2015 British Academy Television Awards Explained

Award:	British Academy Television Awards
Number:	61
Date:	10 May 2015
Site:	Theatre Royal, Drury Lane
Host:	Graham Norton
Best Comedy Series:	The Graham Norton Show
Best Drama Series:	Happy Valley
Best Actor:	Jason Watkins
Best Actor Show:	The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies
Best Actress:	Georgina Campbell
Best Actress Show:	Murdered by My Boyfriend
Best Comedy Perform1:	Jessica Hynes
Best Comedy Perform1 Show:	W1A
Best Comedy Perform2:	Matt Berry
Best Comedy Perform2 Show:	Toast of London
Most Awards:	Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway/Marvellous/The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies (2)
Most Nominations:	The Missing (4)
Channel:	BBC One
Duration:	2 hours
Last:	2014
Next:	2016

The 61st British Academy Television Awards nominations were announced on 8 April 2015.^[1]

Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and emboldened.^[2]

Best Actor	Best Actress
Jason Watkins – The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies as Christopher Jefferies (ITV) Benedict Cumberbatch – Sherlock as Sherlock Holmes (BBC One) Toby Jones – Marvellous as Neil Baldwin (BBC Two) James Nesbitt – The Missing as Tony Hughes (BBC One)	Georgina Campbell – Murdered by My Boyfriend as Ashley Jones (BBC Three) Keeley Hawes – Line of Duty as DI Lindsay Denton (BBC Two) Sarah Lancashire – Happy Valley as Catherine Cawood (BBC One) Sheridan Smith – Cilla as Cilla Black (ITV)
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
Stephen Rea – The Honourable Woman as Sir Hugh Hayden-Hoyle (BBC Two) Adeel Akhtar – Utopia as Wilson Wilson (Channel 4) James Norton – Happy Valley as Tommy Lee Royce (BBC One) Ken Stott – The Missing as Ian Garrett (BBC One)	Gemma Jones – Marvellous as Mary Baldwin (BBC Two) Vicky McClure – Line of Duty as DS Kate Fleming (BBC Two) Amanda Redman – as Gwen Cooper (ITV) Charlotte Spencer – Glue as Tina Fallon (E4)
Best Male Comedy Performance	Best Female Comedy Performance
Matt Berry – Toast of London as Steven Toast (Channel 4) Hugh Bonneville – W1A as Ian Fletcher (BBC Two) Tom Hollander – Rev. as Alex Smallbone (BBC Two) Brendan O'Carroll – Mrs. Brown's Boys : The Christmas Special as Agnes Brown (BBC One)	Jessica Hynes – W1A as Siobhan Sharpe (BBC Two) Olivia Colman – Rev. as Alex Smallbone (BBC Two) Tamsin Greig – Episodes as Beverly Lincoln (BBC Two) Catherine Tate – Catherine Tate's Nan as Joanie "Nan" Taylor (BBC One)
Best Entertainment Performance	Best Single Drama
Ant & Dec – Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway (ITV) Leigh Francis – Celebrity Juice (ITV2) Graham Norton – The Graham Norton Show (BBC One) Claudia Winkleman – Strictly Come Dancing (BBC One)	Marvellous (BBC Two) A Poet in New York (BBC Two) Common (BBC One) Murdered by My Boyfriend (BBC Three)
Best Mini-Series	Best Drama Series
The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies (ITV) Cilla (ITV) Our World War (BBC Three) Prey (ITV)	Happy Valley (BBC One) Line of Duty (BBC Two) The Missing (BBC One) Peaky Blinders (BBC Two)
Best Soap and Continuing Drama	Best International Programme
Coronation Street (ITV) Casualty (BBC One) EastEnders (BBC One) Hollyoaks (Channel 4)	True Detective (HBO/Sky Atlantic) The Good Wife (CBS/More4) House of Cards (Netflix) Orange is the New Black (Netflix)
Best Factual Series or Strand	Best Specialist Factual
Life and Death Row (BBC Three) 15,000 Kids and Counting (Channel 4) Educating the East End (Channel 4) Protecting Our Parents (BBC Two)	Grayson Perry: Who Are You? (Channel 4) David Attenborough's Conquest of the Skies 3D (SKY 3D) The Great War: The People's Story (ITV) Our Gay Wedding: The Musical (Channel 4)
Best Single Documentary	Best Features
The Paedophile Hunter (Channel 4) Baby P: The Untold Story (BBC One) Children of Syria (BBC Two) The Miners Strike and Me (ITV)	Grand Designs (Channel 4) George Clarke's Amazing Spaces (Channel 4) The Great British Bake Off (BBC One) Long Lost Family (ITV)
Best Reality and Constructed Factual	Best Current Affairs
The Island with Bear Grylls (Channel 4) The Apprentice (BBC One) I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! (ITV) The Undateables (Channel 4)	Children on the Frontline (Dispatches) (Channel 4) Ebola Frontline (Panorama) (BBC One) Inside Kenya's Death Squads (Al Jazeera Investigates) (Al Jazeera English) Terror at the Mall (This World) (BBC Two)
Best News Coverage	Best Sport and Live Events
Sky News Live at Five: Ebola (Sky News) BBC News at Ten (BBC News/BBC One) Channel 4 News - Inside Gaza: Children Under Fire (Channel 4) ITV News at Ten - Iraq Crisis (ITV)	WW1 Remembered - From the Battlefield & Westminster Abbey (BBC Two) 2014 FA Cup Semi-Final: Hull City vs. Sheffield United (BT Sport 1) Monty Python Live (Mostly) (Gold) 2014 Tour de France: Stage 1 (ITV)
Best Entertainment Programme	Best Scripted Comedy
Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway (ITV) (Watch) Strictly Come Dancing (BBC One) The Voice (BBC One)	Detectorists (BBC Four) Harry & Paul's Story Of The Twos (BBC Two) Moone Boy (Sky One) The Wrong Mans (BBC Two)
Best Comedy and Comedy Entertainment Programme	Radio Times Audience Award
The Graham Norton Show (BBC One) Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe (BBC Two) Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle (BBC Two) Would I Lie to You? (BBC One)	Sherlock (BBC One) Cilla (ITV) EastEnders (BBC One) Game of Thrones (HBO/Sky Atlantic) The Great British Bake Off (BBC One) The Missing (BBC One) Strictly Come Dancing (BBC One)
BAFTA Fellowship Award	BAFTA Special Award
Jon Snow	Clive James Jeff Pope

Programmes with multiple nominations

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Programme
4	The Missing
3	Cilla
	Happy Valley
	Line of Duty
	Marvellous
	Strictly Come Dancing
2	Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway
	EastEnders
	Murdered by My Boyfriend
	Rev
	Sherlock
	The Graham Norton Show
	The Great British Bake Off
	The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies
	W1A

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Network
28	BBC One
22	BBC Two
14	Channel 4
8	ITV
4	BBC Three
2	HBO
	Netflix
	Sky Atlantic

Most major wins

Shows that received multiple awards

Wins	Show
scope=row rowspan=5 style="text-align:center"	2	Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway
Marvellous
The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies

Wins by Network

Wins	Network
scope=row style="text-align:center"	6	Channel 4
scope=row rowspan=2 style="text-align:center"	5	BBC Two
ITV
scope=row style="text-align:center"	3	BBC One
scope=row style="text-align:center"	2	BBC Three

In Memoriam

• Donald Sinden
• Brian Clemens
• Lance Percival
• Geraldine McEwan
• Francis Matthews
• Joan Rivers
• Zohra Sehgal
• Julian Wilson
• Lynda Bellingham
• David Lomax
• Keith Harris
• Mike Smith
• Jeremy Lloyd
• Sam Kelly
• Rebekah Gibbs
• Terry Pratchett
• Leonard Nimoy
• John Bardon
• Alan Howard
• James Garner
• Richie Benaud
• Warren Clarke
• Ross Burden
• Anne Kirkbride
• Shaw Taylor
• Rik Mayall

See also

• British Academy Television Awards
• BAFTA Scotland
• BAFTA Cymru

External links

• Official site at BAFTA.org

Notes and References

1. Web site: Alex Ritman. BAFTA TV Awards: Benedict Cumberbatch Gets Third Nomination for 'Sherlock'. The Hollywood Reporter. 8 April 2015. 8 April 2015.
2. Web site: Bafta TV awards 2015: Winners in full. BBC News. 30 July 2016.