ITV hosts & this year’s TV awards
completes the sho shortlist. BBC1’S Bodyguard has tw two nominations – for drama performance per for Richard Madd Madden, 32, and writer Jed Merc Mercurio in the new drama section section.
He faces sti stiff competition from the crea creators of Killing Eve, The Cr Cry, Girlfriends and A D Discovery of Witches.
The dra drama category s ees Doctor Do Who, starring Jo Jodie Whittaker, 36, as the 13th Doctor, pitted against a Peaky Blinder Blinders, Our Girl, Casualt Casualty – which won last year ye – and Call the Mi Midwife.
Bra Bradley Walsh, 58, the D Doctor’s latest comp companion and The Chas Chase presenter, is up a against last year’s winners
Ant and D Dec in the b best presenter category. Whittaker and Madden are nominated in the drama performance category against Jodie Comer, 25, from Killing Eve, Peaky Blinders’ Cillian Murphy, 42, and Our Girl and ex Corrie star Michelle Keegan, 31.
Last year the Bruce Forsyth Entertainment Award was won by Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway. This year ITV’S Love Island is up for the gong.
Two of last year’s contestants and on-off
couple Dani Dyer, 22, and Jack Fincham, 27, will be presenting the awards’ backstage coverage.
No doubt they will root for her dad, Danny Dyer, 41, who’s up for a serial drama performance award for his role as Mick Carter who faced prison in Eastenders.
Soaps have had a huge year once again, pushing boundaries with gripping storylines.
The knife crime drama in Walford showed off the talents of Eastenders’ Bonnie Langford’s. Jack P Shepherd, 30, was excellent on Coronation Street as David, who had to endure a rape.
Also up for serial drama performance are Emma Atkins, 43, who mined Charity’s past traumas on Emmerdale, while co-star Lucy Pargeter, 41, had the nation in tears as Chas lost
her baby.