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Television Awards Winners in 2010

10 May 10

See the list of winners and nominees, watch red carpet coverage, and get reactions from the winning stars fresh from the podium at the Philips British Academy Television Awards in 2010.

The official list of Television Awards nominations and winners in 2010. The ceremony took place on Sunday June 6 at the London Palladium.

  • Fellowship
  • Special Award
  • Leading Actor
  • Leading Actress
  • Supporting Actor
  • Supporting Actress
  • Entertainment Performance
  • Female Performance in a Comedy Role
  • Male Performance in a Comedy Role
  • Single Drama
  • Drama Series
  • Drama Serial
  • Continuing Drama
  • International
  • Factual Series
  • Specialist Factual
  • Single Documentary
  • Features
  • Current Affairs
  • News Coverage
  • Sport
  • New Media
  • Entertainment Programme
  • Comedy Programme
  • Situation Comedy
  • YouTube Audience Award

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Fellowship

BAFTA maskMelvyn Bragg

  • Find out more: Melvyn Bragg BAFTA Fellow in 2010

Special Award

BAFTA maskSimon Cowell

  • Find out more: Simon Cowell, BAFTA Special Award in 2010

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Leading Actor

BAFTA mask Kenneth Branagh - Wallander (BBC One)

Brendan Gleeson - Into The Storm (BBC Two)

John Hurt - An Englishman in New York (ITV1)

David Oyelowo - Small Island (BBC One)

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Leading Actress

Helena Bonham Carter – Enid (BBC Four)

Sophie Okonedo - Mrs Mandela (BBC Four)

Julie Walters - A Short Stay In Switzerland (BBC One)

BAFTA mask Julie Walters - Mo (Channel 4)

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Supporting Actor

Benedict Cumberbatch - Small Island (BBC One)

Tom Hollander - Gracie! (BBC Four)

Gary Lewis - Mo (Channel 4)

BAFTA mask Matthew MacFadyen - Criminal Justice (BBC One)

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Supporting Actress

BAFTA mask Rebecca Hall - Red Riding 1974 (Channel 4)

Sophie Okonedo - Criminal Justice (BBC One)

Lauren Socha - The Unloved (Channel 4)

Imelda Staunton - Cranford (BBC One)

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Entertainment Performance

Stephen Fry - QI (BBC One)

Harry Hill - Harry Hill’s TV Burp (ITV1)

BAFTA mask Anthony McPartlin & Declan Donnelly - I’m A Celebrity….Get Me Out Of Here! (ITV1)

Michael McIntyre - Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow (BBC One)

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Female Performance in a Comedy Role

Jo Brand - Getting On (BBC Four)

BAFTA mask Rebecca Front - The Thick Of It (BBC Two)

Miranda Hart - Miranda (BBC Two)

Joanna Scanlan - Getting On (BBC Four)

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Male Performance in a Comedy Role

Simon Bird - The Inbetweeners (E4)

BAFTA mask Peter Capaldi - The Thick Of It (BBC Two)

Hugh Dennis - Outnumbered Christmas Special (BBC One)

David Mitchell - Peep Show (Channel 4)

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Single Drama

A Short Stay in Switzerland
Elizabeth Trubridge, Simon Curtis, Frank McGuinness, Ruth Caleb
BBC One/BBC Productions

Five Minutes of Heaven
Guy Hibbert, Oliver Hirschbiegel, Eoin O’Callaghan, Stephen Wright
BBC Two/Big Fish Films/Ruby Films

Mo
Jeff Pope, Neil McKay, Lisa Gilchrist, Philip Martin
Channel 4/ITV Studios

BAFTA mask The Unloved
Samantha Morton, Tony Grisoni, Kate Ogborn, Andrew Eaton
Channel 4/Revolution Films

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Drama Series

Being Human
Rob Pursey, Toby Whithouse, Matthew Bouch, Colin Teague
BBC Three/Touchpaper Television

BAFTA mask Misfits
Production Team
E4/Clerkenwell Films

Spooks
Production Team
BBC One/Kudos Film & TV

The Street
Jimmy McGovern, Sita Williams, Roxy Spencer, David Blair
BBC One/ITV Studios

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Drama Serial

BAFTA mask Occupation
Peter Bowker, Derek Wax, Nick Murphy, Laurie Borg
BBC One/Kudos Film & TV

Red Riding
Production Team
Channel 4/Revolution Films

Small Island
Paula Milne, Alison Owen, Vicky Licorish, John Alexander
BBC One/Ruby Films and Television & AL Films

Unforgiven
Sally Wainwright, Nicola Schindler, Karen Lewis, David Evans
ITV1/Red Production Company

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Continuing Drama

The Bill
Production Team
ITV1/Talkback Thames

Casualty
Production Team
BBC One/BBC Productions

Coronation Street
Production Team
ITV1/ITV Studios

BAFTA mask EastEnders
Production Team
BBC One/BBC Productions

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International

Family Guy
Seth Macfarlane
BBC Three/Twentieth Century Fox

BAFTA mask Mad Men
Matthew Weiner, Scott Hornbacher
BBC Four/Lionsgate

Nurse Jackie
Evan Dunsky, Liz Brixius, Linda Wallem, Richie Jackson
BBC Two/Lionsgate, Showtime Networks, Inc., CBS Studios International

True Blood
Alan Ball, Brian Buckner
FX/HBO

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Factual Series

Blood, Sweat and Takeaways
Mark Rubens, Tim Quicke, James Christie-Miller, Jo Bishop
BBC Three/Ricochet

The Family
David Clews, Beejal-Maya Patel, Jonathan Smith, Sanjay Singhal
Channel 4/Dragonfly Productions

BAFTA mask One Born Every Minute
Production Team
Channel 4/ Dragonfly Productions

Who Do You Think You Are?
Liz Dobson, Colette Flight, Lucy Carter, Alex Graham
BBC One/Wall To Wall

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Specialist Factual*


Art of Russia
Andrew Graham-Dixon, John Hay, Silvia Sacco, Karen McGann
BBC Four/BBC Productions

Chemistry: A Volatile History
Jim Al-Khalili, Helen Thomas, Sacha Baveystock, Kim Shillinglaw
BBC Four/BBC Productions

BAFTA mask Inside Nature’s Giants
David Dugan, Julian Thomas, Alex Tate, Yvonne Bainton
Channel 4/Windfall Films

Yellowstone
Production Team
BBC Two/BBC Productions

*Specialist Factual is given in honour of Huw Wheldon

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Single Documentary**

Katie: My Beautiful Face
Jessie Versluys, Dan Goldsack, Kate Collier, Samuel Santana
Channel 4/Mentorn

Louis Theroux: A Place for Paedophiles
Louis Theroux, Emma Cooper, Guy King, Nick Mirsky
BBC Two/BBC Productions

Tsunami: Caught on Camera
Tom Brisley, Janice Sutherland, Sarah Swingler, Alex Kiehl
Channel 4/Darlow Smithson Productions

BAFTA mask Wounded
Sara Hardy, Jane Aldous, Gwyn Jones, Roger Courtiour
BBC One/BBC Productions

**Single Documentary is given in honour of Robert Flaherty

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Features

The Choir: Unsung Town
Production Team
BBC Two/Twenty Twenty Television

Heston’s Feasts
Production Team
Channel4/Optomen Television

James May’s Toy Stories
Will Daws, Stuart Cabb, James May, Ian Holt
BBC Two/Plum Pictures

BAFTA mask Masterchef: The Professionals
Karen Ross, Carla-Maria Lawson, Antonia Lloyd, David Ambler
BBC Two/Shine Television

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Current Affairs

Afghanistan: Behind Enemy Lines (Dispatches)
Najibullah Quraishi, Jamie Doran, John Moffat, Paul Woolwich
Channel 4/Clover Films

Generation Jihad
Peter Taylor, Leo Telling, Sam Bagnall
BBC Two/BBC Current Affairs

Gypsy Child Thieves (This World)
Liviu Tipurita, Sam Bagnall, Lucy Hetherington
BBC Two/BBC Current Affairs

BAFTA mask Terror in Mumbai (Dispatches)
Dan Reed, Eamonn Matthews
Channel 4/Quicksilver Media

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News Coverage

BBC News Channel - The Haiti Earthquake
Kevin Bakhurst, Ben Brown, Matthew Price, Matt Frei
BBC News Channel/BBC News

Channel 4 News - Haiti Earthquake
Production Team
Channel 4/ITN

BAFTA mask ITV News at Ten – Haiti
Mark Austin, Bill Neely, Dave Harman, John Irvine
ITV1/ITN

Sky News - Pakistan: Terror’s Frontline
Production Team
Sky News/Sky News

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Sport

F1 - The Brazilian Grand Prix
Production Team
BBC One/BBC Sport

FA Cup Final
Simon Moore, Paul McNamara, John Watts
ITV1/ITV Sport

BAFTA mask World Athletics Championships
Production Team
BBC Two/BBC Sport

UEFA Champions League Live
Tony Pastor, John Watts, Paul McNamara
ITV1/ITV Sport

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New Media

Antony Gormley’s One & Other
Sari Blom, Laura Green, Steve Boland, Antony Gormley
Sky Arts/Headshift

Life Begins (One Born Every Minute)
Production Team
Channel4.com/Airlock/Dragonfly

Primeval Evolved
Production Team
ITV1/ITV.COM/Hoodlum/Impossible Pictures

BAFTA mask Virtual Revolution
Dan Gluckman, Julian Philips, Dominic Crossley-Holland, Dan Biddle
BBC Two/BBC Productions

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Entertainment Programme***

BAFTA mask Britain’s Got Talent
Production Team
ITV1/Syco/Talkback Thames

The Graham Norton Show
Graham Norton, Jon Magnusson, Graham Stuart, Steve Smith
BBC One/So Television

Harry Hill’s TV Burp
Harry Hill, Spencer Millman, Peter Orton
ITV1/Avalon Television

Newswipe with Charlie Brooker
Charlie Brooker, Annabel Jones, Nick Vaughan-Smith, Al Campbell
BBC Four/Zeppotron

***The Entertainment Programme BAFTA is given in honour of Lew Grade

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Comedy Programme

BAFTA mask The Armstrong and Miller Show
Alexander Armstrong, Ben Miller, Caroline Norris, Dominic Brigstocke
BBC One/Toff Media

The Kevin Bishop Show
Lee Hupfield, Kevin Bishop, Dominic Brigstocke, Sam Martin
Channel 4/Objective Productions

Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle
Stewart Lee, Tim Kirkby, Richard Webb
BBC Two/BBC Productions

That Mitchell and Webb Look
David Mitchell, Robert Webb, Ben Gosling Fuller, Gareth Edwards
BBC Two/BBC Productions

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Situation Comedy

The Inbetweeners
Damon Beesley, Iain Morris, Ben Palmer, Christopher Young
E4/Bwark Productions

Miranda
Jo Sargent, Nerys Evans, Juliet May, Miranda Hart
BBC Two/BBC Productions

Peep Show
Sam Bain, Jesse Armstrong, Phil Clarke, Becky Martin
Channel 4/Objective Productions

BAFTA mask The Thick of It
Armando Iannucci, Adam Tandy
BBC Two/BBC Productions

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YouTube Audience Award

  • Find Out More:
    The Inbetweeners, YouTube Audience Award in 2010

Logo: YouTube

Britain's Got Talent
ITV1/Syco/Talkback Thames

Glee
E4/20th Century Fox

BAFTA mask The Inbetweeners
E4/Bwark Productions

The One Show
BBC One/BBC Productions

Unforgiven
ITV1/Red Production Company

The X Factor
ITV1/Talkback Thames/Syco

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