Celebrating the best of British Television, the Virgin Media BAFTA TV awards take place on Sunday. With It's A Sin, Landscapers, Help, Time and We Are Lady Parts leading the way, will the winners reflect the cultural mood of the nation?
Years and Years singer Olly Alexander is in the running for the best leading actor award for his role in the show.It's A Sin star Nathaniel J Hall said disruptive dramas would 'struggle' without public service broadcastersThe second-most nominated TV show, Landscapers, which is co-produced by Sky and stars Olivia Colman and David Thewlis, has already taken home three craft awards and is up for two more on the night. Sky has 26 BAFTA nods overall.
Landscapers saw Colman working with her husband, writer Ed Sinclair, and has earned her a nod for best actress. She told Sky News she would have turned it down if the script wasn't great:"I might have said I'm not available, I'm picking the bobbles off my tights or something, but I was really excited when I first read it. It's just the originality in it and the inventiveness."Inspired by true events, Colman and Thewlis play a mild-mannered married couple whose lives are upturned after dead bodies are discovered in the back garden of a house in Nottingham.
Away from the future of public sector broadcasting, streaming services are also fighting for survival. Following a boom in popularity over lockdown, millions of people are now cancelling their subscriptions as they struggle to make ends meet due to the cost of living crisis. In stark contrast, the BBC iPlayer had its best quarter ever, with programmes streamed 1.83 billion times between January and March.Image:
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