The longlist nominations have opened for the
2016 National Television Awards and Doctor Who is once again represented in two categories.
The show has been nominated for Best Drama. It faces competition from a whole host of shows including Downton Abbey, Call the Midwife, The Fall and Broadchurch.
Peter Capaldi is up for Drama Performance against Christopher Eccleston, David Tennant, Jenna Coleman, and more besides in the combined Best Drama Performance category.
You can vote for this year’s nominees online at the National Television Awards website by clicking here.
The longlist will be narrowed down to a shortlist in January when the final voting takes place. The awards ceremony will take place 20 January 2016.
The Doctor Who nominated categories in full:
Best Drama: show
- Broadchurch
- Call The Midwife
- Casualty
- DCI Banks
- Death in Paradise
- Doc Martin
- Doctor Who
- Downton Abbey
- Inspector George Gently
- Lewis
- Midsomer Murders
- Mr Selfridge
- New Tricks
- Silent Witness
- Suspects
- The Fall
- The Syndicate
- This is England ’90
- Vera
- Last Tango in Halifax
Drama Performance: show
- Abigail Lawrie as Krystal Weedon (The Casual Vacancy)
- Aidan Turner as Ross Poldark (Poldark)
- Amanda Abbington as Miss Mardle (Mr Selfridge)
- Amanda Redman as Jackie Rose (The Trials of Jimmy Rose)
- Andrew Buchan as Thomas Farriner (The Great Fire)
- Arsher Ali as George Edalji (Arthur and George)
- Bertie Carvel as Simon Foster/Jonathan Strange (Doctor Foster/Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell)
- Brenda Blethyn as DCI Vera Stanhope (Vera)
- Christopher Eccleston as Robert/Charlie Stoddart (Safe House/Fortitude)
- Claire Rushbrook as Pat Simms (Home Fires)
- Damian Lewis as Henry VIII (Wolf Hall)
- Damien Maloney as DS Jack Weston (Suspects)
- Daniel Mays as Samuel Pepys (The Great Fire)
- David Tennant as DI Alec Hardy (Broadchurch)
- David Walliams as Tommy Beresford (Partners in Crime)
- Dennis Waterman as Gerry Standing (New Tricks)
- Derek Thompson as Charlie Fairhead (Casualty)
- Eddie Marsan as Gilbert Norrell (Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell)
- Eleanor Tomlinson as Damelza Poldark (Poldark)
- Elizabeth Berrington as Dawn Stevenson (The Syndicate)
- Emilia Fox as Dr. Nikki Alexander (Silent Witness)
- Gemma Chan as Anita (Humans)
- Gillian Anderson as DSI Stella Gibson (The Fall)
- Helen George as Trixie Franklin (Call the Midwife)
- Hugh Bonneville as Lord Grantham (Downton Abbey)
- James Nesbitt as Tony Hughes (The Missing)
- Jamie Dornan as Paul Spector (The Fall)
- Jenna Coleman as Clara Oswald (Doctor Who)
- Jenny Agutter as Sister Julienne (Call The Midwife)
- Jeremy Piven as Harry Selfridge (Mr Selfridge)
- Jessica Raine as Tuppence Beresford (Partners in Crime)
- Jim Carter as Mr. Carson (Downton Abbey)
- Jo Joyner as Beth Corbin (Ordinary Lies)
- Julia McKenzie as Shirley Mollison (The Casual Vacancy)
- Julie Walters as Cynthia Coffin (Indian Summers)
- Kevin Whately as DI Robert Lewis (Lewis)
- Kris Marshall as DI Humphrey Goodman (Death in Paradise)
- Larry Lamb as Ted Case (New Tricks)
- Lenny Henry as Godfrey Watson (The Syndicate)
- Mark Bazeley as Bob Simms (Home Fires)
- Mark Rylance as Thomas Cromwell (Wolf Hall)
- Martin Clunes as Dr Martin Ellingham/Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Doc Martin/Arthur and George)
- Martin Shaw as Inspector George Gently (Inspector George Gently)
- Michael Palin as Tom Parfitt (Remember Me)
- Michelle Dockery as Lady Mary Crawley (Downton Abbey)
- Michelle Keegan as Tracy (Ordinary Lies)
- Neil Dudgeon as DCI John Barnaby (Midsomer Murders)
- Nicola Walker as Gillian (Last Tango in Halifax)
- Olivia Colman as DS Ellie Miller (Broadchurch)
- Peter Capaldi as The Doctor (Doctor Who)
- Ray Winstone as Jimmy Rose (The Trials of Jimmy Rose)
- Richard Dormer as Dan Anderson (Fortitude)
- Sarah Lancashire as Caroline (Last Tango in Halifax)
- Sheridan Smith as Jo Gillespie (Black Work)
- Stephen Tomkinson as DCI Alan Banks (DCI Banks)
- Suranne Jones as Gemma Foster (Doctor Foster)
- Tom Goodman-Hill as Joe (Humans)
- Vicky McClure as Lol (This is England ’90)
