The 2012

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 ...

(formally known as the Arqiva British Academy Television Awards) were held on 27 May 2012 at the

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in London. The nominees were announced on 24 April 2012.

Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.

Leading Actor

Dominic West - ''

Appropriate Adult In English law, an appropriate adult is a parent, guardian or social worker; or if no person matching this is available, any responsible person over 18. The term was introduced as part of the policing reforms in the Police and Criminal Evidence A ...

'' (ITV) * Benedict Cumberbatch - '' Sherlock'' (BBC One) * Joseph Gilgun - '' This Is England '88'' (Channel 4) * John Simm - ''

Exile Exile is primarily penal expulsion from one's native country, and secondarily expatriation or prolonged absence from one's homeland under either the compulsion of circumstance or the rigors of some high purpose. Usually persons and peoples suf ...

'' (BBC One)

Leading Actress

Emily Watson - ''Appropriate Adult'' (ITV) * Romola Garai - '' The Crimson Petal and the White'' (BBC Two) * Nadine Marshall - ''Random'' (Channel 4) * Vicky McClure - ''This Is England '88'' (Channel 4)

Supporting Actor A supporting actor is an actor who performs a role in a play or film below that of the leading actor(s), and above that of a bit part. In recognition of important nature of this work, the theater and film industries give separate awards to the ...

Andrew Scott - '' Sherlock'' (BBC One) * Martin Freeman - ''Sherlock'' (BBC One) * Joseph Mawle - '' Birdsong'' (BBC One) *

Stephen Rea Stephen Rea ( ; born 31 October 1946) is an Irish film and stage actor. Rea has appeared in films such as ''V for Vendetta'', ''Michael Collins'', ''Interview with the Vampire'' and ''Breakfast on Pluto''. Rea was nominated for the Academy Award ...

- ''

The Shadow Line ''The Shadow-Line'' is a short novel based at sea by Joseph Conrad; it is one of his later works, being written from February to December 1915. It was first published in 1916 as a serial in New York's ''Metropolitan Magazine'' (September—Oct ...

'' (BBC Two)

Supporting Actress A supporting actor is an actor who performs a role in a play or film below that of the leading actor(s), and above that of a bit part. In recognition of important nature of this work, the theater and film industries give separate awards to the ...

Monica Dolan - ''Appropriate Adult'' (ITV) * Anna Chancellor - '' The Hour'' (BBC Two) * Miranda Hart - '' Call the Midwife'' (BBC One) *

Maggie Smith Dame Margaret Natalie Smith (born 28 December 1934) is an English actress. With an extensive career on screen and stage beginning in the mid-1950s, Smith has appeared in more than sixty films and seventy plays. She is one of the few performer ...

- '' Downton Abbey'' (ITV)

Entertainment Performance

Graham Norton - '' The Graham Norton Show'' (BBC One) * Alan Carr - '' Alan Carr: Chatty Man'' (Channel 4) * Harry Hill - '' Harry Hill's TV Burp'' (ITV) * Dara Ó Briain - '' Mock the Week'' (BBC Two)

Female Performance in a Comedy Programme

Jennifer Saunders - '' Absolutely Fabulous'' (BBC One) *

Olivia Colman Sarah Caroline Sinclair ( Colman; born 30 January 1974), known professionally as Olivia Colman, is an English actress. Known for her comedic and dramatic roles in film and television, she has received various accolades, including an Academy A ...

- '' Twenty Twelve'' (BBC Four) * Tamsin Greig - ''

Friday Night Dinner ''Friday Night Dinner'' is a British television sitcom written by Robert Popper and starring Tamsin Greig, Paul Ritter, Simon Bird, Tom Rosenthal, and Mark Heap. The comedy is focused on the regular dinner experience of the middle-class Briti ...

'' (Channel 4) * Ruth Jones - ''

Stella Stella or STELLA may refer to: Art, entertainment, and media Comedy *Stella (comedy group), a comedy troupe consisting of Michael Showalter, Michael Ian Black and David Wain Characters *Stella (given name), including a list of characters with th ...

'' (Sky One)

Male Performance in a Comedy Programme

Darren Boyd - '' Spy'' (Sky One) * Hugh Bonneville - '' Twenty Twelve'' (BBC Four) * Tom Hollander - ''

Rev. The Reverend is an honorific style most often placed before the names of Christian clergy and ministers. There are sometimes differences in the way the style is used in different countries and church traditions. ''The Reverend'' is correctly ...

'' (BBC Two) * Brendan O'Carroll - '' Mrs. Brown's Boys '' (BBC One)

Single Drama

''Random'' (Channel 4) *'' Holy Flying Circus'' (BBC Four) *'' Page Eight'' (BBC Two) *''Stolen'' (BBC One)

Mini Series

''This Is England '88'' (Channel 4) *''Appropriate Adult'' (ITV) *''The Crimson Petal and the White'' (BBC Two) *'' Top Boy'' (Channel 4)

Drama Series

'' The Fades'' (BBC Three) *'' Misfits'' (E4) *''

Scott and Bailey ''Scott & Bailey'' is a British police procedural series that debuted on ITV on 29 May 2011 and concluded on 27 April 2016. The series stars Suranne Jones, Lesley Sharp, Amelia Bullmore, Nicholas Gleaves, Danny Miller and Pippa Haywood. The sh ...

'' (ITV) *'' Spooks (MI-5)'' (BBC)

Soap and Continuing Drama

Coronation Street ''Coronation Street'' is an English soap opera created by Granada Television and shown on ITV since 9 December 1960. The programme centres around a cobbled, terraced street in Weatherfield, a fictional town based on inner-city Salford. Origi ...

'' (ITV) *''

EastEnders ''EastEnders'' is a Television in the United Kingdom, British soap opera created by Julia Smith (producer), Julia Smith and Tony Holland which has been broadcast on BBC One since February 1985. Set in the fictional borough of Walford in the Ea ...

'' (BBC One) *''

Holby City ''Holby City'' (stylised on-screen as HOLBY CIY) is a British medical drama television series that aired weekly on BBC One. It was created by Tony McHale and Mal Young as a spin-off from the established BBC medical drama ''Casualty'', and pr ...

'' (BBC One) *'' Shameless'' (Channel 4)

International

'' Borgen'' (BBC Four) *'' The Killing'' (BBC Four) *'' Modern Family'' (Sky One) *'' The Slap'' (BBC Four)

Factual Series

''Our War'' (BBC Three) *'' The Choir: Military Wives'' (BBC Two) *''Educating Essex'' (Channel 4) *''Protecting Our Children: Damned If We Do, Damned If We Don't'' (BBC Two)

Specialist Factual

''Mummifying Alan: Egypt’s Last Secret'' (Channel 4) *'' British Masters'' (BBC Four) *'' Frozen Planet'' (BBC One) *'' Wonders of the Universe'' (BBC Two)

Single Documentary

'' Terry Pratchett: Choosing to Die'' (BBC Two) *''9/11: The Day That Changed the World'' (ITV) *''The Fight of Their Lives'' (ITV) *'' We Need To Talk About Dad'' (Channel 4)

Features

'' The Great British Bake Off'' (BBC Two) *'' DIY SOS: The Big Build'' (BBC One) *''Hairy Bikers' Meals on Wheels'' (BBC Two) *'' Timothy Spall: Back at Sea'' (BBC Four)

Reality and Constructed Factual

Young Apprentice ''Young Apprentice'' is a British reality television programme and a spin off of ''The Apprentice'', in which a group of young people compete against each other in a series of business related challenges to win a £25,000 investment from Briti ...

'' (BBC One) *''

An Idiot Abroad ''An Idiot Abroad'' is a British travel documentary comedy television series broadcast on Sky One, as well as a series of companion books published by Canongate Books, created by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant and starring Karl Pilkington. T ...

'' (Sky One) *'' Don't Tell the Bride'' (BBC Three) *'' Made in Chelsea'' (E4)

Current Affairs

'' Undercover Care: The Abuse Exposed'' (BBC One) *'' Bahrain: Shouting in the Dark'' (Al Jazeera English) *''

Sri Lanka's Killing Fields ''Sri Lanka's Killing Fields'' was an investigatory documentary about the final weeks of the Sri Lankan Civil War broadcast by the British TV station Channel 4 on 14 June 2011. Described as one of the most graphic documentaries in British TV ...

'' (Channel 4) *'' The Truth About Adoption'' (BBC One)

News Coverage

'' Channel 4 News: Japan Earthquake'' (Channel 4) *'' BBC News at Ten: Siege of Homs'' (BBC One) *'' ITV News at Ten: Battle of Misrata'' (ITV) *'' Sky News: Libya Rebel Convoy – Live'' (Sky News)

Sport and Live Event

The Royal Wedding ''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the m ...

(BBC One) * Frankenstein's Wedding: Live in Leeds (BBC Three) *

2011 Rugby World Cup Final The 2011 Rugby World Cup Final was a rugby union match between France and New Zealand, to determine the winner of the 2011 Rugby World Cup. The match took place on 23 October 2011 at Eden Park, in Auckland, New Zealand. New Zealand won the match 8 ...

(ITV) *

2011 Tour de France The 2011 Tour de France was the 98th edition of the race. It started on 2 July at the Passage du Gois and ended on the Champs-Élysées in Paris on 24 July. The cyclists competed in 21 stages over 23 days, covering a distance of . The route en ...

(ITV4)

New Media

'' Psychoville'' (BBC Online) *'' Autumnwatch'' (BBC Online) *'' The Bank Job'' (Channel4.com) *''Misfits'' (E4.com)

Entertainment Programme

''Derren Brown: The Experiments'' (Channel 4) *''

Celebrity Juice ''Celebrity Juice'' is a British television comedy panel game on ITV2, broadcast since 24 September 2008. The show is written and presented by Leigh Francis in the role of his alter ego Keith Lemon, and its current team captains Laura Whitmore ...

'' (ITV2) *''Harry Hill's TV Burp'' (ITV) *'' Michael McIntyre’s Christmas Comedy Roadshow'' (BBC One)

Comedy Programme

'' Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle'' (BBC Two) *'' Charlie Brooker’s 2011 Wipe'' (BBC Four) *'' Comic Strip: The Hunt for Tony Blair'' (Channel 4) *''The Cricklewood Greats'' (BBC Four)

Situation Comedy A sitcom, a portmanteau of situation comedy, or situational comedy, is a genre of comedy centered on a fixed set of characters who mostly carry over from episode to episode. Sitcoms can be contrasted with sketch comedy, where a troupe may use ne ...

''Mrs. Brown's Boys'' (BBC One) *'' Fresh Meat'' (Channel 4) *''Friday Night Dinner'' (Channel 4) *''Rev'' (BBC Two)

YouTube Audience Award

''Celebrity Juice'' (ITV2) *''Educating Essex'' (Channel 4) *''Fresh Meat'' (Channel 4) *''Frozen Planet'' (BBC One) *''Sherlock'' (BBC One) *''The Great British Bake Off'' (BBC Two)

Fellowship

* Rolf Harris

Special Award

* Steven Moffat

References

http://www.bafta.org/television/awards/nominees-winner-2012,3256,BA.html

External links

Official site at BAFTA.org
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