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Bafta TV Awards 2026: Aimee Lou Wood and Erin Doherty land double nominations
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White Lotus star Aimee Lou Wood and Adolescence actress Erin Doherty are among the leading contenders for this year's Bafta TV Awards after picking up two nominations each. Wood is recognised in the best actress category for her role as a young woman with agoraphobia in BBC Three comedy-drama Film Club, and is up for best supporting actress for playing a fun-loving yoga teacher in dark comedy White Lotus. Meanwhile, Doherty is nominated for her portrayal of gang leader Mary Carr in Disney+'s Victorian thriller A Thousand Blows, and for playing a psychologist in Netflix's hard-hitting drama Adolescence. Adolescence has the most nominations overall with 11, while A Thousand Blows is next with seven. Both leading shows star Stephen Graham, and he is nominated for best actor for his role as a distressed dad in Adolescence. The show is up for best limited drama and has an impressive five acting nominations in total - for Christine Tremarco, Ashley Walters and Owen Cooper alongside Doherty and Graham. The other best actor nominees are Colin Firth (Lockerbie: A Search for Truth), Ellis Howard (What it Feels Like for a Girl), James Nelson-Joyce (This City is Ours), Matt Smith (The Death of Bunny Munro) and Taron Egerton (Smoke). The best actress shortlist also includes Jodie Whittaker (Toxic Town), Narges Rashidi (Prisoner 951), Sheridan Smith (I Fought the Law) and Sian Brooke (Blue Lights). As well as Doherty's nomination, A Thousand Blows is also up for the prestigious best drama prize alongside last year's winner Blue Lights, plus Code of Silence and This City is Ours. On the entertainment side, The Celebrity Traitors has the most nominations - including best reality show and best entertainment performance for host Claudia Winkleman. It is also one of six nominees for memorable moment, the only award to be voted for by the public. They are: The Celebrity Traitors winner Alan Carr and Amanda Holden are jointly nominated for best entertainment performance for Amanda & Alan's Spanish Job. Motherland spin-off Amandaland dominates the best comedy actress category with three nods - for Lucy Punch, Philippa Dunne and Jennifer Saunders. The show is also up for best scripted comedy alongside How Are You? It's Alan (Partridge), with its star Steve Coogan up for best male comedy actor. There are six nominations each for Disney+ Star Wars thriller Andor and Channel 4's Northern Ireland 1970s drama Trespasses. The awards also honour news and current affairs programmes, documentaries and factual shows. Among the nominees in those categories are Louis Theroux: The Settlers and One Day in Southport, Bibaa & Nicole: Murder in the Park, Undercover in the Police (Panorama) and Gaza: Doctors Under Attack. Almost 40 juries of industry professionals are responsible for deciding the majority of Bafta television and craft category nominees and winners. The TV awards will take place at London's Southbank Centre on 10 May. A Tourette's campaigner involuntarily shouted a racial slur while two black actors were on stage. At the Actor Awards on Sunday Buckley won the female actor in a leading role prize for Hamnet. Kirk Jones says he initially thought a slur shouted during the ceremony was not broadcast. A woman who lives with Tourette's and featured in I Swear said she felt "upset" seeing the Baftas outburst backlash. The broadcast of a racial slur at the Bafta Film Awards was "completely unacceptable and harmful", the culture secretary says.