Gavin and Stacey eye repeat award

The show won the award for the first time in January

BBC sitcom Gavin and Stacey has the chance to hold onto its South Bank Show comedy award after being nominated for the prize for a second year.

The Welsh-based series is shortlisted alongside BBC Three's Pulling and comic Michael McIntyre's stand-up set.

In pop music, Mercury winners Elbow compete with Grammy nominee Estelle and singer-songwriter Laura Marling.

The ITV arts programme's annual awards ceremony takes place at London's Dorchester Hotel on 20 January.

Crime movie In Bruges, directed by Martin McDonagh, is up for the film award, along with Hunger - director Steve McQueen's depiction of IRA prisoner Bobby Sands.

Completing the category is Man On Wire, James Marsh's documentary about the 1974 stunt by tightrope walker Philippe Petit between the two towers of New York's World Trade Center.

In TV drama, ITV1's thriller The Children is up against two Channel 4 programmes.

They are The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall - the story of a family's struggle to discover what happened to their son on the Gaza Strip - and civil war epic The Devil's Whore.

The Royal Court Theatre's Now or Later, written by Christopher Shinn, competes with two Donmar Warehouse revivals - Othello, starring Ewan McGregor, and The Chalk Garden - for the theatre prize.

Sam Taylor-Wood is nominated for the visual arts award, along with Peter Doig and Charles Avery's The Islanders project.