The Broadcasting Press Guild Awards 2016 recognise outstanding programmes and performances seen or heard the year before. Of the 14 awards, three categories are decided on by specialist panels, the rest are voted for by the membership of the BPG.
The Broadcasting Press Guild was founded in 1974 and has more than a hundred members. The membership includes journalists who specialise in covering television, radio and the media, and include critics, previewers, media correspondents and feature writers from national newspapers, broadcasters and leading trade journals and websites.
Nominations for BBC programmes are listed below. See the complete list of nominations on the BPG website.
Best Single Drama
An Inspector Calls (BBC One)
The Dresser (BBC Two)
Best Drama Series
Doctor Foster (BBC One)
Wolf Hall (BBC Two)
Best Single Documentary
Love You To Death: A Year Of Domestic Violence (BBC Two)
Professor Green: Suicide And Me (BBC Three)
Best Documentary Series
Inside The Commons (BBC Two)
Face Of Britain By Simon Schama (BBC Two)
Best Entertainment/Factual Entertainment
The Great British Bake Off (BBC One)
The Graham Norton Show (BBC One)
Best Comedy
Car Share (BBC One)
Detectorists (BBC Four)
Made for Online (Digital First)
Adam Curtis: Bitter Lake (BBC iPlayer)
Car Share (BBC iPlayer)
Best Actor
Mark Rylance (Wolf Hall, BBC Two)
Aidan Turner (Poldark BBC One/And Then There Were None, BBC One)
Ben Whishaw (London Spy, BBC Two)
Best Actress
Claire Foy (Wolf Hall, BBC Two)
Suranne Jones (Doctor Foster, BBC One)
Best Writer
Mike Bartlett (Doctor Foster, BBC One)
Peter Straughan (Wolf Hall, BBC Two)
Breakthrough Award
Sian Gibson (Car Share, BBC iPlayer/BBC One)
Aidan Turner (Poldark, BBC One/And Then There Were None, BBC One)
Jon Jacob is Editor, About the BBC Blog