BAFTA TV Awards

If the BAFTAs have any crossover effect on the Emmys (not even debatable), perhaps the only perceptible ripple across the pond already happened a year ago with a 2009 Emmy nomination for last night’s BAFTA Best Lead Actor winner. Kenneth Branaugh won for Wallander, the sophisticated 6-part series based on the Swedish police procedurals by Henning Mankell.

Other awards of note this weekend were a 3-sweep for The Thick of It: Best Situation Comedy, Best Actress Rebecca Front, and Best Actor Peter Capaldi who ported the same character over to In the Loop. Other than that there’s almost not overlap between Brit and Yank TV tastes — except for Mad Men winning the award for Best International series.

Complete BAFTA TV nominees and winners, and another page for TV Craft nominees and winners.

Leading Actor: Kenneth Branagh in “Wallander”
Leading Actress: Julie Walters in “Mo”
Supporting Actor: Matthew MacFadyen in “Criminal Justice”
Supporting Actress: Rebecca Hall in “Red Riding”

Entertainment Performance: Anthony McPartlin (Ant) and Declan Donnelly (Dec) in “I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here”
Female Performance in a Comedy Role: Rebecca Front in “The Thick of It”
Male Performance in a Comedy Role: Peter Capaldi in “The Thick of It”
Single Drama: “The Unloved”
Drama Series: “Misfits”
Drama Serial: “Occupation”
Continuing Drama: “EastEnders”
International Award: “Mad Men”
Factual Series: “One Born Every Minute”
Specialist Factual (in honour of Huw Wheldon): “Inside Nature’s Giants”
Single Documentary (in honour of Robert Flaherty): “Wounded”
Features: “Masterchef: the Professionals”
Current Affairs: “Terror in Mumbai (Dispatches)”
News Coverage: “ITV News at Ten – Haiti”
Sport: “World Athletics Championships”
New Media: “Virtual Revolution”
Entertainment Programin (in honour of Lew Grade): “Britain’s Got Talent”
Comedy Program: “The Armstrong and Miller Show”
Situation Comedy: “The Thick of It”
You Tube Audience Award: “The Inbetweeners”
Fellowship Award: Melvyn Bragg
Special Award: Simon Cowell

Thanks again to Guy Lodge at In Contention for nudging us awake and aware that these awards even took place.