Nominees announced

Alma’s Not Normal, Brassic, G’wed and Ludwig have all been nominated for best scripted comedy at this year’s Baftas.

Sophie Willan is also shortlisted for best female performance in a comedy for playing the titular role of Alma in the BBC Two series she created. The news comes just days after she scooped three Royal Television Society awards for the same show.

Nominated alongside her are Kate O’Flynn for Everyone Else Burns, Lolly Adefope for The Franchise, Nicola Coughlan for Big Mood, Ruth Jones for the Gavin & Stacey finale and Anjanya Vas for We Are Lady Parts.

Up for best male performance in a comedy are Bilal Hasna for Extraordinary Danny Dyer in Mr Bigstuff, Dylan Thomas-Smith fro G’wed, Nabhaan Rizwan for Kaos, Oliver Savell for Chaining Ends and Phil Dunning for the recently renewed Smoggie Queens.

Dunning is also up for best comedy writer category in the separate Bafta Craft Awards alongside  Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton for Inside No 9, Brett Goldstein for Shrinking, and Nida Manzoor for We Are Lady Parts.

Nominated for the entertainment Bafta are the1% Club, Michael McIntyre’s Big Show, Taskmaster and Would I Lie To You. And up for best entertainment performance are Ant & Dec, Claudia Winkelman, Graham Norton, Joe Lycett, Rob Beckett and Romesh Ranganathan, and Stacey Solomon for Sort Your Life Out. 

Across all categories, Baby Reindeer takes the lead with eight nominations, including a leading actor nod for Richard Gadd as traumatised comedian Donny Dunn, and best supporting actress recognition for both  Jessica Gunning, who plays stalker Martha and Nava Mau, who plays Donny’s partner, Teri.

The BBC Comedy Shorts Quiet Life, from Luke Rollason, and Spud from Siobhan McSweeney, have been nominated in the best short form category alongside the Channel 4 Comedy Blap Peaked, starring and co-written Ada Player,  and  Channel 4’s Brown Brit, which  traces the life of an Indian mother  through an assemblage of VHS tapes.

The craft awards will take place on Sunday April 27, hosted by Stacey Dooley, the main Bafta TV awards will be hosted by Alan Cumming and will be broadcast on BBC One on Sunday May 11.

View the full list of nominations for the Bafta Television Awards, sponsored by P&O Cruises, here, and the Bafta TV Craft Awards here.

Published: 27 Mar 2025