David Farnor | On 03, Mar 2022

The Royal Television Society Awards have announced their nominees for 2022 and Channel 4’s It’s a Sin and We Are Lady Parts are leading the pack.

The BBC leads the way with 30 nominations across the 24 categories, followed by Channel 4 with 28, Sky with 10 and ITV with eight. Nonetheless, it’s Channel 4’s hit drama It’s a Sin that has scored a whopping six nominations across a number of categories – including Keeley Hawes for Actor (Female), Olly Alexander for Actor (Male) and Callum Scott Howells for both Actor (Male) and the Breakthrough Award. Tahar Rahim, star of BBC One’s The Serpent is nominated alongside them in the Actor (Male) category.

It’s a Sin series writer Russell T Davies is recognised in the Writer – Drama category and the series itself is nominated in the Limited Series category alongside ITV’s Stephen and BBC One’s Time.

Winner of the 2021 Breakthrough Award, Mae Martin has this year been nominated in the Comedy Writer category alongside co-writer Joe Hampson. This year’s Breakthrough contenders, meanwhile, include Adjani Salmon for his BBC Three pilot Dreaming Whilst Black, and Anjana Vasan for We Are Lady Parts.

Entertainment veterans The Graham Norton Show, The Lateish Show with Mo Gilligan and The Last Leg are nominated in the Comedy Entertainment category, while Coronation Street, Casualty and Hollyoaks will compete in the Soap and Continuing Drama category, and 2021 Presenter winner Joe Lycett is this year again nominated in the same category for his Joe Lycett vs the Oil Giant Channel 4 series.

The prestigious RTS Channel of the Year award will be fought for between BBC One, ITV and Sky Arts.

The awards will be announced at in-person ceremony for the first time since 2019. It will take place on Tuesday 29th March at London’s JW Marriott Grosvenor House London and will be hosted by Nish Kumar.

Here’s the full list of nominees:

Actor (Female)

Sharlene Whyte
Stephen
HTM Television
ITV

Keeley Hawes
It’s A Sin
Red Production Company, a StudioCanal Company
Channel 4 in association with HBO Max

Gabrielle Creevy
In My Skin
Expectation
BBC

Actor (Male)

Tahar Rahim
The Serpent
Mammoth Screen
BBC

Callum Scott Howells
It’s A Sin
Red Production Company, a StudioCanal Company
Channel 4 in association with HBO Max

Olly Alexander
It’s a Sin
Red Production Company, a StudioCanal Company
Channel 4 in association with HBO Max

Arts

Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins Story
Passion Pictures
BBC

African Apocalypse
Inside Out Films & Lemkino Pictures
BBC

Freddie Mercury: The Final Act
Rogan Productions
BBC

Breakthrough Award

Adjani Salmon
Dreaming Whilst Black
Big Deal Films
BBC

Callum Scott Howells
It’s a Sin
Red Production Company, a StudioCanal Company
Channel 4 in association with HBO Max

Anjana Vasan
We Are Lady Parts
Working Title Television, which is a part of Universal International Studios
Channel 4

Children’s Programme

The Rubbish World of Dave Spud
The Illuminated Film Company
CITV

Newsround: Let’s Talk About Periods
BBC

The World According to Grandpa
Saffron Cherry Productions
Milkshake! Channel 5

Comedy Entertainment

The Graham Norton Show
So Television
BBC

The Lateish Show with Mo Gilligan
Expectation & Momo G
Channel 4

The Last Leg
Open Mike Productions
Channel 4

Comedy Performance (Female)

Sophie Willan
Alma’s Not Normal
Expectation
BBC

Anjana Vasan
We Are Lady Parts
Working Title Television, which is a part of Universal International Studio
Channel 4

Katy Wix
Stath Lets Flats
Roughcut Television
Channel 4

Comedy Performance (Male)

Nick Mohammed
Intelligence
Expectation
Sky One

Samson Kayo
Bloods
Roughcut Television in association with Sky Studios
Sky One

Adeel Akhtar
Back to Life
Two Brothers Pictures
BBC

Daytime Programme

Richard Osman’s House of Games
Remarkable TV
BBC

Expert Witness
Rare TV
BBC

The Great House Giveaway
Chwarel
Channel 4

Documentary Series

Undercover Police: Hunting Paedophiles
BBC Studios
Channel 4

Liverpool Narcos
Blast! Films
Sky Documentaries

9/11: One Day in America
72 Films
National Geographic/Hulu

Drama Series

In My Skin
Expectation
BBC

Manhunt: The Night Stalker
Buffalo Pictures
ITV

Unforgotten
Mainstreet Pictures
ITV

Entertainment

Big Zuu’s Big Eats
Boom
Dave

The Masked Singer
Bandicoot Scotland
ITV

The Big Breakfast
Lifted Entertainment
Channel 4

Entertainment Performance

Rosie Jones
Trip Hazard
Studio 71
Channel 4

Victoria Coren Mitchell
Only Connect
RDF Television West & Parasol
BBC

AJ Odudu and Mo Gilligan
The Big Breakfast
Lifted Entertainment
Channel 4

Formatted Popular Factual

The Repair Shop
Ricochet
BBC

The Dog House
Five Mile Film
Channel 4

The Rap Game UK
Naked (a Fremantle label)
BBC

History

9/11: Life Under Attack
Brook Lapping Productions
ITV in association with France Télévisions, the History Channel and VPRO

9/11: Inside the Presidents War Room
Wish/Art Films
BBC and Apple TV+

Uprising
Rogan Productions, Lammas Park, and Turbine Studios
BBC

Live Event

The Funeral of HRH The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
BBC Studios
BBC

The Earthshot Prize 2021
BBC Studios
BBC

YouTube Pride 2021
JA Films
YouTube Originals

Limited Series

Stephen
HTM Television
ITV

Time
BBC Studios
BBC

It’s A Sin
Red Production Company, a StudioCanal Company
Channel 4 in association with HBO Max

Presenter

Munya Chawawa
Race Around Britain
Expectation and Munz Made It
YouTube Originals

Steph McGovern
Steph’s Packed Lunch
Expectation North & Can Can Productions
Channel 4

Joe Lycett
Joe Lycett Vs the Oil Giant
Rumpus Media
Channel 4

RTS Channel of the Year

ITV

BBC One

Sky Arts

Science & Natural History

Horizon Special: The Vaccine
Wingspan Productions
BBC

David Harewood – Why Is Covid Killing People of Colour?
Twenty Twenty
BBC

Baby Surgeons: Delivering Miracles
Wonderhood Studios
Channel 4

Scripted Comedy

Bloods
Roughcut Television in association with Sky Studios
Sky One

Alma’s Not Normal
Expectation
BBC

We Are Lady Parts
Working Title Television, which is a part of Universal International Studios
Channel 4

Single Documentary

The Return: Life After ISIS
Alba Sotorra Productions and MetFilm
Sky Documentaries

Rape: Who’s on Trial?
Hardcash Productions
Channel 4

Grenfell: The Untold Story
BBC Studios
Channel 4

Single Drama

Death of England: Face to Face
National Theatre in association with Sabel Productions and Cuba Pictures
Sky Arts

Romeo & Juliet
National Theatre in association with Sabel Productions and Cuba Pictures
Sky Arts

Help
The Forge Entertainment and One Shoe Films
Channel 4

Soap and Continuing Drama

Coronation Street
ITV Studios
ITV

Casualty
BBC Studios
BBC

Hollyoaks
Lime Pictures
Channel 4

Sports Presenter, Commentator or Pundit

Gary Neville
Sky Sports Premier League
Sky Sports

Emma Hayes
UEFA Euro 2020
ITV Sport
ITV

Gabby Logan
London Marathon
BBC Sport
BBC

Sports Programme

The Hundred
Sky Sports
Sky Sports Cricket

The Paralympics: Tokyo 2020
Whisper
Channel 4

Tokyo 2020 Olympics
BBC Sport
BBC

Writer – Comedy

Mae Martin & Joe Hampson
Feel Good
Objective Fiction
Netflix

Nida Manzoor
We Are Lady Parts
Working Title Television, which is a part of Universal International Studios
Channel 4

Holly Walsh, Helen Serafinowicz & Barunka O’Shaughnessy
Motherland
Merman Television and Twofour
BBC

Writer – Drama

Richard Warlow
The Serpent
Mammoth Screen
BBC

Russell T Davies
It’s A Sin
Red Production Company, a StudioCanal Company
Channel 4 in association with HBO Max

Jack Thorne
Help
The Forge Entertainment and One Shoe Films
Channel 4

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