2019 British Academy Television Awards

Annual television awards

65th British Academy Television Awards

Date| 12 May 2019
Site| Royal Festival Hall, London[1]
Hosted by| Graham Norton[2]
Highlights
Best Comedy Series| Sally4Ever
Best Drama| Killing Eve
Best Actor| Benedict Cumberbatch
Patrick Melrose
Best Actress| Jodie Comer
Killing Eve
Best Comedy Performance|

* Jessica Hynes
There She Goes
* Steve Pemberton
Inside No. 9

Most awards| Killing Eve (3)
Most nominations| Killing Eve (15)
Television coverage
Channel| BBC One

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* BAFTA Awards
* 2020 ->

The 2019 British Academy Television Awards were held on 12 May 2019 at the Royal Festival Hall in London.[1][3]

The nominations were announced on 28 March 2019, whilst the nominations for the "Virgin TV's Must-See Moment" were announced on 27 March 2019.[4] The 2019 British Academy Television Craft Awards were held on 28 April 2019.[3]

On 2 April 2019, it was announced that Graham Norton, following a two-year hiatus, would return to host the 2019 BAFTA Television Awards.[2]

## Winners and nominees

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Benedict Cumberbatch, Best Actor winner Jodie Comer, Best Actress winner Ben Whishaw, Best Supporting Actor winner Fiona Shaw, Best Supporting Actress winner Steve Pemberton, Best Male Comedy Performance winner Jessica Hynes, Best Female Comedy Performance winner Lee Mack, Best Entertainment Performance winner Phoebe Waller-Bridge, co-executive producer and lead writer of Killing Eve, Best Drama Series winner Best Drama Series | Best Mini-Series

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* Killing Eve (BBC One)
* Bodyguard (BBC One)
* Informer (BBC One)
* Save Me (Sky Atlantic)

* Patrick Melrose (Sky Atlantic)
* A Very English Scandal (BBC One)
* Kiri (Channel 4)
* Mrs Wilson (BBC One)

Best Single Drama | Best Soap and Continuing Drama

* Killed by My Debt (BBC Three)
* Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (Netflix)
* Care (BBC One)
* Through the Gates (On the Edge) (Channel 4)

* EastEnders (BBC One)
* Casualty (BBC One)
* Coronation Street (ITV)
* Hollyoaks (Channel 4)

Best Actor | Best Actress

* Benedict Cumberbatch – Patrick Melrose as Patrick Melrose (Sky Atlantic)
* Hugh Grant – A Very English Scandal as Jeremy Thorpe (BBC One)
* Lucian Msamati – Kiri as Tobi Akindele (Channel 4)
* Chance Perdomo – Killed by My Debt as Jerome (BBC Three)

* Jodie Comer – Killing Eve as Villanelle (BBC One)
* Keeley Hawes – Bodyguard as Julia Montague (BBC One)
* Sandra Oh – Killing Eve as Eve Polastri (BBC One)
* Ruth Wilson – Mrs Wilson as Alison Wilson (BBC One)

Best Supporting Actor | Best Supporting Actress

* Ben Whishaw – A Very English Scandal as Norman Josiffe / Norman Scott (BBC One)
* Kim Bodnia – Killing Eve as Konstantin Vasiliev (BBC One)
* Stephen Graham – Save Me as Fabio "Melon" Melonzola (Sky Atlantic)
* Alex Jennings – Unforgotten as Tim Finch (ITV)

* Fiona Shaw – Killing Eve as Carolyn Martens (BBC One)
* Monica Dolan – A Very English Scandal as Marion Thorpe (BBC One)
* Keeley Hawes – Mrs Wilson as Dorothy Wick (BBC One)
* Billie Piper – Collateral as Karen Mars (BBC One)

Best Male Comedy Performance | Best Female Comedy Performance

* Steve Pemberton – Inside No. 9 as Various Characters (BBC Two)
* Jamie Demetriou – Stath Lets Flats as Stath (Channel 4)
* Alex Macqueen – Sally4Ever as David (Sky Atlantic)
* Peter Mullan – Mum as Michael (BBC Two)

* Jessica Hynes – There She Goes as Emily Yates (BBC Four)
* Daisy May Cooper – This Country as Kerry Mucklowe (BBC Three)
* Julia Davis – Sally4Ever as Emma (Sky Atlantic)
* Lesley Manville – Mum as Cathy Bradshaw (BBC Two)

Best Scripted Comedy | Best Comedy and Comedy Entertainment Programme

* Sally4Ever (Sky Atlantic)
* Derry Girls (Channel 4)
* Mum (BBC Two)
* Stath Lets Flats (Channel 4)

* A League of Their Own (Sky One)
* The Big Narstie Show (Channel 4)
* The Last Leg (Channel 4)
* Would I Lie to You? (BBC One)

Best Entertainment Performance | Lew Grade Award for Entertainment Programme

* Lee Mack – Would I Lie to You? (BBC One)
* Ant & Dec – Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway (ITV)
* David Mitchell – Would I Lie to You? (BBC One)
* Rachel Parris – The Mash Report (BBC Two)

* Britain's Got Talent (ITV)
* Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway (ITV)
* Michael McIntyre's Big Show (BBC One)
* Strictly Come Dancing (BBC One)

Best Factual Series or Strand | Huw Wheldon Award for Specialist Factual

* Louis Theroux's Altered States (BBC Two)
* 24 Hours in A&E (Channel 4)
* Life and Death Row: The Mass Execution (BBC Three)
* Prison (Channel 4)

* Suffragettes with Lucy Worsley (BBC One)
* Bros: After the Screaming Stops (BBC Four)
* Grayson Perry: Rites of Passage (Channel 4)
* Superkids: Breaking Away from Care (Channel 4)

Robert Flaherty Award for Single Documentary | Best Feature

* Gun No. 6 (BBC Two)
* Driven: The Billy Monger Story  (BBC Three)
* My Dad, The Peace Deal and Me (BBC One)
* School for Stammers (ITV)

* Who Do You Think You Are? (BBC One)
* Gordon, Gino and Fred's Road Trip (ITV)
* The Great British Bake Off (Channel 4)
* Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing (BBC Two)

Best Reality and Constructed Factual | Best Live Event

* I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! (ITV)
* Dragons' Den (BBC Two)
* Old Peoples' Home for 4 Year Olds (Channel 4)
* The Real Full Monty: Ladies' Night (ITV)

* The Royal British Legion Festival of Remembrance (BBC One)
* Open Heart Surgery: Live (Channel 5)
* The Royal Wedding: Prince Harry and Megan Markle (BBC One)
* Stand Up to Cancer (Channel 4)

Best News Coverage | Best Current Affairs

* Cambridge Analytica Uncovered (Channel 4)
* Bullying and Harassment in the House of Commons (BBC Newsnight) (BBC Two)
* Good Morning Britain: On the Knife Edge (ITV)
* Good Morning Britain: Thomas Markle (ITV)

* Myanmar's Killing Fields (Dispatches) (Channel 4)
* Football's Wall of Silence (Al Jazeera Investigations) (Channel 4)
* Iran Unveiled: Taking on the Ayatollahs (Exposure) (ITV)
* Massacre at Ballymurphy (Channel 4)

Best Sport | Best Short Form Programme

* 2018 World Cup Quarter Final: England vs Sweden (BBC One)
* 2018 Six Nations: Scotland vs England (BBC One)
* England's Test Cricket – Cook's Farewell (Sky Sports)
* Winter Olympics (BBC Two)

* Missed Call (Real Stories)
* Bovril Pam (Snatches: Moments from 100 Years of Women's Lives) (BBC Four)
* The Mind of Herbert Clunkerdunk (BBC iPlayer)
* Wondergate (BBC iPlayer)

Best International Programme | Virgin TV's Must-See Moment

* Succession (Sky Atlantic / HBO)
* 54 Hours: The Gladbeck Hostage Crisis (BBC Four)
* The Handmaid's Tale (Channel 4 / Hulu)
* Reporting Trump's First Year: The Fourth Estate (Storyville) (BBC Two)

* Bodyguard – "Julia Montague assassinated" (BBC One)
* Coronation Street – "Gail's monologue on the suicide of Aidan Connor" (ITV)
* Doctor Who – "Rosa Parks, the Doctor and her companions make sure historical moments remain" (BBC One)
* Killing Eve – "Eve stabs Villanelle" (BBC One)
* Peter Kay's Car Share – "The Finale" (BBC One)
* Queer Eye – "Tom completes his transformation" (Netflix)

## Programmes with multiple nominations

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The following is a list of programmes with multiple nominations at both the 2019 British Academy Television Awards and the 2019 British Academy Television Craft Awards.[5][6]

Programmes that received multiple nominations  Nominations  | Programme

|

15  | Killing Eve
12  | A Very English Scandal
6  | Bodyguard
Patrick Melrose
5  | The Little Drummer Girl
4  | Mrs Wilson
Mum
3  | Bros: After the Screaming Stops
Black Mirror: Bandersnatch
The Royal British Legion Festival of Remembrance
Sally4Ever
Save Me
Would I Lie to You?
2  | Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway
Collateral
Coronation Street
Dynasties
Good Morning Britain
Grenfell
Killed by My Debt
Kiri
The Long Song
Louis Theroux's Altered States
The Mash Report
Michael Palin in North Korea
Peter Kay's Car Share
Prison
The Royal Wedding: Prince Harry and Megan Markle
Stath Lets Flats
Strictly Come Dancing
Through the Gates (On the Edge)
This Country
The Voice UK
Winter Olympics

Networks that received multiple nominations  Nominations  | Network

|

76  | BBC One
25  | BBC Two
23  | Channel 4
16  | ITV
14  | Sky Atlantic
8  | BBC Three
6  | BBC Four
Netflix
3  | Channel 5

## Most major wins

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Shows that received multiple awards Wins  | Show

|

3  | Killing Eve
2  | Patrick Melrose

Wins by Network  Wins  | Network

|

11  | BBC One
4  | Sky Atlantic
3  | BBC Two
ITV

## Controversy

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The inclusion of Killing Eve attracted some controversy as BAFTA rules state that a programme must have its premiere in the UK before elsewhere in order to be eligible, and Killing Eve premiered on BBC America in the US in April 2018, but in the UK in September 2018. BAFTA subsequently amended its eligibility rules, removing the requirement for UK programmes to premiere in the UK.[6][7][8]

## In Memoriam

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* André Previn
* Jacqueline Pearce
* Peter Armitage
* Bill Sellars
* Wendy Beckett
* Magenta Devine
* Clive Swift
* Windsor Davies
* Grant McKee
* Sandy Ratcliff
* Richard Baker
* Chris Pye
* Luke Perry
* Leslie Grantham
* Mya-Lecia Naylor
* Ernest Maxin
* Monica Sims
* Jeremy Hardy
* Anthony Owen
* Denis Norden
* Jill James
* Ray Galton
* Rachael Bland
* John Bluthal
* Peter Tork
* Leonie Jameson
* Bernard Hepton
* June Whitfield

## References

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1. ^ a b "Nominations Announced: Virgin Media British Academy Television Awards and British Academy Television Craft Awards in 2019" (Press release). BAFTA. 28 March 2019. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
2. ^ a b "Graham Norton to host the Virgin Media British Academy Television Awards" (Press release). BAFTA. 2 April 2019. Retrieved 2 April 2019.
3. ^ a b Thomas, Gareth (13 May 2019). "When are the 2019 BAFTA Television Awards on TV? How can I watch and who are the nominees?". Radio Times. Retrieved 27 March 2019.
4. ^ Ling, Thomas (12 May 2019). "TV BAFTAs Must-See Moment nominees include 'Bodyguard' and 'Doctor Who'". Radio Times. Retrieved 27 March 2019.
5. ^ "BAFTA Television 2019: Winners of the Virgin Media British Academy Television Awards + British Academy Television Craft Awards". BAFTA. 28 March 2019. Retrieved 2 April 2019.
6. ^ a b "BAFTA bends the rules for 'Killing Eve'". BBC. 28 March 2019. Retrieved 2 April 2019.
7. ^ Hill, Libby (28 March 2019). "'Killing Eve' Leads All BAFTA TV Nominees With 14 — But There's a Twist". IndieWire. Retrieved 8 May 2019.
8. ^ "BAFTA changes rules for TV Awards after 'Killing Eve' controversy". The Telegraph. 8 October 2019. Retrieved 9 October 2019.

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