British Academy Television Awards 2006

The 2006 British Academy Television Awards were held on Sunday May 7 at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London. The ceremony was broadcast on the ITV Network, hosted by television presenter Davina McCall. The nominees for the audience-voted Pioneer Award were announced on Tuesday March 14; other nominees were revealed on Monday March 27.

Winners

*Best Actor
**Winner: Mark Rylance — "The Government Inspector" (Channel 4)
**Nominees: Bernard Hill — "A Very Social Secretary" (More4); Denis Lawson — "Bleak House" (BBC One); Rufus Sewell — "The Taming of the Shrew" (BBC One)

*Best Actress
**Winner: Anna Maxwell Martin — "Bleak House" (BBC One)
**Nominees: Gillian Anderson — "Bleak House" (BBC One); Lucy Cohu — "The Queen's Sister" (Channel 4); Anne-Marie Duff — "Shameless" (Channel 4)

*Best Comedy (Programme or Series)
**Winner: "Help" (BBC / BBC Two)
**Nominees: "The Catherine Tate Show" (Tiger Aspect Productions / BBC Two); "Creature Comforts" (Aardman Animations / ITV); "Little Britain" (BBC / BBC One / BBC Three)

*Best Comedy Performance
**Winner: Chris Langham — "The Thick of It" (BBC Four);
**Nominees: Peter Capaldi — "The Thick of It" (BBC Four); Ashley Jensen — "Extras" (BBC Two); Catherine Tate — "The Catherine Tate Show" (BBC Two)

*Best Drama Serial
**Winner: "Bleak House" (BBC / Deep Indigo Productions / WGBH / BBC One)
**Nominees: "Fingersmith" (Sally Head Productions / BBC One); "Funland" (BBC / BBC Three); "To the Ends of the Earth" (BBC / Power Productions / Tightrope Pictures / BBC Two)

*Best Drama Series
**Winner: "Doctor Who" (BBC Wales / BBC One)
**Nominees: "Bodies" (Hat Trick Productions / BBC Three); "Shameless" (Company Pictures / Channel 4); "Spooks" (Kudos Film & Television / BBC One)

*Best Single Drama
**Winner: "The Government Inspector" (Mentorn Television / Stonehenge Films / arte France Cinéma / Channel 4)
**Nominees: "Much Ado About Nothing" (BBC Northern Ireland / BBC One); "The Queen's Sister" (Touchpaper Television / Channel 4); "Red Dust" (BBC / Distant Horizon / Videovision Entertainment / Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa / BBC Films / BBC Two)

*Best Continuing Drama
**Winner: "EastEnders" (BBC / BBC One)
**Nominees: "Casualty" (BBC / BBC One); "Coronation Street" (Granada Television / ITV); "Holby City" (BBC / BBC One)

*Best Current Affairs
**Winner: "Dispatches - Beslan" (??? / Channel 4)
**Nominees: "Panorama Special - Undercover Nurse" (BBC / BBC One); "Dispatches - Iraq: The Reckoning" (??? / Channel 4); "Storyville - A Company of Soldiers" (??? / BBC Four)

*Best Entertainment Performance
**Winner: Jonathan Ross — "Friday Night with Jonathan Ross" (BBC One)
**Nominees: Jeremy Clarkson — "Top Gear" (BBC Two); Jack Dee — "Jack Dee Live at the Apollo" (BBC One); Noel Edmonds — "Deal or No Deal" (Channel 4)

*Best Factual Series or Strand
**Winner: "Jamie's School Dinners" (Fresh One Productions / Channel 4)
**Nominees: "49 Up" (Granada Television / ITV); "Cocaine" (??? / Channel 4); "Coast" (BBC Birmingham / BBC Two)

*Best Feature
**Winner: "The Apprentice" (talkbackTHAMES / BBC Two)
**Nominees: "Dragons' Den" (BBC / BBC Two); "Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares" (??? / Channel 4); "Top Gear" (BBC / BBC Two)

*Flaherty Award for Single Documentary
**Winner: "Make Me Normal" (Century Films / Channel 4)
**Nominees: "Children of Beslan" (??? / BBC Two); "The Real Sex Traffic" (??? / Channel 4); "" (Century Films / BBC Two)

*Huw Wheldon Award for Specialist Factual
**Winner: "Holocaust, a Memorial Film From Auschwitz"(BBC / BBC Two)
**Nominees: "The Boy with the Incredible Brain" (Focus Productions / Five); "Life in the Undergrowth" (BBC Natural History Unit / BBC One); "No Direction Home" (Spitfire Pictures / BBC Two)

*Lew Grade Entertainment Programme or Series
**Winner: "The X Factor" (talkbackTHAMES / SYCOtv / ITV)
**Nominees: "Friday Night with Jonathan Ross" (Open Mike Productions / BBC One); "Have I Got News For You" (Hat Trick Productions / BBC One); "Strictly Come Dancing" (BBC / BBC One)

*News Coverage
**Winner: "BBC Ten O'Clock News - 7 July 2005, London Bombs" (BBC / BBC One)
**Nominees: "Channel 4 News - The Attorney General Story" (ITN / Channel 4); "ITV Evening News - The Shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes" (ITN / ITV); "Sky News - 7 July bombings" (Sky News)

*Situation Comedy Award
**Winner: "The Thick of It" (BBC / BBC Four)
**Nominees: "Extras" (BBC / HBO / BBC Two); "Peep Show" (Objective Productions / Channel 4); "The Worst Week of My Life" (Hat Trick Productions / BBC One)

*Sport
**Winner: "The Ashes - England v Australia" (Sunset + Vine / Channel 4)
**Nominees: "" (Granada Sport / ITV); "Formula One - United States Grand Prix" (North One Television / Granada Sport / ITV); "The Open Championship - Final Round of Jack Nicklaus" (BBC / BBC Two)

*Interactivity
**Winner: "Channel 4 News - Breaking the News" (Illumina Digital / ITN / Channel 4 / More 4)
**Nominees: "Coast" (BBC/BBC Two); "Not Forgotten" / "Lost Generation" (Wall To Wall / Darlow Smithson / Channel 4); "Shakespeare's Stories" (BBC Interactive Drama and Entertainment / BBC One)

*The Pioneer Award
**Winner: "Doctor Who" (BBC One)
**Nominees: "The Apprentice" (BBC Two); "Bleak House" (BBC One); "The Catherine Tate Show" (BBC Two); "Desperate Housewives" (Channel 4); "Jamie's School Dinners" (Channel 4); "Strictly Come Dancing" (BBC One); "The X-Factor" (ITV)

*The Dennis Potter Award
**Russell T Davies

*The Alan Clarke Award
**Adam Curtis

*The Richard Dimbleby Award
**Jamie Oliver

*Fellowship
**Ken Loach

References

* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4982648.stm Winners report] from bbc.co.uk.
* [http://www.bafta.org/site/page129.html List of BAFTA Television Award nominees] from the official BAFTA website (retrieved March 28 2006).
* [http://www.bafta.org/site/Jahia/cache/offonce/pid/132 List of BAFTA Television Craft Award nominees] from the official BAFTA website (retrieved April 12 2006)
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4848666.stm List of nominees] from BBC News Online (retrieved March 27 2006).

External links

* http://www.channel4.com/breakingthenews Breaking the News - Interactivity category
* http://www.channel4.com/lostgeneration Lost Generation - Interactivity category