Peep Show Comedy Gong Hope

Nominations for this year's British Comedy Awards were announced today but organisers still do not know if the event will be shown on ITV.

The broadcaster is awaiting the results of an investigation into alleged phone vote irregularities in the 2005 show.

Until then it has suspended coverage of the awards, which are traditionally broadcast every December on ITV1.

Nevertheless, organisers are still putting on the event, which will be hosted by Jonathan Ross on December 5.

And they may have the last laugh - of the 31 nominees in TV categories, only two are ITV shows.

Al Murray's Happy Hour and Harry Hill's TV Burp are the lone ITV contenders.

Elsewhere, Catherine Tate, The Royle Family's Liz Smith, and Ruth Jones from Saxondale and Gavin & Stacey are nominees for Best TV Comedy Actress.

Best TV Comedy Actor will go to either David Mitchell for Peep Show, Jack Dee for Lead Balloon, Kevin Bishop for Star Stories or Lee Mack for Not Going Out.

Star Stories, Peep Show and Gavin & Stacey are the nominees for Best TV Comedy.

Full List of Nominations

Best Television Comedy Actor

David Mitchell - Peep Show (Channel 4)
Jack Dee - Lead Balloon (BBC4)
Kevin Bishop - Star Stories (Channel 4)
Lee Mack - Not Going Out (BBC1)

Best Television Comedy Actress

Catherine Tate - The Catherine Tate Show (BBC2)
Liz Smith - The Royle Family: The Queen of Sheba (BBC1)
Ruth Jones - Gavin & Stacey (BBC3) / Saxondale (BBC2)

Best Comedy Entertainment Personality

Alan Carr and Justin Lee Collins - The Friday Night Project (Channel 4)
Simon Amstell - Never Mind The Buzzcocks (BBC2)
Stephen Fry - QI (BBC2)

Best Male Comedy Newcomer

James Corden - Gavin & Stacey (BBC3)
Mathew Horne - Gavin & Stacey (BBC3)
Matt Berry - The IT Crowd (Channel 4)

Best Female Comedy Newcomer

Joanna Page - Gavin & Stacey (BBC3)
Ruth Jones - Gavin & Stacey (BBC3)
Sharon Horgan - Rob Brydon's Annually Retentive (BBC3) / Pulling (BBC3)

Best New British Television Comedy

Gavin & Stacey (BBC3)
Lead Balloon (BBC4)
Not Going Out (BBC1)

Best Television Comedy

Gavin & Stacey (BBC3)
Peep Show (Channel 4)
Star Stories (Channel 4)

Best New Comedy Entertainment Programme

Al Murray's Happy Hour (ITV1)
Fonejacker (Channel 4)
The Graham Norton Show (BBC2)

Best Comedy Entertainment Programme

Harry Hill's TV Burp (ITV1)
Never Mind The Buzzcocks (BBC2)
The Friday Night Project (Channel 4)

Best Live Stand Up

Alan Carr
Dara O'Briain
Simon Amstell

Best International Comedy Show

Curb Your Enthusiasm (HBO Entertainment for More4)
The Office: An American Workplace (NBC Universal for ITV2)
The Simpsons (Twentieth Century Fox for Sky One/Channel 4)

Best Comedy Film

Borat
Hot Fuzz
The Simpsons Movie