C4’s Longford heads Bafta nominations

Published Wednesday 11 April 2007 at 12:05 by Alistair Smith

Channel 4’s feature-length Myra Hindley drama Longford leads the field in this year’s Bafta nominations, with four nominations in three categories.

The show is up for best single drama, as well as receiving two nominations for best actor (Jim Broadbent and Andy Serkis) and one for best actress (Samantha Morton). It faces competition from other single dramas Kenneth Williams - Fantabulosa, which also received a nomination for best actor (Michael Sheen), Housewife, 49, for which Victoria Wood received her record 12th nomination, and Road to Guantanamo.

Meanwhile, BBC1’s Life on Mars will compete against Shameless, Sugar Rush and The Street to be named Best Drama Series, while Green Wing, The IT Crowd, Pulling and The Royle Family - Queen of Sheba are up for Best Situation Comedy. Elsewhere, theatre talent hunt How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria? received a nomination for Best Entertainment Programme, as did Derren Brown for his special The Heist, and Casualty, Coronation Street, Eastenders and Emmerdale will vie for Best Continuing Drama.

The awards will be announced at the London Palladium on Sunday, May 20, and will be broadcast on BBC1. The nominations in full are:

ACTOR

• Jim Broadbent - Longford (Channel 4)
• Andy Serkis - Longford (Channel 4)
• Michael Sheen - Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa! (BBC4)
• John Simm - Life On Mars (BBC1)

ACTRESS

• Anne-Marie Duff - The Virgin Queen (BBC1)
• Samantha Morton - Longford (Channel 4)
• Ruth Wilson - Jane Eyre (BBC1)
• Victoria Wood - Housewife 49 (ITV1)

ENTERTAINMENT PERFORMANCE

• Ant & Dec - Saturday Night Takeaway (ITV1)
• Stephen Fry - QI (BBC2)
• Paul Merton - Have I Got News For You (BBC1)
• Jonathan Ross - Friday Night With Jonathan Ross (BBC1)

COMEDY PERFORMANCE

• Dawn French - The Vicar of Dibley (BBC1)
• Ricky Gervais - Extras (BBC2)
• Stephen Merchant - Extras (BBC2)
• Liz Smith -The Royle Family - Queen of Sheba (BBC1)

SINGLE DRAMA

• Housewife 49 - Victoria Wood, Piers Wenger, Gavin Millar, David Threlfall (ITV1/ITV Productions)
• Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa! - Andy de Emmony, Ben Evans, Martyn Hesford (BBC4/BBC Drama)
• Longford - Peter Morgan, Tom Hooper, Helen Flint, Andy Harries (C4/A Granada Production for C4 in association with HBO)
• Road To Guantanamo Michael Winterbottom, Mat Whitecross (C4/Revolution Films)

DRAMA SERIES

• Life on Mars - Production Team (BBC1/Kudos Film & Television)
• Shameless - Production Team (C4/Company Pictures)
• Sugar Rush - Production Team (C4/Shine Productions)
• The Street - Jimmy McGovern, Sita Williams, David Blair, Ken Horn (BBC1/Granada Television Ltd)

DRAMA SERIAL

• Low Winter Sun - Greg Brenman, Adrian Shergold, Simon Donald, Rhonda Smith (C4/Tiger Aspect Productions)
• Prime Suspect: The Final Act - Andrew Benson, Philip Martin, Frank Deasy, Andy Harries (ITV1/ITV Productions)
• See No Evil: The Moors Murders - Lisa Gilchrist, Neil McKay, Jeff Pope, Chris Menaul (ITV1/ITV Productions)
• The Virgin Queen - Coky Giedroyc, Paula Milne, Paul Rutman (BBC1/A BBC Drama/Power co-production)

CONTINUING DRAMA

• Casualty - The Production Team (BBC1/BBC)
• Coronation Street - Stephen Russell, Tim O’Mara, Steve Frost, Kieran Roberts (ITV1/ITV Productions)
• Eastenders - The Production Team (BBC1/BBC Drama Production Studios)
• Emmerdale - Keith Richardson, Kathleen Beedles, Lindsay Williams, Piotr Szkopiak (ITV1/ITV Productions)

FACTUAL SERIES

• Ross Kemp on Gangs -Clive Tulloh, Amelia Hann, Ross Kemp (Sky One/Tiger Aspect Productions)
• Stephen Fry - The Secret Life of a Manic Depressive - The Production Team (BBC2/ IWC Media, part of the RDF Media Group)
• Tribe -James Smith, Steve Robinson, Bruce Parry, Sam Organ (BBC2/BBC)
• Who Do You Think You Are? - Alex Graham, Lucy Carter (BBC2/Wall To Wall)

SPECIALIST FACTUAL

• Munich: Mossad’s Revenge - Anthony Geffen, Tom Whitter, Peter Miller, Calum Walker (C4/Atlantic Productions Ltd)
• Nuremberg: Goering’s Last Stand - Peter Nicholson, Simon Berthon, Dan Korn, Piers Vellacott (C4/3BM Television)
• Planet Earth - Alistair Fothergill, Mark Linfield (BBC1/BBC)
• Simon Schama’s Power of Art - Clare Beavan, Simon Schama, Basil Comely, Mark Harrison (BBC2/BBC London Arts

SINGLE DOCUMENTARY

• Breaking Up With the Joneses - Ursula Macfarlane, Saskia Wilson, Dave Nath, Gregor Lyon (C4/Betty TV)
• Evicted - Brian Woods, Deborah Shipley, Jeremy Wales, Katy Sheppard (BBC1/True Vision)
• 9/11: The Falling Man - Henry Singer, John Smithson, Sue Bourne, Julian Ware (C4/Darlow Smithson Productions)
• Rain In My Heart - Paul Watson (BBC2/BBC)

FEATURES

• The Apprentice - Dan Adamson, Sanjay Singhal, Martyn Smith, Sir Alan Sugar (BBC2/TalkbackThames/Mark Burnett Productions)
• The Choir - Jamie Isaacs, Ludo Graham, Drew Hill, Sam Grace (BBC2/Twenty Twenty)
• Dragons’ Den - Helen Bullough, Dominic Bird, Paul Mackay (BBC2/BBC Entertainment)
• The F Word - Ben Adler, Jon Swain, Pat Llewellyn, Eileen Herlihy (C4/Optomen Television)

SPORT

• The Boat Race - John Watts, Tony Pastor, John McKenna, Phil Heslop (ITV1/ITV Sport)
• F1: Hungarian Grand Prix - Jenson Button’s First Win - Neil Duncanson, Gerard Lane (ITV1/North One Television)
• Cricket on Five - Jeff Foulser, Gary Franses, Dylan Jane, Diana Keen (Five/Sunset and Vine Productions)
• Winter Olympics - BBC Sport Production Team (BBC2/BBC Sport)

NEWS COVERAGE

• BBC Ten O’Clock News - Terrorism plot at Heathrow - BBC Ten O’Clock News Team (BBC1/BBC News)
• Channel 4 News - News From Iran - Jon Snow, Deborah Rayner, Ben Monro-Davies, Martin Collett (C4/ITN)
• Granada Reports: Morecambe Bay - The Production Team (ITV/Granada)
• ITV Evening News - The Israel/Lebanon Crisis - Julian Manyon, Mark Austin, Geoff Hill, Rob Bowles (ITV1/ITN)

INTERACTIVITY

• Dispatches - War Torn: Stories of Separation - David Modell, Cassian Harrison, Oliver Doward (Channel4.com/Dispatches)
• Meltdown and the Big Climate Change Experiment - Frances McNamara, Jonathan Renouf, Paul Bradshaw, Tolu Aina (Supporting BBC4)
• The Secret Policeman’s Ball - Clive Tulloh, Lisle Turner, Mike Agnew, Adil Abrar (C4/Tiger Aspect Productions)
• Terry Pratchett’s Hogfather - Aidan Conway, Giles Pooley, Rod Brown, Ian Sharples (Sky One Networked Media)

INTERNATIONAL

• Entourage - Doug Ellin, Mark Wahlberg, Steve Levinson (ITV2/HBO)
• House - David Shore (Five/Heal and Toe Films/Shore Z Productions/Bad Hat Harry Productions in assoc with NBC Universal Television Studio)
• Lost - JJ Abrams, Carlton Cuse, Damon Lindelof, Jack Bender (Sky One/Buena Vista International Television)
• My Name is Earl - Greg Garcia, Marc Buckland, Bobby Bowman (C4/ Twentieth Century Fox)

ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAMME

• Dancing on Ice - Will Smith, Katie Rawcliffe, Jayne Torville, Christopher Dean (ITV1/ITV Productions)
• Derren Brown: The Heist - Derren Brown, Simon Mills, Andrew O’Connor, Anthony Owen (C4/Objective Productions)
• How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria? - Production Team (BBC1/BBC Entertainment)
• The X Factor - Richard Holloway, Claire Horton, Andrew Llinares, Siobhan Greene (ITV1/TalkbackThames in association with SYCO TV)

SITUATION COMEDY

• Green Wing - Victoria Pile, Dominic Brigstocke, Tristram Shapeero, Rob Harley (C4/Talkback Thames)
• The IT Crowd - Ash Atalla, Graham Linehan, Derrin Schlesinger, Lorraine Heggessey (C4/TalkbackThames)
• Pulling- Sharon Horgan, Dennis Kelly, Phil Bowker, Tristram Shapeero (BBC3/Silver River)
• The Royle Family: Queen of Sheba - Caroline Aherne, Craig Cash, John Rushton, Phil Mealey (BBC1/Granada Productions)

COMEDY PROGRAMME

• The Catherine Tate Show - Gordon Anderson, Aschlin Ditta, Geoffrey Perkins, Catherine Tate (BBC2/Tiger Aspect Productions)
• Little Britain Abroad - Matt Lucas, David Walliams, Matt Lipsey, Geoff Posner (BBC1/BBC Comedy)
• Little Miss Jocelyn - Gary Reich, Jemma Rogers, Gareth Carrivick, Jocelyn Jee Esien (BBC3/Brown Eyed Boy Productions)
• That Mitchell & Webb Look David Kerr, Gareth Edwards, Robert Webb, David Mitchell (BBC2/BBC Comedy)

PIONEER AUDIENCE AWARDS

• Life On Mars
• The Royle Family: Queen of Sheba
• Dragons’ Den
• The Vicar of Dibley Christmas Special
• Planet Earth
• Celebrity Big Brother