Mark your diaries: BPG TV, Streaming and Audio Awards is March 22, 2024 Nominations for programmes aired in calendar year 2023 are due by the second week of January. More info here.

 

Derry Girls picks up Best Comedy and Best Writer awards &
This is Going To Hurt stars take Best Actor and Best Actress trophies.

Two hit programmes picked up a pair of prizes at this year’s Broadcasting Press Guild Awards: Channel 4’s Derry Girls as Best Comedy plus Best Writer for Lisa McGee and the stars of BBC One’s This Is Going to Hurt – Ben Whishaw and Ambika Mod – for Best Actor and Best Actress.

The most popular new reality show on British TV, The Traitors, took the Best Entertainment title by a wide margin of votes, while BBC One shows also grabbed three other trophies: Sherwood for Best Drama (4+ episodes); The Real Mo Farah for Best Documentary Mini Series; and Frozen Planet II for Best Documentary (4+ episodes). The original Frozen Planet series won the same prize back in 2012.

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Lisa McGee, with her two BPG Awards trophies for Derry Girls, and Jack Rooke, winner of the BPG Breakthrough Award.

 

Click through for the list of who won in 2023 and a gallery of images from the event.

 

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