Faber chuffed with BAFTA TV nomination for Malcolm Tucker iPhone app

First time an app has been nominated in the New Media category at the prestigious awards.

Faber's Malcolm Tucker: The Missing Phone app has been nominated for a BAFTA TV award - the first time an app has been nominated in the prestigious industry awards.

The app was released last year, based on everyone's favourite sweary spin doctor in BBC series The Thick Of It. The app bundled together voicemails, emails and texts from other characters in the series.

Faber's head of digital publishing Henry Volans commissioned the app, working with author Armando Iannucci and iOS developer Agant.

"When we made this app we wanted to do more than translate a book to an app, but made something that made sense of the platform and I think this nomination shows we've gone some way to doing that," Volans tells The Bookseller.

Faber has dropped the price of the app from £3.99 to £1.79 to celebrate the nomination. The Malcolm Tucker app will compete in the New Media category at the awards.