‘Rivals’ Star Danny Dyer Nominated For Best Actor At Broadcasting Press Guild Awards

Danny Dyer is on the awards trail for his turn in Disney+ series Rivals.

The EastEnders actor will compete for Best Actor at the Broadcasting Press Guild (BPG) Awards, which is voted on by British television and media journalists.

Dyer starred as electronics businessman Freddie Jones in Disney’s series about sex and skulduggery in the British television business in the 1980s.

To win the BPG prize, he will have to fend off competition from Lennie James (Mr Loverman), Toby Jones (Mr Bates vs the Post Office), Eddie Redmayne (Day of the Jackal), and Mark Rylance (Wolf Hall).

Rivals, based on Jilly Cooper’s novels, will do battle for Best Drama Series alongside Baby Reindeer, Day of the Jackal, Mr Bates vs The Post Office, and Wolf Hall.

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Baby Reindeer star Jessica Gunning, a darling of the awards season, has been nominated for Best Actress, where her competition includes Monica Dolan (Mr Bates), Anna Maxwell Martin (Ludwig), Ambika Mod (One Day), and Katherine Parkinson (Rivals).

Best Writer nominees are Joe Barton (Black Doves), Richard Gadd (Baby Reindeer) Gwyneth Hughes (Mr Bates), Peter Straughan (Wolf Hall), and Sophie Willan (Alma’s Not Normal).

Winners will be announced during a ceremony on March 20 in London. Full nominees are below.

BEST SINGLE DRAMA / MINI-SERIES

Breathtaking (ITV1)
Scoop (Netflix)
A Very Royal Scandal (Prime Video)
Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (BBC1, Netflix)

BEST DRAMA SERIES

Baby Reindeer (Netflix)
Day of the Jackal (Peacock/Sky Atlantic)
Mr Bates vs The Post Office (ITV1)
Rivals (Disney+)
Wolf Hall (BBC1)

BEST SINGLE DOC / MINI-SERIES

Boybands Forever (BBC2)
Michael Palin: Into Nigeria (C5)
Strike: The Uncivil War (Netflix)
Surviving Oct 7th: We Will Dance Again (BB2)

BEST DOC SERIES

Asia (BBC1)
Freddie Flintoff: Field of Dreams on Tour (BBC1)
Mammals (BBC1)
On Thin Ice: Putin v Greenpeace (BBC2)

BEST COMEDY

Boarders (BBC Three)
The Franchise (HBO/Sky)
Gavin and Stacey: The Finale (BBC1)
Inside No 9 (BBC2)

BEST ENTERTAINMENT

Clarkson’s Farm (Prime Video)
Mortimer and Whitehouse: Gone Fishing (BBC2)
The Piano series 2 (C4)
The Traitors series 2 (BBC1)

BEST WRITER

Joe Barton (Black Doves, Netflix)
Richard Gadd (Baby Reindeer, Netflix)
Gwyneth Hughes (Mr Bates vs The Post Office, ITV1)
Peter Straughan (Wolf Hall, BBC1)
Sophie Willan (Alma’s Not Normal, BBC2)

BEST ACTRESS

Monica Dolan (A Ghost Story for Christmas, Sherwood, BBC; Mr Bates vs the Post Office, ITV)
Jessica Gunning (Baby Reindeer, Netflix)
Anna Maxwell Martin (Gavin and Stacey: The Finale, BBC; Ludwig, BBC; Until I Kill You – ITV)
Ambika Mod (One Day, Netflix)
Katherine Parkinson (Rivals, Disney+)

BEST ACTOR

Danny Dyer (Rivals, Disney+)
Lennie James (Mr Loverman, BBC1)
Toby Jones (Mr Bates vs the Post Office, ITV)
Eddie Redmayne (Day of the Jackal, Peacock/Sky Atlantic)
Mark Rylance (Wolf Hall, BBC1)

SPECIAL AWARDS

BPG BREAKTHROUGH AWARD

Levi Brown (This Town)
Richard Gadd (Baby Reindeer)
Kyla Harris (We Might Regret This)
Bella Maclean (Rivals)
Michelle de Swarte (Spent)

BPG EMERGING CREATOR AWARD

Ash Holme
Big Manny

AUDIO AWARDS

BEST RADIO PRESENTER

Sara Cox for Drive-time show (BBC Radio 2)
Paula Harriott for The Secret Life of Prisons (Prison Radio Association)
Ellen E Jones for Screenshot (BBC Radio 4)
Jenny Kleeman for The Gift (BBC Radio 4)
Kate Molleson for Composer of the Week (Radio 3), live Radio 3 concerts, Front Row (BBC Radio 4)

BEST PODCAST

How to Write a Book (Sara Collins, Sharmaine Lovegrove and Nelle Andrew, Daylight Productions)
Kill List (Wondery)
The Rest is Classified (David McCloskey and Gordon Corera, Goalhanger)
To Catch a Scorpion (BBC Sounds)
1984 (Audible)

BEST RADIO PROGRAMME