Drama shortlisted in five categories, while BBC makes clean sweep of nominations for single and series/serial prizes
Acclaimed BBC2 drama Parade's End has dominated the nominations for this year's Broadcasting Press Guild awards, shortlisted in no fewer than five categories.
Parade's End stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Rebecca Hall are both nominated, as is Sir Tom Stoppard who adapted the novels by Ford Madox Ford, while the show is also up for best drama series/serial.
The ITV documentary which exposed Jimmy Savile and helped plunge the BBC into one of the most serious crises in its history, Exposure: the Other Side of Jimmy Savile, is in the running for best single documentary.
BBC drama is assured two BPG awards, with a clean sweep of nominations in the single and series/serial categories. BBC programmes also have all the nominations in the best actor category.
Parade's End will do battle with fellow BBC2 series Line of Duty for the best drama series prize, along with Last Tango in Halifax and Sherlock, which were both on BBC1.
BBC2's Olympics spoof Twenty Twelve and Armando Iannucci's The Thick of It, which came to an end last year, are both nominated for best entertainment/comedy, alongside Channel 4's Fresh Meat.
The Thick of It stars Peter Capaldi and Roger Allam (who also appeared in The Hour and Parade's End respectively) are both nominated for best actor, along with Cumberbatch and Ben Whishaw (The Hollow Crown: Richard II, The Hour).
Hall will compete with Anna Chancellor (Pramface, The Hour), Olivia Colman (Accused, Twenty Twelve), Sienna Miller, who starred in BBC2's Alfred Hitchcock film The Girl, and Maxine Peake (Silk, Room at the Top) for the best actress prize.
Olympics and Paralympics presenter (among many other things) Clare Balding is in the running for the BPG's breakthrough award, along with Adam Hills, presenter of Channel 4's The Last Leg, and Jack Whitehall, for Fresh Meat and BBC3's Bad Education.
Other nominees for this year's BPG awards include Turner prize-winning artist Grayson Perry, for his Channel 4 series All In the Best Possible Taste, which is competing for best documentary, and Dynamo for his Watch series Magician Impossible in the best multichannel category.
The BPG awards, which are voted for by journalists who write about TV and radio, are sponsored by the Discovery channel and will take place at One Whitehall Place in central London on 14 March.
*Broadcasting Press Guild awards – full list of nominations
*
**Best single drama*
*
Best Possible Taste: the Kenny Everett Story (BBC4)
The Hollow Crown: Richard II (BBC2)
Loving Miss Hatto (BBC1)
Murder (BBC1)
**Best drama series**
Last Tango in Halifax (BBC1)
Line of Duty (BBC2)
Parade's End (BBC2)
Sherlock (BBC1)
**Best single documentary**
Arena: Jonathan Miller (BBC Four)
Exposure: The Other Side of Jimmy Savile (ITV1)
London: The Modern Babylon (BBC2)
Storyville: Fire in Babylon (BBC4)
**Best documentary series**
Grayson Perry: All in the Best Possible Taste (Channel 4)
Inside Claridge's (BBC2)
Meet the Romans with Mary Beard (BBC2)
Putin, Russia and The West (BBC2)
Secret History of Our Streets (BBC2)
**Best entertainment/comedy**
Fresh Meat (Channel 4)
Twenty Twelve (BBC2)
The Thick of It (BBC2)
**Best multichannel**
Dynamo: Magician Impossible (UKTV/Watch)
Hunderby (Sky Atlantic)
Moone Boy (Sky1)
Stella (Sky1)
**Best factual entertainment**
Great British Bake Off (BBC2o)
MasterChef: The Professionals (BBC2)
Who Do You Think You Are? (BBC1)
Paul O'Grady: for the Love of Dogs (ITV1)
**Best actor**
Roger Allam (Parade's End, The Thick of It)
Peter Capaldi (The Thick of It, The Hour)
Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock, Parade's End)
Ben Whishaw (The Hollow Crown: Richard II, The Hour)
**Best actress*
*
Anna Chancellor (Pramface, The Hour)
Olivia Colman (Accused, Twenty Twelve)
Rebecca Hall (Parade's End)
Sienna Miller (The Girl)
Maxine Peake (Silk, Room at the Top)
**BPG writer's award*
*
John Morton (Twenty Twelve)
Sir Tom Stoppard (Parade's End)
Sally Wainwright (Last Tango; Scott & Bailey)
Steven Moffat (Doctor Who, Sherlock)
**BPG breakthrough award*
*
Clare Balding, Olympics & Paralympics presenter
Adam Hills, The Last Leg
Jack Whitehall, Fresh Meat & Bad Education
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Acclaimed BBC2 drama Parade's End has dominated the nominations for this year's Broadcasting Press Guild awards, shortlisted in no fewer than five categories.
Parade's End stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Rebecca Hall are both nominated, as is Sir Tom Stoppard who adapted the novels by Ford Madox Ford, while the show is also up for best drama series/serial.
The ITV documentary which exposed Jimmy Savile and helped plunge the BBC into one of the most serious crises in its history, Exposure: the Other Side of Jimmy Savile, is in the running for best single documentary.
BBC drama is assured two BPG awards, with a clean sweep of nominations in the single and series/serial categories. BBC programmes also have all the nominations in the best actor category.
Parade's End will do battle with fellow BBC2 series Line of Duty for the best drama series prize, along with Last Tango in Halifax and Sherlock, which were both on BBC1.
BBC2's Olympics spoof Twenty Twelve and Armando Iannucci's The Thick of It, which came to an end last year, are both nominated for best entertainment/comedy, alongside Channel 4's Fresh Meat.
The Thick of It stars Peter Capaldi and Roger Allam (who also appeared in The Hour and Parade's End respectively) are both nominated for best actor, along with Cumberbatch and Ben Whishaw (The Hollow Crown: Richard II, The Hour).
Hall will compete with Anna Chancellor (Pramface, The Hour), Olivia Colman (Accused, Twenty Twelve), Sienna Miller, who starred in BBC2's Alfred Hitchcock film The Girl, and Maxine Peake (Silk, Room at the Top) for the best actress prize.
Olympics and Paralympics presenter (among many other things) Clare Balding is in the running for the BPG's breakthrough award, along with Adam Hills, presenter of Channel 4's The Last Leg, and Jack Whitehall, for Fresh Meat and BBC3's Bad Education.
Other nominees for this year's BPG awards include Turner prize-winning artist Grayson Perry, for his Channel 4 series All In the Best Possible Taste, which is competing for best documentary, and Dynamo for his Watch series Magician Impossible in the best multichannel category.
The BPG awards, which are voted for by journalists who write about TV and radio, are sponsored by the Discovery channel and will take place at One Whitehall Place in central London on 14 March.
*Broadcasting Press Guild awards – full list of nominations
*
**Best single drama*
*
Best Possible Taste: the Kenny Everett Story (BBC4)
The Hollow Crown: Richard II (BBC2)
Loving Miss Hatto (BBC1)
Murder (BBC1)
**Best drama series**
Last Tango in Halifax (BBC1)
Line of Duty (BBC2)
Parade's End (BBC2)
Sherlock (BBC1)
**Best single documentary**
Arena: Jonathan Miller (BBC Four)
Exposure: The Other Side of Jimmy Savile (ITV1)
London: The Modern Babylon (BBC2)
Storyville: Fire in Babylon (BBC4)
**Best documentary series**
Grayson Perry: All in the Best Possible Taste (Channel 4)
Inside Claridge's (BBC2)
Meet the Romans with Mary Beard (BBC2)
Putin, Russia and The West (BBC2)
Secret History of Our Streets (BBC2)
**Best entertainment/comedy**
Fresh Meat (Channel 4)
Twenty Twelve (BBC2)
The Thick of It (BBC2)
**Best multichannel**
Dynamo: Magician Impossible (UKTV/Watch)
Hunderby (Sky Atlantic)
Moone Boy (Sky1)
Stella (Sky1)
**Best factual entertainment**
Great British Bake Off (BBC2o)
MasterChef: The Professionals (BBC2)
Who Do You Think You Are? (BBC1)
Paul O'Grady: for the Love of Dogs (ITV1)
**Best actor**
Roger Allam (Parade's End, The Thick of It)
Peter Capaldi (The Thick of It, The Hour)
Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock, Parade's End)
Ben Whishaw (The Hollow Crown: Richard II, The Hour)
**Best actress*
*
Anna Chancellor (Pramface, The Hour)
Olivia Colman (Accused, Twenty Twelve)
Rebecca Hall (Parade's End)
Sienna Miller (The Girl)
Maxine Peake (Silk, Room at the Top)
**BPG writer's award*
*
John Morton (Twenty Twelve)
Sir Tom Stoppard (Parade's End)
Sally Wainwright (Last Tango; Scott & Bailey)
Steven Moffat (Doctor Who, Sherlock)
**BPG breakthrough award*
*
Clare Balding, Olympics & Paralympics presenter
Adam Hills, The Last Leg
Jack Whitehall, Fresh Meat & Bad Education
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