British Academy Television Award for Best Features explained

British Academy Television Award
Presenter:	British Academy of Film and Television Arts
Country:	United Kingdom
Year:	1999
Holder:	Celebrity Race Across the World (2024)
Website:	http://www.bafta.org/

The British Academy Television Award for Best Features is one of the major categories of the British Academy Television Awards (BAFTAs), the primary awards ceremony of the British television industry. According to the BAFTA website, the category "includes factual programmes, not included in any other categories including cookery and cookery competitions, travelogues, gardening, property, fashion and all other lifestyle programming and studio discussions."^[1]

The category was first presented in 1999 under the name of Best Feature - Programme or Series although since 2000 the category has been presented just as Best Features.

Winners and nominees

1990s

Best Feature - Programme or Series

width=5%	Year	width=25%	Title	width=25%	Recipient(s)	width=10%	Broadcaster
	*Back to the Floor*	Bill Grist, Robert Thirkell	BBC Two
	House Doctor	Daisy Goodwin, Basi Akpabio	Channel 5
	Changing Rooms	Linda Clifford, Casper Peacock, Ann Booth Clibborn	BBC Two
	Time Team	Phillip Clarke, Tim Taylor	Channel 4

2000s

Best Features

width=5%	Year	width=25%	Title	width=25%	Recipient(s)	width=10%	Broadcaster
	*Blood on the Carpet*	Robert Thirkell, Nick Mirsky	BBC Two
	Giants with Nigel Marven	Rob MacIver, Nigel Marven, Bill Butt	ITV
	The Naked Chef		BBC Two
	Grand Designs	Daisy Goodwin, John Silver	Channel 4
	*The Naked Chef*	Patricia Llewellyn, Paul Ratcliffe, Jamie Oliver	BBC Two
	Faking It		Channel 4
	House of Horrors	Sarah Caplin, Kate Middleton, Brad Manning	ITV
	What the Romans Did for Us		BBC Two
	*Faking It*		Channel 4
	The Farmer Wants a Wife	Amanda Murray	ITV
	The Sound of Music Children: After They Were Famous	Judith Holder, Bridget Boseley, Southan Morris	ITV
	What Not to Wear	Vicki Barrass, Tracy Jeune, Nick Bray	BBC Two
	*Faking It*	Stephen Lambert	Channel 4
	Lads' Army	Claudia Milne, Peter Casely-Hayford, Tim Carter	ITV
	Jamie's Kitchen	Sandi Scott, Peter Moore	Channel 4
	What Not to Wear	Jane GerberVicki Barrass, Tracy Jeune	BBC Two
	*Wife Swap*		Channel 4
	Grand Designs	John Silver, Daisy Goodwin, Kevin McCloud	Channel 4
	That'll Teach 'Em
	Top Gear		BBC Two
	*Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares*	Patricia Llewellyn, Christine Hall, Gordon Ramsay	Channel 4
	Holiday Showdown	Grant Mansfield, Nick Shearman, Dan Berbridge	ITV
	Little Angels		BBC Three
	Top Gear	Andy Wilman, Jeremy Clarkson, Gary Broadhurst	BBC Two
	*The Apprentice*	Dan Adamson, Tanya Shaw, Peter Moore	BBC Two
	Dragons' Den		BBC Two
	Top Gear		BBC Two
	Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares		Channel 4
	*The Choir*	Jamie Isaacs, Ludo Graham, Drew Hill, Sam Grace	BBC Two
	The F Word		Channel 4
	The Apprentice		BBC Two
	Dragons' Den	Helen Bullough, Dominic Bird, Paul Mackay	BBC Two
	Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares		Channel 4
	Heston Blumenthal: In Search of Perfection		BBC Two
	Top Gear
	The Secret Millionaire		Channel 4
	*The Choir: Boys Don't Sing*		BBC Two
	The Apprentice	Alan Sugar, Michele Kurland, Kelly Webb-Lamb, Andy Devonshire	BBC One
	Celebrity Masterchef	Karen Ross, Mark Leslie, Bec Smith, Theo Goble	BBC One
	Top Gear	Andy Wilman, Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, James May	BBC Two

2010s

width=5%	Year	width=25%	Title	width=25%	Recipient(s)	width=10%	Broadcaster
		Karen Ross, Carla-Maria Lawson, Antonia Lloyd, David Ambler	BBC Two
	Heston's Feasts		Channel 4
	The Choir: Unsung Town		BBC Two
	James May's Toy Stories	Will Daws, Stuart Cabb, James May, Ian Holt	BBC Two
	*Hugh's Fish Fight*	Andrew Palmer, Will Anderson, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Frankie Fathers	Channel 4
	Mary Queen of Shops		BBC Two
	Come Dine with Me		Channel 4
	Pineapple Dance Studios	Jonathan Stadien, Pat Doyle, Hannah Springham	Sky1
	*The Great British Bake Off*	Anna Beattie, Andy Devonshire, Simon Evans, Richard McKerrow	BBC Two
	DIY SOS: The Big Build	Susan Aartse-Tuyn, Hannah Corneck, Simon Knight, Ben Rowland	BBC One
	Hairy Bikers' Meals on Wheels	Tom Clarke, Lisa Edwards, Nicola Moody, Paul Ratcliffe	BBC Two
		Paul Crompton, Matt David, Anton Short, Philip Shotton	BBC Four
	*The Great British Bake Off*	Anna Beattie, Kieran Smith, Amanda Westwood, Scott Tankard	BBC Two
		Paul O'Grady, Jill Worsley, Mark Scantlebury, Kate Jackson	ITV
	Bank of Dave		Channel 4
	Grand Designs		Channel 4
	*Long Lost Family*	Duncan Coates, Kate Scholefield, Sally Benton, Leanne Klein	ITV
	Grand Designs	Kevin McCloud, Fiona Caldwell, Rob Gill, John Lonsdale	Channel 4
	The Great British Bake Off	Anna Beattie, Amanda Westwood, Samantha Beddoes, Simon Evans	BBC Two
		Gareth Malone, Tim Carter, Rachel Morgan, Stuart Froude	BBC Two
	*Grand Designs*		Channel 4
	The Great British Bake Off	Anna Beattie, Samantha Beddoes, Andy Devonshire, Simon Evans	BBC One
	George Clarke's Amazing Spaces	Will Daws, Jamie Wightman, Stuart Cabb	Channel 4
	Long Lost Family	Sally Benton, Clare Bradbury, Colette Flight, Kate Scholefield	ITV
	*The Great British Bake Off*		BBC One
	Back in Time for Dinner	Emily Shields, Leanne Klein, Kim Maddever	BBC Two
	Kevin McCloud: Escape to the Wild		Channel 4
	Travel Man	Adam Humphries, Leo McCrea, Graham Smiles, Chris Richards	Channel 4
	*Who Do You Think You Are?*	Colette Flight, Sarah Feltes, Anna Kirkwood, Helen Nixon	BBC One
	The Doctor Who Gave Up Drugs	Dominique Walker, Emeka Onono, Christopher van Tulleken, Jack Rampling	BBC Two
	The Great British Bake Off	Richard McKerrow, Sarah Thomson-Woolley, Simon Evans, Chloe Avery	BBC One
	Travel Man: 48 Hours In …		Channel 4
	*Cruising with Jane McDonald*		Channel 5
	Antiques Roadshow	Simon Shaw, Julia Foot, Robert Murphy, Sophie Wogden	BBC One
	No More Boys And Girls: Can Our Kids Go Gender Free?	Javid Abdelmoneim, Helen Veale, Jeremy Daldry, Samuel Palmer	BBC Two
	The Secret Life of the Zoo		Channel 4
2019 ^[2]	*Who Do You Think You Are?*	Colette Flight, Sarah Feltes, Anna Kirkwood, David Vincent	BBC One
			ITV
	The Great British Bake Off		Channel 4
			BBC Two

2020s

width=5%	Year	width=25%	Title	width=25%	Recipient(s)	width=10%	Broadcaster
2020 ^[3]	*The Misadventures of Romesh Ranganathan*	Emily Hudd, Morgan Roberts, Christopher Cottam, Romesh Ranganathan	BBC Two
	Joe Lycett's Got Your Back		Channel 4
	Snackmasters		Channel 4
		Bob Mortimer, Paul Whitehouse, Lisa Clark, Will Yapp	BBC Two
2021 ^[4]	*Long Lost Family: Born without Trace*	Sally Benton, Rosie Schellenberg, Alice Goodyear, Paddy Lynas	ITV
	Big Zuu's Big Eats		Dave
		Bob Mortimer, Paul Whitehouse, Lisa Clark, Rob Gill, Stephanie Fyfe, Doug Bryson	BBC Two
	The Repair Shop		BBC One
2022 ^[5]	*Big Zuu's Big Eats*	Sam Grace, Alex Gilman, Chris Faith, Lucy Blatch, Big Zuu, Rohan Minhas	Dave
		Paul Whitehouse, Bob Mortimer, Lisa Clark, Stephanie Fyfe, Rob Gill	BBC Two
	Sort Your Life Out	Charlotte Brookes, Kurt Seywald, James Callum, Lucy Blatch, Michael Hyland, Demi Doyle	BBC One
	The Great British Sewing Bee		BBC One
2023 ^[6] ^[7]	*Joe Lycett vs Beckham: Got Your Back at Xmas*		Channel 4
	Big Zuu's Big Eats	Alex Gilman, Sam Grace, Chris Faith, Zuhair Hassan, Errol Ettienne, Rohan Minhas	Dave
	The Martin Lewis Money Show	Martin Lewis, Mike Blair, Clare Miller, Jaime Corby, Richard Jack, Ravinder Dehele	ITV
	The Misadventures of Romesh Ranganathan		BBC Two

Best Factual Entertainment

width=5%	Year	width=25%	Title	width=25%	Recipient(s)	width=10%	Broadcaster
2024 ^[8]	*Celebrity Race Across the World*		BBC One
	The Dog House		Channel 4
	Endurance: Race to the Pole	Alexis Girardet, Mike Warner, Adam Bullmore, Martin Long	Channel 5
	Portrait Artist of the Year		Sky Arts

Note: The series that don't have recipients on the tables had Production team credited as recipients for the award or nomination.

External links

List of winners at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts

Notes and References

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