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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Mark Lawson

Ant & Dec are shunned at last! The TV Baftas make some clever omissions for once

BAFTAs Claudia Winkleman Graham Norton Bates Channel 4 Erin Doherty Matt Brittin Sheridan Smith Tim Davie Ant Dec
The new queen … Claudia Winkleman nominated for best entertainment performance for The Celebrity Traitors.
The new queen … Claudia Winkleman nominated for best entertainment performance for The Celebrity Traitors. Photograph: BBC/Studio Lambert/Cody Burridge

The Bafta TV awards have recently been dominated by shows that feel so last year. In 2025, the statuettes for Mr Bates vs the Post Office arrived so late – 16 months after its ITV premiere – that viewers must have suspected they were sent by Royal Mail. This year, if Adolescence takes home any of the 11 prizes for which it is nominated, 14 months will have passed since the drama about misogynistic online influence on young men dropped on Netflix.

This results from two accidents of the calendar: the Bafta qualifying period running from January to December in the previous year and networks front loading schedules with their big shows.

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