British Academy Television Award for Best Drama Series
British Academy Television Award | |
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Country | United Kingdom |
Presented by | British Academy of Film and Television Arts |
First awarded | 1992 |
Last awarded | 2016 |
Currently held by | Wolf Hall |
Official website | http://www.bafta.org/ |
The British Academy Television Award for Best Drama Series is one of the major categories of the British Academy Television Awards (BAFTAs), the primary awards ceremony of the British television industry. The category is described on the official BAFTA website as being open to drama series which are "of more than one episode where stand-alone storylines conclude within each episode, but in which the main characters and context continue throughout the series. Only one episode of a series may be entered."[1]
The award was first given in 1992, for the awards covering programmes screened in 1991.[2] Prior to this, drama series had been included in a joint "Best Drama Series or Serial" category with serials. From 1992 onwards, they were split in two, with a separate Best Drama Serial category also established.
Inspector Morse, Cracker, The Cops and The Street have all won the category twice, all of them in successive years.
Winners
1990s
2000s
Year | Title | Production company | Broadcaster | Recipient(s) |
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2000 | The Cops | World Productions | BBC Two | Production Team |
Cold Feet | Granada Television | ITV | Christine Langan Mike Bullen |
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Playing the Field | Tiger Aspect Productions | BBC One | Greg Brenman Hugh Warren Kay Mellor |
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Psychos | Kudos Film & Television | Channel 4 | Production Team | |
2001 | Clocking Off | Red Production Company | BBC One | Nicola Shindler Ann Harrison-Baxter Paul Abbott |
The Cops | World Productions | BBC Two | Production Team | |
Fat Friends | Rollem Productions Tiger Aspect Productions Yorkshire Television |
ITV | Kay Mellor Gareth Morgan |
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The Sins | BBC Television | BBC One | Liza Marshall William Ivory |
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2002 | Cold Feet | Granada Television | ITV | Andy Harries Spencer Campbell Mike Bullen |
At Home with the Braithwaites | Yorkshire Television | ITV | Carolyn Reynolds Jacky Stoller Sally Wainright |
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Clocking Off | Red Production Company | BBC One | Nicola Shindler Juliet Charlesworth Paul Abbott |
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Tales from the Pleasure Beach | Blast! Film Productions | BBC Two | Madonna Baptiste Edmund Coulthard Roger Williams |
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2003 | Spooks | Kudos Film & Television | BBC One | Production Team |
Clocking Off | Red Production Company | BBC One | Production Team | |
Cutting It | BBC Television | BBC One | Debbie Horsfield Diederick Santer Andy De Emmony |
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Teachers | Tiger Aspect Productions | Channel 4 | Jane Fallon Rhonda Smith |
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2004 | Buried | World Productions | Channel 4 | Production Team |
Clocking Off | Red Production Company | BBC One | Production Team | |
Foyle's War | Greenlit Productions | ITV | Production Team | |
William and Mary | Meridian Broadcasting | ITV | Trevor Hopkins Stuart Orme Mick Ford |
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2005 | Shameless | Company Pictures | Channel 4 | Production Team |
Bodies | Hat Trick Productions | BBC Three | Mark Redhead Sue de Beauvoir Jed Mercurio |
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Conviction | Red Production Team | BBC Three | Production Team | |
Spooks | Kudos Film & Television | BBC One | Jane Featherstone Simon Crawford Collins Andrew Woodhead |
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2006 | Doctor Who | BBC Wales | BBC One | Phil Collinson Russell T Davies Julie Gardner |
Bodies | Hat Trick Productions | BBC Three | Mark Redhead Sue de Beauvoir Jed Mercurio |
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Shameless | Company Pictures | Channel 4 | Production Team | |
Spooks | Kudos Film & Television | BBC One | Production Team | |
2007 | The Street | Granada Productions | BBC One | Jimmy McGovern Sita Williams David Blair Ken Horn |
Life on Mars | Kudos Film & Television | BBC One | Production Team | |
Shameless | Company Pictures | Channel 4 | Production Team | |
Sugar Rush | Shine Productions | Channel 4 | Production Team | |
2008 | The Street | Granada Productions | BBC One | Jimmy McGovern Sita Williams Terry McDonough John Chapman |
Life on Mars | Kudos Film & Television | BBC One | Production Team | |
Rome | HBO | BBC Two | John Melfi Anne Thomopoulos Bruno Heller Tim Van Patten |
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Skins | Company Pictures | Channel 4 | Production Team | |
2009 | Wallander | Left Bank Pictures Yellow Bird TKBC |
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Doctor Who | BBC Wales | BBC One | ||
Shameless | Company Pictures | Channel Four | ||
Spooks | Kudos Film & Television | BBC One |