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2024 British Academy Television Awards
The 2024 British Academy Television Awards ceremony will be held on 12 May 2024 at the Royal Festival Hall in London, to recognise the excellence in British television of 2023. The ceremony will be hosted by Rob Beckett and Romesh Ranganathan for the second time in a row, and will be broadcast on BBC One. The nominations were announced on 20 March 2024 alongside the nominations for the craft awards. The nominees for the P&O Cruises Memorable Moment were announced on 14 March 2024. '' Happy Valley'' and ''Succession'' led the nominations with five each, followed by '' The Sixth Commandment'' and '' The Crown'', both with four. Category changes and updates The academy announced several category changes and updates for the 2024 edition: * In order to be eligible for the Daytime category, episodes must be transmitted between 09:00 and 18:00. * For the Best Entertainment Programme, two people will be considered as a pair if they have equal billing on their entered program and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Festival Hall
The Royal Festival Hall is a 2,700-seat concert, dance and talks venue within Southbank Centre in London. It is situated on the South Bank of the River Thames, not far from Hungerford Bridge, in the London Borough of Lambeth. It is a Grade I listed building, the first post-war building to become so protected (in 1981). The London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the London Sinfonietta, Chineke! and Aurora are resident orchestras at Southbank Centre. The hall was built as part of the Festival of Britain for London County Council, and was officially opened on 3 May 1951. When the LCC's successor, the Greater London Council, was abolished in 1986, the Festival Hall was taken over by the Arts Council, and managed together with the Queen Elizabeth Hall and Purcell Room (opened 1967) and the Hayward Gallery (1968), eventually becoming an independent arts organisation, now known as the Southbank Centre, in April 1998. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Academy Television Award For Best Sport
The British Academy Television Award for Best Sport is one of the major categories of the British Academy Television Awards (BAFTAs), the primary awards ceremony of the British television industry. According to the BAFTA website, the category is for "the television coverage of a sporting event." The category has gone through several changes: * An individual award (occasionally with nominees) named ''Best Outside Broadcasts'' was presented from 1964 to 1968 and in 1977. * From 1986 to 1991, the category was merged with the '' Best News Coverage'' category, being presented as ''Best News or Outside Broadcast Coverage''. * From 1995 to 1997 it was presented as ''Best Sports/Events Coverage in Real Time''. * In 1998 and 1999 it was awarded as ''Best Live Outside Broadcast Coverage''. * From 2012 to 2015, the category for sport evens was merged with the Best Live Event category being awarded under the name ''Best Sport and Live Event''. Since 2016, the category is presented as a stan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dreaming Whilst Black
''Dreaming Whilst Black'' (stylised as ''Dreaming Whilst B@*k'') is a British comedy television series written by and starring Adjani Salmon. Originally a webcast, a television pilot (2021) developed into a series, which was broadcast on BBC Three from 24 July 2023. A second series was commissioned in February 2024. Synopsis Kwabena works in recruitment but dreams of being a filmmaker with his video producer friend from film school Amy, who has just returned from three years in Nigeria. Amy offers to pass Kwabena's script, ''Jamaica Road'', on to the development team at the production company where she works. Kwabena's lives with his cousin Maurice and Maurice's wife, Funmi, who is heavily pregnant. The couple are reading up on the latest tips on pregnancy, and researching practices including hypnobirthing. The first season follows Kwabena's attempts to negotiate the filmmaking sector, his necessary forays into the gig economy, and his developing relationship with Vanessa, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Boys (TV Series)
''Big Boys'' is a British television sitcom created and written by Jack Rooke, first broadcast on Channel 4 and available on All 4 from 26 May 2022. It stars Dylan Llewellyn and Jon Pointing as first-year university students who live together, set in 2013, told from the point of view of Llewellyn's character Jack—a semi-fictionalised version of Rooke, who narrates the series—as he recovers from his father's death and explores his sexuality for the first time. The show was renewed for a second series in August 2022, set for a 2023 broadcast. Cast and characters Main * Dylan Llewellyn as Jack, a closeted, shy 19-year-old student on a journalism scholarship, who is grieving over his father's death and unused to the heavy social life of university, having cooped up at home for the past few years with his mother * Jon Pointing as Danny, a 25-year-old mature student, who is keen on nights out and trying to chat up other female students, while dealing with mental health issues ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Gold (TV Series)
''The Gold'' is a British television drama series written by Neil Forsyth and co-produced by hiTannadice Picturesproduction label. It stars Hugh Bonneville, Dominic Cooper, Charlotte Spencer, Sean Harris, Jack Lowden and Tom Cullen and is a dramatization of events around Brink's-Mat robbery in 1983. It is directed by Aneil Karia and Lawrence Gough. The first episode was previewed at the BFI Southbank on 17 January, and aired on BBC One from 12 February 2023, with all episodes simultaneously available on BBC iPlayer. It is due to stream on Paramount+ later in 2023. Synopsis The series covers the 1983 Brink's-Mat robbery in which £26 million (equivalent to £ in ) worth of gold bullion, diamonds, and cash was stolen from a warehouse near Heathrow Airport, and the widespread events that followed over the following decade. At the time it was the biggest robbery in history, and led to a number of international criminal investigations. Cast * Hugh Bonneville as DCI Brian B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Top Boy
''Top Boy'' is a British television crime drama series, created and written by Ronan Bennett. The series is set in the fictional Summerhouse estate in the London Borough of Hackney and focuses on two drug dealers Dushane ( Ashley Walters) and Sully (Kane Robinson) along with others involved with drug-dealing and gang violence in London. There are 26 episodes across four series. The first two series was broadcast on Channel 4, with the first series airing over four consecutive nights from 31 October to 3 November 2011 and the second series airing from 20 August to 10 September 2013. Although storylines for a third series were proposed, the series was dropped by Channel 4 in 2014. Following interest from Canadian rapper Drake, it was announced in 2017 that Netflix would revive the series, with both Ashley Walters and Kane Robinson, as well as the original crew, reprising their roles and Drake and his team executively producing. The third and fourth series premiered on Netflix i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slow Horses
''Slow Horses'' is a spy thriller television series based on the ''Slough House'' series of novels by Mick Herron. The series premiered on Apple TV+ on 1 April 2022. Season two premiered on December 2, 2022. In June 2022, the series was renewed for third and fourth seasons. It has received critical acclaim. Premise Slough House is an administrative purgatory for MI5 service rejects who have bungled their job but somehow have not been outright fired. Those consigned there are known as "Slow Horses". They are expected to endure dull, paper-pushing tasks, along with occasional mental abuse from their miserable boss, Jackson Lamb, who expects them to quit out of boredom or frustration. Life in Slough House is defined by drudgery. In the final episode of season 2 after a foreign agent expresses his desire "for humiliation of you and your team", Lamb responds, "that was a waste of effort. My team have already professionally embarrassed themselves." And yet the Slow Horses somehow get ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Academy Television Award For Best Scripted Comedy
British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories, and Crown Dependencies. ** Britishness, the British identity and common culture * British English, the English language as spoken and written in the United Kingdom or, more broadly, throughout the British Isles * Celtic Britons, an ancient ethno-linguistic group * Brittonic languages, a branch of the Insular Celtic language family (formerly called British) ** Common Brittonic, an ancient language Other uses *''Brit(ish)'', a 2018 memoir by Afua Hirsch *People or things associated with: ** Great Britain, an island ** United Kingdom, a sovereign state ** Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1800) ** United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1801–1922) See also * Terminology of the British Isles * Alternative names for the British * English (other) * Britannic (other) * British Isles * Brit (other) * Briton (d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Academy Television Award For Best Drama Series
The British Academy Television Award for Best Drama Series is one of the major categories of the British Academy Television Awards (BAFTAs), the primary awards ceremony of the British television industry. The category is described on the official BAFTA website as being open a drama series "of between two and 19 episodes, that is intended to return." The category has been through several name and category changes: * From 1958 to 1972 the award was presented usually individually under the name "Best Drama Production". * Also during the same period another category was awarded briefly as "Best Drama Series" from 1964 to 1970. * Then from 1970 to 1991 it was joined with drama serials into a category named "Best Drama Series or Serial" with the exception of the years 87, 88 and 89 where it was awarded just as "Best Drama Series". From 1992 onwards, the category was split in two, with a separate Best Drama Serial category also established. ''Inspector Morse'', '' Cracker'', '' The C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Guardian
''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'', and changed its name in 1959. Along with its sister papers ''The Observer'' and ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Guardian Media Group, owned by the Scott Trust. The trust was created in 1936 to "secure the financial and editorial independence of ''The Guardian'' in perpetuity and to safeguard the journalistic freedom and liberal values of ''The Guardian'' free from commercial or political interference". The trust was converted into a limited company in 2008, with a constitution written so as to maintain for ''The Guardian'' the same protections as were built into the structure of the Scott Trust by its creators. Profits are reinvested in journalism rather than distributed to owners or shareholders. It is considered a newspaper of record in the UK. The editor-in-chief Katharine Viner succeeded Alan Rusbridger in 2015. Since 2018, the paper's main news ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Academy Television Award For Best Features
The British Academy Television Award for Best Features is one of the major categories of the British Academy Television Awards (BAFTAs), the primary awards ceremony of the British television industry. According to the BAFTA website, the category "includes factual programmes, not included in any other categories including cookery and cookery competitions, travelogues, gardening, property, fashion and all other lifestyle programming and studio discussions." The category was first presented in 1999 under the name of ''Best Feature - Programme or Series'' although since 2000 the category has been presented just as ''Best Features''. Winners and nominees 1990s Best Feature - Programme or Series 2000s Best Features 2010s 2020s *Note: The series that don't have recipients on the tables had Production team credited as recipients for the award or nomination. References External linksList of winnersat the British Academy of Film and Television Arts British may refer to: People ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
