2006 British Academy Television Awards
The 2006 British Academy Television Awards were held on Sunday 7 May at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London. The ceremony was hosted by television presenter Davina McCall and broadcast on ITV the following day. The nominees for the audience-voted Pioneer Award were announced on Tuesday 14 March; other nominees were revealed on Monday 27 March.
Winners
- Best Actor
- *Winner: Mark Rylance — The Government Inspector
- *Nominees: Bernard Hill — A Very Social Secretary ; Denis Lawson — Bleak House ; Rufus Sewell — The Taming of the Shrew
- Best Actress
- *Winner: Anna Maxwell Martin — Bleak House
- *Nominees: Gillian Anderson — Bleak House ; Lucy Cohu — The Queen's Sister ; Anne-Marie Duff — Shameless
- Best Comedy
- *Winner: Help
- *Nominees: The Catherine Tate Show ; Creature Comforts ; Little Britain
- Best Comedy Performance
- *Winner: Chris Langham — The Thick of It ;
- *Nominees: Peter Capaldi — The Thick of It ; Ashley Jensen — Extras ; Catherine Tate — The Catherine Tate Show
- Best Drama Serial
- *Winner: Bleak House
- *Nominees: Fingersmith ; Funland ; To the Ends of the Earth
- Best Drama Series
- *Winner: Doctor Who
- *Nominees: Bodies ; Shameless ; Spooks
- Best Single Drama
- *Winner: The Government Inspector
- *Nominees: Much Ado About Nothing ; The Queen's Sister ; Red Dust
- Best Continuing Drama
- *Winner: EastEnders
- *Nominees: Casualty ; Coronation Street ; Holby City
- Best Current Affairs
- *Winner: Dispatches - Beslan
- *Nominees: Panorama Special - Undercover Nurse ; Dispatches - Iraq: The Reckoning ; Storyville - A Company of Soldiers
- Best Entertainment Performance
- *Winner: Jonathan Ross — Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
- *Nominees: Jeremy Clarkson — Top Gear ; Jack Dee — Jack Dee Live at the Apollo ; Noel Edmonds — Deal or No Deal
- Best Factual Series or Strand
- *Winner: Jamie's School Dinners
- *Nominees: 49 Up ; Cocaine ; Coast
- Best Feature
- *Winner: The Apprentice
- *Nominees: Dragons' Den ; Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares ; Top Gear
- Flaherty Award for Single Documentary
- *Winner: Make Me Normal
- *Nominees: Children of Beslan ; The Real Sex Traffic ; '
- Huw Wheldon Award for Specialist Factual
- *Winner: Holocaust, a Memorial Film From Auschwitz
- *Nominees: The Boy with the Incredible Brain ; Life in the Undergrowth ; No Direction Home
- Lew Grade Entertainment Programme or Series
- *Winner: The X Factor
- *Nominees: Friday Night with Jonathan Ross ; Have I Got News For You ; Strictly Come Dancing
- News Coverage
- *Winner: BBC Ten O'Clock News - 7 July 2005, London Bombs
- *Nominees: Channel 4 News - The Attorney General Story ; ITV Evening News - The Shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes ; Sky News - 7 July bombings
- Situation Comedy Award
- *Winner: The Thick of It
- *Nominees: Extras ; Peep Show ; The Worst Week of My Life
- Sport
- *Winner: The Ashes - England v Australia
- *Nominees: Champions League Final Live: AC Milan v Liverpool ; Formula One - United States Grand Prix ; The Open Championship - Final Round of Jack Nicklaus
- Interactivity
- *Winner: Coast
- *Nominees: Channel 4 News - Breaking the News ; Not Forgotten / Lost Generation ; Shakespeare's Stories
- The Pioneer Award
- *Winner: Doctor Who
- *Nominees: The Apprentice ; Bleak House ; The Catherine Tate Show ; Desperate Housewives ; Jamie's School Dinners ; Strictly Come Dancing ; The X-Factor
- The Dennis Potter Award
- *Russell T Davies
- The Alan Clarke Award
- *Adam Curtis
- The Richard Dimbleby Award
- *Jamie Oliver
- Fellowship'''
- *Ken Loach