British Academy Television Award | |
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Country | United Kingdom |
Presented by | British Academy of Film and Television Arts |
First awarded | 1980 (presented in 1981) |
Currently held by | Friday Night Live (2023) |
Website | http://www.bafta.org/ |
The British Academy Television Award for Best Comedy Entertainment Programme or Series was first presented at the 1981 ceremony. According to British Academy of Film and Television Arts the category "includes programmes that capture the idea of comedy being central to the editorial of the programme and includes panel-led shows, chat shows where comic content plays a big part, stand-up and comedy clip shows". [1]
Since the 2000 BAFTA TV Award ceremony there has been a separate award category for Best Situation Comedy. This category had previously been presented from 1973-1980 (when there was no Best Comedy Series award). Throughout the 1980s and 1990s 'Situation Comedies' were included in the Best Comedy Programme or Series category.
Name variations for this category:
Best Comedy Series
Year | Recipient(s) | Title |
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1965 | Joe McGrath | |
1966 | Michael Mills | The World Of Wooster Comedy Playhouse: Sam The Samaritan 90 Years On - Churchill Birthday Programme |
Dick Clement | The Likely Lads Comedy Playhouse: Barnaby Spoot and the Exploding Whoopee Cushion | |
David Croft | Hugh and I A Slight Case of... Dick Emery Show | |
Shaun O'Riordan | The Worker The Tigers Are Burning Emergency Ward Ten The Braden Beat Front Page Story | |
1967 | Dick Clement | |
1968 | Michael Mills | |
Best Comedy Series
Best Comedy Series
Year | Title | Recipient(s) | Broadcaster |
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1990 | Blackadder Goes Forth | Richard Boden, Richard Curtis, Ben Elton & John Lloyd | BBC One |
After Henry | Simon Brett, Peter Frazer-Jones | ITV | |
The New Statesman | Tony Charles, Geoffrey Sax, Laurence Marks, Maurice Gran | ||
Only Fools and Horses | Tony Dow, Gareth Gwenlan, John Sullivan | BBC One | |
1991 | The New Statesman | Maurice Gran, Laurence Marks, David Reynolds & Geoffrey Sax | ITV |
Drop the Dead Donkey | Andy Hamilton, Guy Jenkin, Liddy Oldroyd | Channel 4 | |
May to December | Paul Mendelson, Verity Lambert, Sydney Lotterby | BBC One | |
One Foot in the Grave | David Renwick, Susan Belbin | ||
Only Fools and Horses | Tony Dow, Gareth Gwenlan, John Sullivan | ||
Best Comedy Programme or Series
Best Comedy Programme or Series
Best Comedy Programme or Series
Best Comedy Entertainment Programme
Year | Title | Recipient(s) | Broadcaster |
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2020 [3] | Taskmaster | Alex Horne, Andy Devonshire, Andy Cartwright, James Taylor | Dave |
The Graham Norton Show | Graham Norton, Graham Stuart, Jon Magnusson, Steve Smith | BBC One | |
The Last Leg | Ben Knappett, Andrew Beint, Lisa Kirk, Cimran Shah | Channel 4 | |
The Ranganation | BBC Two | ||
2021 [4] | |||
The Big Narstie Show | Obi Kevin Akudike, Nathan Brown, Rina Dayalji, Ben Wicks, Toby Baker | Channel 4 | |
Charlie Brooker's Antiviral Wipe | Charlie Brooker, Annabel Jones, Ali Marlow | BBC Two | |
The Ranganation | |||
Rob & Romesh Vs | Jack Shillaker, David Taylor, Murray Boland, Danielle Lux, Bill Righton | Sky One | |
2022 [5] | The Lateish Show with Mo Gilligan | Rhe-an Archibald, Ben Wicks, Tim Dean, Pollyanna McGirr, David Geli, Mo Gilligan | Channel 4 |
The Graham Norton Show | Graham Norton, Graham Stuart, Jon Magnusson, Toby Baker, Catherine Strauss, Pete Snell | BBC One | |
Race Around Britain | Ben Wicks, Andy Brown, Munya Chawawa, Trent Williams-Jones, Claire Cook, Kevin Muyolo | YouTube | |
The Ranganation | Ruth Phillips, Richard Cohen, Mark Barrett, Barbara Wiltshire, Debra Blenkinsop, Helena Parkhill | BBC Two | |
2023 [6] [7] | Friday Night Live | Geoff Posner, Susie Hall, Lucy Ansbro, Shane Allen | Channel 4 |
The Graham Norton Show | BBC One | ||
Would I Lie to You? | Peter Holmes, Rachel Ablett, Barbara Wiltshire, Adam Copeland, Jake Graham, Zoe Waterman | ||
Taskmaster | Alex Horne, Andy Devonshire, Andy Cartwright, James Taylor | Channel 4 | |
2024 [8] | The Graham Norton Show | Graham Norton, Graham Stuart, Jon Magnusson, Toby Baker, Catherine Strauss, Pete Snell | BBC One |
Would I Lie to You? | Peter Holmes, Rachel Ablett, Jake Graham, Zoe Waterman, Liz Clare, Barbara Wiltshire | ||
Late Night Lycett | Channel 4 | ||
Rob & Romesh Vs | Danielle Lux, Murray Boland, Jack Shillaker, Bill Righton, David Taylor, Graham Proud | Sky Max | |
Note: In BAFTA production categories, entrants are asked to submit no more than four names to be listed as nominees should the programme be nominated. If it is not possible to decide on four names the nomination credit is listed as "production team", in these cases no individual can refer to themselves as BAFTA winning. It will be the programme that is BAFTA winning, not any individual.
The British Academy Television Award for Best Scripted Comedy is awarded annually as part of the British Academy Television Awards. Until 2015, the category was named the British Academy Television Award for Best Situation Comedy. According to British Academy of Film and Television Arts, the category "covers both situational comedies and scripted comedy sketch shows".
The British Academy Television Award for Best Factual Series or Strand is one of the major categories of the British Academy Television Awards (BAFTAs), the primary awards ceremony of the British television industry. The category is described on the official BAFTA website as "more than one factual programme linked through a unified approach, narrative or the thematic development of a subject matter."
The British Academy Television Award for Best Entertainment Performance is an award given out by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts at their annual BAFTA Television Awards ceremony.
The British Academy Television Award for Best International Programme, or BAFTA TV Award for Best International, is an award presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, according to BAFTA the category is for "a single programme or series of any genre acquired from the international marketplace".
The British Academy Television Award for Best Single Drama is one of the major categories of the British Academy Television Awards (BAFTAs), the primary awards ceremony of the British television industry. According to the BAFTA website, the category is for "a single, self-contained drama.", this "includes single films which form part of an anthology series, where each episode has a self-contained story. The same characters cannot appear in a later episode." It was awarded as Best Single Play from 1973 to 1983. Prior to that, there was a sole category for Drama Production.
The British Academy Television Craft Award for Best Writer: Drama is one of the categories presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) within the British Academy Television Craft Awards, the craft awards were established in 2000 with their own, separate ceremony as a way to spotlight technical achievements, without being overshadowed by the main production categories.
The British Academy Television Award for Best Entertainment Programme is one of the major categories of the British Academy Television Awards (BAFTAs), the primary awards ceremony of the British television industry. According to the BAFTA website, the category "includes quizzes, game shows, talent shows, music specials and all general entertainment programmes."
The British Academy Television Award for Best Reality and Constructed Factual is one of the major categories of the British Academy Television Awards (BAFTAs), the primary awards ceremony of the British television industry. According to the BAFTA website, the category is for "programmes where participants are put into an environment or format and then observed interacting in situations devised by the producer."
The British Academy Television Award for Best Short Form Programme is one of the major categories of the British Academy Television Awards (BAFTAs), the primary awards ceremony of the British television industry. According to the BAFTA website, the category is for "single shorts, short form series and shorts from a strand of any genre that have been commissioned and transmitted on a broadcast channel and/or online platform."
The British Academy Television Award for Best Specialist Factual Programme is one of the major categories of the British Academy Television Awards (BAFTAs), the primary awards ceremony of the British television industry. According to the BAFTA website, the category is "specifically for arts, religion, history, natural history and science programmes or series and can include both factual and performance programmes."
The British Academy Television Award for Best Features is one of the major categories of the British Academy Television Awards (BAFTAs), the primary awards ceremony of the British television industry. According to the BAFTA website, the category "includes factual programmes, not included in any other categories including cookery and cookery competitions, travelogues, gardening, property, fashion and all other lifestyle programming and studio discussions."
The British Academy Television Award for Best Single Documentary is one of the major categories of the British Academy Television Awards (BAFTAs), the primary awards ceremony of the British television industry. According to the BAFTA website, the category is "for one-off documentaries only. Includes individual episodes of documentary strands."
The British Academy Television Award for Best News Coverage is one of the major categories of the British Academy Television Awards (BAFTAs), the primary awards ceremony of the British television industry. According to the BAFTA website, the category is for "an individual news programme"
The British Academy Television Craft Award for Best Director: Fiction is one of the categories presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) within the British Academy Television Craft Awards, the craft awards were established in 2000 with their own, separate ceremony as a way to spotlight technical achievements, without being overshadowed by the main production categories.
The British Academy Television Craft Award for Best Entertainment Craft Team is one of the categories presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) within the British Academy Television Craft Awards, the craft awards were established in 2000 with their own, separate ceremony as a way to spotlight technical achievements, without being overshadowed by the main production categories.
The British Academy Television Craft Award for Best Make-Up & Hair Design is one of the categories presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) within the British Academy Television Craft Awards, the craft awards were established in 2000 with their own, separate ceremony as a way to spotlight technical achievements, without being overshadowed by the main production categories. According to the BAFTA website, the eligibility of this category is "limited to artists directly responsible for the make up and hair design in the programme."
The British Academy Television Craft Award for Best Original Music is one of the categories presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) within the British Academy Television Craft Awards, the craft awards were established in 2000 with their own, separate ceremony as a way to spotlight technical achievements, without being overshadowed by the main production categories. It was first awarded in 1981, according to the BAFTA website, a programme will be eligible to this category if "more than 50% of its music is original composition created specifically for it."
The British Academy Television Craft Award for Best Sound: Fiction is one of the categories presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) within the British Academy Television Craft Awards, the craft awards were established in 2000 with their own, separate ceremony as a way to spotlight technical achievements, without being overshadowed by the main production categories.
The British Academy Television Craft Award for Best Photography & Lighting: Fiction is one of the categories presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) within the British Academy Television Craft Awards, the craft awards were established in 2000 with their own, separate ceremony as a way to spotlight technical achievements, without being overshadowed by the main production categories. According to the BAFTA website, for this category the "eligibility is limited to the director of photography."
The British Academy Television Award for Best Daytime is one of the major categories of the British Academy Television Awards (BAFTAs), the primary awards ceremony of the British television industry. The category was introduced in 2021.