Plus nods for Mae Martin, Sophie Willan and the late Paul Ritter

This Country has scored six nominations in this year’s Bafta awards, with six for Netflix comedy Bad  Education.

Other comedy nominees include Mae Martin, Guz Khan, Romesh Ranganathan, Sophie Willan and the late Paul Ritter for Friday Night Dinner.

Inside No 9 has been nominated for best comedy, but judges divided its stars and creators – nominating Reece Shearsmith for best comedy performance but not Steve Pemberton.

Charlie and Daisy May Cooper are both up for comedy acting awards for This Country, as well as for best comedy writing. The show is also up for best scripted comedy.

Meanwhile, Sex Education stars Aimee Lou Wood, Ncuti Gatwa and Emma Mackey are up for acting awards with the show also scooping nominations for costume design, production design and casting in the craft awards for off-screen talent.

Overall, the shortlists are dominated by Steve McQueen’s anthology series of West Indian stories, Small Axe, with 15 nominations, followed by The Crown with ten.

Winners of the tVirgin Media British Academy Television Awards will be announced  on June 6 on BBC One, with the craft awards winners - including comedy writer – revealed on social media on Monday May 24.

Here are the nominees in the comedy categories

SCRIPTED COMEDY

Ghosts
Inside No. 9
Man Like Mobeen
This Country

FEMALE PERFORMANCE IN A COMEDY PROGRAMME

Aimee Lou Wood for Sex Education
Daisy Haggard for Breeders
Daisy May Cooper for This Country
Emma Mackey for Sex Education
Gbemisola Ikumelo for Famalam
Mae Martin for  Feel Good

MALE PERFORMANCE IN A COMEDY PROGRAMME

Charlie Cooper for This Country
Guz Khan for  Man Like Mobeen
Joseph Gilgun for Brassic
Ncuti Gatwa for  Sex Education
Paul Ritter for Friday Night Dinner
Reece Shearsmith for  Inside No.9

WRITER: COMEDY

Charlie Brooker for Charlie Brooker’s Antiviral Wipe
Daisy May Cooper And Charlie Cooper  for This Country
Sophie Willan for Alma’s Not Norma
The writing team Behind Ghosts

COMEDY ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAMME

Charlie Brooker’s Antiviral Wipe
Rob & Romesh Vs
The Big Narstie Show
The Ranganation

ENTERTAINMENT PERFORMANCE

Adam Hills for The Last Leg
Bradley Walsh for Beat The Chasers
Claudia Winkleman for  Strictly Come Dancing
David Mitchell for Would I Lie To You? At Christmas
Graham Norton for The Graham Norton Show
Romesh Ranganathan for The Ranganation

ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAMME

Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway
​Life & Rhymes
Strictly Come Dancing
The Masked Singer

FEATURES

Big Zuu’s Big Eats
Long Lost Family: Born Without Trace
Mortimer And Whitehouse: Gone Fishing
The Repair Shop

Published: 28 Apr 2021