The 2024 British Academy Television Awards ceremony will be held on 12 May 2024 at the
Royal Festival Hall
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in
London, to recognise the excellence in British television of 2023.
The ceremony will be hosted by
Rob Beckett and
Romesh Ranganathan
Jonathan Romesh Ranganathan (born 27 March 1978), is an English actor and comedian. He is known for his deadpan and often self-deprecating comedy.
Ranganathan has made numerous appearances on television comedy panel shows, and in 2016 he co-p ...
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
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Happy Valley'' and ''
Succession
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'' 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
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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 are entered together. Previously, pairs were required to be recognised as a presenting duo to be eligible.
* The categories for
Best Mini-Series and
Best Single Drama will be merged into a category named Limited Drama, to recognise "scripted one-off programmes or series that tell a complete story over 1-19 episodes".
* The categories for
Best Sport and
Best Live Event will be merged again into a category named Best Sport & Live Event Coverage (the merged category had previously been presented from 2012 to 2015). The categories will be split in case there are 12 sports and 12 live events entered.
* Three category named have been updated and renamed:
**
Best Soap and Continuing Drama into Best Soap
**
Best Reality and Constructed Factual into Best Reality
**
Best Features into Best Factual Entertainment
Winners and nominees
The nominations were announced on 20 March 2024.
References
External links
Official website
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Predicted and scheduled events
* January 1
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