TV BAFTA Nominations Announced
The nominations for this year’s Bafta awards has been announced.
The nominations for this year’s Bafta awards has been announced. Stephen Fry, Harry Hill, Jonathan Ross and presenting duo Ant and Dec are all competing for this year’s Best Entertainment Performance Prize. It’ll be interesting to see who wins this as Jonathan Ross was involved in the sachs-gate scandal, for which he was suspended for a number of weeks, while ratings for Ant and Dec’s ITV Saturday night show were pretty poor this time around.
In the drama category BBC Four’s drama Hancock and Joan has three nominations, including best actor for actor Ken Scott. Maxine Peake, who also starred in the drama, gets a nomination for best actress while the film itself is nominated for best single drama. Jason Isaacs, for his role in The Curse of Steptoe, and Ben Whinshaw, for Criminal Justice, are also nominated for best actor.
Up against Maxine Peake in the best female category is June Brown for her role of Dot Cotton in EastEnders, see separate story for more details, and Andrea Riseborough for playing a young Margaret Thatcher for The Long Walk to Finchley.
Rob Brydon, of Gavin and Stacey, is nominated in the Best Comedy Performance category along with David Mitchell for sketch show That Mitchell and Webb Look. Mitchell gets a second nod for his, and Robert Webb’s, Channel Four comedy Peep Show. Also nominated for Best Comedy is Outnumbered and The IT Crowd.
Best Entertainment Programme sees’s QI up against The X-Factor, Harry Hill’s TV Burp and The Friday Night Project, now The Sunday Night Project. In the Features Category The Apprentice is up against Top Gear. And Best Continuing Drama see’s EastEnders get its tenth nomination with previous winners Casualty and Emmerdale are on the short-list.
The winners will be announced at the Bafta Awards Ceremony which will be held on 26th April at the Royal Festival Hall on London’s South Bank.