James Corden and Mathew Baynton have received a Bafta TV Craft Awards nomination in the Writer: Comedy category for The Wrong Mans. Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton have also been nominated for dark comedy Inside No. 9. Arthur Mathews and Matt Berry pick up a nomination for Toast of London, while Mackenzie Crook receives his first BAFTA nomination for Detectorists, the comedy series about two metal-detecting enthusiasts.
The nominations were announced today. It is Corden and Baynton's second successive nomination, while Shearsmith and Pemberton notch up another nod following their recent Chortle Awards and Royal Television Society Awards, having been overlooked in numerous end-of-year awards.
Elsewhere in the nominations Victoria Wood’s musical, That Day We Sang, receives two nominations in the Sound: Fiction and Production Design categories. The accompanying behind-the-scenes documentary, That Musical We Made, also receives a nomination in the Sound: Factual category. Candida Otton is nominated for Production Design for her work on the Tommy Cooper drama Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This.
A diverse range of programmes compete in each category for the coveted BAFTA masks. Leading the way with five nominations is Sky Atlantic’s psychological thriller Penny Dreadful, featuring Josh Hartnett, Timothy Dalton and Eva Green. Following closely with four nominations are BBC Two drama The Honourable Woman, starring Maggie Gyllenhaal and BBC Three documentary Life & Death Row.
A number of programmes have three nominations each: fantasy drama Da Vinci’s Demons; historical crime drama Peaky Blinders; and Saturday-night favourite Strictly Come Dancing.
Also with two nominations apiece are 24 hours in Police Custody, Children on the Front Line (Dispatches), Cilla, Grayson Perry: Who Are You?, Happy Valley, Marvellous, The Missing, Murdered by My Boyfriend and Sherlock. There were also two nominations for Ripper Street, marking the first BAFTA nominations for a programme shown exclusively on Amazon’s Prime Instant Video.
This year’s nominees in the Digital Creativity category are: Live from Space: Online, which enhanced Channel 4’s Live from Space season; mobile application Reverse the Odds: Stand Up To Cancer, an educational game that also encouraged audiences to donate; The Singer Takes it All, the345b singing gameshow where viewers judge performances live via a mobile app; and War of the Words VR, an immersive virtual reality experience of poetry for mobile phones to accompany the BBC Two documentary.
Other programmes with nominations are: 2014 FA Cup Final, Atlantis, Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway, The Apprentice, The Choir: New Military Wives, David Attenborough’s Conquest of the Skies 3D, Doctor Who, D:Day the Heroes Return, Downton Abbey, The Fall, Hidden Kingdoms: Under Open Skies, The Last Chance School, Life Story: First Steps, Line of Duty, The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies, Messiah at the Foundling Hospital, Mrs Brown’s Boys, The Musketeers, The Paedophile Hunter, Photographing Africa, Prey, Tsunami: Survivors’ Stories, Utopia, The Voice, Winter Olympics 2014 and The X Factor.
The winners will be announced at the British Academy Television Craft Awards on 26 April.
