2019 British Academy Television Awards


The 2019 British Academy Television Awards were held on 12 May 2019 at the Royal Festival Hall in London. The nominations were announced on 28 March 2019, whilst the nominees for the "Virgin TV’s Must-See Moments" were announced on 27 March 2019. The 2019 British Academy Television Craft Awards were held on 28 April 2019.

Winners and nominees

Best Drama SeriesBest Mini-Series

  • Killing Eve
  • *Bodyguard
  • *Informer
  • *Save Me
  • Patrick Melrose
  • *A Very English Scandal
  • *Kiri
  • *Mrs Wilson
    • Best Single DramaBest Soap and Continuing Drama
  • Killed by My Debt
  • *'
  • *Care
  • *Through the Gates
  • EastEnders
  • *Casualty
  • *Coronation Street
  • *Hollyoaks
    • Best ActorBest Actress
  • Benedict Cumberbatch – Patrick Melrose as Patrick Melrose
  • *Hugh Grant – A Very English Scandal as Jeremy Thorpe
  • *Lucian Msamati – Kiri as Tobi Akindele
  • *Chance Perdomo – Killed by My Debt as Jerome
  • Jodie Comer – Killing Eve as Villanelle
  • *Keeley Hawes – Bodyguard as Julia Montague
  • *Sandra Oh – Killing Eve as Eve Polastri
  • *Ruth Wilson – Mrs Wilson as Alison Wilson
    • Best Supporting ActorBest Supporting Actress
  • Ben Whishaw – A Very English Scandal as Norman Josiffe/Norman Scott
  • *Kim Bodnia – Killing Eve as Konstantin Vasiliev
  • *Stephen Graham – Save Me as Fabio "Melon" Melonzola
  • *Alex Jennings – Unforgotten as Tim Finch
  • Fiona Shaw – Killing Eve as Carolyn Martens
  • *Monica Dolan – A Very English Scandal as Marion Thorpe
  • *Keeley Hawes – Mrs Wilson as Dorothy Wick
  • *Billie Piper – Collateral as Karen Mars
    • Best Male Comedy PerformanceBest Female Comedy Performance
  • Steve Pemberton – Inside No. 9 as Various characters
  • *Jamie Demetriou – Stath Lets Flats as Stath
  • *Alex MacQueen – Sally4Ever as David
  • *Peter Mullan – Mum as Michael
  • Jessica Hynes – There She Goes as Emily Yates
  • *Daisy May Cooper – This Country as Kerry Mucklowe
  • *Julia Davis – Sally4Ever as Emma
  • *Lesley Manville – Mum as Cathy Bradshaw
    • Best Scripted ComedyBest Comedy and Comedy Entertainment Programme
  • Sally4Ever
  • * Derry Girls
  • * Mum
  • * Stath Lets Flats
  • A League of Their Own
  • * The Big Narstie Show
  • * The Last Leg
  • * Would I Lie to You?
    • Best Entertainment PerformanceLew Grade Award for Entertainment Programme
  • Lee Mack – Would I Lie to You?
  • * Ant & Dec – Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway
  • * David Mitchell – Would I Lie to You?
  • * Rachel Parris – The Mash Report
  • Britain's Got Talent
  • * Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway
  • * Michael McIntyre's Big Show
  • * Strictly Come Dancing
    • Best Factual Series or StrandHuw Wheldon Award for Specialist Factual
  • Louis Theroux's Altered States
  • * 24 Hours in A&E
  • * Life and Death Row : The Mass Execution
  • * Prison
  • Suffragettes with Lucy Worsley
  • *'
  • *Grayson Perry: Rites of Passage
  • *Superkids: Breaking Away from Care
    • Robert Flaherty Award for Single DocumentaryBest Feature
  • Gun No. 6
  • * Driven: The Billy Monger Story
  • * My Dad, The Peace Deal and Me
  • * School for Stammers
  • Who Do You Think You Are?
  • * Gordon, Gino and Fred's Road Trip
  • * The Great British Bake Off
  • * Mortimer & Whitehouse : Gone Fishing
    • Best Reality and Constructed FactualBest Live Event
  • I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!
  • * Dragons' Den
  • * Old Peoples' Home for 4 Year Olds
  • * The Real Full Monty: Ladies' Night
  • Royal British Legion Festival of Remembrance
  • * Open Heart Surgery: Live
  • * The Royal Wedding: Prince Harry and Megan Markle
  • * Stand Up to Cancer
    • Best News CoverageBest Current Affairs
  • Cambridge Analytica Uncovered
  • * Bullying and Harassment in the House of Commons
  • * Good Morning Britain: On the Knife Edge
  • * Good Morning Britain: Thomas Markle
  • Myanmar's Killing Fields
  • * Football's Wall of Silence
  • * Iran Unveiled: Taking on the Ayatollahs
  • * Massacre at Ballymurphy
    • Best SportBest Short Form Programme
  • 2018 World Cup Quarter Final: England v/s Sweden
  • * 2018 Six Nations: Scotland v/s England
  • * England's Test Cricket – Cook's Farewell
  • * Winter Olympics
  • Missed Call
  • * Bovril Pam
  • * The Mind of Herbert Clunkerdunk
  • * Wondergate
    • Best International ProgrammeVirgin TV’s Must-See Moment
  • Succession
  • * 54 Hours : The Gladbeck Hostage Crisis
  • * The Handmaid's Tale
  • * Reporting Trump's First Year : The Fourth Estate
  • Bodyguard – "Julia Montague assassinated"
  • *Coronation Street – "Gail’s monologue on the suicide of Aidan Connor"
  • *Doctor Who – "Rosa Parks, the Doctor and her companions make sure historical moments remain"
  • *Killing Eve – "Eve stabs Villanelle"
  • *Peter Kay's Car Share – "The Finale"
  • *Queer Eye – "Tom completes his transformation"

    • Programmes with multiple nominations

    The following is a list of programmes with multiple nominations at both the 2019 British Academy Television Awards and the 2019 British Academy Television Craft Awards.
    NominationsProgramme
    15Killing Eve
    12A Very English Scandal
    6Bodyguard
    6Patrick Melrose
    5The Little Drummer Girl
    4Mrs Wilson
    4Mum
    3'
    3'
    3The Royal British Legion Festival of Remembrance
    3Sally4Ever
    3Save Me
    3Would I Lie to You?
    2Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway
    2Collateral
    2Coronation Street
    2Dynasties
    2Good Morning Britain
    2Grenfell
    2Killed by My Debt
    2Kiri
    2The Long Song
    2Louis Theroux's Altered States
    2The Mash Report
    2Michael Palin in North Korea
    2Peter Kay's Car Share
    2Prison
    2The Royal Wedding: Prince Harry and Megan Markle
    2Stath Lets Flats
    2Strictly Come Dancing
    2Through the Gates
    2This Country
    2The Voice UK
    2Winter Olympics

    NominationsNetwork
    76BBC One
    25BBC Two
    23Channel 4
    16ITV
    14Sky Atlantic
    8BBC Three
    6BBC Four
    6Netflix
    3Channel 5

    Most major wins

    WinsShow
    3Killing Eve
    2Patrick Melrose

    WinsNetwork
    11BBC One
    4Sky Atlantic
    3BBC Two
    3ITV

    Ceremony Information

    On 2 April 2019, it was announced that following a 2 year break, Graham Norton would return to host the 2019 BAFTA Television Awards.

    Controversy

    The inclusion of Killing Eve attracted some controversy as BAFTA rules state that a programme must have its premiere in the UK before elsewhere in order to be eligible, and Killing Eve premiered on BBC America in the US in April 2018, but in the UK in September 2018. BAFTA subsequently amended its eligibility rules, removing the requirement for UK programmes to premiere in the UK.

    In Memoriam