The awards, for both news and current affairs, seek to recognise creative and excellent journalism by organisations whose broadcasts are transmitted on a UK based platform, such as Freeview, Freesat, Sky or Virgin or who create online video content from a UK production base. 

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Sam Ryder gave the UK its best score since 1998, with the third-highest jury vote in Eurovision history of 283 points. His performance also gave the UK its highest viewing figures since 2011, a decade that otherwise saw some of its lowest vote rankings. The Grand Final was the second-most-watched programme in Britain (8.9 million viewers), behind only the Platinum Party at the Palace, at which Sam Ryder also performed. 

The TV Sports Documentary genre is enjoying a golden age across the world, with all broadcasters and content platforms commissioning a continuous flow of new programmes in this area; historical, observational, investigative or more traditional profiles, Sports Docs are everywhere you look. 

And the genre has exploded in Wales too, with the S4C, BBC and ITV schedules all bursting with feature length one-off sports stories and docu-series, plus many of our Indies have been busy making docs for network channels and the streaming platforms.

Ad revenue for the UK podcast industry was valued at £40m in 2021 and estimated to rise £60m by 2025 (PWC). A huge variety of high quality, lively and innovative audio content has sprung up from sports to satire; dating to drama; crime to cookery and everything else in between. Podcasts are now providing a vast pool of ideas, talent and IP ripe for development for the television industry, and with listeners on the whole younger than those watching TV, the medium is also a live litmus test for topics, people and formats which engage this hard-won audience.

Get in the mince pies, mull that wine, and dust down your festive glad rags, as impressionist and standup comedian Darren Altman once again returns with another edition of the Royal Television Society's very own Big Telly Quiz. Brought to you by the RTS Nations & Regions: London, Yorkshire, Midlands, and East Anglia. 

Taking an in-depth look at his body of work including Guantanamo, In This World, Welcome to Sarajevo, and 24 Hour Party People, as well as his recent retelling of the Coronavirus pandemic in the brutally honest This England, the Q&A will reflect on the highlights of his incredible career so far.

Hosted by Stephen Armstrong, this Q&A will be published online on the Wednesday 7 December. 

This England synopsis: