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Broadcast Awards 2025 shortlist revealed

Broadcast Awards 2025 shortlist revealed

Vast range of shows, major channels and production giants will compete on 5 February

Six heavyweight labels will go head-to-head to win Best Independent Production Company at the Broadcast Awards 2025, which has revealed its shortlist.

The nominations feature some of the most talked-about TV of the past year, including ITV1’s Mr Bates vs the Post Office, Netflix’s Baby Reindeer and BBC smash hits Ludwig and The Traitors.

Defending its best indie crown on 5 February 2025 is Studio Lambert. The All3Media company has two shows in the Best Entertainment Programme category – Netflix game’s Squid Game: The Challenge (a co-pro with The Garden) and series two of The Traitors – plus a Best Comedy Programme nomination for BBC3’s Boarders.

It will vie with 72 Films, which is nominated for BBC2 doc The Zelensky Show in Best Specialist Factual and has two nods in International Programme Sales: Zelensky again and Sky’s House of Kardashian; Big Talk Studios, which is up for Best Comedy Programme for BBC1 smash Ludwig; CPL Productions, twice nominated in the Entertainment category for Sky’s A League of Their Own and Netflix’s Love Is Blind: UK and in Best Popular Factual for Married at First Sight UK; Hungry Bear Media, nominated for Best Documentary for C4’s Me and the Voice In My Head and in entertainment for BBC1’s Gladiators reboot; and Quay Street Productions, which is up for Best Single Drama for BBC1’s Men Up and produced Netflix’s most watched show of the year, Fool Me Once.

As well as The Zelensky Show, three other titles have a brace of nominations: Channel 4’s The Jury: The Murder Trial (Best Popular Factual and Best Original Programme), factual drama Partygate from the same broadcaster (Single Drama and Original Programme) and E4 format The Underdog: Josh Must Win (Best Multichannel and Best Original Programme).

This year’s drama shortlist pits Mr Bates vs the Post Office against Baby Reindeer, series two of BBC1’s Sherwood and Blue Lights, series four of Apple TV+’s Slow Horses and BBC1 Jimmy Savile drama The Reckoning.

ITV has scored a rare two nominations for Best Comedy Programme: one for series two of Changing Ends and one for the debut series of ITV2’s G’Wed. Another new show on the comedy shortlist is BBC3’s Things You Should Have Done, while the final series of BBC2’s Inside No.9 also earns a place, alongside Boarders and Ludwig.

The awards also recognise a big year for sport, with nominations for both the BBC’s and ITV’s coverage of the Euros, the BBC’s Olympic broadcasts, C4’s Paralympics, Sky Sports Premier League’s Super Sunday show and S4C’s Rugby World Cup coverage.

The BBC again leads the way overall, with 50 nominations across its portfolio of channels, followed by C4 (30), ITV (14), Sky (eight), Netflix (six), Channel 5 (five), Apple TV+ (three) and S4C (two). UKTV, Amazon Prime Video and Boomerang UK each have one.

BBC One, BBC Three, Channel 4, Channel 5, ITV1 and Sky Sports Main Event will compete to be named Channel of the Year. And this year’s dock10 TV Moment of the Year shortlist will be announced in due course.

The awards take place on 5 February at the JW Marriott Grosvenor House on Park Lane where the drinks reception sponsored by Iron Mountain Media & Archive Services and our social media competition is sponsored by Sargent Disc.

The awards take place on 5 February at the JW Marriott Grosvenor House on Park Lane. For the full shortlist, click here.

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