Netflix drama Baby Reindeer tops this year’s Bafta TV and TV Craft Awards nominations, with BBC Storyville film Life and Death in Gaza also putting in a strong showing.
Clerkenwell Films’ seven-part drama, which has already picked up Emmys, Golden Globes and Royal Television Society Awards, has scored eight nominations – three for performing, plus nods for limited drama series, writer Richard Gadd, director Weronika Tofilska, editors Peter Oliver and Benjamin Gerstein and, in the sound – fiction category, Matthew Skelding, Tom Jenkins, Milos Stojanovic, James Ridgway and Jack Whitelee.
Three dramas secured each six nominations: ITV Studios/Little Gem’s ITV smash Mr Bates vs the Post Office, Happy Prince’s Disney+ series Rivals and series five of See-Saw Films’ Apple+ spy drama Slow Horses.
BBC World Service/BBC Eye’s Life and Death in Gaza is the most-nominated factual show: best current affairs, director – factual for Natasha Cox, editing – factual for Sarah Keeling, and photography for its camera team.
This year’s emerging talent cohort in factual are Anna Johnston, director of Raw TV’s BBC2 series Parole; Jader Badwan, director of photography on Basement Films’ Channel 4 doc Kill Zone: Inside Gaza; and Lucy Wells, shooting director on Murder on Prescription, an episode of The Garden’s C4 staple 24 Hours in Police Custody.
In fiction, the nominees are Mirch Kalisa, director of Letting Go, an edition of BlackLight Television’s C4 strand On the Edge, and the writers of three new comedies: Kyla Harris and Lee Getty for Roughcut Television/Village Roadshow’s BBC2 series We Might Regret This, Lucia Keskin for fellow Roughcut comedy, BBC3’s Things You Should Have Done, and Phil Dunning, creator of another BBC3 show, Hat Trick’s Smoggie Queens.
The best documentary series race is between Raw’s American Nightmare (Netflix), South Shore’s Freddie Flintoff’s Field of Dreams on Tour (BBC1), Candour Productions’ The Push: Murder on the Cliff (C4) and Story Films’ To Catch a Copper (C4).
Best documentary single meanwhile mirrors the RTS Awards shortlist with Mindhouse Productions’ Sky film Tell Them You Love Me, Marking Inc/Tigerlily Productions C4 doc Undercover: Exposing the Far Right and Expectation’s BBC2 doc Hell Jumper (which won at the RTS this week). Rounding off the category is Hoyo Films’ BBC2 film Ukraine: Enemy in the Woods.
Winners will be announced on 27 April (TV craft) and 11 May (TV).
For a full list of nominees, see here (TV) and here (TV craft).
