Final voting for Big battles
Choose all your winners from the National Television Awards 2022 shortlist…
Joel Dommett is preparing to host British TV’S biggest night of the year, as the Masked Singer presenter will take to the Wembley stage for the National Television Awards, which is live on ITV on Thursday 15 September.
So it’s time for What’s On TV to exclusively reveal the shortlist. Voting is now open for all your favourite telly shows and stars!
One of the biggest battles will be for the New Drama award, as hit coming-ofage saga Heartstopper goes up against Sean Bean’s prison thriller Time, Vicky Mcclure’s Trigger Point and Ben Whishaw’s medical drama This Is Going to Hurt. The Returning Drama gong is a feast of popular period classics with Bridgerton, Call the Midwife and Peaky Blinders all up for the prize. Also shortlisted is divorce saga The Split. Heartstopper actors Kit Connor and Joe Locke will be up against one another in the Rising Star category, facing Paddy Bever, AKA Corrie’s Max Turner, and Charithra Chandran (Bridgerton).
You can also pick your favourite Comedy, as After Life and Derry Girls take on Not Going Out and Sex Education. And the Drama Performance award features Jonathan Bailey (Bridgerton)
Vicky Mcclure (Trigger Point),
Cillian Murphy (Peaky Blinders) and Nicola Walker (The Split).
There’s tough competition for the Authored Documentary award, with The Wanted singer Tom
Parker receiving a posthumous nomination for Inside My Head.
Also going for this gong is Katie
Price for What Harvey Did Next;
Julia Bradbury for Breast Cancer and Me; Paddy and Christine
Mcguinness for Our Family and
Autism; and last year’s winner Kate Garraway for Caring for Derek.
The Expert category is a new award, with Jay Blades (The Repair Shop),
Kaleb Cooper (Clarkson’s Farm) and money-saving maestro Martin Lewis all trying to pip Sir David Attenborough.
As ever, it’s a big battle among the soap stars for Serial Drama Performance, with Emmerdale’s Paige Sandhu (Meena) and Mark Charnock (Marlon) going head-tohead with Eastenders’ Rose Ayling
Ellis (Frankie) and Gillian Wright, who portrayed Jean’s mental-health storyline. As for Serial Drama, could the Neighbours cast lift the trophy with the Aussie soap’s recent emotional farewell
giving it some extra votes?
The Split’s Nicola Walker. Right: This Is Going to Hurt’s Ben Whishaw
Ant & Dec’s
Saturday Night
Takeaway,
Taskmaster, The
Graham Norton Show and I’m a Celebrity… are all fighting it out for The Bruce Forsyth Entertainment Award, while The Chase and Loose Women are among the shows in line for the Daytime prize. Ant and Dec are again tipped to bag the TV Presenter honour. But if you want someone else to steal their crown, you could pick either Alison Hammond, Bradley Walsh or Graham Norton. It’s up to you!