Ant & Dec, Sex Education and Coronation Street are the big winners at the I Talk Telly Awards 2021
Voting for the seventh annual I Talk Telly Awards took place across 10 days in November, where 400,000 votes were cast.
Winning two awards each, Ant & Dec were awarded Best TV Presenting Partnership and Best Entertainment Show for Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway and Sex Education was awarded Best Returning Comedy and Best Comedy Performance for Ncuti Gatwa.
With all four major soaps nominated across Best Soap, Best Soap Newcomer, Best Soap Performance and Best Soap Partnership it was Coronation Street who walked away with all four awards, including wins for Vinta Morgan, Jude Riordan and Ben Price and Jane Danson.
David Tennant and Michael Sheen held on to their award from last year, once again being voted Best Comedy Partnership for Staged, Gogglebox have once again been voted Best Factual Entertainment and for the seventh consecutive year, This Morning was voted Best Daytime Show.
Stephen Merchant’s The Outlaws was voted Best New Comedy, whilst Only Murders In The Building was named Best International Comedy.
It’s A Sin was voted Best New Drama, Line of Duty won Best Returning Drama and Netflix hit Squid Game won Best International Drama. And Jodie Comer deservedly won Best Dramatic Performance for her performance in Channel 4’s Help.
The Great British Bake Off was voted Best Talent Show, Joel Dommett was named Best TV Presenter and Rosie Jones rounds off a brilliant 2021 with a win, being voted Best Breakthrough,
Elsewhere, Leigh-Anne Pinnock’s Race, Pop & Power was awarded Best Documentary and Highlife, part of Channel 4’s Black to Front project narrowly beat its rivals to win Best Reality TV Show.
You can view all of this year's winners at italktelly.com/awards2021 and watch acceptance videos from; Amira and Amani from Gogglebox, Ant & Dec, David Tennant & Michael Sheen, Joel Dommett, Russell T Davies,Stephen Merchant and Coronation Street’s Jane Danson, Jude Riordan, Vinta Morgan and Elle Mulvaney and Harriet Bibby.
A list of the winners is below
Best New Comedy The Outlaws, BBC One
Best Returning Comedy Sex Education, Netflix
Best International Comedy Only Murders in the Building, Disney+
Best Comedy Performance Ncuti Gatwa, Sex Education, Netflix
Best Comedy Partnership
David Tennant & Michael Sheen, Staged, BBC One
Best New Drama It’s A Sin, Channel 4
Best Returning Drama Line of Duty, BBC One
Best International Drama Squid Game, Netflix
Best Dramatic Performance Jodie Comer, Help, Channel 4
Best Entertainment Show
Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway, ITV
Best Factual Entertainment Gogglebox, Channel 4
Best Reality TV Show Highlife, Channel 4
Best Talent Show
The Great British Bake Off, Channel 4
Best Daytime Show This Morning, ITV
Best TV Presenter Joel Dommett
Best TV Presenting Partnership
Ant & Dec, Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway, ITV
Best Documentary
Leigh-Anne: Race, Pop & Power, BBC Three
Best Breakthrough Rosie Jones
Best Soap Coronation Street, ITV
Best Soap Newcomer
Vinta Morgan, Coronation Street, ITV
Best Soap Performance Jude Riordan, Coronation Street, ITV
Best Soap Partnership
Ben Price & Jane Danson, Coronation Street, ITV
Outlaws Picture: BBC
