BAFTA TV Awards: AIDS Crisis Drama ‘It’s A Sin’ Firm Favourite For Tonight’s Event
deadline.comBritish television stars are preparing for the biggest night on the calendar, with one title a firm favourite going into this evening’s BAFTA TV Awards.Channel 4’s drama It’s a Sin, a drama about a group of young people facing the Aids crisis of the 1980s, is the firm frontrunner with 11 nominations including five acting nods.See the full list of BAFTA TV Awards nominations belowThe mini-series, created by former Doctor Who showrunner Russell T Davies, became Channel 4’s most successful ever drama when it was broadcast last year.
Davies is also recognised in the Best Writer category this evening.The international category is strong, with two global hits Succession (HBO) and Squid Game (Netflix) up against Call My Agent!
and Lupin (both Netflix), Mare of Easttown (HBO) and The Underground Railroad (Amazon).Other nominees include Kate Winslet (Mare of Easttown) and Matthew Macfadyen (Succession), while Boiling Part star Stephen Graham is nominated in two separate categories – best actor for Channel 4’s Help, and best supporting actor for the BBC’s prison drama Time.The ceremony will see its return to an in-person affair with a full audience for the first time in three years, with comedy writer Richard Ayoade hosting at London’s Royal Festival Hall.The one winner already known is Sir Billy Connolly, to be awarded the BAFTA fellowship, for outstanding and exceptional contribution to the arts.New and returning series on broadcast, cable and streamingSeries that made it or didn’t make it in 2020-21Broadcast networks’ fall lineups and schedules
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