BAFTA TV nominations announced

Today (Wednesday 4 April) the British Academy of Film and Television Arts today announced the nominations for the annual Virgin TV British Academy Television Awards, which reward the very best television programmes broadcast in the UK in 2017.

The BBC has amassed 58 nominations. BBC One's three-part drama based on the true stories of victims of grooming in Rochdale, Three Girls and series four of BBC Two's Line Of Duty lead the nominations, along with Black Mirror and The Crown (Netflix), each nominated in three categories.

For the 'Specialist Factual' and 'Single Documentary' awards, all four nominations are BBC shows guaranteeing a BBC win in both those categories.

This year BAFTA have introduced the 'Short Form Programme' category, which recognises programmes of between three and twenty minutes across all genres, premiering on a broadcast or online platform and BBC Three content is recognised in three out of the four nominations.

The winners will be revealed at a ceremony hosted by Sue Perkins at the Royal Festival Hall on Sunday 13 May. Below we list the BBC programmes that have received nominations this year: 

Comedy Entertainment Programme

• Murder In Successville - Andy Brereton, Avril Spary, James De Frond, Laurence Rickard – Shiny Button Productions / BBC Three
• Would I Lie To You? - Peter Holmes, Rachel Ablett, Ruth Phillips, Adam Copeland – Zeppotron / BBC One

Current Affairs

• Undercover: Britain's Immigration Secrets (Panorama) - Karen Wightman, Joe Plomin, Callum Tulley, Gary Beelders – BBC Current Affairs / BBC One

Drama Series

• Line Of Duty - Production Team – World Productions / BBC One
• Peaky Blinders - Production Team – Caryn Mandabach Productions / Tiger Aspect Productions / BBC Two

Entertainment Performance

• Graham Norton - The Graham Norton Show – So Television / BBC One
• Michael McIntyre - Michael McIntyre’s Big Show – Hungry McBear / BBC One
• Sandi Toksvig - QI – QI Ltd / Talkback Thames – BBC Two

Entertainment Programme

• Michael McIntyre's Big Show - Dan Baldwin, Claire Horton, Christian Fletcher, Michael McIntyre – Hungry McBear / BBC One

Factual Series

• Ambulance - Jo Hughes, Bruce Fletcher, Kirsty Cunningham, Simon Ford – Dragonfly / BBC One
• Drugsland - Sacha Mirzoeff, Xavier Alford, Bart Corpe, Simon Ford – BBC Studios / BBC Three
• Hospital - Production Team – Label1 / BBC Two

Features

• Antiques Roadshow - Simon Shaw, Julia Foot, Robert Murphy, Sophie Wogden – BBC Studios / Unscripted Productions / BBC One
• No More Boys And Girls: Can Our Kids Go Gender Free? - Javid Abdelmoneim, Helen Veale, Jeremy Daldry, Sam Palmer – Outline Productions / BBC Two

Female Performance in a Comedy Programme

• Anna Maxwell Martin - Motherland – Delightful Industries / Merman / BBC Two
• Daisy May Cooper - This Country – BBC Studios / BBC Three
• Sian Gibson - Peter Kay’s Car Share – Goodnight Vienna Productions / BBC One

International

• Feud: Bette And Joan - Ryan Murphy, Dede Gardner, Tim Minear, Alexis Martin Woodall – Fox 21 Television Studios / BBC Two
• The Vietnam War - Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, Geoffrey C. Ward , Sarah Botstein – BBC / Florentine Films / BBC Four

Leading Actor

• Tim Piggott-Smith - King Charles III – Drama Republic / BBC Two
• Sean Bean - Broken – LA Productions / BBC One

Leading Actress

• Molly Windsor - Three Girls – BBC Studios / Studio Lambert / BBC One
• Thandie Newton - Line of Duty – World Productions / BBC One

Live Event

• One Love Manchester - Production Team – BBC Studios / SB Projects / BBC One
• Wild Alaska Live - Adam White, James Morgan, Roger Webb, Vanessa Coates – BBC Studios / BBC Natural History Unit / PBS / BBC One
• World War One Remembered: Passchendale - Production Team – BBC Studios / BBC Two

Male Performance in a Comedy

• Asim Chaudhry - People Just Do Nothing – Roughcut TV / BBC Three
• Samson Kayo - Famalam – BBC Studios / BBC Two
• Toby Jones - Detectorists – Channel X North / Treasure Trove Productions / Lola Entertainment / BBC Four

Mini Series

• Howards End - Kenneth Lonergan, Hettie Macdonald, Laura Hastings-Smith, Sophie Gardiner – Playground Entertainment / BBC One
• The Moorside - Neil McKay, Paul Whittington, Ken Horn, Jeff Pope – ITV Studios / BBC One
• Three Girls - Nicole Taylor, Philippa Lowthorpe, Susan Hogg, Simon Lewis – BBC Studios / Studio Lambert / BBC One

Scripted Comedy

• This Country - Daisy May Cooper, Charlie Cooper, Tom George, Simon Mayhew-Archer – BBC Studios / BBC Three

Short Form Programme

• Britains' Forgotten Men - Production Team – BBC Three / BBC Three
• Eating With My Ex - Production Team – Shotglass Media / BBC Three
• Pls Like - Tom Kingsley, Rupert Majendie, Olly Cambridge, Liam Williams – BBC Three / BBC Three

Single Documentary

• Chris Packham: Asperger's And Me - Charlie Russell, Lizzie Kempton, Tom Barry, Will Grayburn – Raw TV / BBC Two
• Louis Theroux, Talking To Anorexia - Louis Theroux, Ellena Wood, Simon McMahon, Peter Dale – BBC Studios / BBC Two
• One Deadly Weekend In America - Sanjay Singhal, Ursula Macfarlane, Jon Alwen, Sarah Hunt – Voltage TV Productions / BBC Three
• Rio Ferdinand: Being Mum And Dad - Rio Ferdinand, Grant Best, Matt Smith, Martin Thompson – Only The Best Productions / BBC One

Single Drama

• Against The Law - Aysha Rafaele, Scott Bassett, Fergus O’Brien, Brian Fillis – BBC Studios / BBC Two
• King Charles III - Mike Bartlett, Greg Brenman, Rupert Goold, Simon Maloney - Drama Republic / BBC Two
• Murdered For Being Different - Aysha Rafaele, Scott Bassett, Paul Andrew Williams, Nick Leather – BBC Studios / BBC Three

Soap & Continuing Drama

• Casualty - Production Team – BBC Studios / BBC One

Specialist Factual

• Basquiat - Rage To Riches - David Shulman, Janet Lee – BBC Studios / BBC Two
• Blitz: The Bombs That Changed Britain - Production Team – Wall to Wall Media / BBC Two
• Blue Planet II - Production Team – BBC Studios / BBC Natural History Unit / BBC One
• Elizabeth I's Secret Agents - Chris Durlacher, Bernadette Ross, Julian Jones, Claire Guillon – 72 Films / BBC Two

Sport

• Six Nations: Wales v. England - Production Team – BBC Sport / BBC One
• UEFA Women's Euro Semi-Final: England v. Netherlands - Sunil Patel, Mark Cole, Kay Satterley, Ian Finch – Whisper Films / Channel 4

Supporting Actor

• Adrian Dunbar - Line of Duty – World Productions / BBC One
• Anupam Kher - The Boy with the Topknot – Kudos / Parti Productions / BBC Two

Supporting Actress

• Anna Friel - Broken – LA Productions / BBC One
• Liv Hill - Three Girls – BBC Studios / Studio Lambert / BBC One

Virgin TV's Must-See Moment

• Blue Planet II: Mother Pilot Whale Grieves – BBC Studios / BBC Natural History Unit / BBC One
• Doctor Who: The Thirteenth Doctor Revealed – BBC Studios / BBC One
• Line Of Duty: Huntley’s Narrow Escape – World Productions / BBC One
• One Love Manchester: Ariana Grande Sings ‘One Last Time’ – BBC Studios / SB Projects / BBC One

• For the full list of nominees visit the BAFTA website
• Find out which BBC shows were successful at the 2017 BAFTAs in our blog 'Record number of BBC wins at this year's BAFTAs'