The Bafta Awards results

By mofgimmers on April 21st, 2008 6 comments

So I sat down with the Bafta‘s last night and expected to see a whole bunch of period dramas winning stuff and people patting each other on the back about how wonderful the TV bizz is (I feel like I should’ve written ‘bizz izz’). However, last night should be remembered as the ‘Bafta of surprises’. Many faves lost out to programmes that I didn’t expect to win, but was thrilled that they did.

Gavin and Stacey richly deserved their gongs, as did Boy A and The Street. However, what saw me punching the air was the awards given to Harry Hill’s TV Burp (probably the most underrated show on TV… until last night at least) and the wonderful Britz. The ‘yawn, I bet Cranford wins everything’ Bafta awards simply didn’t emerge. Maybe the panel thought they’d be a little obtuse? Who knows or cares… suffice to say, many of the awards given can’t be grumbled about. Apart from Fonejacker. Anyway, read over for the list of winners.

Actor

Andrew Garfield, Boy A, Channel 4

Actress

Eileen Atkins, Cranford, BBC1

Entertainment performance

Harry Hill, Harry Hill’s TV Burp, ITV1

Comedy performance

James Corden, Gavin & Stacey, BBC3

Single drama

The Mark of Cain, Channel 4

Drama series

The Street, BBC1

Drama serial

Britz, Channel 4

Continuing drama

Holby City, BBC1

International

Heroes, BBC2

Factual series

The Tower: A Tale of Two Cities, BBC1

Specialist factual

Andrew Marr’s History of Modern Britain, BBC2

Single documentary

Lie of the Land, Channel 4

Features

Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares, C4

Current affairs

China’s Stolen Children: A Dispatches Special, Channel 4

News coverage

Sky News, Glasgow airport attack

Sport

ITV F1: Canadian Grand Prix Live

Interactivity

Spooks Interactive, bbc.co.uk/spooks

Entertainment programme

Harry Hill’s TV Burp, ITV1

Comedy programme

Fonejacker, Channel 4

Situation comedy

Peep Show, Channel 4

Audience award for programme of the year

Gavin & Stacey

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But Cranford *deserved* to win everything, dammit! It’s so much more than your run of the mill costume drama!
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Well I got Gordon Ramsay right
I am quite curious about this TV burp thingy and I will have to check out Gavin and Stacey since you all keep raving about it so much
maz

I just don’t get it with Harry Hill. He’s just stupid, which isn’t comedy to me. Everytime he comes on my screen I have to press the off button.
maz

Forgot to say, Gavin and Stacey – head and shoulders above everything else, should have won everything!
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Indeed you must. A little too sickly for my liking at times, but excellent nonetheless.

And at least you got Gordon Ramsay right – my predictions were woeful!
PaulFuzz

I’ve loved TV Burp from the very first series back in 2001…its ever-growing popularity has reached a sort of critical mass recently, and I’m very happy that this has now translated into a BAFTA. TV Burp is an incredible show: Proper Family Saturday Night Telly, plus it’s anarchic, irreverent, packed with ideas, bags of fun, not presented by Antanddec, and – most importantly – consistantly very, very funny…Hill has really achieved something remarkable with TV Burp, doing something equal parts cult and mainstream. A show can be smart and hip without being angry or negative, and it can be mainstream and populist without being, yknow…bad. How many comedian / presenters understand this? Who else is being this creative? TV currently airs about 5 contemporary things worth watching regularly, this is one of them. Hill is an auteur, the last man standing between Fearne Cotton and oblivion.