This year, the Bafta TV Awards feel relatively young at 71. After all, David Attenborough has just turned 100, and August marks the 90th anniversary of BBC television. But Sunday’s ceremony is a long-established and recognised celebration of the state of British TV – which isn’t always easy to predict.
The frontrunner for this year’s awards – featuring new host Greg Davies – is Adolescence, which has 11 nominations. But its chances may be affected by the qualifying period for shows – the previous calendar year – meaning entries aired between 17 and five months ago. Given that Adolescence was dropped by Netflix on 13 March last year, some voters may conclude that it has already been honoured enough. (At last month’s separate Craft awards, it surprisingly lost the Writer category to Slow Horses.)
