2006 British Academy Television Awards

The 2006 British Academy Television Awards were held on Sunday 7 May at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London. The ceremony was hosted by television presenter Davina McCall and broadcast on ITV the following day. The nominees for the audience-voted Pioneer Award were announced on Tuesday 14 March; other nominees were revealed on Monday 27 March.

Winners

 * Best Actor
 * Winner: Mark Rylance &mdash; The Government Inspector (Channel 4)
 * Nominees: Bernard Hill &mdash; A Very Social Secretary (More4); Denis Lawson &mdash; Bleak House (BBC One); Rufus Sewell &mdash; The Taming of the Shrew (BBC One)
 * Best Actress
 * Winner: Anna Maxwell Martin &mdash; Bleak House (BBC One)
 * Nominees: Gillian Anderson &mdash; Bleak House (BBC One); Lucy Cohu &mdash; The Queen's Sister (Channel 4); Anne-Marie Duff &mdash; Shameless (Channel 4)
 * Best Comedy (Programme or Series)
 * Winner: Help (BBC / BBC Two)
 * Nominees: The Catherine Tate Show (Tiger Aspect Productions / BBC Two); Creature Comforts (Aardman Animations / ITV); Little Britain (BBC / BBC One / BBC Three)
 * Best Comedy Performance
 * Winner: Chris Langham &mdash; The Thick of It (BBC Four);
 * Nominees: Peter Capaldi &mdash; The Thick of It (BBC Four); Ashley Jensen &mdash; Extras (BBC Two); Catherine Tate &mdash; The Catherine Tate Show (BBC Two)
 * Best Drama Serial
 * Winner: Bleak House (BBC / Deep Indigo Productions / WGBH / BBC One)
 * Nominees: Fingersmith (Sally Head Productions / BBC One); Funland (BBC / BBC Three); To the Ends of the Earth (BBC / Power Productions / Tightrope Pictures / BBC Two)
 * Best Drama Series
 * Winner: Doctor Who (BBC Wales / BBC One)
 * Nominees: Bodies (Hat Trick Productions / BBC Three); Shameless (Company Pictures / Channel 4); Spooks (Kudos Film & Television / BBC One)
 * Best Single Drama
 * Winner: The Government Inspector (Mentorn Television / Stonehenge Films / arte France Cinéma / Channel 4)
 * Nominees: Much Ado About Nothing (BBC Northern Ireland / BBC One); The Queen's Sister (Touchpaper Television / Channel 4); Red Dust (BBC / Distant Horizon / Videovision Entertainment / Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa / BBC Films / BBC Two)
 * Best Continuing Drama
 * Winner: EastEnders (BBC / BBC One)
 * Nominees: Casualty (BBC / BBC One); Coronation Street (Granada Television / ITV); Holby City (BBC / BBC One)
 * Best Current Affairs
 * Winner: Dispatches - Beslan (??? / Channel 4)
 * Nominees: Panorama Special - Undercover Nurse (BBC / BBC One); Dispatches - Iraq: The Reckoning (??? / Channel 4); Storyville - A Company of Soldiers (??? / BBC Four)
 * Best Entertainment Performance
 * Winner: Jonathan Ross &mdash; Friday Night with Jonathan Ross (BBC One)
 * Nominees: Jeremy Clarkson &mdash; Top Gear (BBC Two); Jack Dee &mdash; Jack Dee Live at the Apollo (BBC One); Noel Edmonds &mdash; Deal or No Deal (Channel 4)
 * Best Factual Series or Strand
 * Winner: Jamie's School Dinners (Fresh One Productions / Channel 4)
 * Nominees: 49 Up (Granada Television / ITV); Cocaine (??? / Channel 4); Coast (BBC Birmingham / BBC Two)
 * Best Feature
 * Winner: The Apprentice (Talkback Thames / BBC Two)
 * Nominees: Dragons' Den (BBC / BBC Two); Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares (??? / Channel 4); Top Gear (BBC / BBC Two)
 * Flaherty Award for Single Documentary
 * Winner: Make Me Normal (Century Films / Channel 4)
 * Nominees: Children of Beslan (??? / BBC Two); The Real Sex Traffic (??? / Channel 4); Taxidermy: Stuff the World (Century Films / BBC Two)
 * Huw Wheldon Award for Specialist Factual
 * Winner: Holocaust, a Memorial Film From Auschwitz (BBC / BBC Two)
 * Nominees: The Boy with the Incredible Brain (Focus Productions / Five); Life in the Undergrowth (BBC Natural History Unit / BBC One); No Direction Home (Spitfire Pictures / BBC Two)
 * Lew Grade Entertainment Programme or Series
 * Winner: The X Factor (Talkback Thames / SYCOtv / ITV)
 * Nominees: Friday Night with Jonathan Ross (Open Mike Productions / BBC One); Have I Got News For You (Hat Trick Productions / BBC One); Strictly Come Dancing (BBC / BBC One)
 * News Coverage
 * Winner: BBC Ten O'Clock News - 7 July 2005, London Bombs (BBC / BBC One)
 * Nominees: Channel 4 News - The Attorney General Story (ITN / Channel 4); ITV Evening News - The Shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes (ITN / ITV); Sky News - 7 July bombings (Sky News)
 * Situation Comedy Award
 * Winner: The Thick of It (BBC / BBC Four)
 * Nominees: Extras (BBC / HBO / BBC Two); Peep Show (Objective Productions / Channel 4); The Worst Week of My Life (Hat Trick Productions / BBC One)
 * Sport
 * Winner: The Ashes - England v Australia (Sunset + Vine / Channel 4)
 * Nominees: Champions League Final Live: AC Milan v Liverpool (Granada Sport / ITV); Formula One - United States Grand Prix (North One Television / Granada Sport / ITV); The Open Championship - Final Round of Jack Nicklaus (BBC / BBC Two)
 * Interactivity
 * Winner: Coast (BBC/BBC Two)
 * Nominees: Channel 4 News - Breaking the News (Illumina Digital / ITN / Channel 4 / More 4); Not Forgotten / Lost Generation (Wall To Wall / Darlow Smithson Productions / Channel 4); Shakespeare's Stories (BBC Interactive Drama and Entertainment / BBC One)
 * The Pioneer Award
 * Winner: Doctor Who (BBC One)
 * Nominees: The Apprentice (BBC Two); Bleak House (BBC One); The Catherine Tate Show (BBC Two); Desperate Housewives (Channel 4); Jamie's School Dinners (Channel 4); Strictly Come Dancing (BBC One); The X-Factor (ITV)
 * The Dennis Potter Award
 * Russell T Davies
 * The Alan Clarke Award
 * Adam Curtis
 * The Richard Dimbleby Award
 * Jamie Oliver
 * Fellowship
 * Ken Loach