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Naman Ramachandran The BAFTA Children and Young People Awards have been rebranded and will be incorporated into the annual film, games and television ceremonies. The org’s support for the children’s media industry and its year-round learning programs will now take place under a new brand, Young BAFTA.

Naman Ramachandran A galaxy of 42 emerging creative talents from across the U.S., U.K. and India have been unveiled as the 2023 BAFTA Breakthrough cohort.

Leading UK agent Sara Putt, the new Chair of BAFTA, appeared to reference this past weekend’s coverage around criminal allegations against Russell Brand in her first letter to members. 

Naman Ramachandran New BAFTA chair Sara Putt has reflected upon the events of the past weekend in her first letter to members. While not addressing Russell Brand – about whom allegations of rape and sexual assault emerged over the weekend – by name, Putt wrote: “This weekend’s news has again raised serious questions about the culture of the screen industries and what still needs to change.

Manori Ravindran Executive Editor of International After 18 years at BAFTA, Krishnendu Majumdar is having trouble switching off. It’s been almost two months since the media executive, who recently won a BAFTA for his Kate Winslet-led Channel 4 drama “I Am Ruth,” finished his three-year term as chair of the British Academy, handing over the reins to agency boss Sara Putt.

The outgoing Chair of BAFTA has used his exit interview to urge writers, actors and studios to “come together to find a fair, equitable solution,” while pointing to gains required in “hidden areas” of diversity.

It was a treasured moment for most people who were watching and now Paddington's meeting with the Queen during the Platinum Jubilee celebrations is in the running to be voted the TV moment of the year at the Bafta Television Awards.

BAFTA has celebrated the number of older white women nominated for best actress at its Television Awards amid a steep decline in ethnic diversity in performance shortlists.

Naman Ramachandran The BBC’s “This is Going to Hurt” and “The Responder” led the way at the BAFTA Television Awards and the BAFTA Television Craft Awards 2023 with six nominations each. Apple TV+’s “Bad Sisters” and “Slow Horses,” Netflix’s “The Crown” and the BBC’s “The English” receive five nominations each, while the BBC’s “Am I Being Unreasonable?” and “Somewhere Boy,” Channel 4’s “Big Boys” and Netflix’s “Top Boy” receive four nominations each. P&O Cruises is the headline sponsor of BAFTA Television Awards, which will be hosted by comedians Rob Beckett and Romesh Ranganathan on May 14.

announced Tuesday.Under the new rules, the top three male and top three female candidates in both the Director categories, which include Factual, Fiction and Multi-Camera awards, in the BAFTA Craft Awards and the entertainment performance category in the TV Awards from the round one membership vote will now automatically go through to jury consideration.“This new intervention, a first for the TV Craft Awards, will increase the visibility of women at longlisting stage, with the longer-term aim to encourage a greater representation of women considered,” BAFTA’s press announcement read. “This sits alongside BAFTA’s wider charitable work to level the playing field for all.”In terms of the international category, the top three non-scripted and top three scripted programs will now automatically be longlisted, as a way to offset the historic “prevalence of scripted programs making it through to jury consideration” despite both non-scripted and scripted programs being eligible for the category since its conception.The changes also include splitting the Original Music category into two — Original Music: Fiction and Original Music: Factual — in order to recognize “the high volume and quality of entries.”“Television and the way in which audiences consume content is ever-evolving, and it’s essential we adapt alongside,” said Sara Putt, Deputy Chair of BAFTA and Chair of the BAFTA Television Committee.

BAFTA has tweaked the rules for some of its TV categories in order to open up the awards to more women directors and international non-scripted shows.

Aisling Bea has said it is “really important” to fight plans to privatise Channel 4. The Government recently confirmed the broadcaster, which has been publicly owned since it was founded in 1982, will be sold off. Stars of the small screen voiced their concerns about the move on the red carpet at the Bafta TV Awards in London.

Naman Ramachandran TripleC, a gateway organization that helps deaf, disabled, and neurodiverse people access the arts and media, will receive a BAFTA TV Craft Special Award during the British Academy Television Craft Awards. Actor Cherylee Houston (“Coronation Street”) founded TripleC and with a group of friends including Melissa Johns (“Grantchester”), they have built a platform for making the creative screen industry more inclusive.Johns and Houston said: “When we set up this organization five years ago, we were just a group of disabled and non-disabled creatives coming together to see if we could make a change.

The UK TV industry has attracted stinging criticism from special interest groups and trade bodies after only one of 12 nominated Directors at the BAFTA TV Craft Awards was female.

BAFTA Awards executives have made their stance clear on what would have happened to Will Smith had he hit Chris Rock during their awards show instead.

Oscars stage in Los Angeles on Sunday evening during the telecast and hit presenter Chris Rock for making a joke about his wife, Jada Pinkett-Smith. But if the altercation that still has everyone talking happened in England at the BAFTAs, Smith would have immediately been escorted out of the building.Executives from British Academy of Film and Television Arts discussed with The Hollywood Reporter their thoughts on the viral moment.“They would be removed from the building,” said Sara Putt, chair of BAFTA’s television committee said, after she was asked what BAFTA would do in a similar circumstance.Smith won later that same night the Academy Award for Best Actor for his work in the drama “King Ricard.” He was even given a standing ovation and his speech ran for almost five minutes.Putt also stated that said individual would not be able to stay and collect any awards.

More than two-thirds (67%) of this year’s BAFTA TV performance nominees are nominated for the first time, according to the award’s organizers, who hailed the organization’s impact on new voices.