British Academy Television Awards 1996

The 1996 British Academy Television Awards were held on 21 April 1996 at London's Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, as a joint ceremony with the British Academy Film Awards.

Winners

• Best Actor
  • Winner: Robbie Coltrane — Cracker (ITV)
  • Other nominees: Robert Lindsay — Jake's Progress (Channel 4); Ian Richardson — The Final Cut (BBC); Colin Firth — Pride and Prejudice (BBC1); Benjamin Whitrow — Pride and Prejudice (BBC1)
• Best Actress
  • Winner: Jennifer Ehle — Pride and Prejudice (BBC1)
  • Other nominees: Juliet Stevenson — The Politician's Wife (Channel 4); Helen Mirren — Prime Suspect 4: The Lost Child (ITV); Geraldine James — Band of Gold (ITV)
• Best Comedy (Programme or Series)
  • Winner: Father Ted (Hat Trick Productions / Channel 4)
  • Other nominees: Absolutely Fabulous (BBC / BBC1); Men Behaving Badly (Hartswood Films / BBC1); One Foot in the Grave (BBC / BBC1)
• Best Comedy Performance
  • Winner: Martin Clunes — Men Behaving Badly (BBC1)
  • Other nominees: Joanna Lumley — Absolutely Fabulous (BBC1)
• Best Drama Serial
  • Winner: The Politician's Wife (Channel 4)
  • Other nominees: Pride and Prejudice (BBC1); Band of Gold (ITV); The Hanging Gale (BBC)
• Best Drama Series
  • Winner: Cracker (ITV)
  • Other nominees: All Quiet on the Preston Front (BBC); A Touch of Frost (ITV Productions / ITV); Prime Suspect 4: The Lost Child (ITV)
• Best Single Drama
  • Winner: Persuasion (BBC / WGBH / BBC Films)
  • Other nominees: Eleven Men Against Eleven (Hat Trick Productions / Channel 4); Go Now (BBC); The Last Englishman (Tiger Aspect Productions / BBC)
• Best News Coverage
  • Winner: Channel 4 News — Bosnian Genocide (ITN / Channel 4)
  • Other nominees: Newsnight — Peter Horrocks (BBC / BBC2)
• Best Light Entertainment Performance
  • Winner: Rory Bremner — Rory Bremner - Who Else? (Channel 4)
  • Other nominees: Paul Merton — Have I Got News for You (BBC2)
• Best Factual Series
  • Winner: Wise Up (Carlton Productions / Channel 4)
• Flaherty Award for Single Documentary
  • Winner: The Betrayed — Russian Invasion of Chechnya (October Films / Channel 4)
  • Other nominees: Anne Frank Remembered (Anne Frank House / Walt Disney Pictures / BBC); The Dying Rooms (Lauderdale Productions / Channel 4)
• Huw Wheldon Award for Arts Programme or Series
  • Winner: Children of the Revolution (David Hinton / John Wyver)
  • Other nominees: Arena (BBC / BBC2)
• Light Entertainment Programme or Series
  • Winner: The Mrs Merton Show (Granada Television / BBC1)
  • Other nominees: Have I Got News for You (Hat Trick Productions / BBC2); Rory Bremner - Who Else? (Kudos Film & Television / Channel 4); Shooting Stars (BBC2)
• Best Talk Show
  • Winner: Panorama (BBC / BBC1)
  • Other nominees: Clive Anderson Talks Back (Hat Trick Productions / Channel 4); Esther (BBC / BBC2); This Morning (Granada Television / ITV)
• Best Sports / Events Coverage in Real Time
  • Winner: VE Day Coverage (??? / ???)
• Foreign Programme Award
  • ER
• The Lew Grade Award
  • Antiques Roadshow
• The Dennis Potter Award
  • Roy Clarke
• The Alan Clarke Award
  • Roy Battersby
• The Richard Dimbleby Award
  • Jeremy Paxman
• Special Awards
  • Camera Team, Survival

References

• Archive of winners on official BAFTA website (retrieved December 9, 2010).
• British Academy Television Awards 1996 at the Internet Movie Database