Comedian will front next month’s ceremony

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The Masked Singer host Joel Dommett will front this year’s Broadcast Awards next month, celebrating the very best in British programming.

The comedian and presenter has been the host of the Bandicoot entertainment format since 2020. He has also featured on I’m A Celebrity… Unpacked and will feature in Lifted Entertainment’s Celebrity Sabotage later this year.

Dommett will preside over the annual event, which takes place on 4 February at the JW Marriott Grosvenor House on Park Lane.

Just four tables remain on the main floor, after which tables will only be available on the balcony. There are one Platinum table and two Premium Plus tables left, but standard tables and individual seats are still available to book. Details of each package can be found here: https://broadcastawards.co.uk/table-packages

The awards are sponsored by: Access Bookings, Barclays, BBC Studioworks, BMC TV, dock10 Media City, Gravity Media, Iron Mountain Media & Archival Services, Maidstone Studios, NEP, On-Set Location Services, Racoon, Riverside TV Studios, Sargent-Disc, The Complete Camera Company and Versa Studios.

For table enquiries, please contact shane.murphy@mbi.london, for sponsorship enquiries please contact broadcastawards@broadcastnow.co.uk

Broadcast Awards shortlist 2026

Best Children’s Programme

  • Crongton, New Pictures for BBC iPlayer
  • Horrible Science, Lion Television for BBC iPlayer
  • My Life: Me, My Horse and My Spear, Salt Street for BBC iPlayer
  • Super Happy Magic Forest, Tiger Aspect Kids & Family, Zodiak Kids, Family France, Movimenti Productions & Monello Productions for CBBC & BBC iPlayer
  • The Night Before Christmas in Wonderland, Lupus Films, Islington Films & Universal Content Group for Sky
  • The Primrose Railway Children, BBC Studios Kids & Family for BBC

Best Comedy Drama Programme

  • Alma’s Not Normal, Expectation TV for BBC 
  • Am I Being Unreasonable, Boffola Pictures for BBC
  • Big Boys, Roughcut TV for Channel 4 
  • Boarders, Studio Lambert for BBC
  • Death Valley, BBC Studios Comedy for BBC
  • Gavin & Stacey: The Finale, Fulwell Entertainment, Tidy Productions & Baby Cow Productions for BBC 

Best Comedy Programme
(Sponsored by Riverside TV Studios)

  • Here We Go, BBC Studios Comedy for BBC
  • Juice, Various Artists Limited for BBC
  • Mr Bigstuff, Water & Power Productions & Sky Studios for Sky Max
  • Pushers, Merman Television & 2LE Media for C4
  • Smoggie Queens, Hat Trick Productions for BBC
  • Such Brave Girls, Various Artists Limited for BBC 

Best Current Affairs Programme

  • America’s Veterans: The War Within (Exposure), Fuuse Films for ITV1
  • Blood Parliament, BBC World Service for YouTube
  • Gaza: Doctors Under Attack, Basement Films for Channel 4
  • Kill List: Hunted By Putin’s Spies, Passion Pictures & Bellingcat Productions for Channel 4
  • Lucy Letby: Beyond Reasonable Doubt? (Exposure), DM Productions for ITV1
  • State of Rage, Duskwater for Channel 4 

Best Daytime Programme

  • Doorbell Detectives, Purple Productions for BBC
  • Help! We Bought a Village, True North Productions for Channel 4
  • Lost and Found in the Lakes, Ty’r Ddraig for BBC
  • Narrow Escapes, Bowled Over Media with Motion Content Group for Channel 4
  • Richard Osman’s House of Games, Remarkable Entertainment for BBC
  • Scam Interceptors, BBC Studios for BBC 

Best Documentary Programme

  • Flight 149: Hostage of War, Drum Studios for Sky Documentaries
  • Grenfell: Uncovered, Rogan Productions for Netflix
  • Life and Death in Gaza, BBC Eye & BBC Storyville for BBC
  • One Day in October, Amos Pictures for Channel 4
  • Trump: The Criminal Conspiracy Case, 72 Films for BBC
  • UNDERCOVER: Exposing The Far Right, Tigerlily & Marking Inc in assoc with Hidden Light & Doc Society for Channel 4 

Best Documentary Series
(Sponsored by The Complete Camera Company)

  • Ambulance, Dragonfly Film & TV for BBC
  • Bibaa & Nicole: Murder in the Park, True Vision TV for Sky Documentaries
  • Life and Death Row, BBC Studios for BBC
  • Operation Dark Phone: Murder by Text, The Garden for Channel 4
  • The Undercover Police Scandal: Love and Lies Exposed, RAW for ITV1 & ITVX
  • Tsunami: Race Against Time, Blast Films for National Geographic 

Best Entertainment Programme
(Sponsored by BBC Studioworks)

  • A League of Their Own, CPL Productions for Sky Max
  • Last One Laughing, Zeppotron & Initial for Prime Video
  • Michael McIntyre’s Big Show, Hungry McBear for BBC
  • Strictly Come Dancing, BBC Studios for BBC
  • The Assembly, Rockerdale Studios for ITV1
  • The Great British Bake Off, Love Productions for Channel 4 

Best Factual Entertainment Programme

  • Clarkson’s Farm, Expectation TV & Con Dao for Prime Video
  • Extraordinary Portraits, Chatterbox Media for BBC
  • Pete Wicks: For Dogs’ Sake, BBC Studios Entertainment for U&W
  • Sort Your Life Out, Optomen Television for BBC
  • The Piano, Love Productions for Channel 4
  • Virgin Island, Double Act for Channel 4 

Best Multichannel Programme

  • Juice, Various Artists Limited for BBC
  • Kursk: 10 Days That Shaped Putin, HiddenLight for Sky HISTORY
  • Married at First Sight UK, CPL Productions for E4
  • Murder Case: The Vanishing Cyclist, Firecrest Films for BBC Scotland
  • Olivia Attwood: The Price of Perfection, Optomen Television for ITVX
  • Such Brave Girls, Various Artists Limited for BBC 

Best New Drama
(Sponsored by On-Set Location Services)

  • A Thousand Blows, The Story Collective, Matriarch Productions & Water & Power Productions for Disney+
  • Adolescence, Warp Films, Matriarch Productions & Plan B for Netflix
  • I Fought The Law, Hera Pictures for ITV1 & ITVX
  • Mr Loverman, Fable Pictures for BBC
  • Reunion, Warp Films for BBC
  • Rivals, Happy Prince, part of ITV Studios for Disney+

Best News Programme

  • BBC Breakfast: Southport and Social Media – From Heartbreak to Hope, BBC Breakfast for BBC
  • BBC Newsnight: Grooming Survivors Speak, BBC News for BBC
  • Good Morning Britain Southport Special: Giving Voice to the Victims, ITV Studios for ITV
  • Inside Sednaya: The Fall of Assad, Channel 4 News for Channel 4
  • Sky News: Assad Downfall, Sky News for Sky News
  • The Case Against the Archbishop, Channel 4 News for Channel 4

Best Original Programme
(Sponsored by Maidstone Studios)

  • Adolescence, Warp Films, Matriarch Productions & Plan B for Netflix
  • Code of Silence, Mammoth Screen for ITV1
  • Smoggie Queens, Hat Trick Productions for BBC
  • The Assembly, Rockerdale Studios for ITV1
  • The Donald Trump Show, 72 Films for Channel 4
  • Underdogs, Maximum Effort & Wildstar Films for National Geographic

Best Pre-School Programme

  • Big Lizard, Beakus, Je Suis Bien Content, Watch Next Media & Bardaf! Productions for CBeebies
  • Dodge’s Pup School, Brilliant Trees Media for BBC iPlayer
  • Jaime’s Yoga Adventures, Zodiak Kids & Cosmic Kids for Sky Kids
  • Mixmups, Mackinnon & Saunders for Channel 5 Milkshake!
  • Mojo Swoptops, Blue Zoo for BBC
  • Tiddler, Magic Light Pictures for BBC

Best Reality Programme
(Sponsored by Versa Studios)

  • I Kissed a Boy, Twofour for BBC
  • I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here!, Lifted Entertainment, part of ITV Studios for ITV1
  • Love Is Blind: UK, CPL Productions for Netflix
  • Tempting Fortune, Voltage TV Productions for Channel 4
  • The Fortune Hotel, Tuesday’s Child for ITV1
  • The Traitors, Studio Lambert for BBC

Best Returning Drama

  • All Creatures Great and Small, Playground Television for 5
  • Malpractice, World Productions for ITV1
  • Showtrial, World Productions for BBC
  • Slow Horses, See-Saw Films for Apple TV
  • Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light, Playground & Company Pictures, Masterpiece in assoc Banijay Rights Limited for BBC
  • Y Golau: Dŵr, The Light, Y Golau Cyf, Triongl & Channel 4 for S4C

Best Soap/Continuing Drama

  • Casualty, BBC Studios for BBC
  • Coronation Street, ITV Studios for ITVX & ITV1
  • EastEnders, BBC Studios for BBC
  • Emmerdale, ITV Studios for ITV1
  • Hollyoaks, Lime Pictures for E4
  • Waterloo Road, Rope Ladder Fiction & Wall to Wall North for BBC 

Best Specialist Factual Programme

  • 7/7: The London Bombings, The Slate Works for BBC
  • Children of the Cult (Exposure), DM Productions for ITV1
  • Helmand: Tour of Duty, Passion Pictures & Kailash Films for BBC
  • Simon Schama: The Road to Auschwitz, Oxford Films for BBC
  • The Lost Music of Auschwitz, Windfall Films for Sky Arts
  • Unforgotten: The Bradford City Fire, Acme for BBC & BBC iPlayer 

Best Sports Programme
(Sponsored by NEP)

  • Cheltenham Festival - Day One, ITV Sport for ITV1
  • England v India Test Cricket, Sky Sports for Sky Sports Cricket
  • Euro 2025, ITV Sport for ITV1
  • Tour De France, ITV Sport for ITV4
  • UEFA Women’s Euro 2025, Sunset+Vine for BBC
  • Women’s Rugby World Cup, Whisper for BBC 

Best Post-Production House

  • dock10
  • ENVY
  • runVT
  • Serious Facilities
  • Sky Post Production
  • Suite 

Emerging Indie of the Year
(Sponsored by Racoon Media Services)

  • Binocular
  • Happy Prince
  • Love Monday
  • Sandpaper Films
  • Walk on Air Films
  • ZANDLAND 

Best Independent Production Company
(Sponsored by Barclays)

  • 72 Films
  • Candour Productions
  • Rogan Productions
  • Studio Lambert
  • Warp Films
  • World Productions 

Broadcaster of the Year
(Sponsored by BMC TV & Racetech)

  • 5
  • BBC
  • Channel 4
  • ITV1
  • Netflix
  • U

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