Nominees Unveiled for 2011 TV BAFTAs

LONDON: The official list of the nominees for the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) TV Awards has been announced, with Boardwalk Empire squaring off against Glee, The Killing and Mad Men in the international category.

Misfits leads the pack in nominations. The E4 series is up against Being Human, Downton Abbey and Sherlock for the award for best drama series. Best single drama contenders are Eric and Ernie, I Am Slave, The Road to Coronation Street and The Special Relationship. The nominees for best drama serial are Any Human Heart, Mad Dogs, The Sinking of the Laconia and The Promise. Up for honors in the continuing drama category are Casualty, Coronation Street, EastEnders and Waterloo Road.

In the comedy category are the nominees Catherine Tate’s Little Cracker, Come Fly with Me, Facejacker and Harry and Paul. Up for best situation comedy are Mrs. Brown’s Boys, Peep Show, Rev and The Trip. Facing off in the category for entertainment program are The Cube, The Graham Norton Show, Have I Got News For You and The X Factor.

Coppers, One Born Every Minute, Welcome to Lagos and The Young Ones are up for the BAFTA for factual series. Specialist factual programs in the running are Alan Bennett and the Habit of Art (The Making Of), Flying Monsters 3D, Human Planet and Pompeii: Life and Death in a Roman Town. Nominations for best single documentary went to Between Life and Death, The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan, Pink Saris and Scenes From a Teenage Killing. Features in the running are Come Dine with Me, Hugh’s Fish Fight, Mary Queen of Shops and Pineapple Dance Studios. The category for current affairs features Kids in Care (Panorama), Lost Girls of South Africa (Dispatches), Secret Iraq and Zimbabwe’s Forgotten Children. Other categories include new media, which features the nominees LabUK/Brain Test Britain, Misfits, Malcolm Tucker: The Missing Phone and Wallace and Gromit’s World of Invention.

On the performance side, lead actor contenders are Jim Broadbent for Any Human Heart, Benedict Cumberbatch for Sherlock, Daniel Rigby for Eric and Ernie and Matt Smith for Doctor Who. Lead actress nominees are Anna Maxwell Martin for South Riding, Vicky McClure for This is England ’86, Natalie Press for Five Daughters and Juliet Stevenson for Accused. Supporting nods on the male side went to Brendan Coyle for Downton Abbey, Martin Freeman for Sherlock, Johnny Harris for This is England ’86 and Robert Sheehan for Misfits. On the female side, supporting nominees are Gillian Anderson for Any Human Heart, Lynda Baron for The Road to Coronation Street, Lauren Socha for Misfits and Jessie Wallace for The Road to Coronation Street. The nominees in the category for entertainment performance are Rob Brydon for The Rob Brydon Show, Stephen Fry for QI, Harry Hill for Harry Hill’s TV Burp and Graham Norton for The Graham Norton Show. Comedy contenders are Jo Brand for Getting On, Dawn French for Roger and Val Have Just Got In, Miranda Hart for Miranda and Katherine Parkinson for The IT Crowd, as well as James Buckley for The Inbetweeners, Steve Coogan for The Trip, Tom Hollander for Rev and David Mitchell for Peep Show.