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GRAHAM NORTON AND Philippa Dunne are among the Irish nominees at this year’s Bafta television awards.
The chat show host is nominated in the Entertainment category for his eponymous Graham Norton Show, which will see its 34th series air this year.
The show is up against Last One Laughing, Michael McIntyre’s Big Show and Would I Lie To You?.
Dunne meanwhile is nominated for Best Actress in a Comedy for her performance in the BBC show Amandaland. The Irish actress plays Anne Flynn, the loyal friend of the title character, in the show, a spin-off from the popular sitcom Motherland.
Lucy Punch, who plays Amanda, and Jennifer Saunders are also nominated in the same category as Dunne for their roles in the show, while Diane Morgan (Mandy), Katherine Parkinson (Here We Go) and Rosie Jones (Pushers) are also nominated.
Sharon Horgan’s company Merman, which produces Amandaland, also picked up a Best Scripted Comedy nomination.
Elsewhere, Channel 4 series Trespasses, which is set during the Troubles in the 1970s, is among the Best Limited Series nominees. It was written by Irish writer Ailbhe Keogan and produced by Maria Mulhall, who hails from Inishowen, Co Donegal.
Two Irish directors also earned nominations. Diarmuid Goggins is named in the Best Drama Series for crime drama This City is Ours, while Seamus Malone got a nod for Shaun the Sheep in the Best Scripted Children’s show category.
Irish editor Úna Ní Dhonghaíle also scooped a nomination for her work on Prisoner 951, a drama based on the true story of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who was inprisoned in Iran for nearly six years.
Accalimed Netflix drama Adolescence, which follows a 13-year-old boy who is arrested for the murder of a teenage girl in his school, leads the way at this year’s Bafta TV awards with 11 nominations.
Stephen Graham, who co-created, wrote and starred in Adolescence, is nominated for Best Leading Actor, with nods for Christine Tremarco and Erin Doherty in the Supporting Actress category.
The show’s young star Owen Cooper is nominated in the Supporting Actor category alongside his Adolescence co-star Ashley Walters, with other nominations including Limited Series and Limited Drama.
A Thousand Blows, which airs on Disney+ and launched in 2025, is based on a true story, following Jamaican immigrants in the bare-knuckle boxing circuit in the East End of London.
The series was created by Peaky Blinders’ Steven Knight, and is executive produced by Graham and his wife, actress Hannah Walters, for their company Matriarch Productions.
It scores actress Doherty, who previously starred as Princess Anne in Netflix’s royal drama The Crown, a second nomination at the Bafta TV awards, with a nomination in the Leading Actress category for her role as Mary Carr.
A Thousand Blows is also nominated in the drama series and costume design categories across the television awards and TV craft awards.
Another double nominee this year is Sex Education star Aimee Lou Wood, who is nominated in the Supporting Actress category for her role in Sky Atlantic’s The White Lotus, in which she starred as Chelsea in the third series of Mike White’s black comedy.
Her second nomination is in the Leading Actress category, where she is nominated for her role in comedy series Film Club, which she also co-created and which stars Suranne Jones.
The Celebrity Traitors, which was a ratings juggernaut for the BBC and was won by comedian Alan Carr, scored five nominations, including Best Reality Series and Best Entertainment Performance for host Claudia Winkleman.
The moment of Carr’s victory is also nominated for the Memorable Moment award, the only category voted for by the public.
The 2026 TV Baftas will take place on 10 May 2026, with comedian and actor Greg Davies taking over hosting duties.
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