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Bafta TV awards 2022: Date, how to watch, and full list of nominations

The Bafta TV Awards will take place on May 8, 2022.

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TV fans will be looking forward to a major event this weekend: the Bafta TV Awards 2022.

All eyes will be on Channel 4 drama It’s A Sin, which received a string of nominations for its performances, while fans of hit Netflix series Sex Education will want to tune into see if fan-favourites Aimee Lou Wood and Ncuti Gatwa win in their respective categories.

The TV Awards will also be a particularly big night for 28 performers–including It’s A Sin stars Callum Scott Howells and Olly Alexander–who have received their first Bafta TV nominations this year.

From how to watch the awards to a full list of nominations, find out everything you need to know about the Bafta TV awards below.

When are the Baftas 2022?

The Bafta TV Awards will take place on Sunday, May 8, at 6pm BST. Richard Ayoade will host live from London’s Royal Festival Hall.

How to watch the Baftas

The Bafta TV Awards will be broadcast on BBC One from 6pm and coverage will be streamed on YouTube and Facebook from 2pm.

Bafta TV Nominations 2022

Comedy entertainment programme

The Graham Norton Show

The Lateish Show with Mo Gilligan

Race Around Britain

The Raganation

Drama series

In My Skin

Manhunt: The Night Stalker

Unforgotten

Vigil

Mini-series

It’s a Sin

Landscapers

Stephen

Time

International

Call My Agent!

Lupin

Mare of Easttown

Squid Game

Succession

The Underground Railroad

Specialist factual

Black Power: A British Story of Resistance

Freddie Mercury: The Final Act

The Missing Children

Silenced: The Hidden Story of Disabled Britain

Reality and constructed factual

Gogglebox

Married at First Sight UK

RuPaul’s Drag Race UK

The Dog House

Current affairs

Fearless: The Women Fighting Putin

Four Hours at the Capitol

The Men Who Sell Football

Trump Takes on the World

Entertainment programme

An Audience With Adele

Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway

Life & Rhymes

Strictly Come Dancing

Scripted comedy

Alma’s Not Normal

Motherland

Stath Lets Flats

We Are Lady Parts

Short Form programme

Hollyoaks Saved My Life

Our Land

People You May Know

Please Help

Factual series

The Detectives: Fighting Organised Crime

9/11: One Day in America

Undercover Police: Hunting Paedophiles

Uprising

Features

Big Zuu’s Big Eats

Mortimer and Whitehouse: Gone Fishing

Sort Your Life Out

The Great British Sewing Bee

Live event

The Brit Awards 2021

The Earthshot Prize 2021

The Royal Legion Festival of Remembrance

News coverage

Channel 4 News: Black to Front

Good Morning Britain: Shamima Begum

ITV News at Ten: Storming of the Capitol

Sky News: Afghanistan: Endgame

Single documentary

9/11: Inside the President’s War Room

Grenfell: The Untold Story

My Childhood, My Country – 20 Years in Afghanistan

Nail Bomber: Manhunt

Single drama

Death of England: Face to Face

Help

I Am Victoria

Together

Soap and continuing drama

Casualty

Coronation Street

Emmerdale

Holby City

Sport

The Abu Dhabi Grand Prix

ITV Racing: The Grand National

Tokyo 2020 Olympics

Uefa Euro 2020 Semi-final: England v Denmark

Virgin Media must-see moment nominees

An Audience With Adele – Adele is surprised by the teacher who changed her life

I’m a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here! – Ant and Dec dig at Downing Street’s lockdown parties

It’s a Sin – Colin’s devastating Aids diagnosis

RuPaul’s Drag Race UK – Bimini’s verse ‘UK Hun?’

Squid Game – red light, green light game

Strictly Come Dancing – Rose and Giovanni’s silent dance to Symphony

Leading actress

Denise Gough – Too Close

Emily Watson – Too Close

Jodie Comer – Help

Kate Winslet – Mare of Easttown

Lydia West – It’s a Sin

Niamh Algar – Deceit

Leading actor

David Thewlis – Landscapers

Hugh Quarshie – Stephen

Olly Alexander – It’s a Sin

Samuel Adewunmi – You Don’t Know Me

Sean Bean – Time

Stephen Graham – Help

Female performance in a comedy programme

Aimee Lou Wood – Sex Education

Aisling Bea – This Way Up

Anjana Vasan – We Are Lady Parts

Natasia Demetriou – Stath Lets Flats

Rose Matafeo – Starstruck

Sophie Willan – Alma’s Not Normal

Male performance in a comedy programme

Jamie Demetriou – Stath Lets Flats

Joe Gilgun – Brassic

Ncuti Gatwa – Sex Education

Samson Kayo – Bloods

Steve Coogan – This Time with Alan Partridge

Tim Renkow – Jerk

Supporting actor

Callum Scott Howells – It’s a Sin

David Carlyle – It’s a Sin

Matthew Macfadyen – Succession

Nonso Anozie – Sweet Tooth

Omari Douglas – It’s a Sin

Stephen Graham – Time

Supporting actress

Cathy Tyson – Help

Céline Buckens – Showtrial

Emily Mortimer – The Pursuit of Love

Jessica Plummer – The Girl Before

Leah Harvey – Foundation

Tahirah Sharif – The Tower

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