Corrie snubbed in Bafta

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Cranford: in the running for four awards.


Cranford, The Street and Harry Hill's TV Burp received multiple nominations for the Bafta TV awards today – but Coronation Street missed out.

BBC1's critically lauded costume drama Cranford is in the running for four awards, including best drama serial and a 12th Bafta acting nomination for Dame Judi Dench.

The Street, another BBC1 drama, and ITV1's Harry Hill's TV Burp are among a clutch of programmes with two nominations each, including BBC1's Strictly Come Dancing, ITV1's Britain's Got Talent, Channel 4's Peep Show, Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain on BBC2 and BBC4's The Thick Of It.

Channel 4 has more nominations than any other channel for the second year running. The broadcaster is up for 23 awards, ahead of BBC1 with 20, ITV1 with 12, and BBC2 with 11.

But there was no room in the continuing drama category for ITV1's Coronation Street, with nominations for the soap award going to EastEnders, Holby City, Emmerdale and The Bill.

A year after Sky One celebrated its first two Baftas, including one for Ross Kemp on Gangs, the channel received no nominations.

The satellite broadcaster received a solitary nod for Sky News in the news coverage category.

BBC1's The Street is in the running for best drama series up against Life on Mars, Rome and Skins; while Harry Hill's TV Burp will compete against three-times-nominated Strictly Come Dancing, Britain's Got Talent and nine-time nominee Have I Got News For You in the entertainment programme category.

Hill is also nominated for the entertainment performance prize, along with Never Mind the Buzzcocks' Simon Amstell, QI presenter Stephen Fry and Alan Carr and Justin Lee Collins of Channel 4's Friday Night Project.

ITV1 has three out of the four sports awards, with nods for its coverage of the Boat Race, Canadian Grand Prix and Rugby World Cup semi-final between England and France. BBC1 is nominated for the Wimbledon men's final.

Four first-time Bafta TV nominees will compete in the best actor category: Andrew Garfield for Boy A, Tom Hardy for Stuart: A Life Backwards, and Matthew Macfadyen for Secret Life, while Antony Sher receives his first nomination for Primo.

The Bafta TV awards, sponsored by Sky+, will be held at the London Palladium on April 20. They will be hosted by Graham Norton and broadcast on BBC1.

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