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Male and female comedy performances are now in two separate categories. I’d guess at Miranda Hart for the female award - her meteoric rise to fame over the last year would make her a worthy and popular winner. It’s pretty hard to look past Peter Capaldi’s tour de force performance as Malcolm Tucker in The Thick of It for the male award. Both Miranda and The Thick of It are nominated alongside Peep Show and The Inbetweeners for the sitcom award. The variation in the types of nominated sitcom indicates that British comedy is at a really interesting place, and I honestly wouldn’t want to guess at who’ll win, although I hope it’s The Thick of It for just being consistently shocking and hilarious.
I was genuinely surprised and thrilled to see Being Human nominated in the Drama Series category. The BBC3 drama about a supernatural flatshare is one of the most touching and believable things I’ve seen in a long time, but it will almost certainly lose out to The Street, a worthy drama about just how grim it is up North. Admittedly, I may just be a bit bitter towards The Street because it twice prevented Life on Mars from winning this award, but I’d be extremely shocked (yet delighted) if Being Human won this category. I’d also love to see Five Minutes of Heaven, one of the most powerful things I’ve seen in a long time, win the Single Drama award.
The addition of supporting actor and actress in the drama category is a welcome one, particularly as it gives Imelda Staunton the chance to win for playing Miss Pole in Cranford. I’m sure the other performances are very worthy, but I will be throwing things at the TV if the comic genius of that character isn’t recognised. Julie Walters' double nomination in the lead actress category probably makes her favourite to win, although Helena Bonham Carter was an absolute revelation in Enid, so it could well go to her.
I simply refuse to even discuss the lead actor category, because the person who deserves to win it isn’t on the list. I really don’t understand how Philip Glenister has never been even nominated for playing Gene Hunt. Sure, I really enjoyed David Oyelowo in Small Island, but is that a role that will be talked about in five years? I can just about understand the lack of nomination for David Tennant, but in Gene Hunt, Glenister has created one of the most iconic TV characters of the last decade, and it makes my blood boil that BAFTA refuse to acknowledge him in the same way that they missed the chance to recognise the importance of Life on Mars. If they don’t do it next year, the last chance they’ll have, I’ll be very angry indeed.
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