Warp Films, the company behind Netflix hit Adolescence, and comedy specialist Various Artists Ltd (VAL) have each landed four nominations for the 2026 Broadcast Awards.
Warp and Groomed: a National Scandal indie Candour Productions are among the companies hoping to topple Studio Lambert’s reign as Broadcast’s indie of the year.
The All3Media-owned producer of The Traitors and Gogglebox is again in the running for the title, which it has won for the past two years.
Also on the shortlist for the third consecutive year is factual indie 72 Films, with Grenfell: Uncovered indie Rogan Productions and Showtrial producer World Productions also nominated.
Warp has also secured two places on the inaugural Best New Drama shortlist for Adolescence and its BBC series Reunion, while the single-shot filming style of Adolescence has earned the four-part drama a nomination for Best Original Programme.
It faces competition from 72 Films’ Channel 4 factual commission The Donald Trump Show, Hat Trick’s BBC3 comedy Smoggie Queens, Mammoth Screen’s ITV1 drama Code of Silence, Maximum Effort/Wildstar Films’ Nat Geo co-pro Underdogs and Rockerdale Studios’ The Assembly.
The first three-part series of the interview format, which aired on ITV1 following a BBC1 on-air pilot, is also up for Best Entertainment Series.
Another new title, Zeppotron & Initial’s Amazon Prime hit Last One Laughing UK, joins a shortlist otherwise heavy on established titles: Strictly Come Dancing (BBC Studios), The Great British Bake Off (Love Productions), A League of Their Own (CPL Productions) and Michael McIntyre’s Big Show (Hungry McBear).
VAL's BBC3 comedies Juice and Such Brave Girls both make the running for Best Comedy Series and Best Multichannel Series.
Studio Lambert has two programme nominations, for series three of BBC1 smash The Traitors (Best Reality Programme) and series two of BBC3’s Boarders (Best Comedy Drama).
Meanwhile, having lost to Dare Pictures last year, Zandland is once again a contender for Emerging Indie of the Year.
Also nominated are drama producers Binocular (Hostage) and Happy Prince (Rivals), fact ent outfit Love Monday and doc producers Sandpaper Films (A Deadly American Marriage) and indie Walk on Air Films (Death of a Showjumper).
The BBC leads the way with 52 nominations, ahead of C4 (19), ITV (18) and Sky (11).
The winners will be announced at a ceremony on 4 February. See the full list of nominations here
