MAIN Art &... Pop Culture Television 2008 BAFTA TV Awards

Nominees for the coveted UK Bafta TV Awards were announced on Tuesday, March 18 this year.

Major coverage of the awards ceremony followed April 20th live from the London Palladium on BBC1, hosted by Graham Norton...with all the hoopla usually accompanied by the American Emmy Awards.

Check out the complete list of 2008 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.

2008 BAFTA TV Nominees & * Winners

Actor
* Andrew Garfield - Boy A (Channel 4)
Tom Hardy - Stuart: A Life Backwards (BBC Two)
Matthew Macfadyen - Secret Life (Channel 4)
Antony Sher - Primo (BBC Four)

Actress
* Eileen Atkins - Cranford (BBC One)
Judi Dench - Cranford (BBC One)
Gina Mckee - The Street (BBC One)
Kierston Wareing - It's A Free World (Channel 4)

Entertainment Performance
* Harry Hill - Harry Hill's TV Burp (ITV1)
Simon Amstell - Never Mind The Buzzcocks (BBC Two)
Alan Carr & Justin Lee Collins - The Friday Night Project (Channel 4)
Stephen Fry - QI (BBC Two)

Comedy Performance
* James Corden - Gavin And Stacey (BBC Three)
Peter Capaldi - The Thick Of It (BBC Four)
Stephen Merchant - Extras Christmas Special (BBC One)
David Mitchell - Peep Show (Channel 4)

Audience Award For The Programme Of The Year
* Gavin & Stacey
The Apprentice
Andrew Marr's History Of Modern Britain
Britain's Got Talent
Cranford
Strictly Come Dancing

Single Drama
* The Mark Of Cain - Tony Marchant, Nicola Shindler, Lynn Horsford, Marc Munden (Channel 4/Red Production Company)
Boy A - John Crowley, Lynn Horsford, Mark O'Rowe (Channel 4/Cuba Pictures)
Coming Down The Mountain - Greg Brenman, Roanna Benn, Mark Haddon, Julie Anne Robinson (BBC One/Tiger Aspect Productions Ltd)
The Trial Of Tony Blair - Alistair Beaton, Simon Cellan-Jones, Hal Vogel, David Aukin (More 4/Daybreak Pictures)

Drama Series
* The Street - Production Team (BBC One/Granada Productions)
Life On Mars - Production Team (BBC One/Kudos Film And Television Ltd)
Rome - John Melfi, Anne Thomopoulos, Bruno Heller, Tim Van Patten (BBC Two/HBO)
Skins - Production Team (E4/Company Pictures)

Drama Serial
* Britz - Peter Kosminsky, David Aukin, Hal Vogel, Steve Clark-Hall (Channel 4/Daybreak Pictures)
Cranford - Sue Birtwistle, Simon Curtis, Heidi Thomas (BBC One/BBC Drama Productions/WGBH Boston In Association With Chestermead Ltd)
Five Days - Paul Rutman, Otto Bathurst, Simon Curtis, Gwyneth Hughes (BBC One/BBC Drama Productions/HBO)
Murphy's Law - Greg Brenman, Stephen Smallwood, Russell Lewis, Colm Mccarthy (BBC One/Tiger Aspect Productions)

Continuing Drama
* Holby City - Production Team (BBC One/BBC Drama Productions)
The Bill - Johnathan Young, Tim Key, Maxwell Young, Robert Del Maestro (ITV1/TalkbackThames)
Eastenders - Production Team (BBC One/BBC Drama Productions)
Emmerdale - Keith Richardson, Kathleen Beedles, John Anderson, Tim Dynevor (ITV1/ITV Productions)

International
* Heroes - Tim Kring, Joe Pokaski, Paul Edwards, Dennis Hammer (BBC Two/Sci Fi Channel/NBC Universal Television)
Californication - Tom Kapinos, David Duchovny, Scott Winant (Five/CBS Paramount International)
Family Guy - Seth Macfarlane, David A. Goodman, Chris Sheridan, Danny Smith (BBC Three/20th Century Fox)
My Name Is Earl - Greg Garcia, Bobby Bowman, Henry Lange, Jr., Marc Buckland (Channel 4/Twentieth Century Fox)

Factual Series
* The Tower: A Tale Of Two Cities - Simon Ford, Rachel Innes-Lumsden, Anthony Wonke, Ines Cavill (BBC One/BBC)
Meet The Natives - Gavin Searle, Will Anderson, Andrew Palmer, Chris King (Channel 4/Keo Films)
Paul Merton In China - Paul Sommers, Mark Chapman, Barbie Maclaurin, Paul Merton (Five/Tiger Aspect Productions)
Tribe - Bruce Parry, Steve Robinson, Sam Organ (BBC Two/BBC Wales/Discovery Channel)

Specialist Factual
* Andrew Marr's History Of Modern Britain - Andrew Marr, Chris Granlund, Tom Giles, Clive Edwards (BBC Two/BBC)
Earth: The Power Of The Planet - Dr Iain Stewart, Jonathan Renouf, Phil Dolling (BBC Two/BBC For BBC/National Geographic Channel - US/ZDF)
The Genius Of Photography - Tim Kirby (BBC Four/Wall To Wall Television)
The Relief Of Belsen - Justin Hardy, Susan Horth, Peter Guinness (Channel 4/Hardy & Sons) Single Documentary(2)
Beautiful Young Minds - Production Team (BBC Two/Blast! Films)
Lie Of The Land - Molly Dineen, Justin Krish, Catherine Bailey, Natasha Wilkinson (C4/Rto Pictures)
Malcolm And Barbara: Love's Farewell - Paul Watson, Kim Horton (ITV1/ITV Productions)
Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives - Louise Lockwood, Andrew Thompson (BBC Four/BBC Scotland)

Features
* Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Production Team (Channel 4/Optomen Television)
The Secret Millionaire - Production Team (Channel 4/Rdf Television, Part Of The Rdf Media Group)
Top Gear - Production Team (BBC Two/BBC)
Heston Blumenthal: In Search Of Perfection - Gary Hunter, Melanie Jappy, David Robertson, Jay Taylor (BBC Two/BBC)

Current Affairs
* China's Stolen Children - A Dispatches Special - Jezza Neumann, Sky Zeh, Brian Woods, Kate Blewett (Channel 4/True Vision)
Dispatches - Fighting The Taliban - Sean Langan, Julia Barron, Denman Rooke (Channel 4/October Films)
Honour Kills - Ben Rumney, Juliette Murray-Topham, Emma Willis, Adam Kemp (BBC Three/BBC)
Panorama: Dog-Fighting Undercover - Mandy Mcauley, Sandy Smith, Andrew Bell, Jeremy Adams (BBC One/BBC)

News Coverage
* Sky News - Glasgow Airport Attack - Production Team (Sky News/Sky News)
BBC Ten O'clock News: War In Afghanistan - Craig Oliver, Huw Edwards, Alastair Lelthead, Thea Fairley (BBC One/BBC News)
Channel 4 News: Iraq-The Surge - Jim Gray, Jon Snow, Krishnan Guru-Murthy, Ed Fraser (Channel 4/Itn)
ITV Evening News: Zimbabwe - The Tyranny And The Tragedy - Production Team (ITV1/ITV News)

Sport
* ITV F1: Canadian Grand Prix Live - Neil Duncanson, Gerard Lane, Kevin Chapman, Steve Aldous (ITV1/North One Television)
Boat Race - John Watts, Tony Pastor, Paul Mcnamara (ITV1/ITV Sport Productions)
Rugby World Cup 2007: England V France Semi-Final - David Moss, Simon Moore, Paul Mcnamara (ITV1/ITV Sport Productions)
Wimbledon - The Men's Final - Paul Davies, Carl Hicks, Jonathan Bramley, Bethan Evans (BBC One/BBC Sport)

Interactivity
* Spooks Interactive - Production Team (BBC.Co.Uk/Spooks/Kudos Film And Television/Hoodlum Active)
Big Art Mob - Production Team (Www.Bigartmob.Com/Moblog Uk & Carbon-Princess/Channel 4)
Doctor Who Comic Maker - Jo Pearce, Anwen Aspden (BBC One/BBC Wales)
The X Factor - Robert Marsh, Oliver Davies, Sophie Davis, Richard Holloway (ITV1/Talbackthames)

Entertainment Programme
* Harry Hill's TV Burp - Spencer Millman, Peter Orton, Harry Hill (ITV1/Avalon Television Ltd)
Britain's Got Talent - Richard Holloway, Andrew Llinares, Ben Thursby, Georgie Hurford-Jones (ITV1/TalkbackThames In Association With Syco TV)
Have I Got News For You - Jo Bunting, Nick Martin, Richard Wilson (BBC One/Hat Trick Productions Ltd)
Strictly Come Dancing - Martin Scott, Sam Donnelly, Clodagh O'donoghue (BBC One/BBC)

Comedy Programme
* Fonejacker - Ed Tracy, Kayvan Novak, Helen Williams, Mario Stylianides (Channel 4/Hat Trick Productions Ltd)
Russell Brand's Ponderland - Production Team (Channel 4/Vanity Productions)
The Armstrong & Miller Show - Alexander Armstrong, Ben Miller, Jeremy Dyson, Mario Stylianides (BBC One/Hat Trick Productions Ltd)
Star Stories - Lee Hupfield, Elliot Hegarty, Kevin Bishop, Phil Clarke (Channel 4/Objective Productions)

Situation Comedy
* Peep Show - Sam Bain, Jesse Armstrong, Robert Popper, Becky Martin (Channel 4/Objective Productions)
The Thick Of It - Production Team (BBC Four/BBC Comedy)
Benidorm - Derren Litten, Kevin Allen, Geoffrey Perkins (ITV1/Tiger Aspect Productions Ltd)
The It Crowd - Ash Atalla, Graham Linehan, Jamie Glazebrook, Barbara Wiltshire (Channel 4/TalkbackThames)

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