2019 British Academy Television Awards

65th British Academy Television Awards
65th British Academy Television Awards
Date	12 May 2019
Site	Royal Festival Hall, London
Hosted by	Graham Norton
Highlights
Best Comedy Series	Sally4Ever
Best Drama	Killing Eve
Best Actor	Benedict Cumberbatch; Patrick Melrose
Best Actress	Jodie Comer; Killing Eve
Best Comedy Performance	Jessica Hynes; There She Goes; Steve Pemberton; Inside No. 9;
Most awards	Killing Eve (3)
Most nominations	Killing Eve (15)
Television coverage
Channel	BBC One
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The 2019 British Academy Television Awards were held on 12 May 2019 at the Royal Festival Hall in London.^[1]^[3]

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Best Drama Series	Best Mini-Series
Killing Eve (BBC One) Bodyguard (BBC One) Informer (BBC One) Save Me (Sky Atlantic)	Patrick Melrose (Sky Atlantic) A Very English Scandal (BBC One) Kiri (Channel 4) Mrs Wilson (BBC One)
Best Single Drama	Best Soap and Continuing Drama
Killed by My Debt (BBC Three) Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (Netflix) Care (BBC One) Through the Gates (On the Edge) (Channel 4)	EastEnders (BBC One) Casualty (BBC One) Coronation Street (ITV) Hollyoaks (Channel 4)
Best Actor	Best Actress
*Benedict Cumberbatch – Patrick Melrose* as Patrick Melrose (Sky Atlantic)** Hugh Grant – A Very English Scandal as Jeremy Thorpe (BBC One) Lucian Msamati – Kiri as Tobi Akindele (Channel 4) Chance Perdomo – Killed by My Debt as Jerome (BBC Three)	*Jodie Comer – Killing Eve* as Villanelle (BBC One)** Keeley Hawes – Bodyguard as Julia Montague (BBC One) Sandra Oh – Killing Eve as Eve Polastri (BBC One) Ruth Wilson – Mrs Wilson as Alison Wilson (BBC One)
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
*Ben Whishaw – A Very English Scandal* as Norman Josiffe / Norman Scott (BBC One)** Kim Bodnia – Killing Eve as Konstantin Vasiliev (BBC One) Stephen Graham – Save Me as Fabio "Melon" Melonzola (Sky Atlantic) Alex Jennings – Unforgotten as Tim Finch (ITV)	*Fiona Shaw – Killing Eve* as Carolyn Martens (BBC One)** Monica Dolan – A Very English Scandal as Marion Thorpe (BBC One) Keeley Hawes – Mrs Wilson as Dorothy Wick (BBC One) Billie Piper – Collateral as Karen Mars (BBC One)
Best Male Comedy Performance	Best Female Comedy Performance
*Steve Pemberton – Inside No. 9* as Various Characters (BBC Two)** Jamie Demetriou – Stath Lets Flats as Stath (Channel 4) Alex Macqueen – Sally4Ever as David (Sky Atlantic) Peter Mullan – Mum as Michael (BBC Two)	*Jessica Hynes – There She Goes* as Emily Yates (BBC Four)** Daisy May Cooper – This Country as Kerry Mucklowe (BBC Three) Julia Davis – Sally4Ever as Emma (Sky Atlantic) Lesley Manville – Mum as Cathy Bradshaw (BBC Two)
Best Scripted Comedy	Best Comedy and Comedy Entertainment Programme
Sally4Ever (Sky Atlantic) Derry Girls (Channel 4) Mum (BBC Two) Stath Lets Flats (Channel 4)	A League of Their Own (Sky One) The Big Narstie Show (Channel 4) The Last Leg (Channel 4) Would I Lie to You? (BBC One)
Best Entertainment Performance	Lew Grade Award for Entertainment Programme
*Lee Mack – Would I Lie to You?* (BBC One)** Ant & Dec – Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway (ITV) David Mitchell – Would I Lie to You? (BBC One) Rachel Parris – The Mash Report (BBC Two)	Britain's Got Talent (ITV) Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway (ITV) Michael McIntyre's Big Show (BBC One) Strictly Come Dancing (BBC One)
Best Factual Series or Strand	Huw Wheldon Award for Specialist Factual
Louis Theroux's Altered States (BBC Two) 24 Hours in A&E (Channel 4) Life and Death Row: The Mass Execution (BBC Three) Prison (Channel 4)	Suffragettes with Lucy Worsley (BBC One) Bros: After the Screaming Stops (BBC Four) Grayson Perry: Rites of Passage (Channel 4) Superkids: Breaking Away from Care (Channel 4)
Robert Flaherty Award for Single Documentary	Best Feature
Gun No. 6 (BBC Two) Driven: The Billy Monger Story (BBC Three) My Dad, The Peace Deal and Me (BBC One) School for Stammers (ITV)	Who Do You Think You Are? (BBC One) Gordon, Gino and Fred's Road Trip (ITV) The Great British Bake Off (Channel 4) Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing (BBC Two)
Best Reality and Constructed Factual	Best Live Event
I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! (ITV) Dragons' Den (BBC Two) Old Peoples' Home for 4 Year Olds (Channel 4) The Real Full Monty: Ladies' Night (ITV)	The Royal British Legion Festival of Remembrance (BBC One) Open Heart Surgery: Live (Channel 5) The Royal Wedding: Prince Harry and Megan Markle (BBC One) Stand Up to Cancer (Channel 4)
Best News Coverage	Best Current Affairs
Cambridge Analytica Uncovered (Channel 4) Bullying and Harassment in the House of Commons (BBC Newsnight) (BBC Two) Good Morning Britain: On the Knife Edge (ITV) Good Morning Britain: Thomas Markle (ITV)	Myanmar's Killing Fields (Dispatches) (Channel 4) Football's Wall of Silence (Al Jazeera Investigations) (Channel 4) Iran Unveiled: Taking on the Ayatollahs (Exposure) (ITV) Massacre at Ballymurphy (Channel 4)
Best Sport	Best Short Form Programme
2018 World Cup Quarter Final: England vs Sweden (BBC One) 2018 Six Nations: Scotland vs England (BBC One) England's Test Cricket – Cook's Farewell (Sky Sports) Winter Olympics (BBC Two)	Missed Call (Real Stories) Bovril Pam (Snatches: Moments from 100 Years of Women's Lives) (BBC Four) The Mind of Herbert Clunkerdunk (BBC iPlayer) Wondergate (BBC iPlayer)
Best International Programme	Virgin TV's Must-See Moment
Succession (Sky Atlantic / HBO) 54 Hours: The Gladbeck Hostage Crisis (BBC Four) The Handmaid's Tale (Channel 4 / Hulu) Reporting Trump's First Year: The Fourth Estate (Storyville) (BBC Two)	Bodyguard – "Julia Montague assassinated" (BBC One) Coronation Street – "Gail's monologue on the suicide of Aidan Connor" (ITV) Doctor Who – "Rosa Parks, the Doctor and her companions make sure historical moments remain" (BBC One) Killing Eve – "Eve stabs Villanelle" (BBC One) Peter Kay's Car Share – "The Finale" (BBC One) Queer Eye – "Tom completes his transformation" (Netflix)

Nominations	Programme
15	Killing Eve
12	A Very English Scandal
6	Bodyguard
6	Patrick Melrose
5	The Little Drummer Girl
4	Mrs Wilson
4	Mum
3	Bros: After the Screaming Stops
	Black Mirror: Bandersnatch
	The Royal British Legion Festival of Remembrance
	Sally4Ever
	Save Me
	Would I Lie to You?
2	Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway
	Collateral
	Coronation Street
	Dynasties
	Good Morning Britain
	Grenfell
	Killed by My Debt
	Kiri
	The Long Song
	Louis Theroux's Altered States
	The Mash Report
	Michael Palin in North Korea
	Peter Kay's Car Share
	Prison
	The Royal Wedding: Prince Harry and Megan Markle
	Stath Lets Flats
	Strictly Come Dancing
	Through the Gates (On the Edge)
	This Country
	The Voice UK
	Winter Olympics

Nominations	Network
76	BBC One
25	BBC Two
23	Channel 4
16	ITV
14	Sky Atlantic
8	BBC Three
6	BBC Four
6	Netflix
3	Channel 5

Wins	Show
3	Killing Eve
2	Patrick Melrose

Wins	Network
11	BBC One
4	Sky Atlantic
3	BBC Two
3	ITV

2019 British Academy Television Awards

Winners and nominees

Programmes with multiple nominations

Most major wins

Controversy

In Memoriam

References

External links

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