Coronation Street snubbed in TV Bafta nominations

Daily Mail UK

BBC1's critically lauded costume drama Cranford is in the running for four awards, including best drama serial and a 12th Bafta acting nomination for Dame Judi Dench.

The Street, another BBC1 drama, and ITV1's Harry Hill's TV Burp are among a clutch of programmes with two nominations each, including BBC1's Strictly Come Dancing, ITV1's Britain's Got Talent, Channel 4's Peep Show, Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain on BBC2 and BBC4's The Thick Of It.

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Snubbed: Coronation Street, which stars Jack P Shepherd as David Platt and Helen Worth as his mother Gail, failed to garner a nomination for the Bafta TV awards today

But there was no room in the continuing drama category for ITV1's Coronation Street, with nominations for the soap award going to EastEnders, Holby City, Emmerdale and The Bill.

A year after Sky One celebrated its first two Baftas, including one for Ross Kemp on Gangs, the channel received no nominations.

The satellite broadcaster received a solitary nod for Sky News in the news coverage category.

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Sisterly rivalry: Dame Eileen Atkins and Dame Judi Dench are both nominated for best actress for their roles in the BBC drama Cranford

Hill is also nominated for the entertainment performance prize, along with Never Mind the Buzzcocks' Simon Amstell, QI presenter Stephen Fry and Alan Carr and Justin Lee Collins of Channel 4's Friday Night Project.

ITV1 has three out of the four sports awards, with nods for its coverage of the Boat Race, Canadian Grand Prix and Rugby World Cup semi-final between England and France. BBC1 is nominated for the Wimbledon men's final.

Four first-time Bafta TV nominees will compete in the best actor category: Andrew Garfield for Boy A, Tom Hardy for Stuart: A Life Backwards, and Matthew Macfadyen for Secret Life, while Antony Sher receives his first nomination for Primo.

ITV1's controversial Paul Watson documentary, Malcolm and Barbara: Love's Farewell, is nominated for the single documentary prize, along with Molly Dineen's Channel 4 film Lie of the Land, BBC2's Beautiful Young Minds and BBC4's Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives.

Two episodes of Channel 4's Dispatches are nominated in the newly-reinstated current affairs category ? October Films' programme on the Taliban and a Dispatches special, China's Stolen Children, produced by True Vision. Also nominated are a Panorama undercover investigation into dog-fighting and BBC3's Honour Kills.

Russell Brand's Channel 4 show, Ponderland, is nominated for best comedy programme, one of four first-time nominees in the category along with BBC1's The Armstrong and Miller Show and two other Channel 4 programmes, Star Stories and Fonejacker.

Nominated for the sitcom prize are ITV1's Benidorm, BBC4's The Thick of It, and Peep Show and The IT Crowd, both on Channel 4.

More4 receives its first Bafta nomination for single drama The Trial of Tony Blair, up against two Channel 4 shows, Boy A and The Mark of Cain, and BBC1's Coming Down The Mountain. In the running for the drama serial award, along with Cranford, are Channel 4's Britz and BBC1's Murphy's Law and Five Days.

Heston Blumenthal also receives his first nomination for BBC2's Heston Blumenthal: In Search of Perfection. He is up against fellow chef Gordon Ramsey, for Channel 4's Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares, in the features category along with BBC2's Top Gear and another Channel 4 show, The Secret Millionaire.

Channel Five's Paul Merton in China is nominated for the factual series prize, one of two nominations for the broadcaster, up against BBC1's The Tower: A Tale of Two Cities, BBC2's Tribe and Channel 4's Meet The Natives.

The international programme Bafta will go to either Five's Californication, Channel 4's My Name is Earl, BBC2's Heroes or BBC3's Family Guy.

The Bafta TV awards, sponsored by Sky+, will be held at the London Palladium on April 20. They will be hosted by Graham Norton and broadcast on BBC1.

• Votes are being cast for the Sky+ audience award at www. bestonthebox.com until 18 April.

Here are the nominations for the British Academy Television Awards

ACTOR
Andrew Garfield,Boy A, Channel 4
Tom Hardy,Stuart: A Life Backwards, BBC2
Matthew Macfadyen, Secret Life, Channel 4
Antony Sher, Primo, BBC4

ACTRESS
Eileen Atkins, Cranford, BBC1
Judi Dench, Cranford,BBC1
Gina McKee,The Street,BBC1
Kierston Wareing, It's A Free World,Channel 4

ENTERTAINMENT PERFORMANCE
Simon Amstell, Never Mind The Buzzcocks, BBC2
Alan Carr & Justin Lee Collins, The Friday Night Project, Channel 4
Stephen Fry, QI, BBC2
Harry Hill,Harry Hill's TV Burp, ITV1

COMEDY PERFORMANCE
Peter Capaldi, The Thick of It, BBC4
James Corden, Gavin and Stacey, BBC3
Stephen Merchant, Extras Christmas Special, BBC1
David Mitchell, Peep Show, Channel 4

SINGLE DRAMA
Boy A, Channel 4
Coming Down The Mountain, BBC1
The Mark Of Cain, Channel 4
The Trial of Tony Blair, More 4

DRAMA SERIES
Life on Mars, BBC1
Rome, BBC2
Skins, E4
The Street, BBC1

DRAMA SERIAL
Britz, Channel 4
Cranford, BBC1
Five Days, BBC1
Murphy's Law, BBC1

CONTINUING DRAMA
The Bill, ITV1
EastEnders, BBC1
Emmerdale, ITV1
Holby City, BBC1

INTERNATIONAL
Californication, Five/Paramount
Family Guy, BBC3/20th Century Fox
Heroes, BBC2/SCI FI Channel/NBC Universal Television
My Name Is Earl, Channel 4/Twentieth Century Fox

FACTUAL SERIES
Meet The Natives, Channel 4
Paul Merton in China, Five
Tribe, BBC2
The Tower: A Tale of Two Cities, BBC1

SPECIALIST FACTUAL
Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain, BBC2
Earth: The Power of the Planet, BBC2
The Genius of Photography, BBC4
The Relief of Belsen, Channel 4

SINGLE DOCUMENTARY
Beautiful Young Minds, BBC2
Lie of the Land, Channel 4
Malcolm and Barbara: Love's Farewell, ITV1
Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives, BBC4

FEATURES
Heston Blumenthal: In Search of Perfection, BBC2
Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares, Channel 4
The Secret Millionaire, Channel 4
Top Gear, BBC2

CURRENT AFFAIRS
China's Stolen Children - A Dispatches Special, Channel 4
Dispatches - Fighting The Taliban, Channel 4
Honour Kills, BBC3
Panorama: Dog-Fighting Undercover, BBC1

NEWS COVERAGE
BBC Ten O'Clock News: War in Afghanistan, BBC1
Channel 4 News: Iraq-The Surge, Channel 4
ITV Evening News: Zimbabwe - The Tyranny and the Tragedy, ITV1
Sky News - Glasgow Airport Attack, Sky News

SPORT
Boat Race, ITV1
ITV F1: Canadian Grand Prix Live, ITV1
Rugby World Cup 2007: England V France Semi-Final, ITV1
Wimbledon - The Men's Final, BBC1

INTERACTIVITY
Big Art Mob, Channel 4
Doctor Who Comic Maker, BBC1
Spooks Interactive, BBC.co.uk
The X Factor, ITV1

ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAMME
Britain's Got Talent, ITV1
Harry Hill's TV Burp, ITV1
Have I Got News For You, BBC1
Strictly Come Dancing, BBC1

COMEDY PROGRAMME
The Armstrong & Miller Show, BBC1
Fonejacker, Channel 4
Russell Brand's Ponderland, Channel 4
Star Stories, Channel 4

SITUATION COMEDY
Benidorm, ITV1
The IT Crowd, Channel 4
Peep Show, Channel 4
The Thick of It, BBC4

Sky+AUDIENCE AWARD for the Programme of the Year
The Apprentice
Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain
Britain's Got Talent
Cranford
Gavin & Stacey
Strictly Come Dancing

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