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Zara Woodcock

BAFTA TV Awards - It's A Sin lead nominations as Jodie Comer and Stephen Graham get nods

Channel 4's It's A Sin leads the nominations at the BAFTA television awards this year with 11 potential wins.

The popular series stars Olly Alexander and follows a group of gay men and their friends as they tried to navigate their way through the United Kingdom's HIV/AIDS crisis throughout the 80s and 90s.

It was written by Doctor Who's screenwriter Russell T Davies.

The show’s 11 nominations, including five in the craft categories and six in the television awards categories, contain nods for Davies in the writer drama category, as well as a leading actor nomination for singer Olly Alexander for his role as Ritchie Tozer.

Lydia West, who plays iconic close pal Jill in the heartbreaking series, has also been nominated in the leading actress category.

Olly and Nathaniel Curtis in It's A Sin (Channel 4)

Kate Winslet has been nominated in the same category for HBO's Mare Of Easttown.

Others in the leading actress category include Denise Gough and Emily Watson for ITV show Too Close, Jodie Comer for Channel 4's Help and Niamh Algar for Channel 4's Deceit.

In the leading actor category alongside Years & Years' Olly are Landscapers' David Thewliss, Stephen's Hugh Quarshie, You Don't Know Me's Samuel Adewunmi, Time's Sean Bean and Help's Stephen Graham.

It's A Sin and Landscapers lead nominations for BAFTA TV Awards (Channel 4)

Other nominations include seven for Landscapers, six for Help, Time and We Are Lady Parts, five for Sex Education and four for A Very British Scandal.

Although Landscapers has received a lot of nominations, none are for leading lady Olivia Colman in the performance categories.

Landscapers received seven nominations (©Sky UK Ltd / HBO / Sister)

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Five of the nominations are in the craft categories and two are in the television categories.

The true-crime series, written by Ed Sinclair, is based on the true story of the 1998 murders of William and Patricia Wycherley.

It stars Olivia and David as Susan and Christopher Edwards, who is the couple behind the murders.

Meanwhile, the highly-anticipated nominations for the public-voted Virgin Media's Must-See Moments include the moment Adele is surprised by the teacher who changed her life in An Audience with Adele.

Other moments include Ant and Dec's dig at Downing Street's lockdown parties in I'm A Celeb, Colin's devastating AIDS diagnosis in It's A Sin and Bimini Bon Boulash's verse in UK Hun? in Rupaul's Drag Race.

The Red Light, Green Light game in Squid Game received a nod along with Rose and Giovanni's silent dance to 'Symphony' in Strictly Come Dancing.

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