United Agents is delighted to see our clients recognised across a wide range of categories at the 2026 Edinburgh TV Festival Awards, with nominations spanning drama, comedy, factual, and performance. The awards will take place on Thursday 27 August at the EICC.
Programme Awards
Best Drama
• Deptartment Q – Cast includes: Charlene Boyd and Stuart Bowman. Block 2 DOP: David Higgs. Costume Design by Sharon Long
• Riot Women – Cast includes Kevin Doyle. DOP: Simon Tindall, Movement Choreography: Alex Reynolds
• Slow Horses – Cast includes: Nick Mohammed, Samuel West, Zrinka Cvitešić, Gaia Mondadori & Jason Lewis
Cinematographer: Danny Cohen BSC, Production Designer: Choi Ho Man, Hair and Makeup Designer: Lucy Sibbick. Costume Designer: Guy Speranza
• Waiting For The Out – Cast includes: Charlie Rix, Gerard Kearns, Nikhil Parmar, Flora Spencer-Longhurst & Ross Armstrong. Edited by Celia Haining
• What It Feels Like For A Girl – Hera Pictures for BBC – Created and written by Paris Lees, based on her acclaimed memoir. Cast includes Jake Dunn, Alex Thomas-Smith, Cassie Bradley, Lorn Macdonald. DOPs: Si Bell BSC (Eps 1–4), Neus Ollé (Eps 7–8). Editors: Dan Robinson, Sam White, Julian Ulrichs
Best International Drama
• A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms – Cast: Daniel Ings and Steve Wall. Editor: Simon Brasse (Eps 1, 4, and 5)
• All Her Fault – Created, written & exec produced by Megan Gallagher Edited by Melanie Viner-Cuneo
Best Comedy Series (Sponsored by The Farm)
• Changing Ends – cast include Nancy Sullivan, Shaun Dooley, Tom Bennett, and David Mumeni, with Hair & Makeup Design by Vanessa White
• How Are You? It’s Alan (Partridge) – Production Design by Samantha Harley, Hair and Make-up Design by Vanessa White, cast includes Jamie Demetriou
• How To Get To Heaven From Belfast – Created and executive produced by Lisa McGee, cast includes Caoilfhionn Dunne, Maria Laird, Olwen Fouere, Justine Mitchell, Niamh Finlay, and Moyo Akande, directed by Michael Lennox, written by Lisa McGee, Bronagh Taggart, and Tobias Beer
• Pushers –Written, directed, and created by Peter Fellows. Cast includes: Cassie Bradley
• Saturday Night Live UK – Written by: Ayo Adenekan, Chris Cantrill, James Farmer, Lorna Rose Treen
Best Entertainment or Reality Series
• Taskmaster – Avalon for Channel 4 Featuring Amy Gledhill
• The Celebrity Traitors – Studio Lambert Scotland for BBC – featuring Paloma Faith, Kate Garraway, Nick Mohammed and David Olusoga
Best Popular Factual Series
• Celebrity Race Across the World – Featuring Harley moon Kemp
• The Assembly – Rockerdale Studios for ITV1 Featuring Nicola Sturgeon and Anna Maxwell Martin
• The Jury: Murder Trial – Featuring Georgia Hughes
Climate Storytelling Award
• Dirty Business – Cast includes: Tom Walker, Jason Watkins, Jo Stone-Fewings, Elizabeth Berrington, Gavi Singh Chera, Ellie White
• Under Salt Marsh – Cast includes: Leisa Gwenllian, Costume Designer: Sian Jenkins, DOP for Episodes 3 & 4: Ed Rutherford BSC, Hair and Make Up Designer: Lisa Parkinson
Performance Awards
Best TV Actor – Comedy
• Caoilfhionn Dunne – How to Get to Heaven From Belfast
Best TV Presenter – Entertainment
• Rob Brydon – Destination X
United Agents clients continue to shape the UK television landscape, with multiple nominations at the 2026 Edinburgh TV Festival Awards across drama, comedy, factual and entertainment categories. Representing leading talent behind and in front of the camera, United Agents supports creatives working with major broadcasters including the BBC, Channel 4, ITV, Sky and international platforms. Discover more about United Agents’ film and television clients and their latest work across award-winning productions.
