Today, the nominations have been announced The Virgin Media BAFTA Television awards which will honour the best TV of 2021. It’s a Sin led the nominations in the main categories with seven nominations including nods for cast members Olly Alexander, Lydia West, Callum Scott Howells, Omari Douglas and David Carlyle. The programme is also nominated for Best Miniseries and is one of the contenders for the Virgin Must See TV Moment Award.

Another Channel 4 drama; Help has been nominated in four categories with acting nods for Jodie Comer, Stephen Graham and Cathy Tyson. Meanwhile, in the comedy categories, Stath Lets Flats leads the way with nominations for siblings Jamie and Natasia Demetriou.

The BAFTAs have also honoured four British actors for their performances in international shows with Kate Winslet earning a Best Actress nod for her role in Mare of Easttown and Leah Harvey being nominated for Best Supporting Actress for Foundation. Meanwhile Matthew MacFadyen and Nonso Anozie have both been nominated in the Supporting Actor category for their roles in Succession and Sweet Tooth respectively.

Alongside Colin’s diagnoses scene It’s a Sin, the other nominees for Virgin Media’s Must-See Moment include Rose and Giovanni’s silence dance on Strictly Come Dancing, the infamous Red Light, Green Light sequence from Quid Game and Ant and Dec’s jokes about the Downing Street Parties on I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here.

The full list of nominees is below and the winners will be revealed on Sunday 8th May.

DRAMA SERIES 

In My Skin

Manhunt: The Night Stalker

Vigil

Unforgotten

MINISERIES 

It’s a Sin

Landscapers

Stephen

Time

SINGLE DRAMA

Death of England: Face to Face

Help

I Am Victoria

Together

SOAP AND CONTINUING DRAMA 

Casualty

Coronation Street

Emmerdale

Holby City

INTERNATIONAL 

Call My Agent!

Lupin

Mare of Easttown

Squid Game

Succession

The Underground Railroad

LEADING ACTOR

Samuel Adewunmi (You Don’t Know Me)

Olly Alexander (It’s a Sin)

Sean Bean (Time)

Stephen Graham (Help)

Hugh Quarshie (Stephen)

David Thewlis (Landscapers)

LEADING ACTRESS 

Niamh Algar (Deceit)

Jodie Comer (Help)

Denise Gough (Too Close)

Emily Watson (Too Close)

Lydia West (It’s a Sin)

Kate Winslet (Mare of Easttown)

SUPPORTING ACTOR 

Nonso Anozie (Sweet Tooth)

David Carlyle (It’s A Sin)

Omari Douglas (It’s a Sin)

Stephen Graham (Time)

Callum Scott Howells (It’s a Sin)

Matthew MacFadyen (Sucession)

SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Celine Buckens (Showtrial)

Leah Harvey (Foundation)

Emily Mortimer (The Pursuit of Love)

Jessica Plummer (The Girl Before)

Thairiah Sharif (The Tower)

Cathy Tyson (Help)

SCRIPTED COMEDY 

Alma’s Not Normal

Motherland

Stath Lets Flats

We Are Lady Parts

FEMALE PERFORMANCE IN A COMEDY PROGRAMME 

Aisling Bea (This Way Up)

Natasia Demetriou (Stath Lets Flats)

Rose Matafeo (Starstruck)

Anjana Vasan (We Are Lady Parts)

Sophie Willan (Alma’s Not Normal)

Aimee Lou Wood (Sex Education)

MALE PERFORMANCE IN A COMEDY PROGRAMME 

Steve Coogan (This Time With Alan Patridge)

Jamie Demetriou (Stath Lets Flats)

Ncuti Gatwa (Sex Education)

Joe Gilgun (Brassic)

Samson Kayo (Bloods)

Tim Renkow (Jerk)

COMEDY ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAMME 

The Graham Norton Show

The Lateish Show with Mo Gilliigan

Race Around Britain

The Ranganation

ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAMME

An Audience With Adele

Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway

Life and Rhymes

Strictly Come Dancing

FEATURES 

Big Zuu’s Big Eats

The Great British Sewing Bee

Mortimer and Whitehouse: Gone Fishing

Sort Your Life Out

ENTERTAINMENT PERFORMANCE 

Big Zuu (Big Zuu’s Big Eats)

Alison Hammond (I Can See Your Voice)

Sean Lock (8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown)

Joe Lycett (Joe Lycett’s Got Your Back)

Michael McIntyre (Michael McIntyre’s The Wheel)

Graham Norton (The Graham Norton Show)

DAYTIME

The Chase

Moneybags

Richard Osman’s House of Games

Steph’s Packed Lunch

REALITY AND CONSTRUCTED FACTUAL 

The Dog House

Gogglebox

Married at First Sight UK

RuPaul’s Drag Race UK

FACTUAL SERIES

The Detectives: Fighting Organised Crime

9/11: One Day in America

Undercover Police; Hunting Paedophiles

Uprising

SPECIALIST FACTUAL

Black Power: A British Story of Resistance

Freddie Mercury: The Final Act

The Missing Children

Silenced: The Hidden Story of Disabled Britain

SINGLE DOCUMENTARY 

9/11: Inside the President’s Warm Room

Grenfell: The Untold Story

My Childhood, My Country – 20 Years in Afghanistan

Nail Bomber: Man Hunt

CURRENT AFFAIRS

Fearless: The Women Fighting Putin (Exposure)

Four Hours at the Capitol

The Men Who Sell Football (Al Jazeera Investigations)

Trump Takes on the World

NEWS COVERAGE

Channel 4 News: Black to Front

Good Morning Britain: Shammima Begum

ITV News at Ten: Storming of the Capitol

Sky News: Afghanistan: Endgame

SPORT

The Abu Dhabi Grand Prix

ITV Racing: The Grand National

Tokyo 2020 Olympics

UEFA Euro 2020 Semi-Final: England V Denmark

LIVE EVENT

The Brit Awards 2021

The Earthshot Prize 2021

The Royal British Legion Festival of Rememberance

Springwatch 2021

VIRGIN MEDIA’S MUST-SEE MOMENT (voted for by the public)

Adele surprised by the teacher who changed her life (An Audience with Adele)

Ant and Dec dig at Downing Street’s lockdown Parties (I’m a Celebrity Get Me out of Here)

Colin’s Devastating AIDS diagnosis (It’s a Sin)

‘UK Hun? – Bimini’s Verse (Ru Paul’s Drag Race UK)

Red Light, Green Light (Squid Game)

Rose and Giovanni’s silent dance to ‘Symphony’ (Strictly Come Dancing)