This year’s Royal Television Society Awards see nominations for Doctor Who writer, Steven Moffat, Educating Essex and Million Pound Drop to name a few.

The best drama series category has the ITV series Scott and Bailey,  up against BBC’s crime drama Luther 2 and BBC Three’s The Fades.The entertainment category sees Million Pound Drop face competition from The Graham Norton Show and Derren Brown’s latest television series The Experiments.

Whilst the best writer nominees include Doctor Who boss Steven Moffat, Peter Bowker for Eric & Ernie and Neil McKay for Appropriate Adult.

The male actor category highlights Daniel Rigby for his role in Eric & Ernie, Dominic West for his part in Appropriate Adult and John Simm for Exile. The female actor nominees include Vicky McClure for This is England ’88, Ruth Negga for Shirley and Emily Watson for Appropriate Adult.

Comedy series that have been picked up for nominations include Fresh Meat, Phoneshop and Rev.

Rev picks up another nomination for Tom Hollander’s comedy performance, as does Darren Boyd for Sky’s Spy and a joint nomination for Russell Tovey and Sarah Solemani for their roles in Him & Her.

There are just two programmes up for children’s drama: Sarah Jane Adventures and Tracy Beaker.

Idiot Abroad  has two nominations, one in the presenter category for Karl Pilkington and another for popular factual and features. Likewise for campaigning series Hugh’s Big Fish Fight which also is nominated for popular factual and sees Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall put up for best presenter.

The annual awards, which celebrate the best programmes, actors, presenters and writers, will be hosted by the comedian and actor Rob Brydon who will be giving out the awards on March 20th.

Nominations in full