2015 British Academy Television Awards

61st British Academy Television Awards
Date	10 May 2015
Site	Theatre Royal, Drury Lane
Host	Graham Norton
Highlights
Best Comedy	The Graham Norton Show
Best Drama	Happy Valley
Best Actor	Jason Watkins The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies
Best Actress	Georgina Campbell Murdered by My Boyfriend
Best Comedy Performance	Jessica Hynes W1A Matt Berry Toast of London
Television coverage
Channel	BBC One
Duration	2 hours

The 61st British Academy Television Awards nominations were announced on 8 April 2015.

Winners and nominations

Winners are listed first and emboldened.

Leading Actor

Jason Watkins – The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies (ITV)

• Benedict Cumberbatch – Sherlock (BBC One)
• Toby Jones – Marvellous (BBC Two)
• James Nesbitt – The Missing (BBC One)

Leading Actress

Georgina Campbell – Murdered by My Boyfriend (BBC Three)

• Keeley Hawes – Line of Duty (BBC Two)
• Sarah Lancashire – Happy Valley (BBC One)
• Sheridan Smith – Cilla (ITV)

Supporting Actor

Stephen Rea – The Honourable Woman (BBC Two)

• Adeel Akhtar – Utopia (Channel 4)
• James Norton – Happy Valley (BBC One)
• Ken Stott – The Missing (BBC One)

Supporting Actress

Gemma Jones – Marvellous (BBC Two)

• Vicky McClure – Line of Duty (BBC Two)
• Amanda Redman – Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This (ITV)
• Charlotte Spencer – Glue (E4)

Entertainment Performance

Ant & Dec – Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway (ITV)

• Leigh Francis – Celebrity Juice (ITV2)
• Graham Norton – The Graham Norton Show (BBC One)
• Claudia Winkleman – Strictly Come Dancing (BBC One)

Female Performance In A Comedy Programme

Jessica Hynes – W1A (BBC Two)

• Olivia Colman – Rev. (BBC Two)
• Tamsin Greig – Episodes (BBC Two)
• Catherine Tate – Catherine Tate's Nan (BBC One)

Male Performance In A Comedy Programme

Matt Berry – Toast of London (Channel 4)

• Hugh Bonneville – W1A (BBC Two)
• Tom Hollander – Rev. (BBC Two)
• Brendan O'Carroll – Mrs. Brown's Boys – Christmas Special (BBC One)

Single Drama

Marvellous – Peter Bowker, Julian Farino, Katie Swinden, Patrick Spence (Fifty Fathoms/BBC Two)

• A Poet in New York – Aisling Walsh, Ruth Caleb, Andrew Davies, Griff Rhys Jones (Modern Television/BBC Two)
• Common – Jimmy McGovern, David Blair, Colin McKeown, Donna Molloy (LA Productions/BBC One)
• Murdered by My Boyfriend – Pier Wilkie, Regina Moriarty, Paul Andrew Williams, Darren Kemp (BBC/BBC Three)

Mini-Series

The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies – Gareth Neame, Peter Morgan, Roger Michell, Kevin Loader (Carnival Film & Television/ITV)

• Cilla – Jeff Pope, Paul Whittington, Kwadjo Dajan, Robert Willis (ITV Studios/GroupM Entertainment/ITV)
• Our World War (BBC Factual/BBC Three)
• Prey – Chris Lunt, Nicola Shindler, Tom Sherry, Nick Murphy (Red Production Company/ITV)

Drama Series

Happy Valley – Sally Wainwright, Karen Lewis, Euros Lyn, Nicola Shindler (Red Production Company/BBC One)

• Line of Duty (World Productions/BBC Two)
• The Missing – Charlie Pattinson, Willow Grylls, Jack Williams, Harry Williams (New Pictures/BBC One)
• Peaky Blinders (Caryn Mandabach Productions/Tiger Aspect Productions/BBC Two)

Soap and Continuing Drama

Coronation Street (ITV Studios/ITV)

• Casualty (BBC Drama Production Wales/BBC One)
• EastEnders (BBC Drama Production London/BBC One)
• Hollyoaks – Bryan Kirkwood, Iain Macleod, Emily Gascoigne, Hannah Sowden (Lime Pictures/Channel 4)

International

True Detective – Nic Pizzolatto, Cary Fukunaga, Scott Stephens, Steve Golin (HBO Entertainment in assoc. with Neon Black, Anonymous Content, Parliament of Owls and Passenger/ Sky Atlantic)

• The Good Wife (CBS Television Studios in assoc. with Scott Free/King Size Prods/More4)
• House of Cards – Beau Willimon, David Fincher, Joshua Donen, Kevin Spacey (Donen/Fincher/Roth and Trigger Street Productions, Inc. in assoc. with Media Rights Capital/Netflix)
• Orange Is the New Black – Jenji Kohan, Lisa Vinnecour, Sara Hess, Sian Heder (Lionsgate Television/Netflix)

Factual Series

Life and Death Row (BBC Documentaries Production/BBC Three)

• 15,000 Kids and Counting – Chris Eley, Brian Woods, Gwyn Jones, Fiona Jones (True Vision Productions/Channel 4)
• Educating the East End (Twofour/Channel 4)
• Protecting Our Parents (BBC Documentaries Production/BBC Two)

Specialist Factual

Grayson Perry: Who Are You? – Neil Crombie, Joe Evans (Swan Films/Channel 4)

• David Attenborough's Conquest of the Skies 3D – David Attenborough, Anthony Geffen, David Lee (Colossus Productions/SKY 3D)
• The Great War: The People's Story (Shiver/ITV)
• Our Gay Wedding: The Musical – Sean Murphy, Archie Baron (Wingspan Productions/Channel 4)

Single Documentary

The Paedophile Hunter – Dan Reed (Amos Pictures/Channel 4)

• Baby P: The Untold Story – Henry Singer, Jenny Saunders, Ben Stark, Simon Ford (Sandpaper Films/BBC One)
• Children of Syria – Robin Barnwell, Lyse Doucet, Bradley Manning, Lucy Hetherington (BBC/BBC Two)
• The Miners Strike and Me (Shiver/ITV)

Features

Grand Designs (Boundless (part of Fremantle Media UK)/Channel 4)

• George Clarke's Amazing Spaces – Will Daws, Jamie Wightman, Stuart Cabb (Plum Pictures/Channel 4)
• The Great British Bake Off – Anna Beattie, Samantha Beddoes, Andy Devonshire, Simon Evans (Love Productions/BBC One)
• Long Lost Family – Sally Benton, Clare Bradbury, Colette Flight, Kate Scholefield (Wall To Wall/ITV)

Reality & Constructed Factual

The Island with Bear Grylls – Ben Mitchell, Tim Whitwell, Bear Grylls, Delbert Shoopman (Shine/ Bear Grylls Ventures Co-Production/Channel 4)

• The Apprentice (Boundless/BBC One)
• I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! (ITV Studios/ITV)
• The Undateables – Sarah Spencer, Martha Constable (Betty TV/Channel 4)

Current Affairs

Children on the Frontline (Dispatches) (ITN Productions/Channel 4)

• Ebola Frontline (Panorama) – Steve Grandison, Lucie Kon, Karen Edwards, Fabio Basone (Blakeway Productions/BBC One)
• Inside Kenya's Death Squads (Al Jazeera Investigates) – Simon Boazman, Kris Jepson, Chris Olivoto, Phil Rees (Al Jazeera Network/Al Jazeera English)
• Terror at the Mall (This World) – Dan Reed, Mark Towns, Sarah Waldron, George Carey (Amos Pictures/BBC Two)

News Coverage

Sky News Live at Five: Ebola – Alex Crawford, Garwen McLuckie, Nick Ludlam (Sky News/Sky News)

• BBC News at Ten (BBC News/BBC One)
• Channel 4 News - Inside Gaza: Children Under Fire – Jon Snow, Ben de Pear, Nevine Mabro (Channel 4 News/Channel 4)
• ITV News at Ten - Iraq Crisis (ITN for ITV News/ITV)

Sports and Live Events

WW1 Remembered - From the Battlefield & Westminster Abbey (BBC Productions/BBC Two)

• 2014 FA Cup Semi-Final: Hull City vs. Sheffield United (Sunset + Vine/BT Sport 1)
• Monty Python Live (Mostly) (Phil McIntyre Entertainment Hipgnosis/Gold)
• 2014 Tour de France: Stage 1 – Steve Docherty, Carolyn Viccari, James Venner (Vsquared/ITV)

Entertainment Programme

Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway (ITV Studios/Mitre Television/ITV)

• Dynamo: Magician Impossible – Lucy Ansbro, Dan Albion, Alex Hartman, Debbie Young (Phil McIntyre Entertainment Ltd / Inner Circle Films / Red Rocket/ Watch)
• Strictly Come Dancing – Louise Rainbow, Nikki Parsons, Vanessa Clark, Jason Gilkison (BBC Entertainment/BBC One)
• The Voice (Wall to Wall/BBC One)

Comedy and Comedy Entertainment Programme

The Graham Norton Show – Jon Magnusson, Graham Stewart, Graham Norton, Steve Smith (So Television/BBC One)

• Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe – Charlie Brooker, Annabel Jones, Nick Vaughan-Smith, Ali Marlow (Endemol UK/BBC Two)
• Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle – Stewart Lee, Richard Webb, Tim Kirkby (BBC Comedy Production London/BBC Two)
• Would I Lie to You? – Peter Holmes, Rachel Ablett, Ruth Phillips, Richard Cohen (Zeppotron/BBC One)

Situation Comedy

Detectorists (Channel X North and Lola Entertainment/BBC Four)

• Harry & Paul's Story Of The Twos – Harry Enfield, Paul Whitehouse, Ed Bye, Bradley Adams (Balloon Entertainment/BBC Two)
• Moone Boy – Chris O'Dowd, Nick Vincent Murphy, Ted Dowd, Ian Fitzgibbon (Baby Cow Productions/ Hot Cod / Sprout Pictures / Grand Pictures/Sky 1)
• The Wrong Mans – Jim Field Smith, Mathew Baynton, James Corden (A BBC Comedy/Hulu co-production/BBC Two)

Radio Times Audience Award

Sherlock

• Cilla
• EastEnders
• Game of Thrones
• The Great British Bake Off
• The Missing
• Strictly Come Dancing

Fellowship

Jon Snow

Special Award

Clive James

Jeff Pope

See also

• British Academy Television Awards
• BAFTA Scotland
• BAFTA Cymru

External links

• Official site at BAFTA.org