Bafta Winners 2008

[Si Hunt]

Bafta Winners 2007:

Victoria Wood, Ricky Gervais and The X Factor have been crowned winners of some of the top prizes at this year's Bafta TV Awards in London.

Wood's performance in ITV wartime drama Housewife, 49 picked up two awards - best actress and best single drama.

She now has a total of seven Baftas - as has Gervais, who beat his Extras co-star Stephen Merchant to the trophy for best comedy performance.

And The X Factor won best entertainment programme for the second year in a row.

There were some surprises at the ceremony at the London Palladium, including Casualty's victory in the best continuing drama category.

The BBC One hospital drama beat soaps Emmerdale, EastEnders and Coronation Street.

Life on Mars lost out on the drama series award to Jimmy McGovern's powerful The Street, starring Timothy Spall and Jim Broadbent.

And some pictures:



Lovely pair of gongs!



BEARD!



There's a buffet and a half there.



Goose! But she's overshadowed by...



Do the cheeky Babs laugh!



She'll turn up to anything!



If it wasn't for that lucky curb, I'd have got her.

Full list of winners:

Best actor

Winner: Jim Broadbent - Longford (Channel 4)
Andy Serkis - Longford (Channel 4)
Michael Sheen - Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa! (BBC Four)
John Simm - Life on Mars (BBC One)

Best actress

Winner: Victoria Wood - Housewife, 49 (ITV1)
Anne-Marie Duff - The Virgin Queen (BBC One)
Samantha Morton - Longford (Channel 4)
Ruth Wilson - Jane Eyre (BBC One)

Best entertainment performance

Winner: Jonathan Ross - Friday Night With Jonathan Ross (BBC One)
Ant & Dec - Saturday Night Takeaway (ITV1) has it even been on?
Stephen Fry - QI (BBC Two)
Paul Merton - Have I Got News For You (BBC One) always the bridesmaid

Best comedy performance

Winner: Ricky Gervais - Extras (BBC Two)
Dawn French - The Vicar of Dibley (BBC One)
Stephen Merchant - Extras (BBC Two)
Liz Smith - The Royle Family: Queen of Sheba (BBC One) She was deflowered by a bike you know.

Best single drama

Winner: Housewife, 49 (ITV1)
Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa! (BBC Four) thought he was dead
Longford (Channel 4) Bonnie?
The Road To Guantanamo (Channel 4)

Best drama serial

Winner: See No Evil: The Moors Murderers (ITV1) Peake won an award! Unreported!
Low Winter Sun (Channel 4)
Prime Suspect: The Final Act (ITV1)
The Virgin Queen (Channel 4)

Best drama series

Winner: The Street (BBC One) Fix!
Life on Mars (BBC One)
Sugar Rush (Channel 4)
Shameless (Channel 4)

Whither Who?

Best continuing drama

Winner: Casualty (BBC One)
EastEnders (BBC One)
Coronation Street (ITV1)
Emmerdale (ITV1)

Best factual series

Winner: Ross Kemp on Gangs (Sky One) KEMP! KEMP!
Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of a Manic Depressive (BBC Two)
Tribe (BBC Two)
Who Do You Think You Are? (BBC Two)

Best entertainment programme

Winner: The X Factor (ITV1)
Dancing On Ice (ITV1)
Derren Brown: The Heist (Channel 4) Lost!
How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria (BBC One)

Best situation comedy

Winner: The Royle Family: Queen of Sheba (BBC One)
Green Wing (Channel 4)
The IT Crowd (Channel 4)
Pulling (BBC Three) Lost! Nothing for "My Family" then

Best comedy programme or series

Winner: That Mitchell and Webb Look (BBC Two)
Little Miss Jocelyn (BBC Three)
The Catherine Tate Show (BBC Two)
Little Britain Abroad (BBC One)

Audience award

Winner: Life on Mars (BBC One)
The Royle Family: Queen of Sheba (BBC One)
Dragons' Den (BBC Two)
The Vicar of Dibley Christmas Special (BBC One) Oddly neglected show that got ten billion viewers
Planet Earth (BBC One) Celebrity Big Brother (Channel 4)

Best single documentary

Winner: Evicted (BBC One)
Breaking Up With The Joneses (Channel 4)
9/11: The Falling Man (Channel 4)
Rain In My Heart (BBC Two)

Best feature

Winner: The Choir (BBC Two)
The Apprentice (BBC Two)
Dragon's Den (BBC Two)
The F Word (Channel 4)

Best international Winner:

Entourage (ITV2)
House (Five)
Lost (Sky One)
My Name Is Earl (Channel 4)

Best sport

Winner: Formula One - Hungarian Grand Prix (ITV1)
The Boat Race (ITV1)
Cricket on Five (Five)
Winter Olympics (BBC Two)

Best news coverage was anyone still awake by this point?

Winner: Granada Reports: Morecambe Bay (ITV1)
BBC Ten O'Clock News - Terrorism plot at Heathrow
Channel 4 News - News from Iran
ITV Evening News - the Israel/Lebanon crisis

The Academy Fellowship - Richard Curtis

The Special Award - Andy Harries is that tranny that was always on Wogan?

[Rob McCow]

Winner: That Mitchell and Webb Look (BBC Two)
Little Miss Jocelyn (BBC Three)
The Catherine Tate Show (BBC Two)
Little Britain Abroad (BBC One)

Most of the BAFTAs I don't care about, but Mithcell and Webb well deserved this one for their excellent, hilarious series. When's it out on DVD though?

[Perry Vale]

Worst BAFTA's ever.

[Marisa Bynum]

Shame to see LoM not taking more awards. The audience award is the one that matters most, surely?

[Pip Madeley]

Can't believe Philip Glenister wasn't even nominated for his performance as Gene Hunt.

[Perry Vale]

Can't believe Philip Glenister wasn't even nominated for his performance as Gene Hunt.

He can be nominated next year for S2 though.....

[Milky Tears]

Catherine Tate's baps were too wide (they're about the same size as Ant and Dec)!

As was Liz White in that dodgy dress!

[Dirk Gently]

Catherine Tate's baps were too wide (they're about the same size as Ant and Dec)!

Now you know what Ant & Dec are up to, Bap impersonators!

[Jon Masters]

As usual the only joy was seeing random shots of celebrities looking bored, or the faces of some of the other nominees when they hadn't won.

John Simm looked like he wished he hadn't bothered wasting his evening by turning up.

Highlight of the evening was BAFTA's always tasteful 'Parade of the Dead'

[Pip Madeley]

BAFTA Winners 2008:

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. 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. Channel 4's 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 even nominated in the sitcom category - the unsuccessful nominees were Benidorm, The IT Crowd and The Thick Of It. Meanwhile, Bruce Forsyth received Bafta's highest accolade, the Academy Fellowship, in recognition of his "outstanding body of work".

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)

Congrats to Gavin and Stacey, I love that show

But why does Doctor Who not get any nominations? Doesn't it count or something?

[Perry Vale]

But why does Doctor Who not get any nominations? Doesn't it count or something?

More to the point, why wasn't Coronation Street nominated?

Some very predictable winners on the whole, but how Judi Dench didn't win is beyond me.

[Si Hunt]

What a joke. How can you not even nominate the most popular two shows on British TV ("Doctor Who" and "Coronation Street")?

Si.

[Perry Vale]

The clip they used to illustrate Holby City was so deadly dull, I still can't believe it won. And Eastenders got nominated for having 12 months of the same Max/Stacey plotline.....

[Dirk Gently]

More to the point, why wasn't Coronation Street nominated?

Because it's rubbish?

[Perry Vale]

Because it's rubbish?

And there's your answer as to why Doctor Who wasn't nominated either.

[Dirk Gently]

No, Doctor Who kept winning, so they didn't nominate it this time to give others a chance to win.

[Milky Tears]

More to the point, why wasn't Coronation Street nominated?

A. It's a load of old Granny Spurt!

B. It's just had its worst year this decade.

C. Jenny McAlpine can't keep her fat mouth shut when it comes to BAFTA.

D. Andy Whyment is the worst actor ever to grace UK TV screens.

E. Too many wigs.

[Pip Madeley]

He likes you too.

[Perry Vale]

D. Andy Whyment is the worst actor ever to grace UK TV screens.

You're a crazy fool. Have you never seen this guy.....?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/eastenders/char...hammed_g.shtml

E. Too many wigs.

And that's a bad thing?

A Harkishin acceptance speech would have been cool & awesome. At least he should be "acting" with Shilpa Shetty soon.....

[Wayne]

At least he should be "acting" with Shilpa Shetty soon.....

Shilpa Shetty is going to be in Corrie?? Result!

[Ralph]

No, Doctor Who kept winning, so they didn't nominate it this time to give others a chance to win.

and thats how Doctor Who was given a turn in the awards merry-go-round

[Perry Vale]

C. Jenny McAlpine can't keep her fat mouth shut when it comes to BAFTA.

Neither can Barbara Windsor.....

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/showbiz/...afta-snub.html

Shilpa Shetty is going to be in Corrie?? Result!

Allegedly!