Coronation Street gets second awards snub in a month as Bafta shortlist is revealed

Unfortunately for Coronation Street fans, the ITV soap did not receive a nomination for the TV Baftas, which were announced in the same month that the RTS awards passed it by.

With a total of seven wins, including Best Soap, at the Inside Soap Awards in 2021, Coronation Street completely dominated the competition.

The show won all three of the awards that were presented to the soaps at both the TV Choice Awards and the National Television Awards that year.

Although Coronation Street won the Bafta for Soaps and Continuing Drama in 2022, it seems that, regrettably, it just wasn’t to be this year.

Along with fellow ITV soap Emmerdale, the soap also missed out on a nomination for the Royal Television Society Awards.

However, Emmerdale, along with BBC soaps Casualty and EastEnders, has earned itself a nomination for Soaps and Continuing Drama, so Hollyoaks has also been left out this time.

Over the past year, Emmerdale has tackled some difficult storylines, such as Faith Dingle’s (Sally Dexter) tragic passing, Marlon Dingle’s (Mark Charnock) stroke, and Paddy Kirk’s (Dominic Brunt) suicide attempt.

Of course, we must not forget the momentous 50th anniversary, when a terrifying storm struck the Village and killed Liv Dingle (Isobel Steele) and Harriet Finch (Katherine Dow Blyton).

Full list of Bafta TV nominations 2023:

Comedy Entertainment programme:

Friday Night Live
The Graham Norton Show
Taskmaster
Would I Lie to You?

Current Affairs:

Afghanistan: No Country For Women
Children of the Taliban
The Crossing
Mariupol: The People’s Story

Daytime:

The Chase
The Repair Shop
Scam Interceptors

Drama Series:

Bad Sisters
The Responder
Sherwood
Somewhere Boy

Entertainment Performance:

Big Zuu (Big Zuu’s Big Eats)
Claudia Winkleman (The Traitors)
Lee Mack (The 1% Club)
Mo Gilligan (The Lateish Show with Mo Gilligan)
Rosie Jones (Rosie Jones’ Trip Hazard)
Sue Perkins (Sue Perkins: Perfectly Legal)

Entertainment programme:

Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway
Later… with Jools Holland: Jool’s 30th Birthday Bash
The Masked Singer
Strictly Come Dancing

Factual Series:

Jeremy Kyle Show: Death on Daytime
Libby, Are You Home Yet
Vatican Girl: The Disapearance of Emanuela Orlandi
Worlds Collide: The Manchester Bombing

Features:

Big Zuu’s Big Eats
Joe Lycett vs Beckham: Got Your Back at Xmas
The Martin Lewis Money Show Live
The Misadventures of Romesh Ranganathan

Female Performance in a Comedy programme:

Daisy May Cooper (Am I Being Unreasonable?)
Diane Morgan (Cunk on Earth)
Lucy Beaumont (Meet The Richardsons)
Natasia Demetriou (Ellie & Natasia)
Siobhan McSweeney (Derry Girls)
Taj Atwal (Hullraisers)

International:

The Bear
Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story
Wednesday
Oussekine
Pachinko
The White Lotus

Leading Actor:

Ben Whishaw (This Is Going To Hurt)
Chaske Spencer (The English)
Cillian Murphy (Peaky Blinders)
Gary Oldman (Slow Horses)
Martin Freeman (The Responder)
Taron Egerton (Black Bird)

Leading Actress:

Billie Piper (I Hate Suzie Too)
Imelda Staunton (The Crown)
Kate Winslet (I Am Ruth)
Maxine Peak (Anne)
Sarah Lancashire (Julia)
Vicky McClure (Without Sin)

Live Event:

Concert for Ukraine
Platinum Jubilee: Party at the Palace
The State Funeral of HM Queen Elizabeth II

Male performance in a Comedy programme:

Daniel Radcliffe (Weird: The Al Yankovic Story)
Jon Pointing (Big Boys)
Joseph Gilgun (Brassic)
Lenny Rush (Am I Being Unreasonable?)
Matt Berry (What We Do In The Shadows)
Stephen Merchant (The Outlaws)

Mini-series

A Spy Among Friends
Mood
The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe
This Is Going To Hurt

News Coverage:

BBC News at Ten: Russia Invades Ukraine
Channel 4 News: Live in Kyiv
Good Morning Britain: Boris Johnson Interview

Reality and Constructed Factual:

Freddie Flintoff’s Field of Dreams
RuPaul’s Drag Race UK
The Traitors
We Are Black and British

Scripted Comedy:

Am I Being Unreasonable?
Big Boys
Derry Girls
Ghosts

Short Form programme:

Always, Asifa
Biscuitland
How To Be a Person
Kingpin Cribs

Single documentary:

Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes
Escape from Kabul Airport
Our Falklands War: A Frontline Story
The Real Mo Farah

Single drama:

I Am Ruth
The House
Life and Death in the Warehouse

Soap and Continuing Drama:

Casualty
EastEnders
Emmerdale

Specialist Factual:

AIDS: The Unheard Tapes
The Green Planer
How To Survive A Dictator with Munya Chawawa
Russia: 1985-1999: Traumazone

Sport:

Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games
UEFA Women’s Euro 2022
Wimbledon 2022

Supporting Actor:

Adeel Akhtar (Sherwood)
Jack Lowden (Slow Horses)
Josh Finan (The Responder)
Salim Daw (The Crown)
Samuel Bottomley (Somewhere Boy)
Will Sharpe (The White Lotus)

Supporting Actress:

Adelayo Adedayo (The Responder)
Anne-Marie Duff (Bad Sisters)
Fiona Shaw (Andor)
Jasmine Jobson (Top Boy)
Lesley Manville (Sherwood)
Saffron Hocking (Top Boy)

Meanwhile, over on the BBC, EastEnders is at the top of its game at the moment, having drummed up some serious hype over their recent flash forward episode.

Prior to that, we saw the first flashback episode EastEnders had ever aired, which showed what life was like for the iconic Mitchell family back in the 70s, as well as revealing some serious twists.

In the television drama Casualty, viewers saw David (Jason Durr) grieve for the loss of his son Ollie (Harry Collett), who died as a result of his involvement in a school shooting.

Despite not receiving any nominations, Corrie has continued to tackle difficult and timely storylines, such as Daisy Midgeley’s (Charlotte Jordan) experience with Justin Rutherford’s (Andrew Still) stalking and Roy Cropper’s (David Neilson) addiction to cell phones.

Many thanks to all of our nominees. Bafta CEO Jane Millichip said.

“Today, a record number of submissions in the categories of Television and Craft led to 128 nominations, demonstrating fantastic strength and depth in programming and talent in 2022.”