BPG Nominations Announced

BBC2 is leading the race for top honours at the Broadcasting Press Guild Awards (BPG) with other ITV1, BBC 1 and Channel 4 shows following close.
ITV1’s Appropriate Adult, BBC1’s Great Expectations and Channel 4’s Top Boy will vie with two BBC2 shows, The Hour and The Shadow Line, for the best drama series prize in the 38th year of the awards.
Three BBC2 programmes – Rev, The Hour and Eric & Ernie – lead the race for top honours for the channel. Rev, the sitcom about a London vicar, is nominated as best comedy while The Hour has four nominations: best drama series, best actor (Dominic West), actress (Romola Garai) and writer (Abi Morgan). Eric & Ernie has three nominations, including best single drama.
ITV1’s drama about Fred West, Appropriate Adult, is also up for three awards: best drama series, best actor (Dominic West again) and writer (Neil McKay).
The BPG awards are highly prized by programme-makers because they are selected independently, by journalists who write about TV and radio – correspondents, critics and previewers.
Awards will be presented next month at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.
The full list of nominations is:
Best Single Drama
Christopher & His Kind, BBC Two
Eric & Ernie, BBC Two
Hattie, BBC Four
Holy Flying Circus, BBC Four
Best Drama Series
Appropriate Adult, ITV1
Great Expectations, BBC One
The Hour, BBC Two
The Shadow Line, BBC Two
Top Boy, Channel 4
Best Single Documentary
Panorama: Undercover Care: The Abuse Exposed, BBC One
Panorama: Fifa: Football’s Shame?, BBC One
Terry Pratchett: Choosing to Die, BBC Two
Best Documentary Series
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace, BBC Two
Educating Essex, Channel 4
Frozen Planet, BBC One
Best Comedy Entertainment
Fresh Meat, Channel 4
Twenty Twelve, BBC Four
Rev, BBC Two
BPG Multichannel Award
An Idiot Abroad, Sky1
Dynamo: Magician Impossible, Watch (UKTV)
Leonardo Live, Sky Arts
Mad Dogs, Sky1
Best Factual Entertainment
The Great British Bake Off, BBC Two
The Choir: Military Wives, BBC Two
Hugh’s Big Fish Fight, Channel 4
Best Actor
Tom Hollander, Rev
Daniel Rigby, Eric & Ernie
Dominic West, Appropriate Adult; The Hour
Best Actress
Gillian Anderson, Great Expectations; The Crimson Petal and the White
Olivia Colman, Exile; Rev
Romola Garai, The Crimson Petal and White; The Hour
BPG Writer’s Award
Hugo Blick, The Shadow Line
Pete Bowker, Eric & Ernie; Monroe
Neil McKay, Appropriate Adult
Abi Morgan, The Hour
James Wood & Tom Hollander, Rev
BPG Breakthrough Award
Mary Berry, The Great British Bake Off
Olivia Colman, Exile; Rev
Jake Whitehall, Fresh Meat
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