The BAFTA Television Award Nominees Have Been Announced

Three months ago, the BAFTAs were handed out to the best and brightest of the film world. Today, nominations for the BAFTA Television Awards, the UK equivalent to the Emmys, came out, and several BBC AMERICA shows received some love:

• The Inbetweeners‘ Simon Bird and Peep Show‘s David Mitchell are both nominated in the Male Performance in a Comedy Role category. Both The Inbetweeners and Peep Show are up for the Best Situation Comedy award as well.

• Not Going Out‘s Miranda Hart is nominated in the Female Performance in a Comedy Role category for her self-titled show, Miranda.

• That Mitchell and Webb Look is a nominee in the Best Comedy Program category.

• Being Human is nominated for Best Drama Series.

• Occupation is nominated for Best Drama Serial (a miniseries award).

• Primeval is nominated for a New Media award for the Primeval Evolved online game.

• The Graham Norton Show is up for the Entertainment Program award.

• BBC World News America‘s Matt Frei is nominated for BBC NEWS’ coverage of the earthquake in Haiti.

• The Choir and James May’s Toy Stories, two shows that will be coming soon to BBC AMERICA, were both nominated in the Features category.

Winners will be revealed June 6th. Here’s just a sampling of some of the other nominees. Note the double nominations in the Best Actress category for Julie Walters:

BEST ACTRESS:

Helena Bonham Carter - Enid:

Sophie Okonedo – Mrs. Mandela

Julie Walters – A Short Stay in Switzerland

Julie Walters – Mo

BEST ACTOR:

Kenneth Branagh – Wallander

Brendan Gleeson – Into the Storm

John Hurt – An Englishman in New York

David Oyelowo – Small island

BEST FEMALE PERFORMANCE IN A COMEDY ROLE:

Jo Brand – Getting On
Joanna Scanlan – Getting On

Miranda Hart – Miranda

Rebecca Front – The Thick of It

BEST MALE PERFORMANCE IN A COMEDY ROLE:

Simon Bird – The Inbetweeners

Peter Capaldi – The Thick of It

Hugh Dennis – Outnumbered Christmas Special

David Mitchell – Peep Show