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Benedict Cumberbatch, Olivia Colman are among British Academy Television Award nominees

LONDON, April 8 (UPI) — Happy Valley, Marvelous, The Missing and Line of Duty each received three nominations for the House of Fraser British Academy Awards Wednesday.

Winners are to be announced at a London ceremony on May 10.

The nominees in the top categories are –

DRAMA SERIES
Happy Valley
Line of Duty
The Missing
Peaky Blinders

SOAP & CONTINUING DRAMA
Casualty
Coronation Street
Eastenders
Hollyoaks

SINGLE DRAMA
A Poet in New York
Common
Marvelous
Murdered By My Boyfriend

LEADING ACTOR
Benedict Cumberbatch Sherlock
Toby Jones Marvelous
James Nesbitt The Missing
Jason Watkins The Lost Honor of Christopher Jefferies

LEADING ACTRESS
Georgina Campbell Murdered By My Boyfriend
Keeley Hawes Line of Duty
Sarah Lancashire Happy Valley
Sheridan Smith Cilla

SUPPORTING ACTOR
Adeel Akhtar Utopia
James Norton Happy Valley
Stephen Rea The Honorable Woman
Ken Stott The Missing

SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Gemma Jones Marvelous
Vicky McClure Line of Duty
Amanda Redman Tommy Cooper: Not like That, Like This
Charlotte Spencer Glue

SCRIPTED COMEDY
Detectorists
Harry & Paul’s Story of the Twos
Moone Boy
The Wrong Mans

FEMALE PERFORMANCE IN A COMEDY PROGRAM
Olivia Colman Rev.
Tamsin Greig Episodes
Jessica Haynes W1A
Catherine Tate Catherine Tate’s Nan

MALE PERFORMANCE IN A COMEDY PROGRAM
Matt Berry Toast of London
Hugh Bonneville W1A
Tom Hollander Rev.
Brendan O’Carroll Mrs. Brown’s Boys

COMEDY & COMEDY ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAM
Charlie Brooker’s Weekly Wipe
The Graham Norton Show
Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle
Would I Lie to You

ENTERTAINMENT PERFORMANCE
Ant and Dec Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway
Leigh Francis Celebrity Juice
Graham Norton The Graham Norton Show
Claudia Winkleman Strictly Come Dancing


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