| British Academy Television Award | |
|---|---|
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Presented by | British Academy of Film and Television Arts |
| First awarded | 1983 |
| Currently held by | I Am... Ruth (2023) |
| Website | http://www.bafta.org/ |
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." [1] It was awarded as Best Single Play from 1973 to 1983. Prior to that, there was a sole category for Drama Production.
| Year | Title | Recipient(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 1980 | Blue Remembered Hills | Brian Gibson |
| Churchill and the Generals | Alan Gibson | |
| The Knowledge | Bob Brooks | |
| Suez 1956 | Michael Darlow | |
| 1981 | Caught on a Train | Peter Duffell |
| Blade on the Feather | Richard Loncraine | |
| Cream In My Coffee | Gavin Millar | |
| Staying On | Silvio Narizzano | |
| 1982 | Going Gently | Stephen Frears |
| A Sense of Freedom | John Mackenzie | |
| The Potting Shed | David Cunliffe | |
| United Kingdom | Roland Joffé | |
| Year | Title | Recipient(s) | Broadcaster |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | The Unloved | Samantha Morton, Tony Grisoni, Kate Ogborn, Andrew Eaton | Channel 4 |
| Five Minutes of Heaven | Guy Hibbert, Oliver Hirschbiegel, Eoin O'Callaghan, Stephen Wright | BBC Two | |
| Mo | Jeff Pope, Neil McKay, Lisa Gilchrist, Philip Martin | Channel 4 | |
| A Short Stay in Switzerland | Liz Trubridge, Simon Curtis, Frank McGuinness, Ruth Caleb | BBC One | |
| 2011 | The Road to Coronation Street | BBC Four | |
| Eric and Ernie | Victoria Wood, Peter Bowker, Tim Bricknell, Jonny Campbell | BBC Two | |
| I Am Slave | Andrea Calderwood, Gabriel Range, Jeremy Brock | Channel 4 | |
| The Special Relationship | BBC Two | ||
| 2012 | Random | Polly Leys, Kate Norrish, Debbie Tucker Green | Channel 4 |
| Holy Flying Circus | Owen Harris, Polly Leys, Kate Norrish, Tony Roche | BBC Four | |
| Page Eight | David Barron, David Hare, David Heyman, Bill Nighy | BBC Two | |
| Stolen | Stephen Butchard, Justin Chadwick, Rebecca Hodgson, Sita Williams | BBC One | |
| 2013 | Murder | Robert Jones, Birger Larsen, Kath Mattock | BBC Two |
| Everyday | Michael Winterbottom, Melissa Parmenter, Laurence Coriat, Andrew Eaton | Channel 4 | |
| The Girl | Julian Jarrold, Gwyneth Hughes, Amanda Jenks, Leanne Klein | BBC Two | |
| The Hollow Crown : "Richard II" | Rupert Goold, Pippa Harris, Sam Mendes, Rupert Ryle-Hodges | ||
| 2014 | Complicit | Guy Hibbert, Niall MacCormick, Kevin Toolis, Jolyon Symonds | Channel 4 |
| The Wipers Times | David Parfitt, Andy De Emmony, Ian Hislop, Nick Newman | BBC Two | |
| An Adventure in Space and Time | Mark Gatiss, Matt Strevens, Terry McDonough, Caroline Skinner | ||
| Black Mirror : "Be Right Back" | Barney Reisz, Charlie Brooker, Owen Harris, Annabel Jones | Channel 4 | |
| 2015 | Marvellous | Peter Bowker, Julian Farino, Katie Swinden, Patrick Spence | BBC Two |
| Common | Jimmy McGovern, David Blair, Colin McKeown, Donna Molloy | BBC One | |
| Murdered by My Boyfriend | Pier Wilkie, Regina Moriarty, Paul Andrew Williams, Darren Kemp | BBC Three | |
| A Poet in New York | Aisling Walsh, Ruth Caleb, Andrew Davies, Griff Rhys Jones | BBC Two | |
| 2016 | Don't Take My Baby | Jack Thorne, Ben Anthony, Pier Wilkie, Aysha Rafaele | BBC Three |
| The C Word | Susan Hogg, Simon Lewis, Nicole Taylor, Tim Kirkby | BBC One | |
| The Go-Between | Claire Bennett, Susan Hogg, Adrian Hodges, Pete Travis | ||
| Cyberbully | Richard Bond, Ben Chanan, David Lobatto, Leah Cooper | Channel 4 | |
| 2017 | Damilola, Our Loved Boy | Levi David Addai, Euros Lyn, Susan Horth, Colin Barr | BBC One |
| Murdered by My Father | Bruce Goodison, Toby Welch, Vinay Patel, Aysha Rafaele | BBC Three | |
| Aberfan: The Green Hollow | Pip Broughton, Bethan Jones, Jenna Robbins, Owen Sheers | BBC One | |
| NW | BBC Two | ||
| 2018 | Murdered for Being Different | Aysha Rafaele, Scott Bassett, Paul Andrew Williams, Nick Leather | BBC Three |
| Against the Law | Aysha Rafaele, Scott Bassett, Fergus O'Brien, Brian Fillis | BBC Two | |
| King Charles III | Mike Bartlett, Greg Brenman, Rupert Goold, Simon Maloney | ||
| Black Mirror : "Hang the DJ" | Charlie Brooker, Annabel Jones, Tim Van Patten, Nick Pitt | Netflix | |
| 2019 [2] | Killed by My Debt | Joseph Bullman, Tahsin Guner, Chris Clough, Aysha Rafaele | BBC Three |
| Black Mirror : "Bandersnatch" | Charlie Brooker, Annabel Jones, David Slade, Russell McLean | Netflix | |
| Care | Donna Molloy, Colin McKeown, Gillian Juckes, David Blair | BBC One | |
| Through the Gates (On The Edge) | Lisa Walters, Stella Corradi, Georgia Christou, Ben Bickerton | Channel 4 | |
| Year | Title | Recipient(s) | Broadcaster |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 [3] | The Left Behind | Alan Harris, Joseph Bullman, Aysha Rafaele, Tracie Simpson | BBC Three |
| Brexit: The Uncivil War | Channel 4 | ||
| Elizabeth is Missing | Andrea Gibb, Aisling Walsh, Sarah Brown, Chrissy Skinns | BBC One | |
| Responsible Child | BBC Two | ||
| 2021 [4] | Sitting in Limbo | BBC One | |
| BBW (On the Edge) | Ben Bickerton, Philip Trethowan, Lisa Walters, William Stefan Smith, Yolanda Mercy | Channel 4 | |
| Anthony | Jimmy McGovern, Colin McKeown, Donna Molloy, Terry McDonough | BBC One | |
| The Windermere Children | Eleanor Greene, Leanne Klein, Tim Rostock, Simon Block, Michael Samuels, Alison Sterling | BBC Two | |
| 2022 [5] | Together | BBC Two | |
| Help | Channel 4 | ||
| I Am... Victoria | Dominic Savage, Krishnendu Majumdar, Richard Yee, Suranne Jones, Josh Hyams, David Charap | ||
| Death of England: Face to Face | Clint Dyer, Dixie Linder, David Sabel, Rufus Norris, Christine Schwarzman, Roy Williams | Sky Arts | |
| 2023 [6] [7] | I Am... Ruth | Dominic Savage, Krishnendu Majumdar, Josh Hyams, Kate Winslet, Richard Yee, David Charap | Channel 4 |
| The House | Paloma Baeza, Niki Lindroth von Bahr, Emma de Swaef, Marc James Roels, Charlotte Bavasso, Christopher O'Reilly | Netflix | |
| Life and Death in the Warehouse | Joseph Bullman, Helen Black, Tracie Simpson, Aysha Rafaele, Tim Hodges, Steve Lawes | BBC Three | |
The British Academy Television Award for Best Soap and Continuing Drama is one of the major categories of the British Academy Television Awards (BAFTAs), the primary awards ceremony of the British television industry, presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Eligible drama series must be transmitted for at least 20 episodes a year. Only one episode of no more than an hour may be entered, and the episode selected must not be a special, as it must be fully representative of the series. The award was first given in 1999, for soap operas transmitted in 1998. Its title was changed from Best Soap to Best Continuing Drama in 2003, and to Best Soap and Continuing Drama in 2012. As of 2023, the award has been won by EastEnders nine times, Coronation Street seven times, Casualty four times, Emmerdale three times, and The Bill and Holby City once each.
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 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 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 Mini-Series 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 by the BAFTA website as being for "a drama series, between two and 19 episodes, that tells a complete story and is not intended to return". The category has been awarded since 2012, prior to that a similar category was awarded named Best Drama Serial, which was presented with the Best Drama Series category under the name Best Drama Series or Serial from 1970 to 1991 and as a separate category from 1992 to 2011.
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 Award for Best Current Affairs 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 films, or films from a strand that are primarily concerned with unfolding current affairs"
The British Academy Television Award for Best Sport 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 "the television coverage of a sporting event."
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 Editing: 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 Sound: Factual 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 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.
The British Academy Television Award for Best Live Event 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 "the television coverage of a live event."