Santer hails 'remarkable' June Brown

[alan45]

Bafta nod for EastEnders' Brown



Brown (left) receives her first Bafta nomination at the age of 82

Full list of nominations
EastEnders star June Brown is among the stars nominated for this year's British Academy Television Awards.
Her nomination for best TV actress marks the first time the veteran soap star has been recognised by Bafta.
Stephen Fry, Harry Hill and Jonathan Ross compete for the best entertainment performance prize alongside ITV duo Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly.
BBC drama Hancock and Joan has received three nominations, including a best actor nod for star Ken Stott.
Stott's competition includes rising star Ben Whishaw for Criminal Justice and Jason Isaacs, cited for his role as comedian Harry H Corbett in The Curse of Steptoe.
Hancock and Joan also gets a best actress nod for Maxine Peake, with its third nomination coming in the best single drama category.
Documentary
Brown's nomination marks the first time a soap actress has been nominated in her category since Jean Alexander - Hilda Ogden in Coronation Street - was shortlisted in 1988.
The 82-year-old, who has played Dot Cotton since EastEnders' launch in 1985, is cited for the January 2008 solo episode in which she appeared alone.

Fry is recognised for both QI and his Gutenberg Press documentary
Other best actress nominees include Andrea Riseborough, recognised for playing the young Margaret Thatcher in The Long Walk to Finchley.
Elsewhere, Brown's former EastEnders co-star Ross Kemp gets two nominations for his factual programmes in Afghanistan and Kenya.
Welsh star Rob Brydon gets a nomination for best comedy performance for his role in BBC sitcom Gavin and Stacey.
The show was the big winner at last year's event, winning best comedy performance for James Corden and the audience award.
Peep Show's David Mitchell, also recognised in the comedy performance category, gets a second nod for best comedy programme for That Mitchell and Webb look.
Fry, recognised elsewhere for his hosting role on QI, also gets a second nomination for his BBC Four documentary on the Gutenberg Press.
Competition
QI gets another nomination for best entertainment programme, where it faces competition from ITV's The X Factor, Harry Hill's TV Burp and The Friday Night Project (also known as The Sunday Night Project).
Peep Show is one of four shows shortlisted for the best situation comedy award, with the BBC's Outnumbered and Channel 4's The IT Crowd also nominated.
In the features category, Sir Alan Sugar's reality contest The Apprentice goes up against Jeremy Clarkson's motoring show Top Gear.
EastEnders, meanwhile, receives its 10th nomination for best continuing drama, with previous winners Casualty and Emmerdale also recognised.
This year's awards will be held on 26 April at the Royal Festival Hall on London's South Bank.
The nominations for the programme of the year award, the only prize voted for by the public, will be announced shortly.

[Siobhan]

full list:


ACTOR
Programme Channel
Stephen Dillane The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall C4
Jason Isaacs The Curse of Steptoe BBC Four
Ken Stott Hancock and Joan BBC Four
Ben Whishaw Criminal Justice BBC One



ACTRESS
Programme Channel
June Brown EastEnders BBC One
Anna Maxwell Martin Poppy Shakespeare C4
Maxine Peake Hancock and Joan BBC Four
Andrea Riseborough Margaret Thatcher: The Long BBC Four
Walk to Finchley



ENTERTAINMENT PERFORMANCE

Programme Channel
Stephen Fry QI BBC Two
Harry Hill Harry Hill’s TV Burp ITV1
Anthony McPartlin & I’m A Celebrity….Get Me Out Of Here! ITV1
Declan Donnelly
Jonathan Ross Friday Night with Jonathan Ross BBC One




COMEDY PERFORMANCE
Programme Channel
Rob Brydon Gavin & Stacey BBC Three
Sharon Horgan Pulling BBC Three
David Mitchell Peep Show C4
Claire Skinner Outnumbered BBC One












SINGLE DRAMA
Einstein and Eddington
George Faber, Mark Pybus, Peter Moffatt, Philip Martin
BBC Two/Company Pictures
Hancock and Joan
Richard Cottan, Richard Laxton, Simon Heath
BBC Four/World Productions
The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall
Simon Block, Rowan Joffe, Barney Reisz, Charles Furneaux
C4/TalkbackTHAMES
White Girl
Hettie Macdonald, Abi Morgan, Andrew Woodhead
BBC Two/Tiger Aspect Productions


DRAMA SERIES
Doctor Who
Phil Collinson, Russell T Davies, Julie Gardner
BBC One/BBC Productions
Shameless
Paul Abbott, George Faber, John Griffin, Johann Knobel
C4/Company Pictures
Spooks
Production Team
BBC One/Kudos Film and Television
Wallander
Richard Cottan, Kenneth Branagh, Philip Martin, Francis Hopkinson
BBC One/Left Bank Pictures


DRAMA SERIAL
Criminal Justice
Pier Wilkie, Otto Bathurst, Peter Moffat
BBC One/BBC Productions
Dead Set
Charlie Brooker, Annabel Jones, Yan Demange
C4/A Zeppotron Production
The Devil’s Whore
Peter Flannery, Martine Brant, Marc Munden, Jake Lushington
C4/Company Pictures & Power
House of Saddam
Steven Lightfoot, Alex Holmes, Stephen Butchard
BBC Two/BBC Productions & HBO


CONTINUING DRAMA
The Bill
Production Team
ITV1/TalkbackTHAMES
Casualty
Production Team
BBC One/BBC Productions
EastEnders
Production Team
BBC One/BBC Productions
Emmerdale
Production Team
ITV1/ITV Studios

INTERNATIONAL
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
Chuck O’Neil, Rich Blomquist, Scott Jacobson, Jon Stewart
More4/MTV Networks
Dexter
John Goldwyn, Sara Colleton, Clyde Philips, Robert Lloyd Lewis
ITV1/John Goldwyn Productions
Mad Men
Matthew Weiner, Scott Hornbacher
BBC Four/AMC
The Wire
David Simon, Ed Burns, Nina K. Noble, Joe Chappelle
FX/Blown Down Productions/HBO/FX


FACTUAL SERIES
Amazon with Bruce Parry
Production Team
BBC Two/Indus Films & Endeavour Productions
Blood Sweat and T-Shirts
Mark Rubens, Tim Quirke, Jo Bishop
BBC Three/Ricochet
The Family
Production Team
C4/Firefly Films
Ross Kemp in Afghanistan
Clive Tulloh, John Conroy, Matt Bennett, Ross Kemp
SKY1/Tiger Aspect


SPECIALIST FACTUAL*
Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery
Claudia Lewis, Kim Shillinglaw
BBC Four/BBC Productions
Life in Cold Blood
Production Team
BBC One/BBC Productions
Lost Land of the Jaguar
Production Team
BBC One/BBC Productions
Stephen Fry & the Gutenberg Press: The Machine That Made Us
Stephen Fry, Patrick McGrady, Lucy Ward, Philip Crocker
BBC Four/Wavelength Films


SINGLE DOCUMENTARY**
A Boy Called Alex
Production Team
C4/Walker George Productions
Chosen (True Stories)
Brian Woods, Caroline Haydon, Chris Eley, Jimmy Edmonds
C4/True Vision Productions
The Fallen
Morgan Matthews, Elodie Gornall, Joby Gee, David Brindley
BBC Two/Minnow Films
Thriller in Manila
John Dower, John Smithson, Elinor Day, Andrew MacKenzie
More4/Darlow Smithson Productions


FEATURES
The Apprentice
Michele Kurland, Kelly Webb-Lamb, Andy Devonshire
BBC One/TalkbackTHAMES
Celebrity MasterChef
Karen Ross, Mark Leslie, Bec Smith, Theo Goble
BBC One/Shine Limited
The Choir: Boys Don’t Sing
Production Team
BBC Two/Twenty Twenty Television
Top Gear
Andy Wilman, Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, James May
BBC Two/BBC Productions

CURRENT AFFAIRS
Saving Africa’s Witch Children (Dispataches)
Production Team
C4/A Red Rebel Films and Southern Star Factual co Production
Mum Loves Drugs, Not Me (Dispatches)
Kate Blewett, Deborah Shipley, Brian Woods
C4/True Vision Productions
Omagh: What The Police Were Never Told (Panorama)
Sandy Smith, Brendon McCourt, John Ware, Leo Telling
BBC One/BBC Productions
Ross Kemp: A Kenya Special
Clive Tulloh, Ewen Thomson, Matt Bennett, Ross Kemp
SKY 1/Tiger Aspect Productions

NEWS COVERAGE
Channel 4 News
Jim Gray, Jonathan Miller, Ben de Pear, Soren Munk
C4/ITN
News At Ten – Chinese Earthquake
Bill Neely, John Ray, Rob Bowles, Lu Bo
ITV1/ITN
Sky News – Canoe Man
Gerard Tubb
Sky News/Sky News
Sky News – Mumbai
Production Team
Sky News/Sky News


SPORT
Cheltenham Gold Cup – Denman v Kauto Star
Andrew Franklin, John Fairley, Denise Large, Sophie Veats
C4/Highflyer Digital
ITV1 F1: Brazilian Grand Prix 2008
Neil Duncanson, Gerard Lane, Steve Aldous, Steve Rider
ITV1/North One Television
Olympics 2008
Production Team
BBC One/BBC Sport
Wimbledon 2008 – The Men’s Final
Production Team
BBC One/BBC Sports





INTERACTIVITY
Bryony Makes A Zombie Movie
Production Team
BBC Three Online & TV/Hat Trick Productions
Embarrassing Bodies Online
Production Team
www.channel4.com/bodie (http://www.channel4.com/bodie)s/Maverick Television
Merlin
Sian Davies, Simon Rooney
BBC One/BBC Productions
Olympics 2008
Production Team
BBC One/BBC Sport

ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAME***
Friday/Sunday Night Project
Dean Nabarro, Richard Ackerman, Henrietta Conrad, Andrew Westwell
C4/Princess Productions
Harry Hill’s TV Burp
Harry Hill, Peter Orton, Spencer Millman
ITV1/Avalon Television
QI
John Lloyd, Piers Fletcher, Ian Lorimer
BBC One/TalkbackTHAMES
X Factor
Richard Holoway, Andrew Llinares, Siobhan Greene, Mark Sidaway
ITV1/TalkbackTHAMES

COMEDY PROGRAMME
Harry and Paul
Harry Enfield, Paul Whitehouse, Sandy Johnson, Geoffrey Perkins
BBC One/Tiger Aspect Productions
The Peter Serafinowicz Show
Peter Serafinowicz, James Serafiniwicz, Ben Farrell, Becky Martin
BBC Two/Objective Productions
Star Stories
Lee Hupfield, Ben Palmer, Michael Livingstone, Phil Clarke
C4/Objective Productions
That Mitchell and Webb Look
Gareth Edwards, David Kerr, David Mitchell, Robert Webb
BBC Two/BBC Productions

SITUATION COMEDY
The Inbetweeners
Production Team
C4/BWark Productions
The IT Crowd
Graham Linehan, Richard Boden, Ash Atalla
C4/Talkback Productions
Outnumbered
Andy Hamilton, Guy Jenkin
BBC One/Hat Trick Productions
Peep Show
Sam Bain, Jesse Armstrong, Becky Martin, Izzy Mant
C4/Objective Productions

*Specialist Factual is given in honour of Huw Wheldon
** Single Documentary is given in honour of Robert Flaherty
***The Entertainment Programme BAFTA is given in honour of Lew Gr

[Abigail]

I think Law and Order UK deserved a nomination. One of the best dramas ITV have produced in a long time.

[lizann]

Dot Cotton is a good soap actress but not the best especially this year and last - i'm puzzled by her nomination to be honest :confused:

[Layne]

Outnumbered should win - :cheer: an AWESOME programme :)

[Perdita]

EastEnders executive producer Diedrick Santer has paid tribute to June Brown following her BAFTA TV Awards nomination.

The actress, 82, is the first soap star to receive a best actress nod since Jean Alexander appeared in the category 20 years ago for her role as Hilda Ogden in Coronation Street.

She will battle Anna Maxwell Martin (Poppy Shakespeare), Andrea Riseborough (The Long Walk to Finchley) and Maxine Peake (Hancock and Joan) for the award.

Brown was nominated for the gong for her ground-breaking solo episode of the BBC soap, where her character Dot Cotton bid farewell to on-screen husband Jim Branning (John Bardon).

"This is a fantastic moment for June, made all the more special by the quality of the other nominees," said Santer.

"Traditionally it has been almost impossible for our actors to break through into these kinds of awards. June is a truly remarkable and unique talent."

Speaking about her nomination, Brown said: "It was a lovely episode to film, thanks to our fantastic director Clive Arnold and wonderful crew. I was very fortunate to be given the opportunity."

EastEnders is also nominated for best continuing drama at the ceremony, which takes place on April 26.

[Abigail]

Dot Cotton is a good soap actress but not the best especially this year and last - i'm puzzled by her nomination to be honest :confused:

I think she's overrated too. So she's 80-odd and still acting. And...? There are better actors out there.

[Chris_2k11]

Dot Cotton is a good soap actress but not the best especially this year and last - i'm puzzled by her nomination to be honest :confused:

I think she's overrated too. So she's 80-odd and still acting. And...? There are better actors out there.omg thankyou so much for saying this, ive thought this for a long time. Both the actress and character are overrated imo. Sorry but Dot is far from one of my faves on the show, theres alot better on there.

[Abigail]

I found the solo episode boring. I switched over after a few minutes. Don't understand what all the fuss is about :searchme: Same goes for Meryl Streep, another overrated actress who is average at best.

[Perdita]

Andrew Sachs has expressed surprise at the decision to nominate Jonathan Ross for a BAFTA.

The broadcaster will go up against QI host Stephen Fry, comedian Harry Hill and I'm A Celebrity... presenters Ant & Dec in the race for the Best Entertainment Performance gong next month.

The nod comes just weeks after Ross returned to work following a three-month suspension from the BBC. He was issued with the punishment after making a series of lewd phone calls to Sachs during an appearance on Russell Brand's Radio 2 programme.

Speaking to the Daily Mail about the BAFTA nomination, Sachs admitted: "Blimey, that is a bit of a surprise. One would question the reasons when it comes so quickly after what happened. I wonder how much it has to do with trying to comfort him? I don't know."

His wife Melody added: "I am amazed Ross should get rewarded with a mouth like his. Nobody is saying he hasn't got talent, but what he did was so disgusting."

Ross has already received three BAFTAs for his Friday night chatshow, last winning an award in 2007.

[Chloe O'brien]

Outnumbered should win - :cheer: an AWESOME programme :)

Aw we love outnumbered especially little Ben he is priceless :lol:

June is one of the diamonds of EE but I think Maxine Peaks will take the Bafta for her role in Hancock.