# 2015 British Academy Television Awards

The 61st British Academy Television Awards nominations were announced on 8 April 2015.

## Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and emboldened.
| Best Actor | Best Actress |
| Jason Watkins – The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies as Christopher Jefferies (ITV) Benedict Cumberbatch – Sherlock as Sherlock Holmes (BBC One) Toby Jones – Marvellous as Neil Baldwin (BBC Two) James Nesbitt – The Missing as Tony Hughes (BBC One) | Georgina Campbell – Murdered by My Boyfriend as Ashley Jones (BBC Three) Keeley Hawes – Line of Duty as DI Lindsay Denton (BBC Two) Sarah Lancashire – Happy Valley as Catherine Cawood (BBC One) Sheridan Smith – Cilla as Cilla Black (ITV) |
| Best Supporting Actor | Best Supporting Actress |
| Stephen Rea – The Honourable Woman as Sir Hugh Hayden-Hoyle (BBC Two) Adeel Akhtar – Utopia as Wilson Wilson (Channel 4) James Norton – Happy Valley as Tommy Lee Royce (BBC One) Ken Stott – The Missing as Ian Garrett (BBC One) | Gemma Jones – Marvellous as Mary Baldwin (BBC Two) Vicky McClure – Line of Duty as DS Kate Fleming (BBC Two) Amanda Redman – Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This as Gwen Cooper (ITV) Charlotte Spencer – Glue as Tina Fallon (E4) |
| Best Male Comedy Performance | Best Female Comedy Performance |
| Matt Berry – Toast of London as Steven Toast (Channel 4) Hugh Bonneville – W1A as Ian Fletcher (BBC Two) Tom Hollander – Rev. as Alex Smallbone (BBC Two) Brendan O'Carroll – Mrs. Brown's Boys : The Christmas Special as Agnes Brown (BBC One) | Jessica Hynes – W1A as Siobhan Sharpe (BBC Two) Olivia Colman – Rev. as Alex Smallbone (BBC Two) Tamsin Greig – Episodes as Beverly Lincoln (BBC Two) Catherine Tate – Catherine Tate's Nan as Joanie "Nan" Taylor (BBC One) |
| Best Entertainment Performance | Best Single Drama |
| Ant & Dec – Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway (ITV) Leigh Francis – Celebrity Juice (ITV2) Graham Norton – The Graham Norton Show (BBC One) Claudia Winkleman – Strictly Come Dancing (BBC One) | Marvellous (BBC Two) A Poet in New York (BBC Two) Common (BBC One) Murdered by My Boyfriend (BBC Three) |
| Best Mini-Series | Best Drama Series |
| The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies (ITV) Cilla (ITV) Our World War (BBC Three) Prey (ITV) | Happy Valley (BBC One) Line of Duty (BBC Two) The Missing (BBC One) Peaky Blinders (BBC Two) |
| Best Soap and Continuing Drama | Best International Programme |
| Coronation Street (ITV) Casualty (BBC One) EastEnders (BBC One) Hollyoaks (Channel 4) | True Detective (HBO/Sky Atlantic) The Good Wife (CBS/More4) House of Cards (Netflix) Orange is the New Black (Netflix) |
| Best Factual Series or Strand | Best Specialist Factual |
| Life and Death Row (BBC Three) 15,000 Kids and Counting (Channel 4) Educating the East End (Channel 4) Protecting Our Parents (BBC Two) | Grayson Perry: Who Are You? (Channel 4) David Attenborough's Conquest of the Skies 3D (SKY 3D) The Great War: The People's Story (ITV) Our Gay Wedding: The Musical (Channel 4) |
| Best Single Documentary | Best Features |
| The Paedophile Hunter (Channel 4) Baby P: The Untold Story (BBC One) Children of Syria (BBC Two) The Miners Strike and Me (ITV) | Grand Designs (Channel 4) George Clarke's Amazing Spaces (Channel 4) The Great British Bake Off (BBC One) Long Lost Family (ITV) |
| Best Reality and Constructed Factual | Best Current Affairs |
| The Island with Bear Grylls (Channel 4) The Apprentice (BBC One) I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! (ITV) The Undateables (Channel 4) | Children on the Frontline (Dispatches) (Channel 4) Ebola Frontline (Panorama) (BBC One) Inside Kenya's Death Squads (Al Jazeera Investigates) (Al Jazeera English) Terror at the Mall (This World) (BBC Two) |
| Best News Coverage | Best Sport and Live Events |
| Sky News Live at Five: Ebola (Sky News) BBC News at Ten (BBC News/BBC One) Channel 4 News - Inside Gaza: Children Under Fire (Channel 4) ITV News at Ten - Iraq Crisis (ITV) | WW1 Remembered - From the Battlefield & Westminster Abbey (BBC Two) 2014 FA Cup Semi-Final: Hull City vs. Sheffield United (BT Sport 1) Monty Python Live (Mostly) (Gold) 2014 Tour de France: Stage 1 (ITV) |
| Best Entertainment Programme | Best Scripted Comedy |
| Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway (ITV) Dynamo: Magician Impossible (Watch) Strictly Come Dancing (BBC One) The Voice (BBC One) | Detectorists (BBC Four) Harry & Paul's Story Of The Twos (BBC Two) Moone Boy (Sky One) The Wrong Mans (BBC Two) |
| Best Comedy and Comedy Entertainment Programme | Radio Times Audience Award |
| The Graham Norton Show (BBC One) Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe (BBC Two) Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle (BBC Two) Would I Lie to You? (BBC One) | Sherlock (BBC One) Cilla (ITV) EastEnders (BBC One) Game of Thrones (HBO/Sky Atlantic) The Great British Bake Off (BBC One) The Missing (BBC One) Strictly Come Dancing (BBC One) |
| BAFTA Fellowship Award | BAFTA Special Award |
| Jon Snow | Clive James Jeff Pope |

## Programmes with multiple nominations

Programmes that received multiple nominations :
| Nominations | Programme |
| 4 | The Missing |
| 3 | Cilla |
| 3 | Happy Valley |
| 3 | Line of Duty |
| 3 | Marvellous |
| 3 | Strictly Come Dancing |
| 2 | Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway |
| 2 | EastEnders |
| 2 | Murdered by My Boyfriend |
| 2 | Rev |
| 2 | Sherlock |
| 2 | The Graham Norton Show |
| 2 | The Great British Bake Off |
| 2 | The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies |
| 2 | W1A |
Networks that received multiple nominations :
| Nominations | Network |
| 28 | BBC One |
| 22 | BBC Two |
| 14 | Channel 4 |
| 8 | ITV |
| 4 | BBC Three |
| 2 | HBO |
| 2 | Netflix |
| 2 | Sky Atlantic |

## Most major wins

Shows that received multiple awards :
| Wins | Show |
| 2 | Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway |
| 2 | Marvellous |
| 2 | The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies |
Wins by Network :
| Wins | Network |
| 6 | Channel 4 |
| 5 | BBC Two |
| 5 | ITV |
| 3 | BBC One |
| 2 | BBC Three |

## In Memoriam

* Donald Sinden
* Brian Clemens
* Lance Percival
* Geraldine McEwan
* Francis Matthews
* Joan Rivers
* Zohra Sehgal
* Julian Wilson
* Lynda Bellingham
* David Lomax
* Keith Harris
* Mike Smith
* Jeremy Lloyd
* Sam Kelly
* Rebekah Gibbs
* Terry Pratchett
* Leonard Nimoy
* John Bardon
* Alan Howard
* James Garner
* Richie Benaud
* Warren Clarke
* Ross Burden
* Anne Kirkbride
* Shaw Taylor
* Rik Mayall