Police and hospital dramas lead BAFTA TV nominations

Jason Korsner

Police and hospital dramas from the BBC are leading the field in the nominations for the BAFTA TV awards.

Martin Freeman and Ben Whishaw are both up for best actor

Ben Whishaw’s portrayal of the junior doctor Adam Kay in This is Going To Hurt earned him one of the show’s 6 nominations; Martin Freeman’s turn as a Merseyside police officer in The Responder similarly secured him one of that show’s 6 nods – including best drama series.

The Apple TV+ shows Bad Sisters and Slow Horses each have 5 nominations, across the main – and craft – categories. The Crown and The English are also up for 5 awards.

One of the acclaimed shows of recent months, Happy Valley, was broadcast too late to be eligible for this year’s event, but its star Sarah Lancashire has been nominated for playing the US TV cook Julia Child in the eponymous Julia.

She’s up against acting heavyweights including Imelda Staunton, for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth II in The Crown, Maxime Peake as a Hillsborough campaigner in Anne and Vicky McClure, as a mother investigating the death of her daughter in Without Sin.

Freeman and Whishaw face competition for best actor from Gary Oldman, for Slow Horses, Cillian Murphy – the only recognition for the final series of Peaky Blinders.

The ITV drama Sherwood received supporting actor and actress nominations for Adeel Akhtar and Lesley Manville.

The Outlaws’ Stephen Merchant and Weird Al Jankovic star Daniel Radcliffe are among the best comedy actor nominees, with the best comedy actress nominees including Derry Girls‘ Siobhán Mcsweeney, Diane Morgan, for her mockumentary, Cunk on Earth, and Daisy May Cooper for Am I Being Unreasonable, which has a total of 4 nominations.

An episode of Casualty, in which the actors improvised their dialogue, is in the running in the continuing drama category, up against EastEnders and Emmerdale, but last year’s winner, Coronation Street, failed to secure a nomination.

Claudia Winkleman – and her show The Traitors – have also been recognised in the entertainment and reality categories.

The live event nominations sees the BBC’s coverage of the Queen’s Jubilee celebrations up against the corporation’s coverage of her funeral, just weeks later.

The winners in the main categories will be announced on 14th May from the following full list of nominees, with the craft awards being announced three weeks earlier:

Leading actress

  • Billie Piper, I Hate Suzie Too – Sky Atlantic
  • Imelda Staunton, The Crown – Netflix
  • Kate Winslet, I Am Ruth – Channel 4
  • Maxine Peake, Anne – ITV1
  • Sarah Lancashire, Julia – Sky Atlantic
  • Vicky McClure, Without Sin – ITVX

Leading actor

  • Ben Whishaw, This Is Going To Hurt – BBC One
  • Chaske Spencer, The English – BBC Two
  • Cillian Murphy, Peaky Blinders – BBC One
  • Gary Oldman, Slow Horses – Apple TV+
  • Martin Freeman, The Responder – BBC One
  • Taron Egerton, Black Bird – Apple TV+

Supporting actress

  • Adelayo Adedayo, The Responder – BBC One
  • Anne-Marie Duff, Bad Sisters – Apple TV+
  • Fiona Shaw, Andor – Disney+
  • Jasmine Jobson, Top Boy – Netflix
  • Lesley Manville, Sherwood – BBC One
  • Saffron Hocking, Top Boy – Netflix

Supporting actor

  • Adeel Akhtar, Sherwood – BBC One
  • Jack Lowden, Slow Horses – Apple TV+
  • Josh Finan, The Responder – BBC One
  • Salim Daw, The Crown – Netflix
  • Samuel Bottomley, Somewhere Boy – Channel 4
  • Will Sharpe, The White Lotus – Sky Atlantic

Entertainment performance

  • Big Zuu, Big Zuu’s Big Eats – Dave
  • Claudia Winkleman, The Traitors – BBC One
  • Lee Mack, The 1% Club – ITV1
  • Mo Gilligan, The Lateish Show With Mo Gilligan – Channel 4
  • Rosie Jones, Rosie Jones’ Trip Hazard – Channel 4
  • Sue Perkins, Sue Perkins: Perfectly Legal – Netflix

Male performance in a comedy programme

  • Daniel Radcliffe, Weird: The Al Yankovic Story – The Roku Channel
  • Jon Pointing, Big Boys – Channel 4
  • Joseph Gilgun, Brassic – Sky Max
  • Lenny Rush, Am I Being Unreasonable? – BBC One
  • Matt Berry, What We Do In The Shadows – Disney+
  • Stephen Merchant, The Outlaws – BBC One

Female performance in a comedy programme

  • Daisy May Cooper, Am I Being Unreasonable? – BBC One
  • Diane Morgan, Cunk On Earth – BBC Two
  • Lucy Beaumont, Meet The Richardsons – Dave
  • Natasia Demetriou, Ellie & Natasia – BBC Three
  • Siobhán Mcsweeney, Derry Girls – Channel 4
  • Taj Atwal, Hullraisers – Channel 4

Drama series

  • Bad Sisters – Apple TV+
  • The Responder – BBC One
  • Sherwood – BBC One
  • Somewhere Boy – Channel 4

Single drama

  • I Am Ruth – Channel 4
  • The House – Netflix
  • Life and Death in the Warehouse – BBC Three

Mini-series

  • A Spy Among Friends – ITVX
  • Mood – BBC Three
  • The Thief, His Wife And The Canoe – ITV1
  • This Is Going To Hurt – BBC One

Soap and continuing drama

  • Casualty – BBC One
  • EastEnders – BBC One
  • Emmerdale – ITV1

International

  • The Bear – Disney+
  • Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story – Netflix
  • Wednesday – Netflix
  • Oussekine – Disney+
  • Pachinko – Apple TV+
  • The White Lotus – Sky Atlantic

Entertainment programme

  • Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway – ITV1
  • Later… With Jools Holland: Jools’ 30th Birthday Bash – BBC Two
  • The Masked Singer – ITV1
  • Strictly Come Dancing – BBC One

Comedy entertainment programme

  • Friday Night Live – Channel 4
  • The Graham Norton Show – BBC One
  • Taskmaster – Channel 4
  • Would I Lie To You? – BBC One

Scripted comedy

  • Am I Being Unreasonable? – BBC One
  • Big Boys – Channel 4
  • Derry Girls – Channel 4
  • Ghosts – BBC One

Live event

  • Concert For Ukraine – ITV1
  • Platinum Jubilee: Party At The Palace – BBC One
  • The State Funeral of HM Queen Elizabeth II – BBC One

Features

  • Big Zuu’s Big Eats – Dave
  • Joe Lycett vs Beckham: Got Your Back At Xmas – Channel 4
  • The Martin Lewis Money Show Live – ITV1
  • The Misadventures of Romesh Ranganathan – BBC Two

Daytime

  • The Chase – ITV1
  • The Repair Shop: A Royal Visit – BBC One
  • Scam Interceptors – BBC One

Current affairs

  • Afghanistan: No Country For Women (Exposure) – ITV1
  • Children of the Taliban – Channel 4
  • The Crossing (Exposure) – ITV1
  • Mariupol: The People’s Story (Panorama) – BBC One

Single documentary

  • Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes – Sky Documentaries
  • Escape From Kabul Airport – BBC Two
  • Our Falklands War: A Frontline Story – BBC Two
  • The Real Mo Farah – BBC One

Factual series

  • Jeremy Kyle Show: Death On Daytime – Channel 4
  • Libby, Are You Home Yet? – Sky Crime
  • Vatican Girl: The Disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi – Netflix
  • Worlds Collide: The Manchester Bombing – ITV1

Reality and constructed factual

  • Freddie Flintoff’s Field of Dreams – BBC One
  • RuPaul’s Drag Race UK – BBC Three
  • The Traitors – BBC One
  • We Are Black and British – BBC Two

Specialist factual

  • Aids: The Unheard Tapes – BBC Two
  • The Green Planet – BBC One
  • How To Survive a Dictator With Munya Chawawa – Channel 4
  • Russia 1985-1999: Traumazone – BBC iPlayer

News coverage

  • BBC News at Ten: Russia Invades Ukraine – BBC One
  • Channel 4 News: Live in Kyiv – Channel 4
  • Good Morning Britain: Boris Johnson Interview – ITV1

Sport

  • Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games – BBC One
  • Uefa Women’s Euro 2022 – BBC One
  • Wimbledon 2022 – BBC One

Short-form programme

  • Always, Asifa – Together TV
  • Biscuitland – All 4
  • How To Be a Person – E4
  • Kingpin Cribs – Channel 4

Writer: Comedy

  • Jack Rooke, Big Boys – Channel 4
  • Lisa McGee, Derry Girls – Channel 4
  • Nancy Harris, The Dry – Britbox
  • Sharon Horgan/Barunka O’Shaughnessy/Helen Serafinowicz/Holly Walsh, Motherland – BBC One

Writer: Drama

  • Adam Kay, This Is Going to Hurt – BBC One
  • Alice Oseman, Heartstopper – Netflix
  • Pete Jackson, Somewhere Boy – Channel 4
  • Tony Schumacher, The Responder – BBC One