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Irish names among BAFTA TV Award nominees

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Philippa Dunne and Graham Norton have been nominated for TV BAFTA Awards

Graham Norton and Philippa Dunne are among the Irish nominees at this year's BAFTA Television Awards, where Adolescence leads the field.

Norton is nominated in the Entertainment category for The Graham Norton Show, while Dunne is in the running for Actress in a Comedy for Amandaland.

Channel 4 drama Trespasses, adapted from Louise Kennedy's novel about forbidden love in Belfast during the 1970s, is among the titles recognised in the Limited Drama field. It was written by Irish writer Ailbhe Keogan and produced by Donegal's Maria Mulhall.

Irish talent is also recognised in the children's categories, with director Seamus Malone nominated for Shaun the Sheep.

Dublin director Diarmuid Goggins is also among the nominees, with Code of Silence shortlisted in the Drama Series category.

Stephen Graham and Owen Cooper star in Adolescence

Elsewhere, the Belfast-set police drama Blue Lights is nominated in the Drama Series category, with Siân Brooke also shortlisted for Leading Actress for her performance in the show.

Across the television awards, Adolescence picked up seven nominations, followed by A Thousand Blows with three. Blue Lights, Amandaland, Big Boys and What It Feels Like for a Girl are among the other programmes strongly represented across the shortlist.

The nominations for the BAFTA Television Awards with P&O Cruises were announced on Tuesday, with Greg Davies set to host the ceremony, which will be broadcast on BBC One on Sunday, 10 May.

Blue Lights is set in Belfast

BAFTA also announced the Television Craft nominations separately, where Adolescence led the overall tally across both sets of awards.

Among the acting nominees this year are Colin Firth for Lockerbie: A Search for Truth, Stephen Graham for Adolescence, Jodie Whittaker for Toxic Town, Erin Doherty for A Thousand Blows and Rose Ayling-Ellis for Reunion.

The public-voted Memorable Moment category includes nominations for scenes from Adolescence, Big Boys, Blue Lights, The Celebrity Traitors, Last One Laughing and What It Feels Like for a Girl.

Full list of BAFTA Television Award nominations:

Actor in a Comedy
Jim Howick, Here We Go
Jon Pointing, Big Boys
Lenny Rush, Am I Being Unreasonable?
Mawaan Rizwan, Juice
Oliver Savell, Changing Ends
Steve Coogan, How Are You? It's Alan (Partridge)

Actress in a Comedy
Diane Morgan, Mandy
Jennifer Saunders, Amandaland
Katherine Parkinson, Here We Go
Lucy Punch, Amandaland
Philippa Dunne, Amandaland
Rosie Jones, Pushers

Children's: Non-Scripted
A Real Bug's Life
Boosnoo!
Deadly 60 Saving Sharks
World.War.Me (Sky Kids Investigates)

Children's: Scripted
Crongton
Horrible Science
Shaun the Sheep
The Wonderfully Weird World of Gumball

Current Affairs
Breaking Ranks: Inside Israel's War
The Covid Contracts: Follow the Money
Gaza: Doctors Under Attack
Undercover in the Police

Daytime
The Chase
Lorraine
Richard Osman's House of Games
Scam Interceptors

Drama Series
A Thousand Blows
Blue Lights
Code of Silence
This City Is Ours


Entertainment
The Graham Norton Show
Last One Laughing
Michael McIntyre's Big Show
Would I Lie to You?

Entertainment Performance
Amanda Holden, Alan Carr, Amanda & Alan's Spanish Job
Bob Mortimer, Last One Laughing
Claudia Winkleman, The Celebrity Traitors
Lee Mack, The 1% Club
Rob Beckett, Romesh Ranganathan, Rob & Romesh Vs…
Romesh Ranganathan, Romesh: Can't Knock the Hustle

Factual Entertainment
The Assembly
Go Back to Where You Came From
Knife Edge: Chasing Michelin Stars
Race Across the World

Factual Series
Bibaa & Nicole: Murder in the Park
Educating Yorkshire
See No Evil
The Undercover Police Scandal: Love and Lies Exposed

International
The Bear
The Diplomat
Pluribus
Severance
The Studio
The White Lotus

Leading Actor
Colin Firth, Lockerbie: A Search for Truth
Ellis Howard, What It Feels Like for a Girl
James Nelson-Joyce, This City Is Ours
Matt Smith, The Death of Bunny Munro
Stephen Graham, Adolescence
Taron Egerton, Smoke

Leading Actress
Aimee Lou Wood, Film Club
Erin Doherty, A Thousand Blows
Jodie Whittaker, Toxic Town
Narges Rashidi, Prisoner 951
Sheridan Smith, I Fought the Law
Siân Brooke, Blue Lights

Supporting Actor
Ashley Walters, Adolescence
Fehinti Balogun, Down Cemetery Road
Joshua McGuire, The Gold
Owen Cooper, Adolescence
Paddy Considine, MobLand
Rafael Mathé, The Death of Bunny Munro

Supporting Actress
Aimee Lou Wood, The White Lotus
Christine Tremarco, Adolescence
Chyna McQueen, Get Millie Black
Emilia Jones, Task
Erin Doherty, Adolescence
Rose Ayling-Ellis, Reunion

Limited Drama
Adolescence
I Fought the Law
Trespasses
What It Feels Like for a Girl

Live Event Coverage
Holocaust Memorial Day 2025
Last Night of the Proms: Finale
VE Day 80: A Celebration to Remember


News Coverage
BBC Newsnight: Grooming Survivors Speak
Channel 4 News: Israel-Iran: The Twelve-Day War
Sky News: Gaza: Fight for Survival

Reality
The Celebrity Traitors
The Jury: Murder Trial
Squid Game: The Challenge
Virgin Island

Scripted Comedy
Amandaland
Big Boys
How Are You? It's Alan (Partridge)
Things You Should Have Done


Short Form
Donkey
Hustle and Run
Rocket Fuel
Zoners


Single Documentary
Grenfell: Uncovered
Louis Theroux: The Settlers
One Day in Southport
Unforgotten: The Bradford City Fire


Soap
Casualty
Coronation Street
EastEnders


Specialist Factual
Belsen: What They Found
Simon Schama: The Road to Auschwitz
Surviving Black Hawk Down
Vietnam: The War That Changed America

Sports Coverage
The 2025 Ryder Cup
The FA Cup Final
UEFA Women's Euro 2025
Wimbledon 2025

P&O Cruises Memorable Moment Award
Adolescence - Jamie snaps at the psychologist
Big Boys - I didn't make it, did I?
Blue Lights - The police are warned of an ambush plot to silence a key witness
The Celebrity Traitors - Alan Carr wins The Celebrity Traitors
Last One Laughing - Bob Mortimer and Richard Ayoade's speed date
What It Feels Like for a Girl - Byron leaves for Brighton to start Uni, where she introduces herself as Paris

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