The BBC have reportedly been complaining about the number of ITV executives on the panel choosing the winners of this years British Soap Awards.

A BBC source told the Daily Star Sunday: “The panel isn’t fair. It’s made up of executives from ITV as well as critics and representatives from each soap. But there isn’t much impartiality and a lot of the voting is tactical. It’s a bit of a fix.”

An awards spokesman insisted: “It’s a fairly-weighted panel. The other categories are all viewer voted.”