Edinburgh TV Awards unveils shortlisted nominees for 2022 edition

The Edinburgh TV Festival has revealed the shortlisted nominees for its annual awards, which will be given out at an in-person ceremony on August 25, hosted by writer and comedian ...

June 16, 2022

The Edinburgh TV Festival has revealed the shortlisted nominees for its annual awards, which will be given out at an in-person ceremony on August 25, hosted by writer and comedian Sophie Duker.

Factual and documentary were strongly represented in the nominations, even beyond their designated categories. The nominations for Small Indie of the Year, for example, are dominated by factual-focused prodcos, including Glasgow’s Firecrest Films (The Spy Who Died Twice), Welsh outfit Chwarel (The Great House Giveaway), Belfast’s Afro-Mic Productions (Adrian Dunbar’s Coastal Ireland), and London-based Hardcash Productions (Fearless: The Women Fighting Putin) and Rogan Productions (Uprising, pictured). Factual and unscripted specialists are also represented in the Production Company of the Year category, with nominations for ITN Productions (The Disappearance of Patricia Hall) and Objective Media Group (Motorway Cops: Catching Britain’s Speeders).

The nominations for the Climate Impact Award, meanwhile, went exclusively to documentaries, and included such notable titles as Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World and BBC Studios’ premium plant-life doc The Green Planet.

The nominees in the factual and unscripted categories for the Edinburgh TV Awards are listed below:

BEST DOCUMENTARY

9/11: Inside the President’s War Room (BBC One/Apple TV+)
Production company: Wish/Art Films

9/11: One Day in America (National Geographic)
Production company: 72 Films

Blair & Brown: The New Labour Revolution (BBC Two)
Production company: BBC Studios Documentary Unit

Positive (Sky Documentaries)
Production company: Arrow Pictures

The Return: Life After ISIS (Sky Documentaries)
Production companies: Alba Sotorra Productions, MetFilm

The Tinder Swindler (Netflix)
Production companies: Raw TV with Gaspin Media and AGC Studios in association with VG

BEST POPULAR FACTUAL SERIES

24 Hours in Police Custody (Channel 4)
Production company: The Garden Productions

Joe Lycett’s Got Your Back (Channel 4)
Production companies: Rumpus Media, My Options

Long Lost Family: Born Without Trace (ITV)
Production company: Wall to Wall Media

Mortimer and Whitehouse: Gone Fishing (BBC Two)
Production company: Owl Power

Trip Hazard: My Great British Adventure (Channel 4)
Production company: Studio 71

Uprising (BBC One)
Production companies: Rogan Productions, Lammas Park, Turbine Studios

CLIMATE IMPACT AWARD

COP26: In Your Hands (Sky Kids)
Production companies: Fresh Start Media, Sky Kids

Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World (BBC One/PBS)
Production companies: BBC Studios in association with B-Reel Films, coproduced with PBS

“Horrible Histories,” Precious Planet (CBBC)
Production company: Lion Television

Joe Lycett vs. The Oil Giant (Channel 4)
Production company: Rumpus Media

The Earthshot Prize: Repairing Our Planet (BBC One)
Production company: BBC Studios

“Human Worlds,” The Green Planet (BBC One)
Production company: BBC Studios

BEST TV PRESENTER

AJ Odudu & Mo Gilligan, The Big Breakfast (Channel 4)

Graham Norton, The Graham Norton Show (BBC One)

Greg Davies & Alex Horne, Taskmaster (Channel 4)

Joe Lycett, Joe Lycett’s Got Your Back (Channel 4)

Prof. Benjamin Zephaniah, Life & Rhymes (Sky Arts)

Tinie Tempah, Extraordinary Extensions (Channel 4)

BREAKTHROUGH TALENT: PRESENTER

Mist, Gassed Up (BBC Three)

Munya Chawawa, Race Around Britain (YouTube)

Tayo Oguntonade, The Great House Giveaway (Channel 4)

Zeze Millz, Unapologetic (Channel 4)

TAGS:

24 Hours in Police Custody, 72 Films, 9/11: Inside the President's War Room, 9/11: One Day in America, Afro-Mic Productions, AGC Studios, AJ Odudu, Alba Sotorra Productions, Alex Horne, Apple TV, Arrow Pictures, B-Reel Films, BBC One, BBC Studios, BBC Studios’ Documentary Unit, BBC Three, BBC Two, Benjamin Zephaniah, Blair & Brown: The New Labour Revolution, CBBC, Channel 4, Chwarel, COP26: In Your Hands, Edinburgh TV Awards, Edinburgh TV Festival, Extraordinary Extensions, Firecrest Films, Fresh Start Media, Gaspin Media, Gassed Up, Graham Norton, Greg Davies, Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World, Hardcash Productions, ITN Productions, ITV, Joe Lyce, Joe Lycett, Joe Lycett vs. The Oil Giant, Joe Lycett's Got Your Back, Lammas Park, Life & Rhymes, Lion Television, Long Lost Family: Born Without Trace, MetFilm, Mis, Mo Gilligan, Mortimer and Whitehouse: Gone Fishing, Munya Chawawa, My Options, National Geographic, Netflix, Objective Media Group, Owl Power, PBS, Positive, Precious Planet, Race Around Britain, Raw TV, Rogan Productions, Rumpus Media, Sky Arts, Sky Documentaries, Sky Kids, Studio 71, Taskmaster, Tayo Oguntonade, The Big Breakfast, The Earthshot Prize: Repairing Our Planet, The Garden Productions, The Graham Norton Show, The Great House Giveaway, The Green Planet, The Return: Life After ISIS, The Tinder Swindler, Tinie Tempah, Trip Hazard: My Great British Adventure, Turbine Studios, Unapologetic, Uprising, VG, Wall to Wall Media, Wish/Art Films, Zeze Millz

TAGS:

24 Hours in Police Custody, 72 Films, 9/11: Inside the President's War Room, 9/11: One Day in America, Afro-Mic Productions, AGC Studios, AJ Odudu, Alba Sotorra Productions, Alex Horne, Apple TV, Arrow Pictures, B-Reel Films, BBC One, BBC Studios, BBC Studios’ Documentary Unit, BBC Three, BBC Two, Benjamin Zephaniah, Blair & Brown: The New Labour Revolution, CBBC, Channel 4, Chwarel, COP26: In Your Hands, Edinburgh TV Awards, Edinburgh TV Festival, Extraordinary Extensions, Firecrest Films, Fresh Start Media, Gaspin Media, Gassed Up, Graham Norton, Greg Davies, Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World, Hardcash Productions, ITN Productions, ITV, Joe Lyce, Joe Lycett, Joe Lycett vs. The Oil Giant, Joe Lycett's Got Your Back, Lammas Park, Life & Rhymes, Lion Television, Long Lost Family: Born Without Trace, MetFilm, Mis, Mo Gilligan, Mortimer and Whitehouse: Gone Fishing, Munya Chawawa, My Options, National Geographic, Netflix, Objective Media Group, Owl Power, PBS, Positive, Precious Planet, Race Around Britain, Raw TV, Rogan Productions, Rumpus Media, Sky Arts, Sky Documentaries, Sky Kids, Studio 71, Taskmaster, Tayo Oguntonade, The Big Breakfast, The Earthshot Prize: Repairing Our Planet, The Garden Productions, The Graham Norton Show, The Great House Giveaway, The Green Planet, The Return: Life After ISIS, The Tinder Swindler, Tinie Tempah, Trip Hazard: My Great British Adventure, Turbine Studios, Unapologetic, Uprising, VG, Wall to Wall Media, Wish/Art Films, Zeze Millz

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Andrew Tracy joined Realscreen as associate editor in 2021, following 17 years as managing editor of the award-winning international film magazine Cinema Scope. From 2010 to 2020 he also held the position of senior editor at the Toronto International Film Festival, where he oversaw the flagship publication for the organization’s year-round Cinematheque programming and edited its first original monograph in a decade, Steve Gravestock’s A History of Icelandic Film. He was a scriptwriter and consultant on the first season of the Vice TV series The Vice Guide to Film, and his writing and reporting have been featured in such outlets as Cinema Scope, Reverse Shot, Sight & Sound, Cineaste, Film Comment, MUBI Notebook, POV, and Montage.

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