Nominees revealed

Sky’s Brassic and Breeders are up against BBC Three’s Enterprice, Man Like Mobeen, The Young Offenders and This Country for best comedy show at this year’s Broadcast Digital Awards.

And the nominees for best short-form scripted programming are all comedy programmes:

• Comedy duo Lazy Susan’s BBC Three short
• Sam Campbell’s All4 Comedy Blap Get Real Dude
  
• Lolly Adefope’s iPlayer short Dolly
• Gbemisola Ikumelo’s Brian In Gear, now commissioned for a BBC Two series having won a Bafta for short-form programme earlier this summer
• Comedy Central’s Transaction, from comic Jordan Grey
  
• BBC Three’s Fully Blown, starring Donna Preston and Verona Rose as two friends who want to get famous.
  

Rosie Tries to Help, featuring comic Rosie Jones, is up for best short-form format alongside others including the FML short Most Racist Uber Ride Ever, made for the Get Pulped network.

Judge Romesh, which airs on Dave, is up for best entertainment award against BBC Three’s Eating With My Ex, The Rap Game and RuPaul’s Drag Race, and  ITV2’s Killer Camp and Shopping With Keith Lemon.

And Blindboy Undestroys The World, made for BBC Three by one half of the Rubberbandits comedy rap duo, is in the running for best popular factual programme alongside BBC Three’s Canny Cops, W’s Emma Willis: Delivering Babies and Stacey Dooley Sleeps Over;  Portrait Artist of The Year on Sky Arts and E4’s The Sex Clinic.

The winners will be announced at an online ceremony on October 14.

Published: 7 Sep 2020