BAFTA Awards 2020 Nominations: Chernobyl Takes HISTORIC Lead, The Crown Follows; Awards To Have A Virtually LIVE Cast On July 31
As the nominations for the BAFTA television awards 2020 were announced recently, TV shows Chernobyl and The Crown bag the maximum number of nominations and take the lead
The BAFTA Television Awards 2020 scheduled to be held in Spring 2020, but due to the ongoing pandemic, both the BAFTA TV awards were postponed. British Academy Television Awards and British Academy Television Craft Awards will now be held soon and the nominations list for it has been out as well. As the nominations for the BAFTA television awards 2020 were announced recently on Thursday, June 4, TV shows Chernobyl and The Crown bag the maximum number of nominations and take the lead.
The nuclear drama Chernobyl based on the 1986 disaster at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant was heavily praised by the audience as well as the critics and managed to bag 14 nominations in total. HBO and Sky Atlantic's miniseries has managed to take the lead this year at the BAFTA TV Awards 2020. The show Chernobyl’s nominations match the record of Killing Eve’s that bagged 14 nominations last year making it the most nominated show in the history of the awards.
While Chernobyl bags the 14 nominations in multiple categories in the TV and craft awards, other than that, the Netflix hit show The Crown went on to bag seven BAFTA nominations. The Netflix drama The Crown bagged around 13 nominations in the year 2017 and 10 in the year 2018 and still manages to please its viewers. Apart from The Crown, Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s BBC and Amazon Prime’s comedy show Fleabag and BBC and Netflix thriller Giri/Haji have bagged a total of six nominations each.
Meanwhile, the shows His Dark Materials and The Virtues has bagged five nominations, whereas, the show Killing Eve, and Netflix’s Sex Education Top Boy bag four nominations each. The Television award is now scheduled for July 31, 2020, whereas the Television Craft Awards will be held two weeks prior on July 17, 2020. The host for the television awards will be Richard Ayoade. Also Read: The Crown Season 3 Trailer Review: The Netflix Show Is About To Get Darker
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