Valley (Lookout Point in co-production with AMC for BBC)

Tamara Lawrance - Time (BBC Studios Drama Productions for BBC)

Leading Actor – Male

Gary Oldman - Slow Horses (See-Saw Films in association with Apple for Apple TV+)

Kane Robinson - Top Boy (Cowboy Films, Easter Partisan Films, Dream Crew and SpringHill Entertainment for Netflix)

Timothy Spall - The Sixth Commandment (Wild Mercury Productions and True Vision for BBC)

Limited Series

Best Interests  (AC Chapter One for BBC)

Boiling Point (Ascendant Fox, Matriarch Productions and It's All Made Up Productions for BBC)

The Sixth Commandment (Wild Mercury Productions and True Vision for BBC)

Live Event

Eurovision Song Contest 2023 (BBC Studios Entertainment Productions, Windfall Films for BBC)

The Coronation Concert (BBC Studios Event Productions for BBC)

The Coronation of TM The King and Queen Camilla (BBC Studios Event Productions for BBC)

Presenter

Chris Packham - Inside Our Autistic Minds (BBC Studios Specialist Factual Productions for BBC)

Rhod Gilbert - A Pain in the Neck (Kailash Films & Llanbobl Vision for Channel 4)

Stacey Solomon - Sort Your Life Out (Optomen Television for BBC)

Science & The Natural World

Chimp Empire (Keo Films and Underdog Films for Netflix)

Inside Our Autistic Minds (BBC Studios Specialist Factual Productions for BBC)

Planet Earth III (BBC Studios Natural History Unit, BBC America, ZDF, France Televisions and The Open University for BBC)

Scripted Comedy

Black Ops (BBC Studios Comedy Productions and Mondo Deluxe Productions for BBC)

Extraordinary (Sid Gentle Films Ltd for Disney+)

Such Brave Girls (Various Artists Limited for BBC)

Single Documentary

Anorexic (Proper Content for Channel 5)

Otto Baxter: Not A F***ing Horror Story (Story Films; Archface Films for Sky Documentaries)

The Price of Truth (Oxford Film & Television for Channel 4)

Single Drama

Consent (Firebird Pictures for Channel 4)

Men Up (Quay Street Productions, Boom for BBC)

Partygate (Halcyons Heart Films for Channel 4)

Supporting Actor – Female

Jasmine Jobson - Top Boy (Cowboy Films, Easter Partisan Films, Dream Crew and SpringHill Entertainment for Netflix)

Ronke Adékoluẹjo - Rain Dogs (Sid Gentle Films Ltd for BBC)

Bella Ramsey - Time  (BBC Studios Drama Productions for BBC)

Supporting Actor – Male

Araloyin Oshunremi - Top Boy (Cowboy Films, Easter Partisan Films, Dream Crew and SpringHill Entertainment for Netflix)

Mark Gatiss - Nolly (Quay Street Productions for ITVX)

Éanna Hardwicke - The Sixth Commandment (Wild Mercury Productions and True Vision for BBC)

Writer – Comedy

Bridget Christie - The Change (Expectation for Channel 4)

Jack Rooke - Big Boys (Roughcut TV for Channel 4)

Joe Tucker, Lloyd Wolf, Gbemisola Ikumelo & Akemnji Ndifornyen - Black Ops (BBC Studios Comedy Productions and Mondo Deluxe Productions for BBC)

Writer – Drama

Emma Dennis-Edwards - Consent (Firebird Pictures for Channel 4)

Sally Wainwright - Happy Valley (Lookout Point in co-production with AMC for BBC)

Sarah Phelps - The Sixth Commandment (Wild Mercury Productions and True Vision for BBC)

The RTS Awards will be held on Tuesday, 26th March at London's JW Marriott Grosvenor House Hotel.