Author Elizabeth Gaskell situated her stories in a hamlet very like the one in which she grew up, and her affectionate but unsentimental portraits of the residents of Cranford offer a realistic view of life and manners in an English country village during the 1830s.Ĭranford recounts the events and activities in the loves of a group of spinsters and widows who struggle in genteel poverty to maintain their standards of propriety, decency, and kindness. It will compete with Andrew Marr's History of Britain, The Apprentice, Britain's Got Talent, Gavin & Stacey and Strictly Come Dancing in an online public vote.A sensitive and moving portrait of a Victorian town, captured at a transitional period in English society, Cranford first appeared serially in Charles Dickens's magazine Household Words from 1851 to 1853, and in book form in 1853. Editions of Panorama and Dispatches are up against China's Stolen Children and Honour Kills, the first such nomination for BBC3.Ĭranford is also up for the Sky Plus audience award for programme of the year. The current affairs category, which was dropped last year, has been reinstated.
The comedy programme category is also made up of first-time nominees, with The Armstrong & Miller Show and Russell Brand's Ponderland competing with Star Stories and Fonejacker. Unusually, four first nominees made up the list for the best actor prize, including Matthew Macfadyen's tortured portrayal of a paedophile in Secret Life and Andrew Garfield's depiction in Boy A of a 24-year-old released after being imprisoned for killing a child in his youth. In the single drama category, three acclaimed Channel 4 programmes - The Trial of Tony Blair, The Mark of Cain and Boy A - will go up against Coming Down the Mountain, the first attempt at a TV drama by Mark Haddon, author of the novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time. Dame Judi Dench, who played Miss Matty Jenkyns in the Elizabeth Gaskell adaptation, received her 12th Bafta nomination and will go head to head with her screen sister in Cranford, Eileen Atkins. Gina McKee, who won a Bafta for Our Friends in the North in 1997, was nominated for her performance in The Street. Life on Mars, the time-travelling 1970s police drama, also received another nomination alongside the BBC/HBO epic Rome and Channel 4's teen drama Skins. After a surprise victory last year, when it beat Life on Mars, it was again nominated in the best drama category. Coronation Street missed out but The Street, Jimmy McGovern's northern kitchen-sink drama for BBC1, gained plaudits.
0 kommentar(er)
