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UPDATED WITH WINNERS: Chernobyl was the big winner at the BAFTA TV Craft Awards on Friday after the Sky and HBO drama scooped seven awards. The Sister-produced nuclear disaster series beat competition from the likes of The Crown, Killing Eve and The Virtues at the pre-recorded ceremony, triumphing in categories…

A Very English Scandal, the BBC and Amazon co-production, scored three gongs at the BAFTA TV Craft Awards. The Hugh Grant-fronted mini-series beat two other high-profile U.S.-backed series, Killing Eve and Patrick Melrose, which both won two awards at the behind-the-scenes awards. The event was hosted by Episodes'…

EXCLUSIVE: Season 4 of Peaky Blinders was the period gangster epic’s highest-rated ever and BBC Two’s most-watched drama of 2017. Today, the saga of the Shelby clan scored five nominations from the BAFTA TV Craft Awards, including a first-ever nod for creator/writer Steven Knight in the Drama Writing category. When I…

Netflix's The Crown and BBC/FX co-production Taboo are going head-to-head at the British Academy Television Craft Awards with the former scoring seven nominations and the latter nabbing six noms. Elsewhere, Peaky Blinders, Blue Planet II and Black Mirror have all secured five nominations. This year's awards, which…

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts has set its key dates for the 2018 BAFTA TV Craft and main BAFTA TV awards, ushering in changes along the way. The 2018 Virgin TV British Academy Television Awards will now include a new Short Form category to recognize single shorts, short form series and shorts from a…

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts unveiled the nominations for its BAFTA TV Craft Awards this morning in London with the BBC’s landmark natural history series Planet Earth II scoring a lead nine mentions. Netflix also broke out today with its epic period drama The Crown tallying up seven (a first for the…

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts has set the full list of key dates for next year's BAFTA Television Awards. As it recently did with the film awards, BAFTA has also made some tweaks to eligibility in both the main TV prizes and Craft areas. Significant changes to the TV Awards include the kiboshing of a…

Ahead of the main BAFTA TV Awards on May 8, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts handed out prizes to behind-the-scenes talent this evening in London. Wolf Hall, the Playground Entertainment and Company Pictures/BBC Two adaptation of Hilary Mantel's Booker Prize winning novels, was the nominations leader…

Honoring behind-the-scenes talent, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts has announced its nominations for this year’s BAFTA TV Craft Awards. Wolf Hall, Playground Entertainment, Company Pictures and BBC Two's adaptation of Hilary Mantel's Booker Prize winning novels, leads with six nods including Best…

The British Academy Television Craft Awards were given out tonight at The Brewery, City of London, and appropriately, considering the show’s five nominations, Sky Atlantic and Showtime’s Penny Dreadful had the best night. It took home wins for Make Up and Hair design, Original Music, and Production design. Trailing…

The BAFTA TV Craft Award nominations announced this morning include a raft of dramas familiar on both sides of the Atlantic. Leading the way for the prizes that honor behind-the-scenes talent is Sky Atlantic/Showtime horror series Penny Dreadful with five nods including for Production Design, Costume Design and Music…