Sherlock is in the running for a gong at this year's South Bank Sky Arts Awards.

The BBC One show, co-created by Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, has been shortlisted for Best TV Drama, alongside This Is England '88 and Top Boy, both from Channel 4.

Meanwhile, "mockumentary" series Twenty Twelve, starring Hugh Bonneville, Jessica Hynes, and Olivia Colman, with a narration by David Tennant, which has just started its second series on BBC Two, has been nominated for Best Comedy. It faces competition in the form of Fresh Meat (Channel 4) and Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle (BBC Two).

The awards ceremony will take place at The Dorchester in London on Tuesday 1st May, to be televised on Sky Arts 1 HD at 9pm. Melvyn Bragg - who fronted the 1977 BBC2 documentary Whose Doctor Who - will be the master of ceremonies. He said: The awards take their name from The South Bank Show - an arts magazine series for ITV that Bragg presented and which ran for 32 series between 1978 and 2010. It is being revived by Sky Arts from Sunday 27th May.

Sherlock Series 3 will start filming early in 2013, says co-executive producer Beryl Vertue.

But she added that it was still too early to say when it would be transmitted.

Series 2 of the BBC One drama aired in January this year and ended with Sherlock Holmes, played by Benedict Cumberbatch, faking his own death after a rooftop showdown with Jim Moriarty (Andrew Scott).

In the meantime, Cumberbatch (the son of Wanda Ventham) is filming for the next Star Trek movie, set to be released in May 2013, and The Hobbit, the latter of which stars Martin Freeman - Sherlock's sidekick Dr John Watson - in the lead role of Bilbo Baggins and is scheduled to be released this December.

Sherlock was co-created by Vertue's son-in-law Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss.