The British Academy Television Award for Best Drama Series is one of the major categories of the
British Academy Television Awards
The BAFTA TV Awards, or British Academy Television Awards are presented in an annual award show hosted by the BAFTA. They have been awarded annually since 1955.
Background
The first-ever Awards, given in 1955, consisted of six categories. Until ...
(BAFTAs), the primary awards ceremony of the
British television
Regular television broadcasts in the United Kingdom started in 1936 as a public service which was free of advertising, which followed the first demonstration of a transmitted moving image in 1926. Currently, the United Kingdom has a collection ...
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.
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Cracker
Cracker, crackers or The Crackers may refer to:
Animals
* ''Hamadryas'' (butterfly), or crackers, a genus of brush-footed butterflies
* '' Sparodon'', a monotypic genus whose species is sometimes known as "Cracker"
Arts and entertainment Films ...
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The Cops'', ''
The Street The Street may refer to:
Geographical
*Wall Street in New York City's Financial District
*The Street, Lawshall, Suffolk, England
*The Street (Heath Charnock)
The Street is a historical property on a bridleway of the same name in Heath Charnock ...
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Happy Valley'' have all won the category twice, all except the last in successive years.
Winners and nominees
1950s
Best Drama Production
1960s
Best Drama Production
Best Drama Series
1970s
Best Drama Production
Best Drama Series
Best Drama Series or Serial
1980s
Best Drama Series or Serial
Best Drama Series
1990s
Best Drama Series or Serial
Best Drama Series
2000s
2010s
2020s
*Note: The series that don't have recipients on the table had ''Production team'' credited as the recipients of the award or nomination.
Television Dramas with multiple awards nominations
Multiple awards
The following television series have won the British Academy Television Award for Best Drama Series multiple times:
2 awards
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Cracker
Cracker, crackers or The Crackers may refer to:
Animals
* ''Hamadryas'' (butterfly), or crackers, a genus of brush-footed butterflies
* '' Sparodon'', a monotypic genus whose species is sometimes known as "Cracker"
Arts and entertainment Films ...
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Happy Valley''
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The Cops'' (consecutive)
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The Street The Street may refer to:
Geographical
*Wall Street in New York City's Financial District
*The Street, Lawshall, Suffolk, England
*The Street (Heath Charnock)
The Street is a historical property on a bridleway of the same name in Heath Charnock ...
'' (consecutive)
Multiple nominations
The following television series have been nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Best Drama Series multiple times:
6 nominations
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Spooks''
4 nominations
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Clocking Off''
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The Crown''
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Shameless''
3 nominations
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Casualty''
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Cracker
Cracker, crackers or The Crackers may refer to:
Animals
* ''Hamadryas'' (butterfly), or crackers, a genus of brush-footed butterflies
* '' Sparodon'', a monotypic genus whose species is sometimes known as "Cracker"
Arts and entertainment Films ...
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Misfits''
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The Cops''
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The Street The Street may refer to:
Geographical
*Wall Street in New York City's Financial District
*The Street, Lawshall, Suffolk, England
*The Street (Heath Charnock)
The Street is a historical property on a bridleway of the same name in Heath Charnock ...
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2 nominations
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Being Human''
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Between the Lines''
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Bodies
Bodies may refer to:
* The plural of body
* ''Bodies'' (2004 TV series), BBC television programme
* Bodies (upcoming TV series), an upcoming British crime thriller limited series
* "Bodies" (''Law & Order''), 2003 episode of ''Law & Order''
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Common as Muck''
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Cold Feet
Cold feet is a phrase that refers to a person not going through with an action, particularly one which requires long term commitment, due to fear, uncertainty, and doubt. A person is said to be "getting cold feet" when, after previously committin ...
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Doctor Who
''Doctor Who'' is a British science fiction television series broadcast by the BBC since 1963. The series depicts the adventures of a Time Lord called the Doctor, an extraterrestrial being who appears to be human. The Doctor explores the u ...
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Happy Valley''
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Inspector Morse''
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Jonathan Creek''
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Life on Mars''
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Line of Duty
''Line of Duty'' is a British police procedural television series created by Jed Mercurio and produced by World Productions. On 26 June 2012, BBC Two began to broadcast the first series; it was its best-performing drama series in ten years wit ...
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Peaky Blinders''
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Playing the Field''
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Scott & Bailey''
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The End of the F***ing World''
References
External links
List of winnersat the
British Academy of Film and Television Arts
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British Academy Television Awards
British drama
1992 establishments in the United Kingdom
Awards established in 1992