Jonathan Ross bags Bafta nomination
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Jonathan Ross bags Bafta nomination
Ant and Dec have been pitted against controversial chat show host Jonathan Ross in the Bafta television awards. The Geordie duo have been nominated for I'm A Celebrity.... Get Me Out Of Here! in the entertainment performance category alongside Ross, Harry Hill for Harry Hill's TV Burp and Stephen Fry for QI. Biographical drama Hancock and Joan, about the final year of troubled comedian Tony Hancock's life, received three nominations, including Ken Stott for best actor. June Brown, who plays Dot Cotton in EastEnders, was nominated for best actress for her ground-breaking solo episode of the soap - her first Bafta nomination. It comes nearly half a century after she made her television debut in 1960 and more than 20 years since the last soap actress earned a best actress nomination. Coronation Street's Jean Alexander, who played Hilda Ogden, was named in the category in 1987. Also up for best actress are Anna Maxwell Martin for Poppy Shakespeare, Maxine Peake for Hancock and Joan and Andrea Riseborough for Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk To Finchley. ITV's News At Ten is nominated for the news coverage Bafta - the programme's first Bafta nod since 1996 - alongside Channel 4 News and Sky News. Competition will be fierce in the features category as Jeremy Clarkson goes head to head with Sir Alan Sugar with Top Gear and The Apprentice both nominated, alongside The Choir: Boys Don't Sing - the sequel to Bafta-winner The Choir - and first time-nominee Celebrity MasterChef. The BBC earns two nominations in the sport category - for its Olympics coverage and for Rafael Nadal's epic five-set victory in the Wimbledon men's singles final, the second year in a row that the men's final has been nominated for a Bafta. Completing the sport nominations are Channel 4's Cheltenham Gold Cup coverage and ITV's Formula One Brazilian Grand Prix, which saw Lewis Hamilton secure the drivers' world championship in thrilling style. Nominations for the audience award for programme of the year - the only gong voted on by the public - will be announced soon.
ITN | March 24, 2009
