BAFTA TV Awards nominations

The nominations have been announced for the 2009 BAFTA TV Awards. They include:

Single Drama

• Einstein and Eddington (written by Peter Moffat - BBC2/Company Pictures)
• Hancock and Joan (written by Richard Cottan - BBC4/World Productions)
• The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall (written by Simon Block - C4/TalkbackThames)
• White Girl (written by Abi Morgan - BBC2/Tiger Aspect)
  

Drama Series

• Doctor Who (writing credits - BBC1/BBC Productions)
• Shameless (writing credits - C4/Company Pictures)
• Spooks (writing credits - BBC1/Kudos)
• Wallander (written by Richard Cottan and Richard McBrien, from the books by Henning Menkell - BBC1/Left Bank)
  

Drama Serial

• Criminal Justice (written by Peter Moffat - BBC1/BBC Productions)
• Dead Set (written by Charlie Brooker - C4/Zeppotron)
• The Devil's Whore (written by Peter Flannery - C4/Company Pictures & Power)
• House of Saddam (written by Alex Holmes and Stephen Butchard - BBC2/BBC Productions & HBO)
  

Continuing Drama

• The Bill (writing credits - ITV1/TalkbackThames)
• Casualty (writing credits - BBC1/BBC Productions)
• EastEnders (writing credits - BBC1/BBC Productions)
  

Comedy Programme

• Harry and Paul (created by Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse - BBC1/Tiger Aspect)
• The Peter Serafinowicz Show (cretaed by Peter and James Serafinowicz - BBC2/Objective)
• Star Stories (C4/Objective)
• That Mitchell and Webb Look (BBC2/BBC Productions)
  

Sitcom

• The Inbetweeners (written by Damon Beesley and Iain Morris - C4/Bwark Productions)
• The IT Crowd (written by Graham Linehan - C4/TalkbackThames)
• Outnumbered (written by Andy Hamilton and Guy Jenkin - BBC1/Hat Trick)
• Peep Show (written by Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong - C4/Objective)
  

The Awards will be presented on Sunday 26 April.

NB: I've added written by credits where I can find them, or links to credits if there are a large number of writers.

British Comedy Awards

The Guild-backed Writers Of The Year Award at the British Comedy Awards last week went to Sacha Baron Cohen, Dan Mazer, Anthony Hines and Peter Baynham, writers of Borat: Cultural Learnings Of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation Of Kazakhstan.

The Guild also presented an award to Jonathan Ross, on his 15th anniversary of hosting the Awards and for his continuing support and recognition of writers.

Guild members among the winners were Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain, who won the Best Comedy Award for their sitcom Peep Show. The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit, for which one of the writers was Guild member Bob Baker, won Best Comedy Film.

Gail Renard has written a full report on the Guild's website.

Sacha Baron Cohen at the British Comedy Awards. (Photo: Anne Hogben)