Six companies are in the running to be crowned Emerging Indie of the Year at the Broadcast Awards 2025.
Two of these – DARE Pictures (Fugitive: The Mystery of the Crypto Queen) and Zandland (Barbie's Dirty Secrets) – were among four diverse-led indies named last week as participants in a development initiative with Sky Documentaries.
Also on Broadcast’s list are podcast specialist Listen, which made The Traitors Uncloaked, production partnership company Nest Productions, New Model Agency producer Salamanda Media and ScreenDog Productions, the indie behind Channel 4’s The Jury: The Murder Trial [main picture], which is up for both Best Original Programme and Best Popular Factual Programme.
Meanwhile, last year’s winner of Best Production Company, Studio Lambert, again makes the shortlist alongside 72 Films, Big Talk Studios, CPL Productions, Hungry bear Media and Quay Street Productions.
Each of these has shows in the running: The Traitors, Boarders and Squid Game: The Challenge (Studio Lambert; the last of these a co-production with The Garden); The Zelensky Show and House of Kardashian (72 Films); Ludwig (Big Talk Studios); A League of Their Own and Love is Blind: UK (CPL Productions); Me and the Voice in My Head and Gladiators (Hungry Bear Media); and single drama Men Up (Quay Street Productions).
On top of The Jury: The Murder Trial, C4 has four further nominations for Best Original Programme: Stars Behind Bars, Joe Lycett vs Sewage, Partygate and E4’s The Underdog: Josh Must Win. BBC interview format The Assembly completes the list.
In Popular Factual, The Jury: The Murder Trial is facing competition from fellow C4 show The Piano, E4’s Married at First Sight: UK, Prime Video returner Clarkson’s Farm and two BBC shows: Sort Your Life Out and Freddie Flintoff’s Field of Dreams on Tour.
The Best Documentary shortlist includes C4’s Grierson winner Me and the Voice in My Head, BBC docs Atomic People and Ukraine: Enemy in the Woods, Sky’s Otto Baxter: Not a F***ing Love Story and Klitschko: More Than a Fight, and Channel 5’s My Wife, My Abuser: The Secret Footage.
Nominated for Best Documentary Series are C4’s Defiance: Fighting the Far Right, Miriam: Death of a Reality Star and To Catch a Copper, the BBC’s On Thin Ice: Putin v Greenpeace and Elizabeth Taylor: Rebel Superstar and Sky’s Lockerbie.
The awards take place on 5 November 2025.
For the full list of nominees, click here
