Baftas / Battle of the Britcoms I Final
The nominees have been announced for this years Baftas. Here are the contestants in some of the key categories along with my picks...
Best Actress:
Francesca Annis : Reckless (ITV) / Dame Thora Hird : Talking Heads:
Waiting For The Telegram (BBC Two)
Natasha Little : Vanity Fair (BBC One) / Joanna Lumley : A Rather English
Marriage (BBC Two).
(British TV @ Suite101 Pick - Dame Thora Hird)
Best Actor:
Robert Carlyle : Looking After Jo Jo (BBC Two) / Tom Courtenay : A
Rather English Marriage (BBC Two)
Albert Finney : A Rather English Marriage (BBC Two) / Timothy Spall : Our
Mutual Friend (BBC2)
(British TV @ Suite101 Pick - A toughie! Timothy Spall in a squeaker!)
Light Entertainment Performance:
John Bird and John Fortune : Rory Bremner...Who Else? (Channel 4) / Kathy
Burke for Harry Enfield's Yule Log Chums (BBC One)
Billy Connolly : 30 Years Of Billy Connolly (BBC One) / Michael Parkinson :
Parkinson (BBC One)
(British TV @ Suite101 Pick - Billy Connolly)
Comedy Performance:
Caroline Aherne : The Royle Family (BBC Two) / Dermot Morgan : Father Ted
(Channel 4)
Ardal O'Hanlon : Father Ted (Channel 4) / Julie Walters : Dinnerladies (BBC
One)
(British TV @ Suite101 Pick - The late Dermot Morgan . A pick both sentimental and
deserving)
Drama Series:
The Cops (BBC Two) / Jonathan Creek (BBC One)
Playing The Field (BBC One) / Undercover Heart (BBC One)
(British TV @ Suite101 Pick - Jonathan Creek)
Drama Serial:
Amongst Women (BBC Two), Our Mutual Friend (BBC Two)
A Respectable Trade (BBC One) and Vanity Fair (BBC One)
(British TV @ Suite101 Pick - Our Mutual Friend)
Soap:
Brookside (Channel 4) / Coronation Street (ITV)
EastEnders (BBC One) / Hollyoaks (Channel 4)
(British TV @ Suite101 Pick - Eastenders)
Light Entertainment Programme or Series:
Big Train (BBC Two) / Goodness Gracious Me (BBC Two)
Rory Bremner...Who Else? (Channel 4) / Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? (ITV)
(British TV @ Suite101 Pick - Goodness Gracious Me)
Comedy Programme or Series:
Dinnerladies (BBC One) / Father Ted (Channel 4)
The Royle Family (BBC Two) / The Vicar of Dibley (BBC One)
(British TV @ Suite101 Pick - Father Ted)
Arts Programme or Series:
Arena: The Brian Epstein Story (BBC Two) / Arena: The Noel Coward
Trilogy (BBC Two)
The Secret Art Of Government (BBC Two) / Vile Bodies: Naked (Channel 4)
(British TV @ Suite101 Pick - A toss up between the two Arena programs)
International programme:
Ally McBeal (Channel 4) / The Larry Sanders Show (BBC Two)
The Simpsons (BBC Two) / The X Files (BBC One)
(British TV @ Suite101 Pick - Either Simpsons or Larry Sanders)
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