Claire Foy has a leading actress nod for her performance as Wolf Hall’s Anne Boleyn while Anton Lesser is shortlisted for his supporting role as Sir Thomas More.
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Bafta nominees Idris Elba and Mark Rylance will be among the actors hoping to take home a mask statuette at the British Academy Television Awards.
Kosminsky warned that making TV production increasingly dependent on commercial interests would produce “a broadcasting landscape where the only determinant of whether something gets made is whether it’s likely to line the pockets of its shareholders. No! No!”
He said: “It feels like with the work I did on the film, I don’t think I would have acted it so well if it was not for Wolf Hall“.
The programme, which saw her in conversation with Graham Norton about her career and comeback, is nominated alongside Britain’s Got Talent, Strictly Come Dancing and the TFI Friday anniversary special.
Have I Got News For You picked up the award in the best comedy category.
Norton is also nominated in the entertainment performance category for BBC One’s The Graham Norton Show.
Describing the public debate over the BBC’s future as “completely legitimate” and negotiations with ministers as “constructive and good-natured”, he said he believed the government also “want a BBC where its best days lie ahead”.
As previously announced, comedy writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson are to be honoured with a Bafta fellowship at this year’s ceremony.
He continued: “We met in a sanatorium, we were 17 years old and to this day we compliment each other”.
He said: “I wouldn’t stay around, I would quit immediately, if I’m told how to do something”. We’re so glad you’ve chosen this year because if you waited much longer you might have missed us.
The biggest night in the television calendar is almost upon us as stars gear up to walk the red carpet at the BAFTA TV Awards.
Sherlock star Martin Freeman presented the Radio Times audience award to Poldark.
Hall said that audiences wanted the BBC to remain “not everything to everybody, but something great to everybody”, and urged the government not to renege on last year’s licence fee settlement, which he said included a guarantee that no “top-slicing” of the BBC budget would take place.
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Coel said she wanted to “pay her respects to the late Victoria Wood” as she accepted her award.
