BAFTA TV Awards 2020 Nominations: Jodie Comer Up Against Glenda Jackson

'Chernobyl' dominates with 14 nominations across the main and craft categories, while 'The Crown' will battle it out with 'Gentleman Jack' for the title of Best Drama Series.

• Jun 4, 2020

AceShowbiz - Jodie Comer and Glenda Jackson will compete for the Leading Actress gong at the 2020 BAFTA TV Awards.

Jodie receives another nomination for her performance as deadly assassin Villanelle in "Killing Eve", while two-time Oscar winner Glenda is up for her portrayal of a woman battling dementia in "Elizabeth is Missing"

The other contenders for the prize are Samantha Morton ("I Am Kirsty") and Suranne Jones ("Gentleman Jack").

Battling it out for the Leading Actor in a Drama award are "The Capture"'s Callum Turner, Stephen Graham ("The Virtues"), Takehiro Hira ("Giri/Haji") and Jared Harris for "Chernobyl". "Chernobyl" also has the most nominations across the main and craft categories with 14.

The show, about the 1986 nuclear disaster at a Soviet power station, is also up for the Mini-Series award alongside "A Confession", "The Victim", and "The Virtues". The nominees for Best Drama Series are "The Crown", "The End of the F***ing World", "Gentleman Jack", and "Giri/Haji".

Stellan Skarsgard ("Chernobyl"), and Helena Bonham Carter ("The Crown"), are also among the nominees in the supporting acting categories.

"Fleabag"'s Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Sian Clifford both land a nomination for Female Performance in a Comedy Programme, competing with Gbemisola Ikumelo ("Famalam"), and Sarah Kendall ("Frayed"). "Fleabag" also lands a Scripted Comedy nod.

"Succession", "When They See Us", "Unbelievable", and "Euphoria" are all up for the International award.

Meanwhile, TV host Graham Norton and "Famalam" actor Ikumelo received two individual nominations each.

New talent has broken through too, with first-time nominees comprising 57 percent of the performance category nominations, with Ikumelo and Turner, joined by "Sex Education" star Ncuti Gatwa, "Top Boy"'s Jasmine Jobson, and Naomi Ackie of "The End of the F***ing World", among the BAFTA first timers.

In regards to representation across nominations - with which BAFTA has been criticised for in recent years - this year's awards has seen a 22 percent rise in nominees of colour compared to last year.

Behind "Chernobyl" in nominations in the main and craft categories is "The Crown" with seven nods, "Fleabag" and "Giri/Haji" with six apiece, "His Dark Materials" and "The Virtues" with five, as well as "Killing Eve", "Sex Education" and Netflix drama "Top Boy", which land four nominations each.

The 2020 British Academy Television Awards, presented by British comedian Richard Ayoade, will take place on July 31 in a closed studio, with nominees invited to accept their awards virtually.

The full list of nominees for the main awards is as follows:

COMEDY ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAMME

• "The Graham Norton Show"
• "The Last Leg"
• "The Ranganation"
• "Taskmaster"

CURRENT AFFAIRS

• "Growing Up Poor: Britain's Breadline Kids" (Dispatches)
• "The Hunt for Jihadi John"
• "Is Labour Anti-Semitic" (Panorama)
• "Undercover: Inside China's Digital Gulag"

DRAMA SERIES

• "The Crown"
• "The End of the F***ing World"
• "Gentleman Jack"
• "Giri Haji"

ENTERTAINMENT PERFORMANCE

• Frankie Boyle - "Frankie Boyle's New World Order"
• Graham Norton - "The Graham Norton Show"
• Lee Mack - "Would I Lie to You"
• Mo Gilligan - "The Lateish Show with Mo Gilligan"

ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAMME

• "The Greatest Dancer"
• "The Rap Game UK"
• "Strictly Come Dancing"
• "The Voice UK"

FACTUAL SERIES

• "Crime and Punishment"
• "Don't F**k With Cats"
• "Leaving Neverland"
• "Our Dementia Choir with Vicky McClure"

FEATURES

• "Joe Lycett's Got Your Back"
• "The Misadventures of Romesh Ranganathan"
• "Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing"
• "Snackmasters"

FEMALE PERFORMANCE IN A COMEDY PROGRAMME

• Gbemisola Ikumelo, "Famalam" - BBC Studios/BBC Three
• Phoebe Waller-Bridge, "Fleabag" - Two Brothers Pictures/BBC Three
• Sarah Kendall, "Frayed" - Merman, Guesswork Television/Sky One
• Sian Clifford, "Fleabag" - Two Brothers Pictures/BBC Three

INTERNATIONAL

• "Euphoria"
• "Succession"
• "Unbelievable"
• "When They See Us"

LEADING ACTOR

• Callum Turner - "The Capture" - Heyday Television, NBC Universal/BBC One
• Jared Harris - "Chernobyl" - Sister Pictures, The Mighty Mint, Word Games, HBO/Sky Atlantic
• Stephen Graham - "The Virtues"
• Takehiro Hira - "Giri/Haji"

LEADING ACTRESS

• Glenda Jackson - "Elizabeth is Missing" - STV Productions/BBC One
• Jodie Comer - "Killing Eve" - Sid Gentle Films/BBC One
• Samantha Morton - "I Am Kirsty"
• Suranne Jones - "Gentleman Jack"

LIVE EVENT

• Blue Planet Live
• Election 2019 Live: The Results (ITV)
• Glastonbury 2019
• Operation Live

MALE PERFORMANCE IN A COMEDY PROGRAMME

• Guz Khan - "Man Like Mobeen"
• Jamie Demetriou - "Stath Lets Flats"
• Ncuti Gatwa - "Sex Education"
• Youssef Kerkour - "Home" - Jantaculum

MINI-SERIES

• "A Confession"
• "Chernobyl"
• "The Victim"
• "The Virtues"

NEWS COVERAGE

• Hong Kong Protests
• ITV News At Ten: Election Results
• Prince Andrew & The Epstein Scandal (Newsnight)
• Victoria Derbyshire: Men Who Lost Loved Ones to Knife Crime

REALITY & CONSTRUCTED FACTUAL

• "Celebrity Gogglebox"
• "Harry's Heroes: The Full English"
• "Race Across the World"
• "RuPaul's Drag Race UK"

SCRIPTED COMEDY

• "Catastrophe"
• "Derry Girls"
• "Fleabag"
• "Stath Lets Flats"

SHORT FORM PROGRAMME

• "Anywhere But Westminster"
• "Brain in Gear"
• "Soon Gone: A Windrush Chronicle"
• "Toni_With_An_I"

SINGLE DOCUMENTARY

• "The Abused"
• "David Harewood: Psychosis and Me"
• "The Family Secret"
• "The Last Survivors"

SINGLE DRAMA

• "Brexit": The Uncivil War
• "Elizabeth is Missing"
• "The Left Behind"
• "Responsible Child"

SOAP & CONTINUING DRAMA

• "Casualty"
• "Coronation Street"
• "Emmerdale"
• "Holby City"

SPECIALIST FACTUAL

• "8 Days: To the Moon and Back"
• "Seven Worlds, One Planet"
• "Thatcher: A Very British Revolution Production Team" - BBC Studios: The Documentary Unit/BBC Two
• "Yorkshire Ripper Files: A Very British Crime Story"

SPORT

• 2019 Rugby World Cup Final: England v South Africa
• ICC Cricket World Cup Final
• FIFA Women's World Cup 2019 Semi Final: England v USA
• Wimbledon 2019 Men's Final

SUPPORTING ACTOR

• Joe Absolom - "A Confession"
• Josh O'Connor - "The Crown" - Left Bank Pictures, Sony Pictures Television/Netflix
• Stellan Skarsgard - "Chernobyl" - Sister Pictures
• Will Sharpe - "Giri/Haji"

SUPPORTING ACTRESS

• Helen Behan - "The Virtues"
• Helena Bonham Carter - "The Crown"
• Jasmine Jobson - "Top Boy"
• Naomi Ackie - "The End of the F***ing World"

VIRGIN MEDIA MUST SEE MOMENT

• "Coronation Street" - The Death of Sinead Osborne - ITV Studios/ITV
• "Fleabag" - Confessional scene - Two Brothers Pictures/BBC Three
• "Game of Thrones" - Arya Kills the Night King
• "Gavin and Stavey" - Nessa Proposes to Smithy
• "Line of Duty" - John Corbett's Death
• "Love Island" - Michael recouples after Casa Amor

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