Peter Capaldi among the stars in the running for TV Baftas

Published on Monday 10 May 2010 15:29

SCOTS actor Peter Capaldi has been nominated for a TV Bafta for his portrayal of foul-mouthed spin doctor Malcolm Tucker in political satire The Thick of It.

Capaldi (pictured), who won the Acting in Film category of the Scottish Baftas last year for the same role in In The Loop, is up for the Male Performance in a Comedy Programme category.

Rebecca Front is also nominated in the Female Performance in a Comedy Programme category for her portrayal of MP Nicola Murray, the prime target for Tucker's withering outbursts.

Veteran actor John Hurt, 70, is up for Leading Actor for playing the flamboyant gay writer in The Naked Civil Servant. He is up against Kenneth Branagh for Wallander, Brendan Gleeson for his portrayal of Winston Churchill in Into The Storm (BBC2) and first-time nominee David Oyelowo for his performance in Small Island (BBC1).

The awards, hosted by Graham Norton at the London Palladium on 6 June, also see Julie Walters clock up her 13th and 14th Bafta nominations – with two nods in the Leading Actress category.

She is in the running for her role as the late politician Mo Mowlam in the Channel 4 drama Mo, and for her performance in A Short Stay in Switzerland, the BBC1 drama inspired by the story of Dr Anne Turner, who took her own life in Zurich in 2006.

Walters is up against Helena Bonham Carter, who receives her first Bafta TV nomination for her performance as children's author Enid Blyton in the BBC1 drama Enid.

In other categories, Britain's Got Talent is in the running for best Entertainment Programme, up against The Graham Norton Show (BBC1), which is nominated for the first time, Harry Hill's TV Burp (ITV1) and Newswipe with Charlie Brooker (BBC4).

In terms of nominations, David Mitchell, Harry Hill, Miranda Hart as well as Okonedo lead the field with two nominations each.

Mitchell has a nod for Male Performance in a Comedy Programme for Peep Show while his other show, That Mitchell And Webb Look, is up for best Comedy Programme.

The BBC has 54 nominations, ITV has 12, Channel 4 has 23 – including three for E4, but Five and More4 do not have a single nomination.

Full list of Bafta nominations

Leading Actor

Kenneth Branagh – Wallander

Brendon Gleeson – Into The Storm

John Hurt – An Englishman In New York

David Oyelowo – Small Island

Leading Actress

Helena Bonham Carter – Enid

Sophie Okonedo – Mrs Mandela

Julie Walters – A Short Stay In Switzerland

Julie Walters – Mo

Supporting Actor

Benedict Cumberbatch – Small Island

Tom Hollander – Gracie!

Gary Lewis – Mo

Matthew Macfadyen – Criminal Justice

Supporting Actress

Rebecca Hall – Red Riding (1974)

Sophie Okonedo – Criminal Justice

Lauren Socha – The Unloved

Imelda Staunton – Cranford

Entertainment Performance

Stephen Fry – QI

Harry Hill – Harry Hill's TV Burp

Anthony McPartlin & Declan Donnelly – I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!

Michael McIntyre – Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow

Female Performance in a Comedy Programme

Jo Brand – Getting On

Rebecca Front – The Thick Of It

Miranda Hart – Miranda

Joanna Scanlan – Getting On

Male Performance in a Comedy Programme

Simon Bird – The Inbetweeners

Peter Capaldi – The Thick Of It

Hugh Dennis – Outnumbered Christmas Special

David Mitchell – Peep Show

Single Drama

A Short Stay In Switzerland

Five Minutes Of Heaven

Mo

The Unloved

Drama Series

Being Human

Misfits

Spooks

The Street

Drama Serial

Occupation

Red Riding

Small Island

Unforgiven

Continuing Drama

The Bill

Casualty

Coronation Street

EastEnders

International

Family Guy

Mad Men

Nurse Jackie

True Blood

Factual Series

Blood, Sweat And Takeaways

The Family

One Born Every Minute

Who Do You Think You Are?

Specialist Factual

Art Of Russia

Chemistry: A Volatile History

Inside Nature's Giants

Yellowstone

Single Documentary

Katie: My Beautiful Face

Louis Theroux: A Place For Paedophiles

Tsunami: Caught On Camera

Wounded

Features

The Choir: Unsung Town

Heston's Feasts

James May's Toy Stories

Masterchef: The Professionals

Current Affairs

Afghanistan: Behind Enemy Lines (Dispatches)

Generation Jihad

Gypsy Child Thieves (This World)

Terror In Mumbai (Dispatches)

News Coverage

BBC News Channel – The Haiti Earthquake

Channel 4 News – Haiti Earthquake

ITV News at Ten – Haiti

Sky News – Pakistan: Terror's Frontline

Sport

F1 – The Brazilian Grand Prix

FA Cup Final

World Athletics Championships

Uefa Champions League Live

New Media

Antony Gormley's One & Other

Life Begins (One Born Every Minute)

Primeval Evolved

Virtual Revolution

Entertainment Programme

Britain's Got Talent

The Graham Norton Show

Harry Hill's TV Burp

Newswipe with Charlie Brooker

Comedy Programme

The Armstrong And Miller Show

The Kevin Bishop Show

Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle

That Mitchell And Webb Look

Situation Comedy

The Inbetweeners

Miranda

Peep Show

The Thick of It