2023 BAFTA TV Awards Nominations Announced

‘The Responder’ and ‘This is Going to Hurt’ lead the nominations at this year’s TV BAFTA Awards

By Charlie Gardiner

The nominations for the annual TV BAFTA Awards have been announced and with a huge variety of categories, the television drama genre reigns supreme with the most nominations. 

The BAFTA Television Awards will take place on Saturday 14 May 2023 and will be televised on BBC One. Although the host hasn’t been announced yet, the nominations are here and BBC's The Responder and This Is Going To Hurt lead the pack with six nominations apiece, closely followed by The English, The Crown, and Slow Horses with five nominations each. 

The BAFTA Awards also celebrate news and live events coverage where the 2022 Women’s European Cup, The Funeral of HM The Queen and BBC News at Ten: Russia Invades Ukraine all picked up nominations. 

In addition, the performance categories are brimming with exciting talent. Spotlight members among the nominees include Lee Mack, Ben Whishaw, Cillian Murphy, Imelda Staunton, Adeel Akhtar, Jack Lowden, Fiona Shaw and Anne-Marie Duff among many others. 

The nominees for Scripted Casting include Spotlight members and casting directors Nina Gold, Lucy Amos, Martin Ware, Julie Harkin, and Des Hamilton. 

Without further ado, the nominations for the 2023 BAFTA Television Awards are…

Drama Series

  • Bad Sisters
  • Sherwood
  • Somewhere Boy
  • The Responder

Entertainment Performance

  • Big Zuu – Big Zuu’s Big Eats
  • Claudia Winkleman – The Traitors
  • Lee Mack – The 1% Club
  • Mo Gilligan – The Lateish Show with Mo Gilligan
  • Rosie Jones – Rosie Jones’ Trip Hazard
  • Sue Perkins – Sue Perkins: Perfectly Legal

Entertainment Programme 

  • Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway
  • Later…With Jools Holland: Jool’s 30th Birthday Bash
  • Strictly Come Dancing
  • The Masked Singer

Female Performance in a Comedy Programme

  • Daisy May Cooper – Am I Being Unreasonable?
  • Diane Morgan – Cunk on Earth
  • Lucy Beaumont – Meet the Richardsons
  • Natasia Demetriou – Ellie & Natasia
  • Siobhán McSweeney – Derry Girls
  • Taj Atwal – Hullraisers

Leading Actor

  • Ben Whishaw – This is Going to Hurt
  • Chaske Spencer – The English
  • Cillian Murphy – Peaky Blinders
  • Gary Oldman – Slow Horses
  • Martin Freeman – The Responder
  • Taron Egerton – Black Bird

Leading Actress

  • Billie Piper – I Hate Suzie Too
  • Imelda Staunton – The Crown
  • Kate Winslet – I Am Ruth
  • Maxine Peake – Anne
  • Sarah Lancashire – Julia
  • Vicky McClure – Without Sin

Male Performance in a Comedy Programme 

  • Daniel Radcliffe – Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
  • Jon Pointing – Big Boys
  • Joseph Gilgun – Brassic
  • Lenny Rush – Am I Being Unreasonable?
  • Matt Berry – What We Do In The Shadows
  • Stephen Merchant – The Outlaws

Mini-Series

  • A Spy Among Friends
  • Mood
  • The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe
  • This is Going to Hurt

Scripted Comedy

  • Am I Being Unreasonable?
  • Big Boys
  • Derry Girls
  • Ghosts

Single Drama

  • I Am Ruth
  • Life and Death in the Warehouse
  • The House

Soap & Continuing Drama 

  • Casualty
  • Eastenders
  • Emmerdale

Supporting Actor

  • Adeel Akhtar – Sherwood
  • Jack Lowden – Slow Horses
  • Josh Finan – The Responder
  • Salim Daw – The Crown
  • Samuel Bottomley – Somewhere Boy
  • Will Sharpe – The White Lotus

Supporting Actress 

  • Adelayo Adedayo – The Responder
  • Anne-Marie Duff – Bad Sisters
  • Fiona Shaw – Andor
  • Jasmine Jobson – Top Boy
  • Lesley Manville – Sherwood
  • Saffron Hocking – Top Boy

Scripted Casting 

  • Des Hamilton & Elan Jones – Top Boy
  • Julie Harkin – Am I Being Unreasonable?
  • Nina Gold & Lucy Amos – Bad Sisters
  • Nina Gold & Martin Ware – This is Going to Hurt

See the full list of nominations on BAFTA’s website.

Good luck to all the nominees! 

Photo credit: Adelayo Adedayo in \The Responder' BBC/Dancing Ledge/Rekha Garton