The British Academy Television Awards sponsored by Pioneer
NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCED 11 APRIL 2007
ACTOR Programme Channel Jim Broadbent Longford Channel 4 Andy Serkis Longford Channel 4 Michael Sheen Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa! BBC4 John Simm Life On Mars BBC1
ACTRESS Programme Channel Anne-Marie Duff The Virgin Queen BBC1 Samantha Morton Longford Channel 4 Ruth Wilson Jane Eyre BBC1 Victoria Wood Housewife 49 ITV1
ENTERTAINMENT PERFORMANCE Programme Channel Ant & Dec Saturday Night Takeaway ITV1 Stephen Fry QI BBC2 Paul Merton Have I Got News For You BBC1 Jonathan Ross Friday Night With Jonathan Ross BBC1
COMEDY PERFORMANCE Programme Channel Dawn French The Vicar of Dibley BBC1 Ricky Gervais Extra’s BBC2 Stephen Merchant Extra’s BBC2 Liz Smith The Royle Family: Queen of Sheba BBC1
SINGLE DRAMA Housewife 49 Victoria Wood, Piers Wenger, Gavin Millar, David Threlfall ITV1/ITV Productions/10.12.06 Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa! Andy de Emmony, Ben Evans, Martyn Hesford BBC4/BBC Drama/13.03.06 Longford Peter Morgan, Tom Hooper, Helen Flint, Andy Harries C4/A Granada Production for C4 in assoc. with HBO/26.10.06 Road To Guantanamo Michael Winterbottom, Mat Whitecross C4/Revolution Films/09.03.06 DRAMA SERIES Life on Mars Production Team BBC1/Kudos Film & Television/09.01.06 Shameless Production Team C4/Company Pictures/01.01.06 Sugar Rush Production Team C4/Shine Productions/06.07.06 The Street Jimmy McGovern, Sita Williams, David Blair, Ken Horn BBC1/Granada Television Ltd/13.04.06
DRAMA SERIAL Low Winter Sun Greg Brenman, Adrian Shergold, Simon Donald, Rhonda Smith C4/Tiger Aspect Productions/14.09.06 Prime Suspect: The Final Act Andrew Benson, Philip Martin, Frank Deasy, Andy Harries ITV1/ITV Productions/15.10.06 See No Evil: The Moors Murders Lisa Gilchrist, Neil McKay, Jeff Pope, Chris Menaul ITV1/ITV Productions/14.05.06 The Virgin Queen Coky Giedroyc, Paula Milne, Paul Rutman BBC1/A BBC Drama/Power co-production/22.01.06
CONTINUING DRAMA Casualty The Production Team BBC1/BBC/07.01.06 Coronation Street Stephen Russell, Tim O’Mara, Steve Frost, Kieran Roberts ITV1/ITV Productions/25.12.06 EastEnders The Production Team BBC1/BBC Drama Production Studios/02.01.06 Emmerdale Keith Richardson, Kathleen Beedles, Lindsay Williams, Piotr Szkopiak ITV1/ITV Productions/31.07.06
FACTUAL SERIES Ross Kemp on Gangs Clive Tulloh, Amelia Hann, Ross Kemp Sky One/Tiger Aspect Productions/22.10.06 Stephen Fry – The Secret Life of a Manic Depressive The Production Team BBC2/ IWC Media, part of the RDF Media Group/19.09.06 Tribe James Smith, Steve Robinson, Bruce Parry, Sam Organ BBC2/BBC/16.07.06 Who Do You Think You Are? Alex Graham, Lucy Carter BBC2/Wall To Wall/11.01.06 SPECIALIST FACTUAL Given in honour of Huw Wheldon
Munich: Mossad’s Revenge Anthony Geffen, Tom Whitter, Peter Miller, Calum Walker C4/Atlantic Productions Ltd/26.01.06 Nuremberg: Goering’s Last Stand Peter Nicholson, Simon Berthon, Dan Korn, Piers Vellacott C4/3BM Television/24.08.06 Planet Earth Alistair Fothergill, Mark Linfield BBC1/BBC/05.03.06 Simon Schama’s Power of Art Clare Beavan, Simon Schama, Basil Comely, Mark Harrison BBC2/BBC London Arts/20.10.06
SINGLE DOCUMENTARY Given in honour of Robert Flaherty
Breaking Up With the Joneses Ursula Macfarlane, Saskia Wilson, Dave Nath, Gregor Lyon C4/Betty TV/31.08.06 Evicted Brian Woods, Deborah Shipley, Jeremy Wales, Katy Sheppard BBC1/True Vision/29.11.06 9/11: The Falling Man Henry Singer, John Smithson, Sue Bourne, Julian Ware C4/Darlow Smithson Productions/16.03.06 Rain In My Heart Paul Watson BBC2/BBC/01.11.06
FEATURES The Apprentice Dan Adamson, Sanjay Singhal, Martyn Smith, Sir Alan Sugar BBC2/TalkbackThames/Mark Burnett Productions/22.02.06 The Choir Jamie Isaacs, Ludo Graham, Drew Hill, Sam Grace BBC2/Twenty Twenty/04.12.06 Dragons’ Den Helen Bullough, Dominic Bird, Paul Mackay BBC2/BBC Entertainment/03.08.06 The F Word Ben Adler, Jon Swain, Pat Llewellyn, Eileen Herlihy C4/Optomen Television/28.06.06
SPORT The Boat Race John Watts, Tony Pastor, John McKenna, Phil Heslop ITV1/ITV Sport/02.04.06 F1: Hungarian Grand Prix – Jenson Button’s First Win Neil Duncanson, Gerard Lane ITV1/North One Television/06.08.06 Cricket on Five Jeff Foulser, Gary Franses, Dylan Jane, Diana Keen Five/Sunset and Vine Productions/20.08.06 Winter Olympics BBC Sport Production Team BBC2/BBC Sport/17.02.06 NEWS COVERAGE BBC Ten O’Clock News – Terrorism plot at Heathrow BBC Ten O’Clock News Team BBC1/BBC News/10.08.06 Channel 4 News – News From Iran Jon Snow, Deborah Rayner, Ben Monro-Davies, Martin Collett C4/ITN/08.03.06 Granada Reports: Morecambe Bay The Production Team ITV/Granada/24.03.06 ITV Evening News – The Israel/Lebanon Crisis Julian Manyon, Mark Austin, Geoff Hill, Rob Bowles ITV1/ITN/17.07.06
INTERACTIVITY Dispatches – War Torn: Stories of Separation David Modell, Cassian Harrison, Oliver Doward Channel4.com/Dispatches/06.11.06 Meltdown and the Big Climate Change Experiment Frances McNamara, Jonathan Renouf, Paul Bradshaw, Tolu Aina Supporting BBC4/01.02.06 The Secret Policeman’s Ball Clive Tulloh, Lisle Turner, Mike Agnew, Adil Abrar C4/Tiger Aspect Productions/31.10.06 Terry Pratchett’s Hogfather Aidan Conway, Giles Pooley, Rod Brown, Ian Sharples Sky One Networked Media/17.12.06
INTERNATIONAL Entourage Doug Ellin, Mark Wahlberg, Steve Levinson ITV2/HBO/12.11.06 House David Shore Five/Heal and Toe Films/Shore Z Productions/Bad Hat Harry Productions in assoc with NBC Universal Television Studio/26.01.06 Lost JJ Abrams, Carlton Cuse, Damon Lindelof, Jack Bender Sky One/Buena Vista International Television/19.11.06 My Name is Earl Greg Garcia, Marc Buckland, Bobby Bowman C4/ Twentieth Century Fox/
ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAMME Fiven in honour of Lew Grade
Dancing on Ice Will Smith, Katie Rawcliffe, Jayne Torville, Christopher Dean ITV1/ITV Productions/18.02.06 Derren Brown: The Heist Derren Brown, Simon Mills, Andrew O’Connor, Anthony Owen C4/Objective Productions/04.01.06 How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria? Production Team BBC1/BBC Entertainment/29.07.06 The X Factor Richard Holloway, Claire Horton, Andrew Llinares, Siobhan Greene ITV1/TalkbackThames in association with SYCO TV/19.08.06 SITUATION COMEDY Green Wing Victoria Pile, Dominic Brigstocke, Tristram Shapeero, Rob Harley C4/Talkback Thames/31.03.06 The IT Crowd Ash Atalla, Graham Linehan, Derrin Schlesinger, Lorraine Heggessey C4/TalkbackThames/03.02.06 Pulling Sharon Horgan, Dennis Kelly, Phil Bowker, Tristram Shapeero BBC3/Silver River/23.11.06 The Royle Family: Queen of Sheba Caroline Aherne, Craig Cash, John Rushton, Phil Mealey BBC1/Granada Productions/15.09.06
COMEDY PROGRAMME The Catherine Tate Show Gordon Anderson, Aschlin Ditta, Geoffrey Perkins, Catherine Tate BBC2/Tiger Aspect Productions/26.10.06 Little Britain Abroad Matt Lucas, David Walliams, Matt Lipsey, Geoff Posner BBC1/BBC Comedy/25.12.06 Little Miss Jocelyn Gary Reich, Jemma Rogers, Gareth Carrivick, Jocelyn Jee Esien BBC3/Brown Eyed Boy Productions/22.08.06 That Mitchell & Webb Look David Kerr, Gareth Edwards, Robert Webb, David Mitchell BBC2/BBC Comedy/14.09.06
PIONEER AUDIENCE AWARD Life On Mars The Royle Family: Queen of Sheba Dragons’ Den The Vicar of Dibley Christmas Special Planet Earth Celebrity Big Brother