BAFTA TV Awards 2023 nominations
- Scripted Comedy: Am I Being Unreasonable?, Big Boys, Derry Girls and Ghosts
- Comedy Entertainment Programme: Friday Night Live, The Graham Norton Show, Taskmaster, Would I Lie To You?
- Rob Beckett and Romesh Ranganathan will host the results ceremony on Sunday 14th May
The shortlists for the BAFTA Television Awards 2023 have been announced. The comedy-related nominations are...
Scripted Comedy
Female Performance In A Comedy Programme
Daisy May Cooper (Am I Being Unreasonable?)
Lucy Beaumont (Meet The Richardsons)
Natasia Demetriou (Ellie & Natasia)
Siobhan McSweeney (Derry Girls)
Male Performance In A Comedy Programme
Daniel Radcliffe (Weird: The Al Yankovic Story)
Lenny Rush (Am I Being Unreasonable?)
Matt Berry (What We Do In The Shadows)
Stephen Merchant (The Outlaws)
Comedy Entertainment Programme
Entertainment Performance
Claudia Winkleman (The Traitors)
Lee Mack (The 1% Club)
Mo Gilligan (The Lateish Show With Mo Gilligan)
Sue Perkins (Perfectly Legal)
Writer: Comedy
Sharon Horgan, Barunka O'Shaughnessy, Helen Serafinowicz, Holly Walsh (Motherland)
Jack Rooke is also featured in the 'Emerging Talent: Fiction' shortlist.
Additionally, comedy drama Bad Sisters is nominated alongside The Responder, Sherwood and Somewhere Boy in the Drama Series category. Bad Sisters actor Anne-Marie Duff is in the Supporting Actress list.
This Is Going To Hurt star Ben Whishaw is nominated in the Leading Actor category, whilst the programme itself is shortlisted in the Mini-Series category. The comedy drama's writer Adam Kay is also up for the 'Writer: Drama' award.
Meanwhile the Features category has Big Zuu's Big Eats, the Beckham special of Joe Lycett's Got Your Back and The Misadventures Of Romesh Ranganathan in it. Meanwhile the Taskmaster production team (Andy Devonshire, James Dillon, Dru Masters and Rebecca Bowker) have been shortlisted for the Entertainment Craft Team prize.
Online comedy Biscuitland appears in the Short Form Programme category.
Don't Hug Me I'm Scared creators Becky Sloan and Joe Pelling are nominated in both the Costume Design and Production Design sections of the Bafta Craft Awards.
In the directing categories, there are nods for Dearbhla Walsh (Bad Sisters) and Lucy Forbes (This Is Going To Hurt).
Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing's Doug Bryson and This Is Going To Hurt's Selina MacArthur are recognised in the editing categories.
The Scripted Casting category features Julie Harkin (Am I Being Unreasonable?), Nina Gold (Bad Sisters, This Is Going To Hurt), Lucy Amos (Bad Sisters) and Martin Ware (This Is Going To Hurt).
The full list of nominations across all genres can be seen on bafta.org
The BAFTA Television Awards, hosted by Rob Beckett and Romesh Ranganathan, will take place on Sunday 14th May. Meanwhile The BAFTA Television Craft Awards take place on Sunday 23rd April.
BAFTA CEO says Jane Millichip, CEO of BAFTA, said: "Huge congratulations to all our nominees. Today a record number of entries in Television and Craft resulted in 128 nominations, demonstrating fantastic strength and depth in programming and talent in 2022. We are really pleased to announce Romesh Ranganathan and Rob Beckett as hosts of the TV Awards. We are also delighted to launch a brilliant new TV Awards partnership with P&O Cruises, who will not only be our partners on this extraordinary celebration of creative excellence, they will also be providing valuable support for our remit as a leading arts charity."