RTS Programme Awards: The shortlist in full

DAYTIME AND EARLY PEAK PROGRAMME

• Coach Trip 12 Yard Productions for Channel 4
• Come Dine With Me ITV Studios for Channel 4
• The Hairy Bikers’ Food Tour of Britain Cactus Television for BBC Two

DOCUMENTARY

• The Force An Oxford Film and Television Production for Channel 4
• True Stories - Afghan Star A Roast Beef Production for More4
• Wounded BBC Productions for BBC One

DRAMA SERIAL

• Occupation Kudos Film and Television for BBC One
• Red Riding Revolution Films in association with Screen Yorkshire & LipSync Post for Channel 4
• Unforgiven Red Production Company for ITV1

DRAMA SERIES

• Cast Offs Eleven Films for Channel 4
• Misfits A Clerkenwell Films Production for E4
• The Street ITV Studios for BBC One

ENTERTAINMENT

• Britain’s Got Talent A talkbackTHAMES and SYCO TV Production for ITV1
• Newswipe with Charlie Brooker Zeppotron for BBC Four
• The X Factor A talkbackTHAMES and SYCO TV Production for ITV1

ENTERTAINMENT PERFORMANCE

• Harry Hill - Harry Hill’s TV Burp, Avalon Television for ITV1
• Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly - I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!/Britain’s Got Talent, ITV Studios/talkbackTHAMES for ITV1
• Michael McIntyre - Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow, Open Mike Manchester Productions for BBC One

FEATURES AND LIFESTYLE SERIES

• Don’t Tell The Bride, Renegade Pictures for BBC Three
• Heston’s Feasts - Heston’s Victorian Feast, Optomen Television for Channel 4
• The Sex Education Show vs Pornography, A Cheetah Television Production for Channel 4

HISTORY

• 1066 - The Battle for Middle Earth, Hardy Pictures for Channel 4
• Garrow’s Law, Twenty Twenty Television for BBC One
• Iran and the West, Brook Lapping Productions for BBC Two

INTERNATIONAL AWARD

• Damages, Sony Pictures Television for BBC One
• Generation Kill, HBO, HBO Films, Boom, Blown Deadline Productions, Company Pictures for FX
• Mad Men, Lionsgate for BBC Four

MULTI-CHANNEL PROGRAMME AWARD

• Dating in the Dark, Initial, an Endemol Company, for LIVING
• Micro Men, Darlow Smithson Productions for BBC Four
• True Stories - Here’s Johnny, An Animal Monday Production for More4

NATIONS AND REGIONS PROGRAMME

• A History of Scotland, BBC Scotland for BBC One Scotland
• Deep Wreck Mysteries - Death of a Battleship, Mallinson Sadler Productions, Northern Sky Entertainment and Deep Sea Productions for UTV
• Shameless, A Company Pictures Production for Channel 4

PRESENTER

• James May - James May’s Toy Stories, BBC Productions/Plum Pictures for BBC Two
• Piers Morgan - Piers Morgan’s Life Stories, ITV Studios for ITV1
• Louis Theroux - A Place for Paedophiles, BBC Productions for BBC Two

SCIENCE & NATURAL HISTORY

• Inside Nature’s Giants, Windfall Films for Channel 4
• The Great Sperm Race, Blink! Films for Channel 4
• Yellowstone: Winter, BBC/Animal Planet Co-Production for BBC Two

SCRIPTED COMEDY

• Miranda, BBC Productions for BBC Two
• The Inbetweeners, A Bwark Production for E4
• The Thick of It, BBC Productions for BBC Two

SINGLE DRAMA

• A Short Stay in Switzerland, BBC Productions for BBC One
• Endgame, A Daybreak Pictures Production for Channel 4
• Five Minutes of Heaven, Big Fish Films/Ruby Films for BBC Two

SOAP AND CONTINUING DRAMA

• Casualty, BBC Productions for BBC One
• EastEnders, BBC Productions for BBC One
• The Bill, talkbackTHAMES for ITV1

WRITER - COMEDY

• Jo Brand, Joanna Scanlan & Vicki Pepperdine - Getting On Vera Productions for BBC Four
• Miranda Hart with James Cary & Richard Hurst - Miranda BBC Productions for BBC Two
• Iain Morris & Damon Beesley - The Inbetweeners A Bwark Production for E4

WRITER - DRAMA

• Peter Bowker - Occupation, Kudos Film and Television for BBC One
• Guy Hibbert - Five Minutes of Heaven, Big Fish Films/Ruby Films for BBC Two
• Howard Overman - Misfits, A Clerkenwell Films Production for E4