The series, written and created by screenwriter Queer as Folk and Doctor Who, Russell T Davies, follows a group of gay men and their friends as they navigate the HIV / Aids crisis in the United Kingdom in the 1980s and early 1980s. 90s. The series’s 11 nominations, including five in the craft category and six in the television awards category, include nods for Davies in the screenwriter category, as well as a star nomination for singer Olly Alexander for his role as Ritchie Tozer. His co-star Lydia West has been nominated for a starring role, along with Kate Winslet, who starred in the HBO / Sky Atlantic Mare of Easttown, and marks her first nomination for a TV role as the Titanic star, although she has been nominated in the past. win the cinema. Baftas, and is a previous winner of the Britannia Award. Also nominated for Best Actress are Denise Gough and Emily Watson for ITV’s Too Close, along with Jodie Comer for Channel 4’s drama Help and Niamh Algar for Channel 4’s Deceit. Starring Years & Years Alexander singer David Thewlis for Landscapers, Hugh Quarshie for ITV Stephen, Samuel Adewunmi for BBC’s Don’t Know Me, Sean Bean for Time and Stephen Graham for Channel 4 Help. The Sky Landscapers drama, also starring non-acting actress Olivia Colman, is the second-most-nominated TV show, with a total of seven, five in the craft category and two in the television category. Inspired by real-life events, the series stars Colman and Thewlis as a gently married couple whose lives are turned upside down after the discovery of corpses in the backyard of a Nottingham home. Landscapers nominations include categories of directorial fiction, original music, protagonist and mini-series. Help, Time and We Are Lady Parts each received six nominations, Netflix Sex Education five nominations and A Very British Scandal, starring Claire Foy and Paul Bettany as Duke and Duchess of Argyll in the drama series for the high-profile separation of the couple in the 1960s, has four nominations in the craft categories. Of the 42 nominees, 23 receive their first Bafta nominations, including comedians Rose Matafeo and Joe Lycett and Alexander. In the international category, Jesse Armstrong’s drama about a warring media dynasty, Succession, rivals the French comedy for the talent business Call My Agent! and Netflix’s Korean dystopian hit Squid Game. Netflix’s French thriller Lupine, the HBO detective drama Mare of Easttown – which also stars Kate Winslet in her first TV Bafta – and Underground Railroad, a slavery drama, are also nominated. . Richard Ayoade, comedian, presenter and star of The IT Crowd, will host the Virgin Media Bafta TV Awards for the third year in a row as he returns to the Royal Festival Hall in London on May 8. The Bafta TV Craft Awards will take place on April 24.
