Netflix drama Adolescence leads the wayin this year’s Bafta TV and TV Craft Awards with 12 nominations, with BBC1’s The Celebrity Traitors scoring six.
As well as a clutch of acting nods, the Warp Films/Plan B series’ nominations include best limited drama; best director for Philip Barantini; best writer: drama for Jack Thorne and Stephen Graham; photography & lighting, fiction for Matthew Lewis; and sound: fiction for James Drake, Jules Woods, Rob Entwistle, Kiff Mcmanus, Kyle Pickford and Adam Méndez.
Casting director Shaheen Baig also makes the shortlist, where she competes with herself for Channel 4’s Get Millie Black, with Nathan Toth also double-nominated for BBC3’s What It Feels Like For a Girl and BBC1's Reunion, the latter shared with Julie Harkin.
Studio Lambert’s debut celebrity spin-off of The Traitors, meanwhile, is nominated for its sound team, its entertainment craft team of Stuart Frossell, Martin Adams and Nathan Lindley and multi-camera directing team of Ben Archard, Eddie Lewis and Marieke Barker-Benfield, alongside a nod for presenter Claudia Winkleman, plus a place on the ‘memorable moment’ and best reality series shortlists.
The single documentary race is between Netflix’s Grenfell: Uncovered (Rogan Productions), BBC2’s Louis Theroux: The Settlers (Mindhouse), C4’s One Day In Southport (Amos Pictures) and BBC2’s Unforgotten: The Bradford City Fire (Acme).
This year’s factual series shortlist comprises Candour’s Sky series Bibaa & Nicole: Murder in the Park, C4’s Educating Yorkshire (Twofour) and See No Evil (Passion Pictures) and ITV’s The Undercover Police Scandal: Love And Lies Exposed (Raw).
See No Evil director Benedict Sanderson is also nominated in the director: factual category.
Among his competitors is Kamir Shah for Gaza: Doctors Under Attack, made by Basement Films and commissioned for the BBC before it was dropped and picked up by C4. The doc is also nominated in current affairs, with Mel Quigley and Andy Kemp nominated in the editing: factual category.
Fellow director: factual nominee Olaide Sadiq (Grenfell: Uncovered) is also up for emerging talent: factual alongside Alexandra Lacey, writer/director of Netflix’s The Twister: Caught in the Storm (Raw), and Elle Mower, director of BBC3’s Convicting My Ex (Story Films).
The emerging talent: fiction shortlist comprises directors Chloe English (ITV's G'Wed), Emily McDonald (BBC1's Am I Being Unreasonable?) and Eros V (BBC3's Juice) and writer Janice Okah (BBC3's Just Act Normal).
Up for factual entertainment are ITV1’s The Assembly (Rockerdale Studios), BBC1’s Race Across the World (Studio Lambert), C4’s Go Back to Where You Came From (Minnow Films) and Apple TV’s Knife Edge: Chasing Michelin Stars (Studio Ramsay).
This year’s awards take place on 26 April (TV Craft Awards) and 10 May (TV Awards).
