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Happy Valley leads BAFTA Television Awards

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts has announced the nominations for the House of Fraser British Academy Television Awards.

This yearā€™s ceremony will be held at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London on Sunday 10th May 2015, two weeks after the British Academy Television Craft Awards on 26th April 2015. This year’s nominations are lead by Happy Valley, Marvellous, The Missing and Line of Duty which all pick up three.

Elsewhere Olivia Colman is nominated for a fourth consecutive year and Benedict Cumberbatch picks up his third BAFTA nomination for Sherlock.

The full list of nominations is:

Leading actor

Benedict Cumberbatch – Sherlock
Toby Jones – Marvellous
James Nesbitt ā€“ The Missing
Jason Watkins ā€“ The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies

Leading Actress

Georgina Campbell – Murdered by my Boyfriend
Keeley Hawes – Line of Duty
Sarah Lancashire – Happy Valley
Sheridan Smith – Cilla

Supporting Actor

Adeel Akhtar – Utopia
James Norton – Happy Valley
Stephen Rea – The Honourable Woman
Ken Stott – The Missing

Supporting Actress

Gemma Jones – Marvellous
Vicky McClure – Line of Duty
Amanda Redman – Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This
Charlotte Spencer – Glue

Entertainment Performance

Ant and Dec – Ant and Decā€™s Saturday Night Takeaway
Lee Francis – Celebrity Juice
Graham Norton ā€“ The Graham Norton Show
Claudia Winkleman ā€“ Strictly Come Dancing

Entertainment Programme

Ant and Decā€™s Saturday Night Takeaway
Dynamo: Magician Impossible
Strictly Come Dancing
The Voice

Reality and Constructed Factual

The Apprentice
Iā€™m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here
The Island with Bear Grylls
The Undateables

Specialist Factual

Conquest of the Skies 3D
Grayson Perry: Who Are You?
The Great War: The Peopleā€™s Story
Our Gay Wedding: The Musical

Factual series

15,000 Kids and Counting
Educating the East End
Life on Death Row
Protecting Our Parents

Female Performance in a Comedy Programme

Olivia Coleman – Rev
Tamsin Greig – Episodes
Jessica Hynes – W1A
Catherine Tate – Catherine Tate’s Nan

Male Performance in a Comedy Programme

Matt Berry – Toast of London
Hugh Bonneville – W1A
Brendan Oā€™Carroll – Mrs Brown’s Boys
Tom Hollander – Rev

Mini Series

Cilla
The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies
Our world
Prey

Best Drama

Happy Valley
Line of Duty
The Missing
Peaky Blinders

Single Drama

A Poet In New York
Common
Marvellous
Murdered By My Boyfriend

International Drama

The Goodwife
House of Cards
Orange is the New Black
True Detective

Comedy And Comedy Entertainment Programme

Charlie Brooker’s Weekly Wipe
The Graham Norton Show
Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle
Would I Lie to You?

Situation Comedy

Detectorists
Harry & Paul’s Story of the Twos
Moone Boy
The Wrong Mans

Radio Times Audience Award (Voted For By Members Of The Public)

Cilla
EastEnders
Game of Thrones
The Great British Bake Off
The Missing
Sherlock
Strictly Come Dancing

Soap & Continuing Drama

Casualty
Coronation Street
EastEnders
Hollyoaks

Single Documentary

Baby P: The Untold Story
Children of Syria
The Miners Strike and Me
The Paedophile Hunter

Features

George Clark’s Amazing Places
Grand Designs
The Great British Bake Off
Long Lost Family

Current Affairs

Children of the Frontline – Dispatchers
Ebola Frontline – Panorama
Inside Kenya’s Death Squads – al Jazeera Investigates
Terror at the Mall – This World

News Coverage

BBC News at Ten
Channel 4 News – Inside Gaza: Children Under Fire
ITV News at Ten
Sky News Live at Five: Ebola

Sport & Live Event

2014 FA Cup Semi final Hull City v Sheffield United
Monty Python (Mostly) Live: One Down, Five To Go
Tour de France
WW1 Remembered – From the Battlefield & Westminster Abbey

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