Nominations Announced for the Virgin TV British Academy Television Awards

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The British Academy of Film and Television Arts has 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 ceremony will be held at the Royal Festival Hall on Sunday 13 May and hosted by Sue Perkins.

Black Mirror, Line of Duty, The Crown and Three Girls and are each nominated in three categories.

Black Mirror has two first-time nominees recognised for their performances: a Leading Actor nomination for Joe Cole for Hang the DJ, which is also nominated in the Single Drama category, and a Supporting Actor nomination for Jimmi Simpson for USS Callister.

Line of Duty receives nominations in the Drama Series category, as well as a Leading Actress nomination for Thandie Newton and a Supporting Actor nomination for Adrian Dunbar.

Also nominated in the Drama Series category is The Crown, which receives performance nominations for the second year in a row for Claire Foy for Leading Actress and Vanessa Kirby for Supporting Actress. Completing the Drama Series category is returning drama Peaky Blinders and The End of the F###ing World, written by BAFTA Breakthrough Brit, Charlie Covell.

Other BAFTA Breakthrough Brits nominated are writers Daisy May Cooper and Charlie Cooper who receive a nomination for This Country for Scripted Comedy. Daisy May Cooper is also nominated in Female Performance in a Comedy Programme. Breakthrough Brit Molly Windsor receives a Leading Actress nomination for her performance in Three Girls. Her co-star Liv Hill receives a Supporting Actress nomination. Three Girls is also recognised in Mini Series alongside Howards End, The Moorside and The State.

Also nominated in the Scripted Comedy category are Chewing Gum, Timewasters and Catastrophe, for which Sharon Horgan receives a nomination in the Female Performance in a Comedy Programme category. Also in Female Performance in a Comedy Programme are Anna Maxwell Martin for Motherland and Sian Gibson for Peter Kay’s Car Share.

Receiving his first Leading Actor nomination is Jack Rowan for Born to Kill. In the Leading Actress category, Sinead Keenan receives her first BAFTA nomination for her performance in Little Boy Blue.

The late Tim Pigott-Smith is nominated for King Charles III, which also receives a Single Drama nomination. Also nominated in the Single Drama category is Against the Law and Murdered for Being Different.

In the Supporting Actor category two further actors receive their first BAFTA nominations. Anupam Kher is nominated for his performance in the adaptation of Satnam Sanghera’s memoir, The Boy with the Topknot, and Brían F. O’Byrne receives a nomination for Little Boy Blue. Anna Friel receives her first BAFTA nomination in the Supporting Actress category for Broken, alongside her co-star Sean Bean, who is nominated for Leading Actor; and first-time nominee Julie Hesmondhalgh is nominated for her Supporting Actress performance in Broadchurch.