BAFTA TV Awards nominations revealed – including nods for Baby Reindeer, Mr Bates vs The Post Office, Rivals and Slow Horses
Nominations for this year’s BAFTA TV Awards have been revealed – with Baby Reindeer leading the field with eight.
Mr Bates vs The Post Office, Rivals and Slow Horses follow with six nominations each.
Mr Bates vs the Post Office. Pic: ITV/Shutterstock
Baby Reindeer, which follows the life of a struggling comedian who is stalked by a woman, is shortlisted for best limited drama.
Star and creator Richard Gadd is up for the BAFTAs for best actor and for writing, while his co-stars Jessica Gunning and Nava Mau are both in the running for the supporting actress prize.
Mr Bates vs The Post Office, based on the true story behind the Horizon scandal, is also up for best limited drama, while stars Toby Jones and Monica Dolan are nominated in the leading actor and actress categories.
David Tennant and Katherine Parkinson, two of the stars of comedy drama Rivals, based on the Jilly Cooper novel, are up for best leading actor and best supporting actress.
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Up against Gadd, Jones and Tennant in the leading actor category are Gary Oldman (Slow Horses), Lennie James (Mr Loverman) and Martin Freeman (The Responder).
Anna Maxwell Martin (Until I Kill You), Billie Piper (Scoop), Lola Petticrew (Say Nothing), Marisa Abela (Industry) and Sharon D Clarke (Mr Loverman) join Dolan on the leading actress shortlist.
In the comedy performance categories, Ruth Jones is among the nominees for the long-awaited Gavin & Stacey: The Finale, but there is no nod for co-star James Corden.
Gavin & Stacey: The Finale. Pic: Tom Jackson/PA
For almost half of the nominees in the performance categories – 21 of 44 – this is their first BAFTA TV Awards nomination, including for Gadd and Gunning, as well as stars including Danny Dyer (Mr Bigstuff), Lolly Adefope (The Franchise) and Nicola Coughlan (Big Mood).
Blue Lights, Sherwood, Supacell and Wolf Hall: The Mirror And The Light are all shortlisted for best drama, while Alma’s Not Normal, Brassic, G’Wed and Ludwig are in the running for best scripted comedy.
One Day and Lost Boys And Fairies complete the limited series category.
Michelle Keegan and Joe Gilgun in Brassic. Pic: Sky UK
The BAFTA TV Awards also celebrate the best TV moment of the year, with nominees this year including scenes from Gavin & Stacey: The Finale, Bridgerton, Mr Bates Vs The Post Office, Rivals, Strictly Come Dancing and The Traitors.
More than 130 programmes have received nominations in total.
BAFTA chief executive Jane Millichip said 2024 had been “a standout year”, and added: “The power of television to drive national conversation, to tap into the stories of public interest, and to inspire societal change, is second to none.”
The BAFTA TV Awards ceremony will be hosted by actor Alan Cumming on Sunday 11 May.
Irish-language rap group Kneecap have announced a surprise London show, hours after one of their members was charged with a terror offence.
Liam O’Hanna, or Liam Og O Hannaidh, was charged with displaying a flag in support of Hezbollah, a proscribed organisation, at a concert in London last November, the Metropolitan Police said on Wednesday.
Just hours later, Kneecap announced on their Instagram account that “we’re back”, adding that they would perform at the 100 Club on Oxford Street, London, on Thursday night.
The post also included a quote by former Sex Pistols vocalist John Lydon, who told ITV’s Good Morning Britain the rap trio “maybe (…) need a bloody good kneecapping” after footage of the band allegedly calling for the deaths of MPs emerged.
Kneecap performing in Belfast last year. Pic: PA
Kneecap apologised to the families of murdered MPs last month, but said footage of the incident at their concert had been “exploited and weaponised”, adding that they “never supported” Hamas or Hezbollah.
The rappers had gigs cancelled after the footage emerged and politicians pushed for Kneecap to be dropped from the Glastonbury Festival line-up, with Tory leader Kemi Badenoch calling for Kneecap to be banned.
The group from Belfast in Northern Ireland is still set to headline Wide Awake Festival in south London on Friday.
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In response to O’Hanna being charged, Kneecap said that they “deny this ‘offence’ and will vehemently defend ourselves” and branded it “political policing” in a bid to “silence voices of compassion”.
The charge came after counter-terror police assessed a video said to be from a Kneecap concert.
In the footage, O’Hanna is allegedly displaying a flag in support of Hezbollah at the O2 Forum in Kentish Town, London, on 21 November last year.
Officers from the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command were made aware of a video circulating online on 22 April and an investigation led to the Crown Prosecution Service authorising the charge, the force said.
O’Hanna – who performs under the stage name Mo Chara – is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on 18 June.
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