BAFTA Craft awards

Nominations for the BAFTA Television Craft awards have been announced.

The nominees for the Writer award are:

• Jimmy McGovern – The Street (BBC One/Granada Productions)

• Tony Marchant– The Mark of Cain (Channel 4/Red Production Company)

• Steven Moffat – Doctor Who (Blink) (BBC One/BBC Wales)

• Heidi Thomas – Cranford (BBC One/BBC Drama Productions/WGBH Boston in association with Chestermead Ltd)

Another writer, Mark O'Rowe, is nominated in the Breakthrough Talent category for Boy A (Channel 4/Cuba Pictures), along with the writing team behind Skins (created by Bryan Elsley and Jamie Brittain for E4/Company Pictures).

In a comment on the WGGB blog, Guild TV Committee Chair, Gail Renard, expressed regret that the writing awards are no longer part of the main BAFTA TV awards.

"It's wonderful to have so many splendid writers being honoured by Bafta," she writes, "but once again they've put writers into an award ghetto. I have nothing but admiration for all the craft industries, without which a script would be only pieces of paper. But why aren't the writers awarded at the same time as the actors, directors and producers?"

Article published: 27.03.08