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Lottie Gibbons

BAFTA 2022 TV Awards nominations, host, TV schedule

The best of British television will be recognised at the British Academy Television Awards on Sunday.

Richard Ayoade will return as host for the third year running. It will be the first ceremony since 2019 to be held with an audience.

The awards ceremony will air on BBC One on Sunday, May 8 at 6pm and run until 8pm. Cathy Tyson, Jodie Comer and Stephen Graham are all up for awards. TV dramas Time and Help have also been nominated.

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Meanwhile, Emmerdale and Coronation Street will battle each other for the best soap award and Gogglebox looks to retain its 'best reality and constructed factual' gong.

Here's the full list of nominations:

2022 British Academy Television Awards nominations

Best drama series

In My Skin (BBC Three)

Manhunt: The Night Stalker (ITV)

Unforgotten (ITV)

Vigil (BBC One)

Best mini-series

It's a Sin (Channel 4)

Landscapers (Sky Atlantic)

Stephen (ITV)

Time (BBC One)

Best single drama

Death of England: Face to Face (Sky Arts)

Help (Channel 4)

I Am... Victoria (Channel 4)

Together (BBC Two)

Best soap and continuing drama

Casualty (BBC One)

Coronation Street (ITV)

Emmerdale (ITV)

Holby City (BBC One)

Best actor

Samuel Adewunmi as Hero – You Don't Know Me (BBC One)

Olly Alexander as Ritchie Tozer – It's a Sin (Channel 4)

Sean Bean as Mark Cobden – Time (BBC One)

Stephen Graham as Tony – Help (Channel 4)

Hugh Quarshie as Neville Lawrence – Stephen (ITV)

David Thewlis as Christopher Edwards – Landscapers (Sky Atlantic)

Best actress

Niamh Algar as Sadie Byrne/Lizzie James – Deceit (Channel 4)

Jodie Comer as Sarah – Help (Channel 4)

Denise Gough as Connie Mortensen – Too Close (ITV)

Emily Watson as Dr. Emma Robertson – Too Close (ITV)

Lydia West as Jill Baxter – It's a Sin (Channel 4)

Kate Winslet as Marianne "Mare" Sheehan – Mare of Easttown (HBO/Sky Atlantic)

Best supporting actor

Nonso Anozie as Tommy Jepperd – Sweet Tooth (Netflix)

David Carlyle as Gregory "Gloria" Finch – It's a Sin (Channel 4)

Omari Douglas as Roscoe Babatunde – It's a Sin (Channel 4)

Stephen Graham as Eric McNally – Time (BBC One)

Callum Scott Howells as Colin "Gladys Pugh" Morris-Jones – It's a Sin (Channel 4)

Matthew Macfadyen as Tom Wambsgans – Succession (HBO/Sky Atlantic)

Best supporting actress

Céline Buckens as Talitha Campbell – Showtrial (BBC One)

Leah Harvey as Salvor Hardin – Foundation (Apple TV+)

Jessica Plummer as Emma Matthews – The Girl Before (BBC One)

Tahirah Sharif as Lizzie Adama – The Tower (ITV)

Emily Mortimer as The Bolter – The Pursuit of Love (BBC One)

Cathy Tyson as Poly – Help (Channel 4)

Best male comedy performance

Steve Coogan as Alan Partridge – This Time with Alan Partridge (BBC One)

Jamie Demetriou as Stath Charalambos – Stath Lets Flats (Channel 4)

Ncuti Gatwa as Eric Effiong – Sex Education (Netflix)

Joe Gilgun as Vincent "Vinnie" O'Neill – Brassic (Sky Comedy)

Samson Kayo as Maleek – Bloods (Sky One)

Tim Renkow as Tim – Jerk (BBC Three)

Best female comedy performance

Natasia Demetriou as Sophie – Stath Lets Flats (Channel 4)

Aisling Bea as Áine – This Way Up (Channel 4)

Rose Matafeo as Jessie – Starstruck (BBC Three)

Anjana Vasan as Amina – We Are Lady Parts (Channel 4)

Sophie Willan as Alma Nuthall – Alma's Not Normal (BBC Two)

Aimee Lou Wood as Aimee Gibbs – Sex Education (Netflix)

Best scripted comedy

Alma's Not Normal (BBC Two)

Motherland (BBC Two)

Stath Lets Flats (Channel 4)

We Are Lady Parts (Channel 4)

Best comedy entertainment programme

Race around Britain (YouTube)

The Graham Norton Show (BBC One)

The Lateish Show with Mo Gilligan (Channel 4)

The Ranganation (BBC Two)

Best entertainment performance

Alison Hammond – I Can See Your Voice (BBC One)

Sean Lock – 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown (Channel 4)

Joe Lycett – Joe Lycett's Got Your Back (Channel 4)

Michael McIntyre – Michael McIntyre's The Wheel (BBC One)

Graham Norton – The Graham Norton Show (BBC One)

Big Zuu – Big Zuu's Big Eats (Dave)

Lew Grade Award for entertainment programme

An Audience with Adele (ITV)

Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway (ITV)

Life & Rhymes (Sky Arts)

Strictly Come Dancing (BBC One)

Best factual series

9/11: One Day in America (National Geographic)

The Detectives: Fighting Organised Crime (BBC Two)

Undercover Police: Hunting Paedophiles (Channel 4)

Uprising (BBC One)

Huw Wheldon Award for specialist feature

Black Power: A British Story of Resistance (BBC Two)

Silenced: The Hidden Story of Disabled Britain (BBC Two)

The Freddie Mercury: The Final Act (BBC Two)

The Missing Children (ITV)

Robert Flaherty Award for single documentary

9/11: Inside the President's War Room (Apple TV+/BBC One)

Grenfell: The Untold Story (Channel 4)

My Childhood, My Country: 20 Years in Afghanistan (ITV)

Nail Bomber: Manhunt (Netflix)

Best feature

Big Zuu's Big Eats (Dave)

Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing (BBC Two)

Sort Your Life Out (BBC One)

The Great British Sewing Bee (BBC One)

Best reality and constructed factual

Gogglebox (Channel 4)

Married at First Sight UK (E4)

RuPaul's Drag Race UK (BBC Three)

The Dog House (Channel 4)

Best live event

Springwatch 2021 (BBC Two)

The Brit Awards 2021 (ITV)

The Earthshot Prize 2021 (BBC One)

The Royal British Legion Festival of Remembrance (BBC One)

Best news coverage

Channel 4 News: Black to Front (Channel 4)

Good Morning Britain: Shamima Begum (ITV)

ITV News at Ten: Storming of the Capitol (ITV)

Sky News: Afghanistan: Endgame (Sky News)

Best current affairs

Fearless: The Women Fighting Putin – Exposure (ITV)

Four Hours at the Capitol (BBC Two)

The Men Who Sell Football – Al Jazeera Investigations (Al Jazeera English)

Trump Takes on the World (BBC Two)

Best daytime

Moneybags (Channel 4)

Richard Osman's House of Games (BBC Two)

Steph's Packed Lunch (Channel 4)

The Chase (ITV)

Best short-form programme

Hollyoaks Saved My Life (Hollyoaks IRL) (YouTube)

Our Land (Together TV)

People You May Know (Financial Times)

Please Help (BBC Three)

Best international programme

Call My Agent! (Netflix)

Lupin (Netflix)

Mare of Easttown (HBO/Sky Atlantic)

Squid Game (Netflix)

Succession (HBO/Sky Atlantic)

The Underground Railroad (Amazon Prime)

Best sport

ITV Racing: The Grand National (ITV Sport/ITV)

The Abu Dhabi Grand Prix (Sky Sports Formula 1)

Tokyo 2020 Olympics (BBC Sport/BBC One)

UEFA EURO 2020 Semi-Final: England v Denmark (ITV Sport/ITV)

Virgin TV's must-see moment

An Audience with Adele – "Adele's surprised by the teacher who changed her life" (ITV)

I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here – "Ant and Dec dig at Downing Street lockdown parties" (ITV)

It's a Sin – "Colin's devastating AIDS diagnosis" (Channel 4)

RuPaul's Drag Race UK – Bimini's verse in "UK Hun?" (BBC Three)

Squid Game – "Red Light, Green Light game" (Netflix)

Strictly Come Dancing – Rose and Giovanni silent dance to "Symphony" (BBC One)

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