I May Destroy You and Small Axe lead nominations at Royal Television Society Awards
Read the full list of nominations below...
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Your support makes all the difference.I May Destroy You and Small Axe are leading the nominations at the Royal Television Society’s 2021 Programme Awards.
Michaela Coel’s ambitious drama is nominated in the mini-series category, while Coel herself is up for both best female actor and writer of a drama.
Meanwhile, Steve McQueen’s Small Axe, a series of films about the black British experience, was nominated for miniseries, best drama writer for McQueen and Alastair Siddons and best male actor for Shaun Parkes.
Elsewhere, both Paul Mescal and Daisy Edgar-Jones received nominations for their performances in Normal People.
Sky’s Save Me Too and I Hate Suzie also received two nominations each, along with Mae Martin’s Feel Good for Channel 4.
The award winners will be announced on 16 March as part of a live-streamed event.
See the full list of nominations below…
Actor (Female)
Glenda Jackson – Elizabeth is Missing
Michaela Coel – I May Destroy You
Daisy Edgar-Jones – Normal People
Actor (Male)
Lennie James – Save Me Too
Paul Mescal – Normal People
Shaun Parkes – Small Axe
Arts
African Renaissance: When Art Meets Power
Keith Haring: Street Art Boy
Grayson’s Art Club
Breakthrough Award
Big Zuu – Big Zuu’s Big Eats
Robert Softley Gale – CripTales: Hamish
Mae Martin – Feel Good
Children’s Programme
JoJo and Gran Gran/It’s Time to Go to the Hairdresser’s
FYI Investigates – Brazil: Children Caught in the Crossfire
IRL with Team Charlene
Comedy Entertainment
The Big Narstie Show
Charlie Brooker’s Antiviral Wipe
The Ranganation
Comedy Performance (Female)
Gbemisola Ikumelo – Famalam
Sophie Willan - Alma’s Not Normal
Ruth Jones - Gavin & Stacey Christmas Special
Comedy Performance (Male)
Youssef Kerkour - Home
O-T Fagbenle – Maxxx
Paul Chahidi – This Country
Daytime Programme
Loose Women
The Bidding Room
Junior Bake Off
Documentary Series
Hospital: Fighting Covid-19
Once Upon a Time in Iraq
The School That Tried to End Racism
Drama Series
Save Me Too
I Hate Suzie
In My Skin
Entertainment
Beat the Chasers
The Masked Singer
Big Zuu’s Big Eats
Entertainment Performance
Big Narstie & Mo Gilligan – The Big Narstie Show
Yung Filly – Hot Property
Rob Beckett & Romesh Ranganathan – Rob & Romesh Vs
Formatted Popular Factual
Long Lost Family: Born Without Trace
The Rap Game UK
Joe Lycett’s Got Your Back
History
Lost Home Movies of Nazi Germany
Damilola: The Boy Next Door
The World’s Biggest Murder Trial: Nuremberg
Live Event
ENO’s Drive & Live: La Bohème
The Third Day: Autumn
General Election Live Results: An ITV News Special
Mini-Series
Adult Material
Small Axe
I May Destroy You
Presenter
Joe Lycett – The Great British Sewing Bee
Yinka Bokinni – Damilola: The Boy Next Door
Grayson Perry – Grayson’s Art Club
RTS Channel of the Year
ITV
BBC One
Sky Arts
Science & Natural History
Surviving the Virus: My Brother & Me
The Surgeon’s Cut
Brain Surgeons: Between Life and Death
Scripted Comedy
Brassic
Sex Education
The Young Offenders
Single Documentary
Anton Ferdinand: Football, Racism & Me
Surviving Covid
The Family Secret
Single Drama
Elizabeth is Missing
Anthony
Sitting in Limbo
Soap and Continuing Drama
Coronation Street
Casualty
Holby City
Sports Presenter, Commentator or Pundit
Michael Holding – England v West Indies
Bryan Habana – 2019 Rugby World Cup Final
Gabby Logan – London Marathon 2020
Sports Programme
England v West Indies 1st Test – Black Lives Matter
London Marathon 2020
The Open for the Ages
Writer – Comedy
Mae Martin and Joe Hampson – Feel Good
Peter Foott – The Young Offenders
Writing Team – Ghosts
Writer – Drama
Michaela Coel – I May Destroy You
Lucy Prebble – I Hate Suzie
Steve McQueen and Alastair Siddons – Small Axe
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