British Academy television Awards 1996 - wikipedia British Academy television Awards 1996 1996 British Academy Television Awards Date 21 April 1996 Site Theatre Royal, Drury Lane followed by dinner in The Great Room, Grosvenor House Hotel Highlights Best Comedy Series Father Ted Best Drama Cracker Best Actor Robbie Coltrane Cracker Best Actress Jennifer Ehle Pride and Prejudice Best Comedy Performance Martin Clunes Men Behaving Badly ← 1995 BAFTA Awards 1997 → The 1996 British Academy Television Awards were held on 21 April 1996 at London 's Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, as a joint ceremony with the British Academy Film Awards. Winners Best Actor Winner : Robbie Coltrane -- Cracker ( ITV ) Other nominees : Robert Lindsay -- Jake 's Progress ( Channel 4 ) ; Ian Richardson -- The Final Cut ( BBC ) ; Colin Firth -- Pride and Prejudice ( BBC1 ) ; Benjamin Whitrow -- Pride and Prejudice ( BBC1 ) Best Actress Winner : Jennifer Ehle -- Pride and Prejudice ( BBC1 ) Other nominees : Juliet Stevenson -- The Politician 's Wife ( Channel 4 ) ; Helen Mirren -- Prime Suspect 4 : The Lost Child ( ITV ) ; Geraldine James -- Band of Gold ( ITV ) Best Comedy ( Programme or Series ) Winner : Father Ted ( Hat Trick Productions / Channel 4 ) Other nominees : Absolutely Fabulous ( BBC / BBC1 ) ; Men Behaving Badly ( Hartswood Films / BBC1 ) ; One Foot in the Grave ( BBC / BBC1 ) Best Comedy Performance Winner : Martin Clunes -- Men Behaving Badly ( BBC1 ) Other nominees : Joanna Lumley -- Absolutely Fabulous ( BBC1 ) Best Drama Serial Winner : The Politician 's Wife ( Channel 4 ) Other nominees : Pride and Prejudice ( BBC1 ) ; Band of Gold ( ITV ) ; The Hanging Gale ( BBC ) Best Drama Series Winner : Cracker ( ITV ) Other nominees : All Quiet on the Preston Front ( BBC ) ; A Touch of Frost ( ITV Productions / ITV ) ; Prime Suspect 4 : The Lost Child ( ITV ) Best Single Drama Winner : Persuasion ( BBC / WGBH / BBC Films ) Other nominees : Eleven Men Against Eleven ( Hat Trick Productions / Channel 4 ) ; Go Now ( BBC ) ; The Last Englishman ( Tiger Aspect Productions / BBC ) Best News Coverage Winner : Channel 4 News -- Bosnian Genocide ( ITN / Channel 4 ) Other nominees : Newsnight -- Peter Horrocks ( BBC / BBC2 ) Best Light Entertainment Performance Winner : Rory Bremner -- Rory Bremner - Who Else ? ( Channel 4 ) Other nominees : Paul Merton -- Have I Got News for You ( BBC2 ) Best Factual Series Winner : Wise Up ( Carlton Productions / Channel 4 ) Flaherty Award for Single Documentary Winner : The Betrayed -- Russian Invasion of Chechnya ( October Films / Channel 4 ) Other nominees : Anne Frank Remembered ( Anne Frank House / Walt Disney Pictures / BBC ) ; The Dying Rooms ( Lauderdale Productions / Channel 4 ) Huw Wheldon Award for Arts Programme or Series Winner : Children of the Revolution ( David Hinton / John Wyver ) Other nominees : Arena ( BBC / BBC2 ) Light Entertainment Programme or Series Winner : The Mrs Merton Show ( Granada Television / BBC1 ) Other nominees : Have I Got News for You ( Hat Trick Productions / BBC2 ) ; Rory Bremner - Who Else ? ( Kudos Film & Television / Channel 4 ) ; Shooting Stars ( BBC2 ) Best Talk Show Winner : Panorama ( BBC / BBC1 ) Other nominees : Clive Anderson Talks Back ( Hat Trick Productions / Channel 4 ) ; Esther ( BBC / BBC2 ) ; This Morning ( Granada Television / ITV ) Best Sports / Events Coverage in Real Time Winner : VE Day Coverage ( ? ? ? / ? ? ? ) Foreign Programme Award ER The Lew Grade Award Antiques Roadshow The Dennis Potter Award Roy Clarke The Alan Clarke Award Roy Battersby The Richard Dimbleby Award Jeremy Paxman Special Awards Camera Team, Survival External links Archive of winners on official BAFTA website ( retrieved December 9, 2010 ). British Academy Television Awards 1996 at the Internet Movie Database British Academy Television Awards Current Awards Comedy Situation Comedy Drama Series Single Drama Soap and Continuing Drama Mini Series Entertainment Programme International Reality and Constructed Factual Series Factual Series Specialist Factual Sports and Live Events Current Affairs Programme News Coverage Single Documentary Feature Actor Actress Supporting Actor Supporting Actress Female Comedy Performance Male Comedy Performance Entertainment Performance Special awards Fellowship Special Award Retired awards Comedy Performance Ceremonies 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1984 1985 1986 1997 1998 2017 2018 Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=British_Academy_Television_Awards_1996&oldid=826672487 '' Categories : British Academy Television Awards 1996 television awards 1996 in British television April 1996 events Talk About Wikipedia Add links This page was last edited on 20 February 2018, at 12 : 03. About Wikipedia

Question: channel 4 sitcom named best comedy at the 1996 and 1999 baftas
Answer: Father Ted