The British Academy Television Awards 2007

Sunday 20th May 2007 held at the London Palladium

Broadcast on BBC One at 8pm on May 20th

Please see below for winners highlighted in red

At this evening’s ceremony at the London Palladium, Victoria Wood was a double winner, collecting her first-ever BAFTA in the Actress category for Housewife, 49 ahead of Anne-Marie Duff (The Virgin Queen), Samantha Morton (Longford) and Ruth Wilson (Jane Eyre). The adaptation of the diary of a Lancashire housewife, written by Wood, was also victorious in the Single Drama category. The Actor BAFTA went to Jim Broadbent for his portrayal of the campaigning Labour peer in Longford.

Jonathan Ross’ Entertainment Performance in Friday Night With Jonathan Ross saw him triumph for the second year running, this time beating Ant and Dec, Stephen Fry and Paul Merton. Another consecutive victor, The X Factor scooped the  Entertainment Programme category ahead of Derren Brown:The Heist and other Saturday night shows Dancing On Ice and How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria? This victory was one of six awards won by ITV1, the highest total for a single channel at this year’s Awards.

In the Continuing Drama category, Casualty triumphed over soap rivals Coronation Street, EastEnders and Emmerdale - a first BAFTA for the medical drama after more than twenty years on our screens. Jimmy McGovern’s six-part drama following the lives of various residents in The Street collected the coveted BAFTA mask for Drama Series, and See No Evil: The Moors Murders won Drama Serial.
 
Another first-time BAFTA winner was Ross Kemp, whose Ross Kemp on Gangs collected the award for Factual Series. This was one of two wins for Sky, the other going to Terry Pratchett’s Hogfather for Interactive.  Specialist Factual went to Nuremberg: Goering’s Last Stand and Evicted triumphed in the Single Documentary category.
 
Ricky Gervais triumphed over co-star Stephen Merchant, Dawn French and Liz Smith to pick up his seventh BAFTA for his Comedy Performance in Extras. In the Comedy Programme category, That Mitchell & Webb Look picked up a BAFTA in its first series, whilst the one-off, conclusive, The Royle Family: Queen Of Sheba collected the Award for Situation Comedy, its first since 1999.

The Choir triumphed over some strong characters in the Features category beating Dragons’ Den, Gordon Ramsay’s The F Word and Sir Alan Sugar’s The Apprentice. Jenson Button’s first win was also a first win for coverage of Formula One in the Sport category with F1:The Hungarian Grand Prix triumphing.

Granada Reports:Morecambe Bay covered the plight of the Chinese cockle-pickers and was honoured in News Coverage over the BBC Ten O’Clock News, Channel 4 News and the ITV Evening News - the first time a regional news programme has been recognised in this category.  In the new International category, the HBO-produced Entourage provided ITV2 with its first BAFTA win.
 
James Nesbitt presented the pioneering producer Andy Harries, whose TV credits include Cold Feet, The Royle Family and The Deal with the Special Award.  This year Harries also triumphed at the Film Awards with a Best Film win for The Queen and received nominations at the Television Awards for both Longford & Prime Suspect: The Final Act.

The highest accolade the Academy can bestow, The Fellowship, was presented to Richard Curtis by Stephen Fry. Richard’s credits include Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, Love Actually, Black Adder and The Vicar of Dibley. He is also co-founder of Comic Relief, and has helped to raise almost £500m for charity projects in Africa and the U.K.

After receiving a record number of votes this year, The Pioneer Audience Award, the only award of the evening voted for by the public, went to Life On Mars.

NOMINATIONS:

ACTOR
Jim Broadbent  Longford  (Channel 4)
Andy Serkis  Longford  (Channel 4)
Michael Sheen  Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa!  (BBC4)
John Simm  Life On Mars  (BBC1)

ACTRESS
Anne-Marie Duff  The Virgin Queen  (BBC1)
Samantha Morton  Longford  (Channel 4)
Ruth Wilson  Jane Eyre  (BBC1)
Victoria Wood  Housewife 49  (ITV1)

ENTERTAINMENT PERFORMANCE
Ant & Dec  Saturday Night Takeaway  (ITV1)
Stephen Fry  QI  (BBC2)
Paul Merton  Have I Got News For You  (BBC1)
Jonathan Ross  Friday Night With Jonathan Ross  (BBC1)

COMEDY PERFORMANCE
Dawn French  The Vicar of Dibley  (BBC1)
Ricky Gervais  Extras  (BBC2)
Stephen Merchant  Extras  (BBC2)
Liz Smith  The Royle Family: Queen of Sheba  (BBC1)

SINGLE DRAMA
Housewife 49
Victoria Wood, Piers Wenger, Gavin Millar, David Threlfall
ITV1/ITV Productions/10.12.06
Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa!
Andy de Emmony, Ben Evans, Martyn Hesford
BBC4/BBC Drama/13.03.06
Longford
Peter Morgan, Tom Hooper, Helen Flint, Andy Harries
C4/A Granada Production for C4 in assoc. with HBO/26.10.06
Road To Guantanamo
Michael Winterbottom, Mat Whitecross
C4/Revolution Films/09.03.06

DRAMA SERIES
Life on Mars
Production Team
BBC1/Kudos Film & Television/09.01.06
Shameless
Production Team
C4/Company Pictures/01.01.06
Sugar Rush
Production Team
C4/Shine Productions/06.07.06
The Street
Jimmy McGovern, Sita Williams, David Blair, Ken Horn
BBC1/Granada Television Ltd/13.04.06

DRAMA SERIAL
Low Winter Sun
Greg Brenman, Adrian Shergold, Simon Donald, Rhonda Smith
C4/Tiger Aspect Productions/14.09.06
Prime Suspect: The Final Act
Andrew Benson, Philip Martin, Frank Deasy, Andy Harries
ITV1/ITV Productions/15.10.06
See No Evil: The Moors Murders
Lisa Gilchrist, Neil McKay, Jeff Pope, Chris Menaul
ITV1/ITV Productions/14.05.06
The Virgin Queen
Coky Giedroyc, Paula Milne, Paul Rutman
BBC1/A BBC Drama/Power co-production/22.01.06

CONTINUING DRAMA
Casualty
The Production Team
BBC1/BBC/07.01.06
Coronation Street
Stephen Russell, Tim O’Mara, Steve Frost, Kieran Roberts
ITV1/ITV Productions/25.12.06
EastEnders
The Production Team
BBC1/BBC Drama Production Studios/02.01.06
Emmerdale
Keith Richardson, Kathleen Beedles, Lindsay Williams, Piotr Szkopiak
ITV1/ITV Productions/31.07.06

FACTUAL SERIES
Ross Kemp on Gangs
Clive Tulloh, Amelia Hann, Ross Kemp
Sky One/Tiger Aspect Productions/22.10.06
Stephen Fry – The Secret Life of a Manic Depressive
The Production Team
BBC2/ IWC Media, part of the RDF Media Group/19.09.06
Tribe
James Smith, Steve Robinson, Bruce Parry, Sam Organ
BBC2/BBC/16.07.06
Who Do You Think You Are?
Alex Graham, Lucy Carter
BBC2/Wall To Wall/11.01.06

SPECIALIST FACTUAL
Munich: Mossad’s Revenge
Anthony Geffen, Tom Whitter, Peter Miller, Calum Walker
C4/Atlantic Productions Ltd/26.01.06
Nuremberg: Goering’s Last Stand
Peter Nicholson, Simon Berthon, Dan Korn, Piers Vellacott 
C4/3BM Television/24.08.06
Planet Earth
Alistair Fothergill, Mark Linfield
BBC1/BBC/05.03.06
Simon Schama’s Power of Art
Clare Beavan, Simon Schama, Basil Comely, Mark Harrison
BBC2/BBC London Arts/20.10.06

SINGLE DOCUMENTARY
Breaking Up With the Joneses
Ursula Macfarlane, Saskia Wilson, Dave Nath, Gregor Lyon
C4/Betty TV/31.08.06
Evicted
Brian Woods, Deborah Shipley, Jeremy Wales, Katy Sheppard
BBC1/True Vision/29.11.06
9/11: The Falling Man
Henry Singer, John Smithson, Sue Bourne, Julian Ware
C4/Darlow Smithson Productions/16.03.06
Rain In My Heart
Paul Watson
BBC2/BBC/01.11.06

FEATURES
The Apprentice
Dan Adamson, Sanjay Singhal, Martyn Smith, Sir Alan Sugar
BBC2/TalkbackThames/Mark Burnett Productions/22.02.06
The Choir
Jamie Isaacs, Ludo Graham, Drew Hill, Sam Grace
BBC2/Twenty Twenty/04.12.06
Dragons’ Den
Helen Bullough, Dominic Bird, Paul Mackay
BBC2/BBC Entertainment/03.08.06
The F Word
Ben Adler, Jon Swain, Pat Llewellyn, Eileen Herlihy
C4/Optomen Television/28.06.06

SPORT
The Boat Race
John Watts, Tony Pastor, John McKenna, Phil Heslop
ITV1/ITV Sport/02.04.06
F1: Hungarian Grand Prix – Jenson Button’s First Win
Neil Duncanson, Gerard Lane
ITV1/North One Television/06.08.06
Cricket on Five
Jeff Foulser, Gary Franses, Dylan Jane, Diana Keen
Five/Sunset and Vine Productions/20.08.06
Winter Olympics
BBC Sport Production Team
BBC2/BBC Sport/17.02.06

NEWS COVERAGE
BBC Ten O’Clock News – Terrorism plot at Heathrow
BBC Ten O’Clock News Team
BBC1/BBC News/10.08.06
Channel 4 News – News From Iran
Jon Snow, Deborah Rayner, Ben Monro-Davies, Martin Collett
C4/ITN/08.03.06
Granada Reports: Morecambe Bay
The Production Team
ITV/Granada/24.03.06
ITV Evening News – The Israel/Lebanon Crisis
Julian Manyon, Mark Austin, Geoff Hill, Rob Bowles
ITV1/ITN/17.07.06

INTERACTIVITY
Dispatches – War Torn: Stories of Separation
David Modell, Cassian Harrison, Oliver Doward
Channel4.com/Dispatches/06.11.06
Meltdown and the Big Climate Change Experiment
Frances McNamara, Jonathan Renouf,  Paul Bradshaw, Tolu Aina
Supporting BBC4/01.02.06
The Secret Policeman’s Ball
Clive Tulloh, Lisle Turner, Mike Agnew, Adil Abrar
C4/Tiger Aspect Productions/31.10.06
Terry Pratchett’s Hogfather
Aidan Conway, Giles Pooley, Rod Brown, Ian Sharples
Sky One Networked Media/17.12.06

INTERNATIONAL
Entourage
Doug Ellin, Mark Wahlberg, Steve Levinson
ITV2/HBO/12.11.06
House
David Shore
Five/Heal and Toe Films/Shore Z Productions/Bad Hat Harry Productions in assoc with NBC Universal Television Studio/26.01.06
Lost
JJ Abrams, Carlton Cuse, Damon Lindelof, Jack Bender
Sky One/Buena Vista International Television/19.11.06
My Name is Earl
Greg Garcia, Marc Buckland, Bobby Bowman
C4/ Twentieth Century Fox/

ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAMME
Dancing on Ice
Will Smith, Katie Rawcliffe, Jayne Torvill, Christopher Dean
ITV1/ITV Productions/18.02.06
Derren Brown: The Heist
Derren Brown, Simon Mills, Andrew O’Connor, Anthony Owen
C4/Objective Productions/04.01.06
How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria?
Production Team
BBC1/BBC Entertainment/29.07.06
The X Factor
Richard Holloway, Claire Horton, Andrew Llinares, Siobhan Greene
ITV1/TalkbackThames in association with SYCO TV/19.08.06

SITUATION COMEDY
Green Wing
Victoria Pile, Dominic Brigstocke, Tristram Shapeero, Rob Harley
C4/Talkback Thames/31.03.06
The IT Crowd
Ash Atalla, Graham Linehan, Derrin Schlesinger, Lorraine Heggessey
C4/TalkbackThames/03.02.06
Pulling
Sharon Horgan, Dennis Kelly, Phil Bowker, Tristram Shapeero
BBC3/Silver River/23.11.06
The Royle Family: Queen of Sheba
Caroline Aherne, Craig Cash, John Rushton, Phil Mealey
BBC1/Granada Productions/15.09.06

COMEDY PROGRAMME
The Catherine Tate Show
Gordon Anderson, Aschlin Ditta, Geoffrey Perkins, Catherine Tate
BBC2/Tiger Aspect Productions/26.10.06
Little Britain Abroad
Matt Lucas, David Walliams, Matt Lipsey, Geoff Posner
BBC1/BBC Comedy/25.12.06
Little Miss Jocelyn
Gary Reich, Jemma Rogers, Gareth Carrivick, Jocelyn Jee Esien
BBC3/Brown Eyed Boy Productions/22.08.06
That Mitchell & Webb Look
David Kerr, Gareth Edwards, Robert Webb, David Mitchell
BBC2/BBC Comedy/14.09.06

PIONEER AUDIENCE AWARD
Life On Mars
The Royle Family: Queen of Sheba
Dragons’ Den
The Vicar of Dibley Christmas Special
Planet Earth
Celebrity Big Brother