Scroll down for the full list of nominees for the main BAFTA TV Awards, which take place on Sunday 11 May. The BAFTA TV Craft Awards, which recognise technical work, take place separately on Sunday April 27.
CHILDREN’S: NON-SCRIPTED BooSnoo! Production Team – Visionality, Mackinnon & Saunders / Sky Kids Disability And Me (FYI Investigates) – Matt Peacock, Marshall Corwin – Fresh Start Media / Sky Kids Operation Ouch! Production Team – Maverick TV / CBBC Reu & Harper’s Wonder World – Andy Mundy-Castle, Emine Yalchin – Doc Hearts / Channel 5
CHILDREN’S: SCRIPTED CBeebies As You Like It At Shakespeare’s Globe – Production Team –BBC Studios Kids & Family / CBeebies Horrible Histories – Production Team – Lion Television / CBBC Ready Eddie Go! – James Murphy, Joseph Morpurgo, Justin Lowings – Hocus Pocus Studio / Sky Kids Tweedy & Fluff – Corrinne Averiss, Chris Randall, Martin Tapley – Second Home Studios, Stitchy Feet / Channel 5
CURRENT AFFAIRS Life And Death In Gaza (Storyville) – Natasha Cox, Lara El Gibaly, Haya Al Badarneh, Sarah Keeling, Simon Cox, Mustafa Khalili – BBC World Service, BBC Eye / BBC Two Maternity: Broken Trust (Exposure) – Laura Warner, Becky Southworth, Tom Keeling, Emma Lysaght, Lewis Albrow, Martin Kayser-Landwehr – Pulse Films / ITV1 State Of Rage – Marcel Mettelsiefen, Ahisha Ghafoor, Stephen Ellis, Ismail Hussam Banighorra, Aviya Shar-Yashuv, Mayte Carrasco – Duskwater Films / Channel 4 Ukraine’s War: The Other Side (Exposure) – Sean Langan, Leslie Knott, Matt Scholes – Sean Langan, Tiger Nest Films / ITV1
DAYTIME Clive Myrie’s Caribbean Adventure – Des Henderson, Emma Parkins, Ed Stobart, Jane Magowan, Denis Minihan – Alleycats TV / BBC Two Loose Women – Production Team –ITV Studios Daytime / ITV1 Morning Live – Production Team – BBC Studios / BBC One Richard Osman’s House Of Games – Tamara Gilder, Breid McLoone, John Smith, Anna Blakemore, Abby Brakewell, Tom Banks – Remarkable TV / BBC Two
DRAMA SERIES Blue Lights – Stephen Wright, Louise Gallagher, Declan Lawn, Adam Patterson, Jack Casey, Amanda Black – Two Cities Television, Gallagher Films / BBC One Sherwood – James Graham, Clio Barnard, Juliette Howell, Tessa Ross, Harriet Spencer, Kate Ogborn – House Productions / BBC One Supacell – Rapman, Mouktar Mohammed, Steve Searle, Joanna Crow – Netflix, New Wave Agency, It’s A Rap / Netflix Wolf Hall: The Mirror And The Light – Peter Kosminsky, Noëlette Buckley, Susanne Simpson, Peter Straughan, Lisa Osborne, Colin Callender – Playground Entertainment, Company Pictures / BBC One
ENTERTAINMENT The 1% Club – Dean Nabarro, Andy Auerbach, Richard van’t Riet, Clare Barton, Hennie Clough – Magnum Media / ITV1 Michael McIntyre’s Big Show – Production Team – Hungry McBear / BBC One Taskmaster – Andy Devonshire, Andy Cartwright, James Taylor, Alex Horne, Jon Thoday – Avalon UK / Channel 4 Would I Lie To You? – Peter Holmes, Rachel Ablett, Barbara Wiltshire, Jake Graham, Zoe Waterman, Charlotte Bracey-Curant – Zeppotron / BBC One
Image: Claudia Winkleman hosts The Traitors. Pic: BBC/David Emery
ENTERTAINMENT PERFORMANCE Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly – Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway – Lifted Entertainment, Mitre Studios / ITV1 Claudia Winkleman – The Traitors – Studio Lambert / BBC One Graham Norton – The Graham Norton Show – So Television / BBC One Joe Lycett – Late Night Lycett – Rumpus Media, My Options Were Limited / Channel 4 Romesh Ranganathan and Rob Beckett – Rob & Romesh Vs – CPL Productions / Sky Max Stacey Solomon – Sort Your Life Out – Optomen / BBC One
FACTUAL ENTERTAINMENT In Vogue: The 90s – Liesel Evans, Jonathan Smith, Hugo MacGregor, Vikki Miller, Charlotte Permutt, Matthew Hill – RAW, Vogue Studios / Disney+ Race Across The World – Production Team – Studio Lambert / BBC One Rob And Rylan’s Grand Tour – Rob Rinder, Rylan Clark, Lana Salah, Simon Draper, Gwyn Jones, Joseph Fell – Rex, Zinc Media / BBC Two Sort Your Life Out – Production Team –Optomen / BBC One
FACTUAL SERIES American Nightmare – Bernadette Higgins, Fiona Stourton, Rebecca North, Alasdair Bayne, Anton Short, Felicity Morris – RAW / Netflix Freddie Flintoff’s Field Of Dreams On Tour – Andrew MacKenzie-Betty, Naomi Templeton, Annie Hughes, Anna Strickland, Peter Benn, Drew Hill – South Shore Productions / BBC One The Push: Murder On The Cliff – Anna Hall, Josephine Besbrode, Luke Rothery, Tom Whitaker, Kate Reid, Josh Carpenter – Candour Productions / Channel 4 To Catch A Copper – Hugo Pettitt, Ashley Francis-Roy, Bruce Fletcher, Peter Beard, Colette Hodges, Martin Thompson – Story Films / Channel 4
Image: Alison Steadman as Pam, Ruth Jones as Nessa, and Joanna Page as Stacey in Gavin & Stacey: The Finale. Pic: Toffee International Ltd/Tom Jackson/PA
FEMALE PERFORMANCE IN A COMEDY Anjana Vasan – We Are Lady Parts – Working Title Television / Channel 4 Kate O’Flynn – Everyone Else Burns – Jax Media, Imagine Entertainment, Universal International Studios / Channel Lolly Adefope – The Franchise – Neal Street Productions, Dundee Productions, HBO / Sky Comedy Nicola Coughlan – Big Mood – Dancing Ledge Productions / Channel 4 Ruth Jones – Gavin & Stacey: The Finale – Fulwell Entertainment, Tidy Productions, Baby Cow Productions / BBC One Sophie Willan – Alma’s Not Normal – Expectation / BBC Two
INTERNATIONAL After The Party – Helen Bowden, Dianne Taylor, Robyn Malcolm, Peter Salmon, Liz DiFiore, Jason Stephens – Lingo Pictures, Luminous Beast / Channel 4 Colin From Accounts – Production Team – CBS Studios, Easy Tiger Productions / BBC Two Say Nothing – Nina Jacobson, Brad Simpson, Joshua Zetumer, Patrick Keefe, Monica Levinson, Michael Lennox – FX Productions, Color Force / Disney+ Shogun – Justin Marks, Rachel Kondo, Michaela Clavell, Jonathan van Tulleken, Eriko Miyagawa, Hiroyuki Sanada – FX Productions / Disney+ True Detective: Night Country – Production Team – Peligrosa, Neon Black, Anonymous Content, Parliament of Owls, Passenger, HBO / Sky Atlantic You Are Not Alone: Fighting The Wolfpack – Almudena Carracedo, Robert Bahar, Katie Bryer, Samuel R. Santana – Lucernam Films / Netflix
LEADING ACTOR David Tennant – Rivals– Happy Prince, ITV Studios / Disney+ Gary Oldman – Slow Horses – See-Saw Films / Apple TV+ Lennie James – Mr Loverman –Fable Pictures / BBC One Martin Freeman – The Responder– Dancing Ledge Productions / BBC One Richard Gadd – Baby Reindeer –Clerkenwell Films / Netflix Toby Jones – Mr Bates vs The Post Office – ITV Studios, Little Gem / ITV1
Image: Billie Piper as Newsnight producer Sam McAlister in Scoop. Pic: Netflix/PA
LEADING ACTRESS Anna Maxwell Martin – Until I Kill You – World Productions/ ITV1 Billie Piper – Scoop – The Lighthouse Film and Television, Voltage TV / Netflix Lola Petticrew – Say Nothing – FX Productions, Color Force / Disney+ Marisa Abela – Industry – Bad Wolf, HBO / BBC One Monica Dolan – Mr Bates vs The Post Office – ITV Studios, Little Gem / ITV1 Sharon D Clarke – Mr Loverman – Fable Pictures / BBC One
LIMITED DRAMA Baby Reindeer – Richard Gadd, Weronika Tofilska, Petra Fried, Matt Jarvis, Ed Macdonald, Matthew Mulot – Clerkenwell Films / Netflix Lost Boys And Fairies – Rebekah Wray-Rogers, Jessica Brown Meek, Libby Durdy, Daf James, James Kent, Adam Knopf – Duck Soup Films / BBC One Mr Bates vs The Post Office – Patrick Spence, James Strong, Gwyneth Hughes, Chris Clough, Natasha Bondy, Joe Williams – ITV Studios, Little Gem / ITV1 One Day – Nicole Taylor, Molly Manners, Roanna Benn, Jude Liknaitzky, David Nicholls, Nige Watson – Drama Republic, Universal International Studios, Focus Features / Netflix
LIVE EVENT COVERAGE D-Day 80: Tribute To The Fallen – Production Team –BBC Studios / BBC One Glastonbury 2024 – Production Team –BBC Studios Music Productions / BBC Two Last Night Of The Proms – Production Team –Livewire Pictures / BBC Two
MALE PERFORMANCE IN A COMEDY Bilal Hasna – Extraordinary – Sid Gentle Films / Disney+ Danny Dyer – Mr Bigstuff – Sky Studios, Water & Power Productions / Sky Comedy Dylan Thomas-Smith – G’Wed – Golden Path Productions / ITV2 Nabhaan Rizwan – Kaos – SISTER / Netflix Oliver Savell – Changing Ends – Baby Cow Productions / ITV1 Phil Dunning – Smoggie Queens – Hat Trick Productions / BBC Three
NEWS COVERAGE BBC Breakfast: Post Office Special – Production Team – BBC News / BBC One Channel 4 News: Inside Sednaya – The Fall Of Assad – Production Team – Channel 4 News / Channel 4 Channel 4 News: Undercover Inside Reform’s Campaign – Production Team – Channel 4 News / Channel 4
REALITY Dragon’s Den – Production Team –BBC Studios Factual Entertainment Productions / BBC One The Jury: Murder Trial – Production Team – ScreenDog Productions / Channel 4 Love Is Blind UK – Production Team –CPL Productions / Netflix The Traitors – Production Team – Studio Lambert / BBC One
Image: Michelle Keegan and Joe Gilgun in Brassic. Pic: Sky UK
SCRIPTED COMEDY Alma’s Not Normal – Sophie Willan, Andrew Chaplin, Gill Isles, Nerys Evans – Expectation / BBC Two Brassic – David Livingstone, Danny Brocklehurst, Ben Gregor, Joseph Gilgun, Jim Poyser – Calamity Films / Sky Max G’Wed Danny Kenny, Mario Stylianides, Akaash Meeda, Penny Davies – Golden Path Productions / ITV2 Ludwig – Mark Brotherhood, Robert McKillop, David Mitchell, Kenton Allen, Kathryn O’Connor, Georgie Fallon – Big Talk Studios, That Mitchell & Webb Company / BBC One
SHORT FORM Brown Brit – Jay Stephen, Ralph Briscoe – The Romantix / Channel 4 Peaked – John Addis, Ada Player, Bron Waugh –Boffola Pictures / Channel 4 Quiet Life – Production Team – Open Mike Productions / BBC Three Spud – Siobhán McSweeney, Pippa Brown, Leah Draws – Lookout Point TV / BBC Three
SINGLE DOCUMENTARY Hell Jumper – Paddy Wivell, Adriana Timco, Colin Barr, Rupert Houseman, Jane Nicholson, Clancie John-Pierre – Expectation/ BBC Two Tell Them You Love Me – Production Team – Mindhouse Productions / Sky Documentaries Ukraine: Enemy In The Woods – Jamie Roberts, Kate Spankie, Jonathan Smith, Claire Walker, Stanislav Strilets – Hoyo Films / BBC Two Undercover: Exposing The Far Right – Production Team – Marking Inc, Tigerlily Productions / Channel 4
SOAP Casualty – Production Team – BBC Studios / BBC One Coronation Street – Production Team – ITV Studios / ITV1 EastEnders – Production Team – BBC Studios / BBC On
SPECIALIST FACTUAL Atomic People – Benedict Sanderson, Megumi Inman, Morgan Matthews, Otto Burnham – Minnow Films / BBC Two Billy & Molly: An Otter Love Story – Production Team – Silverback Films / National Geographic Children Of The Cult – Maroesja Perizonius, Alice McShane, Victoria Hollingsworth, David Modell, Ella Newton, Ben Ferguson – DM Productions / ITV1 Miners’ Strike 1984: The Battle For Britain –Tom Barrow, Christian Collerton, Zora Kuettner, Neil Crombie, Joe Evans, Miriam Walsh – Swan Films / Channel 4
SPORTS COVERAGE Euro 2024 – Production Team – BBC Sport / BBC One Paris 2024 Olympics – Production Team – BBC Sport / BBC One Wimbledon 2024 – Production Team – BBC Sport, Wimbledon Broadcast Services / BBC One
SUPPORTING ACTOR Ariyon Bakare – Mr Loverman – Fable Pictures / BBC One Christopher Chung – Slow Horses – See-Saw Films / Apple TV+ Damian Lewis – Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light – Playground Entertainment, Company Pictures / BBC One Jonathan Pryce – Slow Horses – See-Saw Films / Apple TV+ McKinley Belcher III – Eric –SISTER, Little Chick / Netflix Sonny Walker – The Gathering – World Productions / Channel 4
Image: Richard Gadd and Jessica Gunning in Baby Reindeer. Pic Netflix
SUPPORTING ACTRESS Jessica Gunning – Baby Reindeer – Clerkenwell Films / Netflix Katherine Parkinson – Rivals – Happy Prince, ITV Studios / Disney+ Maxine Peake – Say Nothing – FX Productions, Color Force / Disney+ Monica Dolan – Sherwood – House Productions / BBC One Nava Mau – Baby Reindeer – Clerkenwell Films / Netflix Sue Johnston – Truelove – Clerkenwell Films / Channel 4
MEMORABLE MOMENT AWARD (voted for by the public) Bridgerton – “THE” carriage scene where Colin admits his true feelings for Penelope – Shondaland / Netflix Gavin & Stacey: The Finale – Smithy’s Wedding: Mick Stands Up – Fulwell Entertainment, Tidy Productions, Baby Cow Productions / BBC One Mr Bates vs The Post Office – Jo Hamilton phones the Horizon helpline – ITV Studios, Little Gem / ITV1 Rivals – Rupert Campbell-Black and Sarah Stratton are caught in a game of naked tennis – Happy Prince, ITV Studios / Disney+ Strictly Come Dancing – Chris McCausland and Dianne Buswell Waltz to ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’ – BBC Studios / BBC One Traitors – “Paul isn’t my son… but Ross is!” – Studio Lambert / BBC One
Gary Glitter has been made bankrupt after failing to pay more than £500,000 in damages to a woman he abused when she was 12 years old.
She sued the disgraced singer, whose real name is Paul Gadd, after he was found guilty of attacking her and two other schoolgirls between 1975 and 1980.
Glitter, 80, was jailed for 16 years in 2015 and released in 2023 but was recalled to prison less than six weeks later after breaching his parole conditions.
A judge awarded the woman £508,800, including £381,000 in lost earnings and £7,800 for future therapy and treatment, saying she was subjected to abuse “of the most serious kind”.
The court heard she had not worked for decades due to the trauma of being repeatedly raped and “humiliated” by the singer.
Image: Glitter was jailed for 16 years in 2015. Pic: Met Police/PA
Glitter was made bankrupt last month at the County Court at Torquay and Newton Abbot, in Devon – the county where he is reportedly serving his sentence in Channings Wood prison, in Newton Abbot.
Richard Scorer, head of abuse law at Slater and Gordon, the law firm representing the woman, said: “We confirm that Gadd has been made bankrupt following our client’s application.
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“As he has done throughout, Gadd has refused to cooperate with the process and continues to treat his victims with contempt.
“We hope and trust that the parole board will take his behaviour into account in any future parole applications, as it clearly demonstrates that he has never changed, shows no remorse and remains a serious risk to the public.”
Glitter was first jailed for four months in 1999 after he admitted possessing around 4,000 indecent images of children.
He was expelled from Cambodia in 2002, and in March 2006 was convicted of sexually abusing two girls, aged 10 and 11, in Vietnam where he spent two-and-a-half years in prison.
His sentence for the 2016 convictions expires in February 2031.
Glitter was automatically released from HMP The Verne, a low-security prison in Portland, Dorset, in February 2023 after serving half of his fixed-term determinate sentence.
But he was back behind bars weeks later after reportedly trying to access the dark web and images of children.
Paul Mescal and Barry Keoghan will play Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr in the upcoming Beatles films – with a Stranger Things star also portraying one of the Fab Four.
The two Irish actors will be joined by London-born performers Harris Dickinson as John Lennon, and Joseph Quinn as George Harrison.
The cast for the Sam Mendes project was revealed at the CinemaCon event in Las Vegas, with all four appearing on stage and taking a bow together in Beatles style.
Image: (L-R) Mescal, Quinn, Keoghan and Dickinson appeared together at the announcement. Pic: Reuters
Mendes is making four interconnected films – one from the perspective of each of the band members – and they are all set to be released “in proximity” to each other in April 2028.
It marks the first time The Beatles and the families of John Lennon and George Harrison have granted full life story and music rights for a scripted film.
Playing McCartney is another big role for 29-year-old Mescal, who recently starred in the Gladiator sequel and was nominated for an Oscar in 2023 for Aftersun.
Barry Keoghan – who also got an Oscar nod for The Banshees of Inisherin – will portray the other surviving Beatles member, Ringo Starr.
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Meanwhile, Stranger Things star Joseph Quinn, who appeared with long hair as Eddie Munson in the fourth series, takes up the role of George Harrison.
Harris Dickinson has the challenge of stepping into the shoes of perhaps the most famous Beatle, John Lennon.
The 28-year-old recently starred in erotic thriller Babygirl with Nicole Kidman and also appeared in satire Triangle of Sadness.
Mendes told the industry audience at CinemaCon there is “still plenty to explore” despite the Beatles’ rise having being well chronicled.
For those who’re on modest means, the cost of the licence fee going up by £5 on 1 April of all days is a bit of a bad joke.
Certainly, for residents at St Crispin Retirement Village, it’s hard to see the funny side.
Among them is 83-year-old Stan Fritton who, since last November, has been embroiled in a battle over how much he and his neighbours should be paying for the BBC.
Their accommodation coming under one roof, they previously paid £7.50 each, qualifying for an accommodation for residential care (ARC) licence.
They then turned a former storage room into one of two spaces for visitors to stay the night and were told by post they’d contravened the TV Licensing Act.
Letters demanding residents pay full price started turning up addressed to almost 100 of the residents.
Image: Stan Fritton, 83
As Mr Fritton puts it they were “being sent to 95-year-old widows [who are] seeing something that says investigation with a big stamp and what have you… it’s frightened them to death.”
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He says demands for payments have even been sent to those with dementia.
“They’re not listening and they’re choosing not to listen,” he says of interactions with TV Licensing.
While Mr Fritton says the retirement village’s managers have now shut the room and will be reapplying to get the licence back, he is adamant they haven’t broken any rules but can’t get an officer to come out to see that the room isn’t a dwelling.
Resignedly his main frustration is that: “They’re choosing to antagonise residents here needlessly.”
In a statement, a spokesperson for TV Licensing said they “continue to liaise with the managers of St Crispin’s… and hope to have this matter resolved as soon as possible.”
Price rises to £174.50
How the BBC collects its money is an issue that extends way beyond one retirement village.
Under the current BBC charter, prices will now rise for the next two years based on inflation. It was £169.50, from today it is now £174.50.
Of course, maybe that’s OK if we’re getting more of what the BBC does best but the corporation’s income is down £1bn a year in real terms compared to its funding in 2010.
Wolf Hall director Peter Kosminsky recently gave a written statement to parliament on how the second series of his acclaimed drama was very nearly canned because the financing in public service broadcasting is “insufficient to make high-end TV drama”.
Image: The producer of Mr Bates Vs The Post Office, Patrick Spence
‘I think we are in real trouble’
But it’s even a tough time for those public sector broadcasters who rely on advertising – the producer of Mr Bates vs The Post Office, Patrick Spence, telling Sky News he wouldn’t even pitch the drama now in the current commissioning climate.
“I do want to say I think we need to pay the sub postmasters first before we then turn our attention to television – let’s get our priorities right – but yeah I think we are in real trouble – there is a form of British television story telling that is going down if it is not supported.”
While some reports have claimed the government is looking to find a way to put a levy on streaming services, the Department for Culture has previously said they “do not comment on speculation” – not ruling it out.
Image: Former BBC News controller and government communications director, Sir Craig Oliver
‘Lots of people are saying it’s a very dated system’
As a former BBC News controller and government communications director, Sir Craig Oliver has seen licence fee negotiations from both sides.
He says: “I think everybody has come to the conclusion, including privately the BBC, that they have to come up with another model.
“I think that there will probably be some element of the licence fee still existing, but it may be that there are subscription models on top of that.
“The problem with all of that, of course, is that the devil is in the detail… how do you make sure that people aren’t hacking in? Lots of people are saying it’s a very dated system.”
This year the BBC says it’s launching its “biggest ever public engagement exercise so audiences can help… shape [the corporation]”.
A BBC spokesperson said: “The public cares about the BBC… We want to continue to reform and evolve and look forward to engaging with government on the next Charter and securing the long-term future of the BBC.”
But with seemingly little or no consensus over how that future might be funded, the only certain thing for now is that it’ll mean households being switched on to licence fee prices going up this year, next year and the one after that.