BAFTA TV Awards 2023; Ben Whishaw among 2023 award nominees, but no Happy Valley - full list

Ben Whishaw’s medical comedy-drama This Is Going To Hurt is among the leading contenders for this year’s BAFTA TV Awards, with nominees announced for the ceremony this morning (Wednesday 22 March). The joint BBC and AMC production has been nominated for Best Mini-series and Whishaw himself for Best Actor ahead of the awards ceremony taking place on 14 May 2023, and hosted by Rob Beckett and Romesh Ranganathan.

Whishaw, however, looks to have his work cut out in the Best Actor field; he sees himself up against Martin Freeman, star of another hot contender for the BAFTAs this year with The Responder, Gary Oldman in the AppleTV+ series Slow Horses and a perennial favourite of the TV awards season - Cillian Murphy in Peaky Blinders.

However, the omission of the critically acclaimed BBC series Happy Valley, featuring Sarah Lancashire, was questioned after the announcement was made. There is, unfortunately, a good reason as to why it didn’t make the nominations - its broadcast date took place after the cut off period for considerations for 2023’s awards. However, fans of the actress will still be pleased to see her nominated for her role in the series Julia, facing stiff competition in the Best Actress category against Kate Winslet and Imelda Staunton.

Not satisfied with people talking about her possible casting in the next James Bond movie, Daisy May Cooper’s prolific 2023 has seen her earn a nomination for Female performance in a comedy programme for her role in Am I Being Unreasonable?, but in another tight awards race, she faces competition with Diane Morgan’s Philomena Cunk character. Morgan was recently a guest on US talk show Late Night with Seth Meyers, as her show Cunk on Earth has recently been added to Netflix’s US platform.

Former Harry Potter star, Daniel Radcliffe, has also earned a nomination at this year’s awards, vying for the Male performance in a comedy programme award after appearing in the revised-history biopic Weird: The Al Yankovic Story. Meanwhile, Ant and Dec’s stranglehold of the Entertainment programme award may be under threat, as it faces off against ITV’s The Masked Singer and BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing.

Full list of BAFTA TV Awards 2023 nominees

Drama series

• Bad Sisters

• The Responder

• Sherwood

• Somewhere Boy

Mini-series

• A Spy Among Friends

• Mood

• The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe

• This Is Going to Hurt

International

• The Bear (Disney+)

• Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story (Netflix)

• Wednesday (Netflix)

• Oussekine (Itineraire)

• Pachinko (Apple TV+)

• The White Lotus (Sky Atlantic)

Leading actress

• Billie Piper – I Hate Suzie Too (Sky Atlantic)

• Imelda Staunton – The Crown (Netflix)

• Kate Winslet – I Am Ruth (Channel 4)

• Maxine Peake – Anne (Channel 4)

• Sarah Lancashire – Julia (Sky Atlantic)

• Vicky McClure – Without Sin (ITVX)

Leading actor

• Ben Whishaw – This Is Going to Hurt (BBC One)

• Chaske Spencer – The English (BBC Two)

• Cillian Murphy – Peaky Blinders (BBC One)

• Gary Oldman – Slow Horses (Apple TV+)

• Martin Freeman – The Responder (BBC One)

• Taron Egerton – Black Bird (Apple TV+)

Female performance in a comedy programme

• Daisy May Cooper – Am I Being Unreasonable? (BBC One)

• Diane Morgan – Cunk on Earth (BBC Two)

• Lucy Beaumont – Meet the Richardsons (Dave)

• Natasia Demetriou – Ellie & Natasia (BBC Three)

• Siobhán McSweeney – Derry Girls (Channel 4)

• Taj Atwal – Hullraisers (Channel 4)

Male performance in a comedy programme

• Daniel Radcliffe – Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (The Roku Channel)

• Jon Pointing – Big Boys (Channel 4)

• Joseph Gilgun – Brassic (Sky Max)

• Lenny Rush – Am I Being Unreasonable? (BBC One)

• Matt Berry – What We Do in the Shadows (Disney+)

• Stephen Merchant – The Outlaws (BBC One)

Supporting actor

• Adeel Akhtar – Sherwood (BBC One)

• Jack Lowden – Slow Horses (Apple TV+)

• Josh Finan – The Responder (BBC One)

• Salim Daw – The Crown (Netflix)

• Samuel Bottomley – Somewhere Boy (Channel 4)

• Will Sharpe – The White Lotus (Sky Atlantic)

Supporting actress

• Adelayo Adedayo – The Responder (BBC One)

• Anne-Marie Duff – Bad Sisters (Apple TV+)

• Fiona Shaw – Andor (Disney+)

• Jasmine Jobson – Top Boy (Netflix)

• Lesley Manville – Sherwood (BBC One)

• Saffron Hocking – Top Boy (Netflix)

Entertainment performance

• Big Zuu, Big Zuu’s Big Eats (Dave)

• Claudia Winkleman, The Traitors (BBC One)

• Lee Mack, The 1% Club (ITV1)

• Mo Gilligan, The Lateish Show With Mo Gilligan (Channel 4)

• Rosie Jones, Rosie Jones’ Trip Hazard (Channel 4)

• Sue Perkins, Sue Perkins: Perfectly Legal (Netflix)

Specialist factual

• Aids: The Unheard Tapes (BBC Two)

• The Green Planet (BBC One)

• How to Survive a Dictator With Munya Chawawa (Channel 4)

• Russia 1985-1999: Traumazone (iPlayer)

Reality and constructed factual

• Freddie Flintoff’s Field of Dreams (BBC One)

• RuPaul’s Drag Race UK (BBC Three)

• The Traitors (BBC One)

• We Are Black and British (BBC Two)

Current affairs

• Afghanistan: No Country for Women: Exposure (ITV1)

• Children of the Taliban (Channel 4)

• The Crossing: Exposure (ITV1)

• Mariupol: The People’s Story – Panorama (BBC One)

Entertainment programme

• Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway (ITV)

• Later … With Jools Holland (BBC Two)

• The Masked Singer (ITV)

• Strictly Come Dancing (BBC One)

Scripted comedy

• Am I Being Unreasonable? (BBC One)

• Big Boys (Channel 4)

• Derry Girls (Channel 4)

• Ghosts (BBC One)

Comedy entertainment programme

• Friday Night Live (Channel 4)

• The Graham Norton Show (BBC One)

• Taskmaster (Channel 4)

• Would I Lie To You? (BBC One)

Short form programme

• Always, Asifa (Together TV)

• Biscuitland (All 4)

• How to Be a Person (E4)

• Kingpin Cribs (YouTube/Channel 4)

Factual series

• Jeremy Kyle Show: Death on Daytime (Channel 4)

• Libby, Are You Home Yet? (Sky Crime)

• Vatican Girl: The Disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi (Netflix)

• Worlds Collide: The Manchester Bombing (ITV1)

Features

• Big Zuu’s Big Eats (Dave)

• Joe Lycett vs Beckham: Got Your Back (Channel 4)

• The Martin Lewis Money Show Live (ITV1)

• The Misadventures of Romesh Ranganathan (BBC Two)

Live event

• Concert for Ukraine (ITV1)

• Platinum Jubilee: Party at the Palace (BBC One)

• The State Funeral of HM Queen Elizabeth II (BBC One)

News coverage

• BBC News at 10: Russia Invades Ukraine (BBC One)

• Channel 4 News: Live in Kyiv (Channel 4)

• Good Morning Britain: Boris Johnson Interview (ITV1)

Single documentary

• Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes (Sky Documentaries)

• Escape from Kabul Airport (BBC Two)

• Our Falklands War: A Frontline Story (BBC Two)

• The Real Mo Farah (BBC One)

Single drama

• I Am Ruth (Channel 4)

• The House (Netflix)

• Life and Death in the Warehouse (BBC Three)

• Casualty (BBC One)

• EastEnders (BBC One)

• Emmerdale (ITV1)

• Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games (BBC One)

• UEFA Women’s Euro 2022 (BBC One)

• Wimbledon 2022 (BBC One)