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| Bafta TV Awards 2008: The winners The 2008 British Academy Television Awards have taken place in London. Here is the full list of winners and nominees. Best actor Andrew Garfield - Boy A (Channel 4) Also nominated: Tom Hardy - Stuart: A Life Backwards (BBC Two) Matthew Macfadyen - Secret Life (Channel 4) Antony Sher - Primo (BBC Four) Best actress Eileen Atkins - Cranford (BBC One) Also nominated: Judi Dench - Cranford (BBC One) Gina McKee - The Street (BBC One) Kierston Wareing - It's A Free World (Channel 4) Best entertainment performance Harry Hill - Harry Hill's TV Burp (ITV1) Also nominated: Simon Amstell - Never Mind The Buzzcocks (BBC Two) Alan Carr and Justin Lee Collins - The Friday Night Project (Channel 4) Stephen Fry - QI (BBC Two) Best comedy performance James Corden - Gavin and Stacey (BBC Three) Also nominated: Peter Capaldi - The Thick of It (BBC Four) Stephen Merchant - Extras Christmas special (BBC One) David Mitchell - Peep Show (Channel 4) Best single drama The Mark Of Cain (Channel 4) Also nominated: Boy A (Channel 4) Coming Down The Mountain (BBC One) The Trial of Tony Blair (More 4) Best drama serial Britz (Channel 4) Also nominated: Cranford (BBC One) Five Days (BBC One) Murphy's Law (BBC One) Best drama series The Street (BBC One) Also nominated: Life on Mars (BBC One) Rome (BBC Two) Skins (E4) Best continuing drama Holby City (BBC One) Also nominated: The Bill (ITV1) EastEnders (BBC One) Emmerdale (ITV1) Best factual series The Tower: A Tale of Two Cities (BBC One) Also nominated: Meet The Natives (Channel 4) Paul Merton in China (Five) Tribe (BBC Two) Best entertainment programme Harry Hill's TV Burp (ITV1) Also nominated: Britain's Got Talent (ITV1) Have I Got News For You (BBC One) Strictly Come Dancing (BBC One) Best situation comedy Peep Show (Channel 4) Also nominated: Benidorm (ITV1) The IT Crowd (Channel 4) The Thick of It (BBC Four) Best comedy programme Fonejacker (Channel 4) Also nominated: The Armstrong & Miller Show (BBC One) Russell Brand's Ponderland (Channel 4) Star Stories (Channel 4) Audience award Gavin & Stacey (BBC Three) Also nominated: The Apprentice (BBC Two) Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain (BBC Two) Britain's Got Talent (ITV1) Cranford (BBC One) Strictly Come Dancing (BBC One) Best single documentary Lie of the Land (Channel 4) Also nominated: Beautiful Young Minds (BBC Two) Malcolm and Barbara: Love's Farewell (ITV1) Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives (BBC Four) Best feature Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares (Channel 4) Also nominated: Heston Blumenthal: In Search of Perfection (BBC Two) The Secret Millionaire (Channel 4) Top Gear (BBC Two) Best international show Heroes (BBC Two) Also nominated: Californication (Five) Family Guy (BBC Three) My Name Is Earl (Channel 4) Best specialist factual Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain (BBC Two) Also nominated: Earth: The Power of the Planet (BBC Two) The Genius of Photography (BBC Four) The Relief of Belsen (Channel 4) Best current affairs China's Stolen Children - A Dispatches Special (Channel 4) Also nominated: Dispatches - Fighting The Taliban (Channel 4) Honour Kills (BBC Three) Panorama: Dog-Fighting Undercover (BBC One) Best news coverage Sky News - Glasgow Airport Attack (Sky News) Also nominated: BBC Ten O'Clock News: War in Afghanistan (BBC One) Channel 4 News: Iraq - The Surge (Channel 4) ITV Evening News: Zimbabwe - The Tyranny and the Tragedy (ITV1) Best sport ITV F1: Canadian Grand Prix Live (ITV1) Also nominated: Boat Race (ITV1) Rugby World Cup 2007: England v France semi-final (ITV1) Wimbledon - The Men's Final (BBC One) Best interactivity Spooks Interactive (BBC One) Also nominated: Big Art Mob (Channel 4) Doctor Who Comic Maker (BBC One) The X Factor (ITV1) |
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| Gavin and Stacey scoops TV Baftas James Corden wins best comedy performance for his role in Gavin and Stacey Comedy hits Gavin and Stacey and Harry Hill's TV Burp have taken the glory at the Bafta Television Awards in London. BBC Three's Gavin and Stacey beat the likes of Strictly Come Dancing and Britain's Got Talent to the audience award, voted for by the public. Its co-writer and actor James Corden also won best comedy performance. ITV's Harry Hill won best entertainment performance and programme, while Dame Eileen Atkins beat Cranford co-star Dame Judi Dench to win best actress. Cranford had led the nominations with four, but Dame Eileen won the costume drama's only prize of the night. Dame Eileen, who played Miss Deborah Jenkyns in the adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell's work, was last nominated for a Bafta TV Award in 1969 and had never previously won. MAIN BAFTA WINNERS Best actor - Andrew Garfield (Boy A) Best actress - Eileen Atkins (Cranford) Best entertainment performance - Harry Hill, above (Harry Hill's TV Burp) Best comedy performance - James Corden (Gavin and Stacey) Audience award - Gavin and Stacey "I don't do humility very well but I really do have to share this with the ladies of Cranford," she said. "They were a fantastic bunch of actresses and all of them were such terrific women as well. I haven't laughed so much for years as in those weeks." Gavin and Stacey, about the ups and downs of a young couple and their clans, won its awards on the same night that the last episode of the second series went out on BBC Three. Picking up his prize, Corden thanked his co-writer and co-star Ruth Jones, who plays Nessa in the show. "She is not just the greatest writer and actress, she is the best friend anyone could hope for and is as much Smithy as I am, and I share this with her," he said. On accepting the audience award, Jones said she was "absolutely gobsmacked". "We didn't think at all that we were going to win this," she said. "Gavin and Stacey really seems to have been taken into people's hearts and we're really thrilled about it." Earlier on the red carpet, Corden said they were working on a Christmas special but he did not know if a third series would be made. "We can only really make [a third series] if we think it's going to be better than the first two," he said. "We only really want to make one if we know we have got a story that's worth telling." Bruce Forsyth talks to David Sillito about receiving Bafta's highest accolade. Bruce Forsyth received Bafta's highest accolade, the Academy Fellowship, in recognition of his "outstanding body of work". "I am feeling a bit emotional tonight," he told the audience. "Bafta, this is as good as it gets. Thank you so much for the wonderful, wonderful honour." Graham Norton hosted the Bafta ceremony at the London Palladium. Andrew Garfield was named best actor for his role in Boy A, Channel 4's drama about a juvenile child-killer. Holby City won a Bafta TV Award for the first time, triumphing over EastEnders, Emmerdale and The Bill in the continuing drama category. Coronation Street was not even nominated. Jimmy McGovern's The Street was named best drama series for the second year in a row, beating Life On Mars, Rome and Skins. Britz, a thriller about two young British Muslims, won the best drama serial prize. Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares was named best feature, Heroes picked up the international prize and Iraq story The Mark of Cain won best single drama. The best comedy programme prize went to Fonejacker, while Peep Show was crowned best situation comedy. Gavin and Stacey was not nominated in the sitcom category - the unsuccessful nominees were Benidorm, The IT Crowd and The Thick Of It. |