BAFTA 2016 Television nominations announced!

BAFTA 2016 Television nominations have been announced, and the awards will be broadcast on BBC1 on May 8th.

Best Actor:

Ben Whishaw, London Spy
Idris Elba, Luther
Mark Rylance, Wolf Hall
Stephen Graham, This is England 90

Best Actress:

Sheridan Smith, The C-Word
Suranne Jones, Doctor Foster
Claire Foy, Wolf Hall
Ruth Madeley, Don’t Take My Baby

Best Supporting Actor:

Anton Lesser, Wolf Hall
Cyril Nri, Cucumber
Ian McKellen, The Dresser
Tom Courtenay, Unforgotten

Best Supporting Actress:

Chanel Cresswell, This is England ’90
Eleanor Worthington-Cox, The Enfield Hanting
Lesley Manville, River
Michelle Gomez, Doctor Who

Best Mini-series:

Doctor Foster
The Enfield Haunting
London Spy
This is England ’90

Best Comedy and Comedy Entertainment Programme:

Charlie Brooker’s Election Wipe
Have I Got News for You
QI
Would I Lie to You

Best Entertainment Programme:

Adele at the BBC
Britain’s Got Talent
Strictly Come Dancing
TFI Friday Anniversary Special

Best Entertainment Performance:

Graham Norton, The Graham Norton Show
Leigh Francis, Celebrity Juice
Romesh Ronganathan, Asian Provocateur
Stephen Fry, QI

Best Reality & Constructed Factual:

First Dates
Gogglebox
I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!
The Secret Life of Five Year Olds

Best Female Performance in a Comedy Programme:

Michaela Coel, Chewing Gum
Miranda Hart, Miranda
Sharon Horgan, Catastrophe
Sian Gibson, Peter Kay’s Car Share

Best Male Performance in a Comedy Programme:

Hugh Bonneville, W1A
Peter Kay, Peter Kay’s Car Share
Toby Jones, The Detectorists
Javone Prince, The Javone Prince Show

Best International Programme:

The Good Wife
Narcos
Spiral
Transparent

Best Drama Series:

Humans
The Last Panthers
No Offence
Wolf Hall

Best Single Drama:

The C-Word
Cyberbully
Don’t Take My Baby
The Go-Between

Best Soap & Continuing Drama:

EastEnders
Coronation Street
Emmerdale
Holby City

Best Factual Series:

The Detectives
Great Ormond Street
The Murder Detectives
The Tribe

Best Feature:

Back in Time for Dinner
The Great British Bake Off
Kevin McCloud: Escape to the Wild
Travel Man

Best Single Documentary:

Bitter Lake
Life After Suicide
Louis Theroux: Transgender Kids
My Son the Jihadi

Best Specialist Factual:

Britain’s Forgotten Slave Owners
Grayson Perry’s Dream House
The Hunt
Rudolf Nureyev – Dance to Freedom

News Coverage:

BBC News at Six: Paris Attacks Special
Channel 4 News: Paris Massacre
ITV News at Ten: Refugee Crisis
Sky News: From Turkey to Greece

Best Current Affairs Coverage:

Children of the Gaza War
Escape from Isis (Dispatches
Jihad: A British Story
Outbreak: The Truth About Ebola (This World)

Best Scripted Comedy:

Chewing Gum
Peep Show
People Just do Nothing
Peter Kay’s Car Share

Sport:

The Ashes
The Grand National
MOTD Live: FA Cup Final
Six Nations – Final Day

Live Event:

Big Blue Live
The Sound of Music Live!
Stargazing Live: Brit in Space, Tim Peake Special
The Vote

Radio Times Audience Award:

The Great British Bake Off
Poldark
Making a Murderer
Doctor Foster
Peter Kay’s Car Share
Humans