{"id":479291,"date":"2026-05-11T14:32:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T14:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/479291\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T14:32:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T14:32:15","slug":"adolescence-makes-history-as-irish-nominees-lose-out-at-baftas-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/479291\/","title":{"rendered":"Adolescence makes history as Irish nominees lose out at Baftas \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Adolescence<\/a> has made Bafta<\/a> history as it completed its winning streak through awards season, taking top prizes at the awards, where Celebrity Traitors also triumphed.<\/p>\n

The hit Netflix<\/a> drama, about a teenage boy accused of a terrible crime, claimed four awards, the most won by a single TV series in the main ceremony.<\/p>\n

It was named best limited drama, while stars Stephen Graham<\/a>, Christine Tremarco and Owen Cooper<\/a> all won awards.<\/p>\n

Graham was named best leading actor, Tremarco won the supporting actress prize and Cooper took supporting actor.<\/p>\n

Graham, who co-wrote the script with Jack Thorne, has won a string of awards for his performance in the Netflix series, including an Emmy and a Golden Globe, but had never won a Bafta.<\/p>\n

Speaking on stage, he said: \u201cI might take my time. I\u2019ve been nominated eight times and this is the first time I\u2019ve won.<\/p>\n

\u201cNice one Bafta, this is lovely.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re not digging holes, we\u2019re not digging ditches, we\u2019re not saving lives, but we have the opportunity to tell the human condition, and we have the obligation to tell beautiful stories and we need to keep that going.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cooper (16) who has also proved unbeatable through awards season, won the first prize of the night and said: \u201cA year ago, I was presenting an award and now I\u2019m collecting one. This is a bit mad.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cIn the words of John Lennon, you won\u2019t get anything unless you have the vision to imagine it.<\/p>\n

Irish actor Philippa Dunne was nominated for best actress in a comedy for her performance in the sitcom Amandaland.<\/p>\n

Blue Lights, the BBC\u2019s<\/a> Belfast-set police drama, was nominated for best drama, while the Troubles drama Trespasses, Channel 4\u2019s<\/a> adaptation of Louise Kennedy\u2019s novel, received a nod for limited drama series.<\/p>\n

The Graham Norton Show was also nominated in the entertainment programme category, although Graham Norton<\/a>, a serial Bafta winner, missed out on a nomination in the entertainment performance category.<\/p>\n

Celebrity Traitors won the best reality award, as well as the memorable moment prize, for Alan Carr\u2019s treacherous victory.<\/p>\n

Collecting the award, he said: \u201cWas I good? Was I really? Or were the other celebrities just thick?<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was Nick [Mohammed] who made me cry \u2013 we were round that round table and he went, \u2018We\u2019ve got this\u2019, and I was like, \u2018No, I\u2019ve got this\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I laughed in their faces and went \u2018I\u2019m a faithful\u2019, I was packing my bags. But I had the best time ever.\u201d<\/p>\n

Comedy show Last One Laughing won two awards, for entertainment programme and entertainment performance for Bob Mortimer.<\/p>\n

Hit BBC comedy Amandaland won the prize for best scripted comedy.<\/p>\n

The leading actress Bafta was won by Narges Rashidi for her portrayal of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe in Prisoner 951.<\/p>\n

Dedicating the prize to the British-Iranian woman who was imprisoned in Tehran, and her family, Rashidi said: \u201cYour resilience, your dignity, your love through impossible circumstances have moved us all.<\/p>\n

\u201cYour courage will stay with me for the rest of my life. This is for you.\u201d<\/p>\n

She added: \u201cI was a seven-year-old who survived war. In Gaza, in Ukraine, in Sudan, they may never get that opportunity, that chance.\u201d<\/p>\n

Leading actress in a comedy was won by Katherine Parkinson for Here We Go, while leading actor in a comedy went to Steve Coogan for How Are You? It\u2019s Alan (Partridge).<\/p>\n

During his speech, Coogan pledged to play Partridge for the rest of his life, saying: \u201cDoing comedy in these troubled times is so important. It\u2019s a privilege to make people laugh after all these years.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will keep on doing it. If anyone wants to know when Alan Partridge is going to die, it\u2019s about the same time that I am going to die.\u201d<\/p>\n

EastEnders was named best soap, while US comedy The Studio was named best international.<\/p>\n

Code Of Silence, starring Rose Ayling-Ellis as a deaf canteen worker who helps police with a dangerous investigation using her advanced lip-reading skills, called on the TV industry to improve representation, saying: \u201cThe industry needs to improve and hopefully it will.\u201d<\/p>\n

TV chef and former Bake Off judge Dame Mary Berry was honoured with the Bafta fellowship, saying: \u201cI\u2019m really bowled over by this accolade. I\u2019m a cook, I\u2019m a teacher, so I feel very honoured to be given Bafta\u2019s highest award.\u201d<\/p>\n

Collecting the prize at the Royal Festival Hall, he said he wrote his speech on Thursday, 42 years after the death of his mother when he was 11.<\/p>\n

Gaza: Doctors Under Attack, the documentary commissioned and then shelved by the BBC over impartiality concerns and later aired by Channel 4, won the current affairs Bafta.<\/p>\n

During his speech on stage, executive producer Ben de Pear referred to the fact the BBC airs the ceremony on delay, saying: \u201cFinally, just a question for the BBC: given you dropped our film, will you drop us from the Bafta screening later tonight?\u201d<\/p>\n

Grenfell: Uncovered was awarded the Bafta for single documentary, and director Olaide Sadiq used her acceptance speech to say the victims of the fire \u201cdeserve justice\u201d. \u2013 PA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Adolescence has made Bafta history as it completed its winning streak through awards season, taking top prizes at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[119864,150390,18,117,19,17,127,39159],"class_list":{"0":"post-479291","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-bafta","9":"tag-baftas","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-netflix","15":"tag-stephen-graham"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116556434403294792","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}