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In the Best Actress category, Gemma Arterton is nonimated for Tess of the D’Urbervilles. She’ll compete with Andrea Riseborough (who is nominated for lead roles in two productions – Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley and The Devil’s Whore), Ruth Jones (Gavin & Stacey, Little Dorrit and Tess) and Julie Walters (for Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story).
The winners will be announced at the BPG Awards lunch at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane on Friday March 27, 2009.
Winners will be informed in advance and places at the lunch are by invitation only.
The Broadcasting Press Guild was founded in 1974 and has more than a hundred members – all journalists who specialise in writing and broadcasting about television, radio and the media in general. They include media correspondents, reviewers, previewers and feature writers from national newspapers, broadcasters and leading trade journals and websites. Details of previous BPG Awards winners can be found at http://www.broadcastingpressguild.org/awards.