2011 BAFTA Awards: TV nominations
Misfits and Sherlock lead the nominations at this year's BAFTA Awards for Television.
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The BAFTA Awards have announced nominations for their TV categories, which are presented in late May, separate from the Film Awards in February.
Sci-fi drama Misfits leads this year’s nominations, with nods in four categories, including Best Drama Series, plus Robert Sheehan and Lauren Socha for Best Supporting Actor and Actress.
Sherlock is next with three nominations including Best Drama Deries, Benedict Cumberbatch as Leading Actor and Martin Freeman for Best Supporting Actor.
Rounding out the Drama category are Being Human and Downton Abbey.
Best comedy programme hopefuls are Catherine Tate’s Little Cracker, Come Fly With Me, Facejacker and Harry and Paul.
The Awards will take place on Sunday 22nd May.
Drama Series:
Being Human
Downton Abbey
Misfits
Sherlock
Continuing Drama:
Casualty
Coronation Street
EastEnders
Waterloo Road
Comedy Programme:
Catherine Tate’s Little Cracke
Come Fly With Me
Facejacker
Harry and Paul
Situation Comedy:
Mrs Brown’s Boys
Peep Show
Rev
The Trip
Leading Actor:
Jim Broadbent – Any Human Heart
Benedict Cumberbatch – Sherlock
Daniel Rigby – Eric and Ernie
Matt Smith – Doctor Who
Leading Actress:
Anna Maxwell Martin – South Riding
Vicky McClure -This Is England ’86
Natalie Press – Five Daughters
Juliet Stevenson – Accused
Supporting Actor:
Brendan Coyle – Downton Abbey
Martin Freeman – Sherlock
Johnny Harris – This Is England ’86
Robert Sheehan – Misfits
Supporting Actress:
Gillian Anderson – Any Human Heart
Lynda Baron – The Road to Coronation Street
Lauren Socha – Misfits
Jessie Wallace – The Road to Coronation Street
Entertainment Performance:
Rob Brydon – The Rob Brydon Show
Stephen Fry – QI
Harry Hill – Harry Hill’s TV Burp
Graham Norton – The Graham Norton Show
Female Performance in a Comedy Programme:
Jo Brand – Getting On
Dawn French – Roger and Val Have Just Got In
Miranda Hart – Miranda
Katherine Parkinson – The IT Crowd
Male Performance in a Comedy Programme:
James Buckley – The Inbetweeners
Steve Coogan – The Trip
Tom Hollander – Rev
David Mitchell – Peep Show
Single Drama:
Eric and Ernie
I Am Slave
The Road to Coronation Street
The Special Relationship
Drama Serial:
Any Human Heart
Mad Dogs
The Sinking of the Laconia
The Promise
International:
Boardwalk Empire
Glee
The Killing
Mad Men
Factual Series:
Coppers
One Born Every Minute
Welcome to Lagos
The Young Ones
Specialist Factual:
Alan Bennett and the Habit of Art (The Making Of)
Flying Monsters 3D
Human Planet
Pompeii: Life and Death in a Roman Town
Single Documentary:
Between Life and Death
The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan
Pink Saris
Scenes From a Teenage Killing
Features:
Come Dine With Me
Hugh’s Fish Fight
Mary Queen of Shops
Pineapple Dance Studios
Current Affairs:
Kids in Care (Panorama)
Lost Girls of South Africa (Dispatches)
Secret Iraq
Zimbabwe’s Forgotten Children
News Coverage:
BBC One Ten O’Clock News: Handover of Power
Channel 4 News: From Chile’s Ecstasy to Congo’s Agony
ITV News at Ten: The Cumbria Murders
Sky News: Egypt Crisis
Sport:
6 Nations – England v Wales
FA Cup Final: Chelsea v Portsmouth
Formula 1 – The Abu Dhabi Grand Prix
Wimbledon 2010
New Media:
LabUK/Brain Test Britain
Misfits
Malcolm Tucker: The Missing Phone
Wallace and Gromit’s World of Invention
Entertainment Programme:
The Cube
The Graham Norton Show
Have I Got News For You
The X Factor
Source: BBC
8 Responses
I don’t know what I’d say if Robert Sheehan won. He does great work in Misfits and is easily the strongest thing about it, but he’s being a right prick in leaving without giving the producers a chance to tie up the loose ends. Can’t he even come back for one episode?
@JB – sadly, Robert Sheehan’s departure is not a rumour. He won’t appear at all in Series Three and his character will be written out in an online episode preceding Series Three’s return.
Jo Brand deserves to win for Getting On, so brilliant. Love Misfits as well and the two noms are much deserved. Must be a sad year for Britcoms when Mrs Brown’s Boys is nominated; that is such a dated show reminding me of the old Graham Kennedy days.
Will the BAFTA TV Awards show be on Foxtel this year?
Lauren Socha and Robert Sheehan are absolutely brilliant in Misfits. I laugh every time they speak. Any truth to the rumour Robert Sheehan won’t be in season 3???
There’s certainly some high quality stuff there.
I’ll be rooting for Katherine Parkinson and James Buckley!
Loved Misfits, i hope it wins.