Broadcast Award Nominations for Detectorists and So Awkward!
Congratulations to Team Detectorists on their nominations for Best Comedy Programme and Best Multi Channel Programme, and to Team So Awkward on their nomination for Best Children’s Programme!
Check out the full nominations list here.
Detectorists Series 2 Starting Soon…
Get your first peek at the brand new series of BAFTA Award winning comedy Detectorists, returning to BBC4 this Autumn. Check out the trailer here.
BAFTA win for Detectorists
Detectorists won the BAFTA Television Awards for Best Scripted Comedy at last night’s ceremony. The show written, directed by and starring Mackenzie Crook has already picked up a BAFTA TV Craft Award for Mackenzie’s writing.
Not So Disappointing
Liam Mullone’s Disappointing World becomes Channel X first BBC Radio 4 pilot when it is recorded to a packed audience in Greenwich’s Up The Creek. The show will air next year.
More Gold
Detectorists DVD is released and goes straight into the Top Five for TV Comedy Shows.
More Digging
Detectorists finished off its six week record breaking run with a continuity announcement for fans… the show has been re-commissioned for 2015!
Digging Up A Gem
Detectorists 6 x 30 minutes BBC4
Mackenzie Crook’s new sitcom Detectorists launches to the second highest audience for the 10pm BBC4 slot in the last 12 months. The show goes on to be the channel’s highest rated debut comedy series and is universally acclaimed by critics:
‘Detectorists has been a joy’ (Sunday Times), ‘fields of mud filled with comedy gold’ (Sunday Telegraph), ‘beautifully acted and written, Detectorists is a rare treasure’ (The Times).
So Awkward
Shooting begins in Bury on Channel X’s first ever children’s sitcom, So Awkward.
The 13 episode commission from CBBC is a co-production with ABC Australia. The show was devised and written by Julie Bower. Also writing on the series are Bede Blake, Mark Oswin and Matt Britto.