Broadchurch, Top of the Lake and The Fall lead Broadcasting Press Guild list Broadchurch: nominated for BPG best drama series alongside The Fall and Top of the Lake. Three of the biggest dramas of 2013, ITVs Broadchurch and BBC2s Top of the Lake and The Fall, have been nominated four times each at the Broadcasting Press Guild awards. All are in the running for the best drama series, while there are also acting nods for Broadchurchs David Tennant and Olivia Colman, Top of the Lakes Elizabeth Moss and Peter Mullan, and The Falls Gillian Anderson. Her co-star in The Fall, Jamie Dornan, is up for the breakthrough prize. The three dramas also feature in the best writer category, for Top of the Lakes Jane Campion, Broadchurchs Chris Chibnall, and Allan Cubitt, who wrote The Fall. BBC2 and Channel 4 dominate the nominations for the 40th annual awards, with Channel 4 taking all four nominations in the best single documentary prize. Among the other programmes nominated are BBC1s Strictly Come Dancing, BBC2s Great British Bake Off and Channel 4s Educating Yorkshire and Gogglebox, which is also in the running for the innovation award where it is up against Netflix and Sky. BBC4s last biopic, Burton and Taylor, will compete for the best single drama prize, up against Channel 4s Black Mirror and BBC2s The Wipers Times, co-written by Ian Hislop. The shortlists for the awards two radio prizes, broadcaster of the year and programme of the year, will be announced next week. The BPG awards, sponsored by Discovery, are voted for by journalists who write about TV and radio. This years ceremony will take place at the Theatre Royal in Londons Drury Lane on 28 March. Broadcasting Press Guild Awards - full list of nominations Best single drama Black Mirror: Be Right Back (Channel 4) Burton and Taylor (BBC4) The Wipers Times (BBC2) Best drama series Broadchurch (ITV) The Fall (BBC2) Top of the Lake (BBC2) Best single documentary Dogging Tales (Channel 4) The Murder Trial (Channel 4) Richard III: The King in the Car Park (Channel 4) Syria: Across the Lines (Channel 4) Best documentary series The Call Centre (BBC3) Educating Yorkshire (Channel 4) The Story of the Jews (BBC2) Best entertainment/comedy Ambassadors (BBC2) Fresh Meat (Channel 4) Strictly Come Dancing (BBC1) Toast (Channel 4) Best multichannel programme Crackanory (Dave) Shaun Ryder on UFOs (History) The Tunnel (Sky Atlantic) Yonderland (Sky 1) Best factual entertainment Gogglebox (Channel 4) Paul OGrady: For the Love of Dogs (ITV) The Great British Bake Off, series 4 (BBC2) Best actor Chiwetel Ejiofor – Dancing on the Edge (BBC2) Rory Kinnear – Southcliffe (Channel 4) Peter Mullen – Top of the Lake (BBC2) David Tennant – Broadchurch (ITV) Best actress Gillian Anderson – The Fall (BBC2) Olivia Colman – Broadchurch (ITV) Elizabeth Moss – Top of the Lake (BBC2) Maxine Peake – The Village (BBC1) Best writer Jane Campion – Top of the Lake (BBC2) Chris Chibnall – Broadchurch (ITV) Allan Cubitt – The Fall (BBC2) Sally Wainwright – Last Tango in Halifax (BBC1) Breakthrough award BT Sport (successful launch of a challenger TV brand) Jamie Dornan (The Fall) Sharon Rooney (My Mad Fat Diary) Innovation award Gogglebox - for an innovative programme format Netflix - for programming and distribution innovation Sky TV – for 25 years of innovation
Posted on: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 12:31:44 +0000
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