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If Anyone Deserved a BAFTA Nomination It's Kurupt FM

Get out the way Graham Norton, Brentford is coming for ya.

First held in 1947, the BAFTA TV Awards is a precious event for our country’s finest entertainers, strewn with a legacy that includes Bruce Forsyth, Bob Monkhouse, Steve Coogan, Judi Dench and Rodney from Only Fools and Horses. It is an occasion that has it all: the majestic statuettes of the Oscars, the inevitable trashiness of the BRIT Awards when Mrs Brown’s Boys scoops the lot, and the unlikely glamour of Ian Beale in a tux.

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This morning, the BAFTAs announced their full nominations list for 2016, which included nods for soaps and dramas, and of course actors, but actors said with a hard T and a long R, like Ben Whishaw, Stephen Fry, Claire Foy, and Ian McKellan. But then if you scroll down just a little bit further, and arrive at Best Scripted Comedy, tucked in tightly between Peep Show and Peter Kay’s Car Share, you’ll find an unlikely nomination for a collective of characters know as MC Grindah, DJ Beats, Decoy, Chabuddy G, Steves, and Fantasy, aka Kurupt FM aka People Just Do Nothing.

I say unlikely nomination, but you'd be a mug to think the BBC Three comedy didn't deserve some acknowledgment. Based around the fictional lives of a pirate radio station based out of Brentford, the group have become some of the hardest working young people in UK television right now, not only writing three series of their BBC Three comedy, but also touring it around the world and turning it into an ever mutating improvisational live performance that can spring up anywhere from Bestival to Camden KOKO to Mistajam's 1Xtra booth. You don't see Stephen Fry doing 'Fire in the Booth' m8.

One of the best things about this is nomination is that People Just Do Nothing rarely do anything out of character; not during DJ sets, TV appearances or even written interviews. They live it. Which means there’s a massive chance of Grindah asking why the Royal Opera House won’t “let me blaze in here?”, or Steves dropping a pinger then freaking out in the corner next to cast of Doctor Foster, or Decoy turning up in his GTI on the red carpet, or Chabaddy trying to chirpse Miranda Hart, or Beats getting on stage and shouting "Big up Lambrini Bob in Isleworth!". Basically, anything could happen. So, get out the way Graham Norton, Brentford is coming for your BAFTA.