VIRGIN TV BRITISH ACADEMY TELEVISION AWARDS: NOMINATIONS 11 April 2017 COMEDY & COMEDY ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAMME CHARLIE BROOKER’S 2016 WIPE Production Team - House of Tomorrow/BBC Two CUNK ON SHAKESPEARE Charlie Brooker, Annabel Jones, Sam Ward, Lorry Powles - House of Tomorrow/BBC Two THE LAST LEG Production Team - Open Mike Productions/Channel 4 TASKMASTER Alex Horne, Andy Cartwright, Andy Devonshire - Avalon/Dave CURRENT AFFAIRS INSIDE OBAMA’S WHITE HOUSE Norma Percy, Brian Lapping, Paul Mitchell, Sarah Wallis - Brook Lapping/BBC Two TEENAGE PRISON ABUSE EXPOSED (PANORAMA) Production Team - BBC Productions/BBC One THREE DAYS OF TERROR: THE CHARLIE HEBDO ATTACKS (THIS WORLD) Dan Reed, Mark Towns, Luc Hermann - AMOS Pictures/BBC Two UNARMED BLACK MALE (THIS WORLD) James Jones, Sarah Foudy, Sarah Waldron, Sam Bagnall - BBC Current Affairs/BBC Two DRAMA SERIES THE CROWN Production Team - Left Bank Pictures/Netflix THE DURRELLS Production Team - Sid Gentle Films Ltd/Masterpiece/ITV HAPPY VALLEY Sally Wainwright, Juliet Charlesworth, Nicola Shindler, Neasa Hardiman - Red Production Company/BBC One WAR & PEACE Production Team - BBC Studios/BBC Wales/Lookout Point/TWC/BBC One ENTERTAINMENT PERFORMANCE ADAM HILLS The Last Leg - Open Mike Productions/Channel 4 CLAUDIA WINKLEMAN Strictly Come Dancing - BBC Studios/BBC One GRAHAM NORTON The Graham Norton Show - So Television/BBC One MICHAEL MCINTYRE Michael McIntyre's Big Show - Hungry McBear/BBC One ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAMME ANT & DEC’S SATURDAY NIGHT TAKEAWAY Production Team - ITV Studios/Mitre Television/ITV BRITAIN’S GOT TALENT Richard Holloway, Amelia Brown, Lee McNicholas, Clair Breen – Thames/Syco/ITV MICHAEL MCINTYRE’S BIG SHOW Christian Fletcher, Dan Baldwin, Claire Horton, Chris Howe - Hungry McBear/BBC One STRICTLY COME DANCING Production Team - BBC Studios/BBC One FACTUAL SERIES 24 HOURS IN POLICE CUSTODY Production Team - The Garden Productions Ltd/Channel 4 EXODUS: OUR JOURNEY TO EUROPE Production Team - KEO Films/The Open University/BBC Two KIDS ON THE EDGE Production Team - Century Films/Channel 4 THE PROSECUTORS: REAL CRIME AND PUNISHMENT Production Team - Gold Star Productions/The Open University/BBC Four FEATURES THE DOCTOR WHO GAVE UP DRUGS Dominique Walker, Emeka Onono, Lizzie Bolton, Jack Rampling - Raw TV/BBC One THE GREAT BRITISH BAKE OFF Production Team - Love Productions/BBC One TRAVEL MAN: 48 HOURS IN… Chris Richards, Nicola Silk, Leo McCrea, Richard Ayoade - North One Television/Channel 4 WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? Colette Flight, Sarah Feltes, Anna Kirkwood, Helen Nixon - Wall to Wall Media/BBC One Virgin TV British Academy Television Awards in 2017 – Nominations Page 1 FEMALE PERFORMANCE IN A COMEDY PROGRAMME DIANE MORGAN Cunk on Shakespeare - House of Tomorrow/BBC Two LESLEY MANVILLE Mum - Big Talk Productions/BBC Two OLIVIA COLMAN Fleabag - Two Brothers Pictures/BBC Three PHOEBE WALLER-BRIDGE Fleabag - Two Brothers Pictures/BBC Three INTERNATIONAL THE NIGHT OF Production Team - HBO/Sky Atlantic THE PEOPLE V OJ SIMPSON: AMERICAN CRIME STORY Ryan Murphy, Nina Jacobson, Brad Simpson - Fox 21 Television Studios/FX Productions/BBC Two STRANGER THINGS Matt Duffer, Ross Duffer, Shawn Levy, Dan Cohen - 21 Laps Entertainment/Netflix TRANSPARENT Jill Soloway, Andrea Sperling, Victor Hsu, Bridget Bedard - Amazon Studios/Amazon Prime Video LEADING ACTOR ADEEL AKHTAR Murdered by My Father - BBC Studios/BBC Three BABOU CEESAY Damilola, Our Loved Boy - Minnow Films/BBC One BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses - Neal Street Productions/Carnival Films/NBC Universal/Thirteen/BBC Two ROBBIE COLTRANE National Treasure - The Forge/Channel 4 LEADING ACTRESS CLAIRE FOY The Crown - Left Bank Pictures/Netflix JODIE COMER Thirteen - BBC Studios/BBC America/BBC Three NIKKI AMUKA-BIRD NW - Mammoth Screen/BBC Two SARAH LANCASHIRE Happy Valley - Red Production Company/BBC One LIVE EVENT THE CENTENARY OF THE BATTLE OF THE SOMME: THIEPVAL Production Team - BBC Studios/BBC One SHAKESPEARE LIVE! FROM THE RSC Production Team - BBC Studios/BBC Two STAND UP TO CANCER Production Team - Princess Productions/Channel 4 THE QUEEN’S 90TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION Production Team - ITV Studios/Spun Gold Television/ITV MALE PERFORMANCE IN A COMEDY PROGRAMME ASIM CHAUDHRY People Just Do Nothing - Roughcut TV/BBC Three DAVID MITCHELL Upstart Crow - BBC Studios/BBC Two HARRY ENFIELD The Windsors - Noho Film and Television/Channel 4 STEVE COOGAN Alan Partridge’s Scissored Isle - Baby Cow Productions/Sky Atlantic MINI-SERIES THE HOLLOW CROWN: THE WARS OF THE ROSES Dominic Cooke, Rupert Ryle-Hodges, Pippa Harris, Sam Mendes - Neal Street Productions/Carnival Films/NBC Universal/Thirteen/BBC Two NATIONAL TREASURE George Ormond, Marc Munden, Jack Thorne, John Chapman - The Forge/Channel 4 THE SECRET Mark Redhead, Nick Murphy, Jonathan Curling, Stuart Urban - Hat Trick Productions/ITV THE WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION Production Team - Mammoth Screen/Agatha Christie Productions Limited/BBC One NEWS COVERAGE CHANNEL 4 NEWS: BREXIT – DAY ONE Production Team - ITN/Channel 4 BBC NORTH WEST TONIGHT: HILLSBOROUGH INQUESTS Production Team - BBC North West/BBC One SKY NEWS TONIGHT – ALEPPO: DEATH OF A CITY Production Team - Sky News/Sky News VICTORIA DERBYSHIRE Victoria Derbyshire, Louisa Compton, Jo Adnitt - BBC News/BBC Two Virgin TV British Academy Television Awards in 2017 – Nominations Page 2 REALITY & CONSTRUCTED FACTUAL FIRST DATES Production Team - Twenty Twenty/Channel 4 MUSLIMS LIKE US Production Team - Love Productions/BBC Two THE REAL MARIGOLD HOTEL Production Team - Twofour /BBC Two THE SECRET LIFE OF 5 YEAR OLDS Production Team - RDF Television/Channel 4 SCRIPTED COMEDY CAMPING Julia Davis, Ted Dowd - Baby Cow Productions/Sky Atlantic FLEABAG Production Team - Two Brothers Pictures/BBC Three FLOWERS Will Sharpe, Naomi de Pear, Diederick Santer, Jane Featherstone - Kudos/Seeso/Channel 4 PEOPLE JUST DO NOTHING Production Team - Roughcut TV/BBC Three SINGLE DOCUMENTARY BEHIND CLOSED DOORS Anna Hall, Erica Gornall, Paddy Garrick, Brian Woods - True Vision Aire/BBC One HILLSBOROUGH Production Team - Very Much So Productions/Passion Pictures/BBC Two HOW TO DIE: SIMON’S CHOICE Production Team - Minnow Films/The Open University/BBC Two HYPERNORMALISATION Adam Curtis, Sandra Gorel, Victoria Jaye - BBC iPlayer/BBC iPlayer SINGLE DRAMA ABERFAN: THE GREEN HOLLOW Pip Broughton, Bethan Jones, Jenna Robbins, Owen Sheers - BBC Studios/BBC Cymru Wales/Vox Pictures/ BBC One Wales DAMILOLA, OUR LOVED BOY Levi David Addai, Euros Lyn, Susan Horth, Colin Barr - Minnow Films/BBC One MURDERED BY MY FATHER Bruce Goodison, Toby Welch, Vinay Patel, Aysha Rafaele - BBC Studios/BBC Three NW Production Team - Mammoth Screen /BBC Two SOAP & CONTINUING DRAMA CASUALTY Production Team - BBC Studios/BBC One EASTENDERS Production Team - BBC Studios/BBC One EMMERDALE Production Team - ITV Studios/ITV HOLLYOAKS Bryan Kirkwood, Emily Gascoyne, Vikki Tennant - Lime Pictures/Channel 4 SPECIALIST FACTUAL ALAN BENNETT’S DIARIES Adam Low, Martin Rosenbaum, David Sabel - Lone Star Productions/BBC Two ATTENBOROUGH’S LIFE THAT GLOWS Martin Dohrn, Joe Loncraine, Paul Reddish, Fraser Purdie - Terra Mater Factual Studios/Ammonite Films/CuriosityStream/BBC Two GRAYSON PERRY: ALL MAN Grayson Perry, Neil Crombie, Joe Evans, Arthur Cary - Swan Films/Channel 4 PLANET EARTH II Michael Gunton, Tom Hugh-Jones, Elizabeth White, David Attenborough - BBC Studios/BBC Natural History Unit/BBC America/ZDF/France Television/BBC One SPORT THE OPEN Production Team - Sky Sports/European Tour Productions/Sky Sports 1 RIO 2016 OLYMPICS Ron Chakraborty, Jonathan Bramley, Richard Morgan - BBC Sport/BBC One RIO 2016 PARALYMPICS Production Team - Sunset+Vine/Channel 4 SIX NATIONS – ENGLAND V WALES Paul McNamara, Phil Heslop, David Francis, Mark Demuth - ITV Sport/ITV SUPPORTING ACTOR DANIEL MAYS Line of Duty - World Productions/BBC Two JARED HARRIS The Crown - Left Bank Pictures/Netflix JOHN LITHGOW The Crown - Left Bank Pictures/Netflix TOM HOLLANDER The Night Manager - The Ink Factory/Demarest/Character Seven/BBC One Virgin TV British Academy Television Awards in 2017 – Nominations Page 3 SUPPORTING ACTRESS NICOLA WALKER Last Tango in Halifax - Red Production Company/BBC One SIOBHAN FINNERAN Happy Valley - Red Production Company/BBC One VANESSA KIRBY The Crown - Left Bank Pictures/Netflix WUNMI MOSAKU Damilola, Our Loved Boy - Minnow Films/BBC One VIRGIN TV’S MUST SEE MOMENT GAME OF THRONES: Battle of the Bastards THE LATE LATE SHOW WITH JAMES CORDEN: Carpool Karaoke with Michelle Obama LINE OF DUTY: Urgent Exit Required PLANET EARTH II: Snakes vs Iguana Chase STRICTLY COME DANCING: Ed Balls’ Gangnam Style WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?: Danny Dyer’s Origins 11 April 2017 Nominations are correct at the time of going to print. 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