MAIN Art &... Pop Culture Television 2009 BAFTA TV Awards

Nominees for the coveted UK Bafta TV Awards were announced in mid-March this year.

On April 26th, coverage of the awards ceremony was broadcast live from London on BBC1 ...with all the hoopla usually accompanied by the American Emmy Awards.

Just up ahead, check out the complete list of 2009 BAFTA TV nominees & winners, and surf the rest of the Web for more history and BAFTA TV trivia, current news & information, along with picture & photo galleries chronicling the UK's highest television award...

BAFTA Television Awards - The official site of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts with related feature stories and interviews, nominees, current contenders, winners, photos.

British Academy Television Awards - Good, background history and a complete list of BAFTA Television award categories & winners dating back to the 1950's, with related links, from Wikipedia.

British Academy of Film and Television Arts - Overview from the Museum of Broadcast Communications on how it all began with historical highlights, membership, determination of nominees and details on the awards.

2009 BAFTA TV Nominees & * Winners

Best actor
* Ben Whishaw - Criminal Justice (BBC One)
Stephen Dillane - The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall (Channel 4)
Jason Isaacs - The Curse of Steptoe (BBC Four)
Ken Stott - Hancock and Joan (BBC Four)

Best actress
* Anna Maxwell Martin - Poppy Shakespeare (Channel 4)
June Brown - EastEnders (BBC One)
Maxine Peake - Hancock and Joan (BBC Four)
Andrea Riseborough - Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley (BBC Four)

Best entertainment performance
* Harry Hill - Harry Hill's TV Burp (ITV1)
* Stephen Fry - QI (BBC Two)
Anthony McPartlin & Declan Donnelly - I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! (ITV1)
Jonathan Ross - Friday Night with Jonathan Ross (BBC One)

Best comedy performance
* David Mitchell - Peep Show (Channel 4)
Rob Brydon - Gavin and Stacey (BBC Three)
Sharon Horgan - Pulling (BBC Three)
Claire Skinner - Outnumbered (BBC One)

Best single drama
* White Girl (BBC Two)
Einstein and Eddington (BBC Two)
Hancock and Joan (BBC Four)
The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall (Channel 4)

Best drama serial
* Criminal Justice (BBC One)
Dead Set (Channel 4)
The Devil's Whore (Channel 4)
House of Saddam (BBC Two)

Best drama series
* Wallander (BBC One)
Doctor Who (BBC One)
Shameless (Channel 4)
Spooks (BBC One)

Best continuing drama
* The Bill (ITV1)
Casualty (BBC One)
EastEnders (BBC One)
Emmerdale (ITV1)

Best factual series
* Amazon with Bruce Parry (BBC Two)
Blood Sweat and T-Shirts (BBC Three)
The Family (Channel 4)
Ross Kemp in Afghanistan (Sky One)

Best entertainment programme
* The X Factor (ITV1)
The Friday/Sunday Night Project (Channel 4)
Harry Hill's TV Burp (ITV1)
QI (BBC One)

Best situation comedy
* The IT Crowd (Channel 4)
The Inbetweeners (Channel 4)
Outnumbered (BBC One)
Peep Show (Channel 4)

Best comedy programme
* Harry and Paul (BBC One)
The Peter Serafinowicz Show (BBC Two)
Star Stories (Channel 4)
That Mitchell and Webb Look (BBC Two)

Best single documentary
* Chosen (Channel 4)
A Boy Called Alex (Channel 4)
The Fallen (BBC Two)
Thriller in Manila (More 4)

Best feature
* The Choir: Boys Don't Sing (BBC Two)
The Apprentice (BBC One)
Celebrity MasterChef (BBC One)
Top Gear (BBC Two)

Best international show
* Mad Men (BBC Four)
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (More 4)
Dexter (ITV1)
The Wire (FX)

Best specialist factual
* Life in Cold Blood (BBC One)
Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery (BBC Four)
Lost Land of the Jaguar (BBC One)
Stephen Fry and the Gutenberg Press: The Machine That Made Us (BBC Four)

Best current affairs
* Saving Africa's Witch Children - Dispatches (Channel 4)
Mum Loves Drugs, Not Me - Dispatches (Channel 4)
Omagh: What the Police Were Never Told - Panorama (BBC One)
Ross Kemp: A Kenya Special (Sky One)

Best news coverage
* News at Ten - Chinese Earthquake (ITV1)
Channel 4 News (Channel 4)
Sky News - Canoe Man (Sky News)
Sky News - Mumbai (Sky News)

Best sport
* ITV1 F1: Brazilian Grand Prix (ITV1)
Cheltenham Gold Cup - Denman v Kauto Star (Channel 4)
Olympics 2008 (BBC One)
Wimbledon - The Men's Final (BBC One)

Best interactivity
* Embarrassing Bodies Online (Channel 4)
Bryony Makes a Zombie Movie (BBC Three)
Merlin (BBC One)
Olympics 2008 (BBC One)

Audience award
* Skins
The Apprentice
Coronation Street
Outnumbered
Wallander
The X Factor

Bafta Fellowship
French and Saunders

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