Plus double nomination for Romesh Ranganathan

The BBC dominates the comedy categories of the 2026 Royal Television Society award shortlist, published today.

All four shows in the scripted comedy category were aired by the broadcaster: Here We Go, Such Brave Girls, How Are You? It’s Alan (Partridge) and Things You Should Have Done,

It also has multiple nods across the comedy performance and comedy drama categories.

Meanwhile Romesh Ranganathan receives two nominations in the entertainment performance category, one alongside Rob Beckett for Rob & Romesh Vs, and one for Romesh: Can't Knock the Hustle – both on Sky Max.

The nominees in the comedy and entertainment categories are:

Scripted comedy

●     Here We Go (BBC Studios Comedy for BBC)
●     How Are You? It's Alan (Partridge) (Baby Cow Productions for BBC)
●     Such Brave Girls(Various Artists Limited for BBC)
●     Things You Should Have Done(Roughcut TV for BBC)

Comedy drama

●     Big Boys (Roughcut TV for Channel 4)
●     Dreaming Whilst Black (Big Deal Films for BBC)
●     Juice (Various Artists Limited for BBC)

Comedy entertainment

●     Last One Laughing (Zeppotron/Initial for Prime Video)
●     Taskmaster (Avalon for Channel 4)
●     Would I Lie to You?(Zeppotron for BBC)

Comedy performance – female

●     Jordan Gray - Transaction (Big Talk Studios for ITV2/ITVX)
●     Katherine Parkinson - Here We Go (BBC Studios Comedy for BBC)
●     Lucy Punch - Amandaland (Merman Television for BBC)
●     Philippa Dunne - Amandaland (Merman Television for BBC)

Comedy performance – male

●    Adjani Salmon - Dreaming Whilst Black (Big Deal Films for BBC)
●    Jon Pointing - Big Boys (Roughcut TV for Channel 4)
●    Oliver Savell - Changing Ends (Baby Cow Productions for ITV1/ITVX)
●   Steve Coogan - How Are You? It's Alan (Partridge) (Baby Cow Productions for BBC)

Writer – comedy

●     Adjani Salmon & Ali Hughes - Dreaming Whilst Black (Big Deal Films for BBC)
●     Tom Basden - Here We Go (BBC Studios Comedy for BBC)
●     Jack Rooke - Big Boys (Roughcut TV for Channel 4)
●     Kat Sadler - Such Brave Girls (Various Artists Limited for BBC)

Entertainment & reality

●     Married at First Sight UK (CPL Productions for E4)
●     Race Across The World (Studio Lambert for BBC)
●     The Celebrity Traitors (Studio Lambert for BBC)

Entertainment performance

●     Rob Beckett & Romesh Ranganathan - Rob & Romesh Vs (CPL Productions for Sky Max)
●     Romesh Ranganathan - Romesh: Can't Knock the Hustle (Ranga Bee Productions for Sky Max)
●     Claudia Winkleman - The Celebrity Traitors (Studio Lambert for BBC)

The full list of nominees across all categories is here.

Tom Allen will host the awards ceremony, which will be held on Tuesday March 24 in London.

Published: 10 Mar 2026