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@LUNCH - Top Gear up for TV Choice Award─── 13:30 Wed, 01 Jul 2015
Top Gear is in the running to be named Best Entertainment Show at the TV Choice Awards.
The BBC motoring series - which used to be presented by Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May before Clarkson was dropped following a fracas with a producer - will be up against Ant And Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway and The Graham Norton Show at the annual ceremony.
TV Choice and Total TV Guide's editor-in-chief Jon Peake said: "Top Gear is a big hit with our readers. Ant and Dec are also very popular and can do no wrong with our readers absolutely adoring them, so coming head-to-head with Ant and Dec could mean it's a fight to the death.''
The exiting Top Gear trio have now been replaced by BBC Radio 2 DJ Chris Evans, who is currently putting together a new team of co-hosts, for a new series due to air next year, while Clarkson, May and Hammond are believed to be working on a new car programme.
Other notable nominees include Aidan Turner who is up for the Best Actor award for his performance in Poldark and he will battle
Doctor Who star Peter Capaldi, 'Broadchurch' lead David Tennant and James Nesbitt for his role in The Missing.
Aidan's co-star Eleanor Tomlinson - who played his screen wife Demelza Poldark - made the shortlist for Best Actress and is up against Sheridan Smith, Olivia Colman and Jenna-Louise Coleman in the category.
Poldark has been nominated as Best New Drama along with Cilla - ITV's biopic about Cilla Black - Ordinary Lies and The Missing.
Julian Fellowes' period drama Downton Abbey is among the shows vying for Best Drama Series with Broadchurch, Last Tango In Halifax and The Musketeers.
The Best Soap Actor category will once again be hotly contested as EastEnders stars Danny Dyer and Adam Woodyatt take on Coronation Street's Simon Gregson and Emmerdale actor Aaron Livesy, while EastEnders' actress Kellie Bright faces Emmerdale's Natalie Anderson, Coronation Street's Alison King and Hollyoaks' Nikki Sanderson for the Best Soap Actress prize.
Lenny Henry will host the TV Choice Awards and the star-studded event which take place at the London Hilton Park Lane hotel on 7 September .
