The soap has been left off the nominations at this years prestigious awards bash....
Coronation Street has been overlooked at this year's Royal Television Society Awards and for the first time ever has NOT been nominated in the Soap and Continuing Drama Category.
Instead it will be left to rival shows Emmerdale, EastEnders and Hollyoaks to battle it out at the ceremony which will take place at London's Grosvenor House Hotel on March 21.
ITV's Emmerdale has enjoyed a particularly strong year after winning gongs at both the National Television Awards and the Broadcast Awards and has been praised for its hard hitting storylines, including the multi-vehicle pile up in November which had catastrophic consequences, and its sensitive and heart-breaking handling of character Ashley's vascular dementia.
Unstoppable duo, Ant and Dec, are nominated in two categories this year, receiving nods in the Entertainment category for Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway where they are up against BBC One’s Strictly Come Dancing and also the Entertainment Performance category for I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! which they won the award for last year. The pair will battle it out against Romesh Ranganathan for BBC Three’s Asian Provocateur and Adam Hills, Alex Brooker and Josh Widdicombe, who are nominated for their Channel 4 series The Last Leg.
Meanwhile Channel 4 drama, National Treasure, is nominated in four categories, with its stars Julie Walters and Robbie Coltrane recognised in the Actor (Female) and Actor (Male) categories respectively. Walters is nominated alongside star of BBC One drama, Undercover, Sophie Okonedo, and Jodie Comer, for her role in BBC Three series, Thirteen; while Coltrane is up against James Nesbitt for ITV’s The Secret and Adeel Akhtar for BBC Three’s Murdered By My Father.
National Treasure is also shortlisted in the Mini-Series category against Thirteen and BBC Two’s London Spy; and its writer, Jack Thorne, has been dominated in the Drama category, alongside Jed Mercurio for Line of Duty and Sally Wainwright for Happy Valley.
The event will be hosted by QI host Sandi Toksvig after original host Piers Morgan pulled out following a bitter backlash against him online.
The full list of nominations is below:
Actor - Female
Jodie Comer - Thirteen, BBC Three
Sophie Okonedo - Undercover, BBC One
Julie Walters - National Treasure, Channel 4
Actor - Male
Adeel Akhtar - Murdered By My Father, BBC Three
Robbie Coltrane - National Treasure, Channel 4
James Nesbitt - The Secret, ITV
Arts
Bricks! BBC Four
Grayson Perry All Man, Channel 4
One Night In 2012 BBC Studios, BBC One
Breakthrough
Nadiya Hussain - The Chronicles of Nadiya, BBC One
Phoebe Waller-Bridge - Fleabag, BBC Three
Phillip Wood - Chasing Dad: A Lifelong Addiction Rare Day, BBC Three
Children's Programme
CBeebies A Midsummer Night’s Dream, CBeebies
Lily's Driftwood Bay Sixteen South, Nick Jr.
My Life: The Boy on the Bicycle Drummer TV, CBBC
Comedy Performance
Asim Chaudhry - People Just Do Nothing, BBC Three
Steve Coogan - Alan Partridge’s Scissored Isle, Sky Atlantic
Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney - Catastrophe, Channel 4
Daytime Programme
Find it, Fix it, Flog it, Channel 4
Matron, Medicine and Me: 70 Years of the NHS, BBC One
The Question Jury Monkey Kingdom, Channel 4
Documentary Series
Exodus: Our Journey to Europe, BBC Two
Inside Obama’s White House, BBC Two
The Murder Detectives Films, Channel 4
Drama Series
Happy Valley, BBC One
Line of Duty 3, BBC Two
The Durrells, ITV
Entertainment
Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway, ITV
Strictly Come Dancing, BBC One
Taskmaster, Dave
Entertainment Performance
Adam Hills, Alex Brooker & Josh Widdicombe - The Last Leg Open Mike, Channel 4
Anthony McPartlin & Declan Donnelly - I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! ITV
Romesh Ranganathan - Asian Provocateur: Mum’s American Dream, BBC Three
History
Challenger Disaster: Lost Tapes 1895 Films for National Geographic
Saddam goes to Hollywood, Channel 4
The Aberfan Young Wives' Club, ITV
Live Event
Stand Up to Cancer, Channel 4
The Centenary of the Battle of the Somme, BBC One and BBC Two
The Sound of Music Live! ITV
Mini-Series
London Spy, BBC Two
National Treasure, Channel 4
Thirteen, BBC Three
Popular Factual and Features
Employable Me Optomen, BBC Two
First Dates, Channel 4
SAS Who Dares Wins, Channel 4
Presenter
Sir David Attenborough - Attenborough and The Giant Dinosaur, BBC One
Richard Ayoade - Travel Man 48 Hours In Vienna, Channel 4
Grayson Perry - Grayson Perry All Man, Channel 4
RTS Channel of the Year
BBC One
BBC Three
Channel 4
Science and Natural History
First Contact: Lost Tribe of the Amazon, Channel 4
The Hunt: The Hardest Challenge, BBC One
The Secret Life of 4 & 5 Year Olds, Channel 4
Scripted Comedy
Catastrophe, Channel 4
People Just Do Nothing, BBC Three
The Windsors, Channel 4
Single Documentary
Hillsborough, BBC Two
The Forgotten Children, ITV
The Murder of Sadie Hartley, ITV
Single Drama
A Midsummer Night's Dream, BBC One
Murdered By My Father, BBC Three
Reg, BBC One
Soap and Continuing Drama
EastEnders, BBC One
Emmerdale, ITV
Hollyoaks, Channel Four
Sports Presenter, Commentator or Pundit
Clare Balding - Rio Paralympics, Channel 4
Nasser Hussain, Sky Sports
Osi Umenyiora - Race to Super Bowl 50, NFL This Week, BBC Two
Sports Programme
England v Pakistan T20 International, Sky Sports
The Open, Sky Sports
Rio Paralympics, Channel 4
Writer - Comedy
Stefan Golaszewski - Mum, BBC Two
Graham Linehan, Sharon Horgan, Helen Linehan, Holly Walsh - Motherland, BBC Two
Phoebe Waller-Bridge - Fleabag, BBC Three
Writer - Drama
Jed Mercurio - Line of Duty 3 World Productions for BBC Two
Jack Thorne - National Treasure, Channel 4
Sally Wainwright - Happy Valley, BBC One
