Author: Alex RossPublished 4th Apr 2018 Last updated 4th Apr 2018
The 2018 BAFTA TV awards take place on Sunday 13th May and this year's nominations are in. Popular Netflix series The Crown, Black Mirror and BBC drama Line Of Duty lead the nominations, with Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway also picking up an nomination in the Entertainment Programme category.
A number of popular TV events have also been nominated in Virgin’s Must-See Moments category. These include Ariana Grande singing 'One Last Time' at the One Love Manchester concert, Stormzy making an appearance on Love Island the reveal of the brand new Doctor Who.
See the full list of nominations below:
Leading actor
Jack Rowan - Born To Kill
Joe Cole – Hang The DJ: Black Mirror
Sean Bean – Broken
Tim Pigott-Smith – King Charles III
Leading actress
Claire Foy - The Crown
Molly Windsor – Three Girls
Sinead Keenan – Little Boy Blue
Thandie Newton – Line of Duty
Supporting Actress
Anna Friel - Broken
Julie Hesmondhalgh - Broadchurch
Liv Hill - Three Girls
Vanessa Kirby - The Crown
Supporting Actor
Adrian Dunbar - Line of Duty
Anupam Kher - The Boy with The Topknot
Brían F. O’Byrne - Little Boy Blue
Jimmi Simpson - USS Callister (Black Mirror)
Entertainment performance
Adam Hill - The Last Leg
Michael McIntyre – Michael McIntyre’s Big Show
Graham Norton - The Graham Norton Show
Sandi Toksvig – QI
Factual Series
Ambulance
Catching A Killer
Drugsland
Hospital
Soap & Continuing Drama
Casualty
Coronation Street
Emmerdale
Hollyoaks
Female performance in a comedy programme
Anna Maxwell Martin – Motherland
Daisy May Cooper – This Country
Sharon Horgan – Catastrophe
Sian Gibson – Peter Kay’s Car Share
Male performance in a comedy programme
Asim Chaundry – People Just Do Nothing
Rob Brydon – The Trip to Spain
Samson Kayo – Famalam
Toby Jones – Detectorists
Drama series
The Crown
End of the F***ing World
Line of Duty
Peaky Blinders
International
Handmaid’s Tale
Big Little Lies
Feud: Bette and Joan
The Vietnam War
Specialist factual
Basquiat: Rage to Riches
Blitz: The Bombs That Changed Britain
Blue Planet II
Elizabeth I’s Secret Agents
Sport
Anthony Joshua V. Wladimir Klitschko
Six Nations: Wales V. England
The Grand National
UEFA Women’s Euro Semi-Final: England V. Netherlands
Mini-Series
Howards End
The Moorside
The State
Three Girls
Reality and constructed factual
Celebrity Hunted
Love Island
Old People’s Home For Four-Year Olds
The Real Full Monty
Current affairs
Raped: My Story
Syria’s Disappeared: The Case Against Assad - Dispatches
Game of Thrones - Viserion is Killed by the Night King
Doctor Who - The Thirteenth Doctor Revealed
Love Manchester – Ariana Grande Sings ‘One Last Time’
Blue Planet II - Mother Pilot Whale Grieves
Line of Duty - Huntley’s Narrow Escape
Watch the nominations being revealed below:
The 2018 BAFTA TV awards take place on Sunday 13th May.
Now check out the original names of some of your favourite TV shows:
Friends
We all know and love it as Friends, but the TV show could have been called something very different...
BAFTA TV awards 2018: Full list of nominations
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NavyNCIS
Starring Duane Henry, Emily Wickersham, and Wilmer Valderrama (above) NCIS was originally going to be called NavyNCIS.
Friends
We all know and love it as Friends, but the TV show could have been called something very different...
Six of One
Six Of One just doesn't have the same ring to it! Here are the cast Jennifer Aniston, Matt Le Blanc, Courteney Cox, Matthew Perry, David Schwimmer and Lisa Kudrow,
Only Fools and Horses
We know it as Only Fools and Horses with Del Boy's infamous Reliant Regal Supervan.
Readies or Big Brother
But it was originally due to be called Readies or Big Brother. Good job they went with Only Fools and Horses, then!
The Big Bang Theory
The Big Bang Theory could have been called something a lot less catchy...
Lenny, Penny and Kenny
Yep - Sheldon was very nearly called Kenny!
Saturday Night Live
US variety show Saturday Night Live is well known around the world - here's Star Wars actor Adam Driver introducing the show.
NBC's Saturday Night
Not quite the same, is it? Here's Ariana Grande's ex-fiancé Pete Davidson, who works on the show as a comedian.
Hannah Montana
Hannah Montana, was a musical comedy starring Miley Cyrus in the lead role and was named after the main character, but it could have been very different.
Alexis Texas
The lead character was originally going to be called Alexis Texas... Which means that the show would also have been called Alexis Texas!
Lost
The gripping TV show Lost, starring Terry O'Quinn as John Locke (pictured), kept people guessing the ending for years.
Nowhere
Lost could have been called Nowhere!
New Girl
Known as New Girl, the TV show starring Zooey Deschanel as kooky teacher Jess Day could have been called something else entirely.
Chicks and D---s
While New Girl was the name they finally settled on, it had a much ruder working title - and Zooey Deschanel refused to sign onto the project whilst that was the name.
Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Supernatural TV series Buffy The Vampire Slayer was a hit in the late 90s and early 00s. It was named after the lead character Buffy Summers, played by Sarah Michelle Gellar.
Slayers
It was originally going to be called Slayers.
The Good Wife
Known as The Good Wife, the TV series starred Christine Baranski as Diane Lockhart (pictured), as a top litigator and senior partner of a Chicago law firm.
Leave the B-----d
The series, which also starred Sex and the City's Chris Noth (pictured), was originally going to be called Leave the B-----d.
NCIS
NCIS finished its 14th season earlier this year - this moment is from the gripping season finale.
NavyNCIS
Starring Duane Henry, Emily Wickersham, and Wilmer Valderrama (above) NCIS was originally going to be called NavyNCIS.
Friends
We all know and love it as Friends, but the TV show could have been called something very different...
Six of One
Six Of One just doesn't have the same ring to it! Here are the cast Jennifer Aniston, Matt Le Blanc, Courteney Cox, Matthew Perry, David Schwimmer and Lisa Kudrow,
Only Fools and Horses
We know it as Only Fools and Horses with Del Boy's infamous Reliant Regal Supervan.
Readies or Big Brother
But it was originally due to be called Readies or Big Brother. Good job they went with Only Fools and Horses, then!
The Big Bang Theory
The Big Bang Theory could have been called something a lot less catchy...
Lenny, Penny and Kenny
Yep - Sheldon was very nearly called Kenny!
Saturday Night Live
US variety show Saturday Night Live is well known around the world - here's Star Wars actor Adam Driver introducing the show.
NBC's Saturday Night
Not quite the same, is it? Here's Ariana Grande's ex-fiancé Pete Davidson, who works on the show as a comedian.
Hannah Montana
Hannah Montana, was a musical comedy starring Miley Cyrus in the lead role and was named after the main character, but it could have been very different.
Alexis Texas
The lead character was originally going to be called Alexis Texas... Which means that the show would also have been called Alexis Texas!
Lost
The gripping TV show Lost, starring Terry O'Quinn as John Locke (pictured), kept people guessing the ending for years.
Nowhere
Lost could have been called Nowhere!
New Girl
Known as New Girl, the TV show starring Zooey Deschanel as kooky teacher Jess Day could have been called something else entirely.
Chicks and D---s
While New Girl was the name they finally settled on, it had a much ruder working title - and Zooey Deschanel refused to sign onto the project whilst that was the name.
Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Supernatural TV series Buffy The Vampire Slayer was a hit in the late 90s and early 00s. It was named after the lead character Buffy Summers, played by Sarah Michelle Gellar.
Slayers
It was originally going to be called Slayers.
The Good Wife
Known as The Good Wife, the TV series starred Christine Baranski as Diane Lockhart (pictured), as a top litigator and senior partner of a Chicago law firm.
Leave the B-----d
The series, which also starred Sex and the City's Chris Noth (pictured), was originally going to be called Leave the B-----d.
NCIS
NCIS finished its 14th season earlier this year - this moment is from the gripping season finale.
NavyNCIS
Starring Duane Henry, Emily Wickersham, and Wilmer Valderrama (above) NCIS was originally going to be called NavyNCIS.
