Benedict Cumberbatch’s “Parade’s End” leads BAFTA TV craft noms

PanARMENIAN.Net - BBC Two’s five-part period drama Parade’s End leads the nominees for BAFTA’s television craft awards with five, Deadline said.

The adaptation of Ford Madox Ford’s novels started airing on HBO on February 26, and stars Benedict Cumberbatch, Rebecca Hall, Anne-Marie Duff, Rupert Everett and Miranda Richardson.

It took mentions for production design and Tom Stoppard’s writing, among others.

Also figuring heavily among the nominees are BBC Two and HBO’s Hitchcock drama The Girl, BBC One and BBC America‘s Ripper Street and BBC Two and BBC America’s cancelled The Hour. Other shows known to U.S. audiences, Doctor Who, Call The Midwife, Downton Abbey, Top Gear and The Thick Of It also scored nods.

Olympics programming, inlcuding Danny Boyle’s opening ceremony and Stephen Daldry’s closing ceremony are nommed as is the fictional comedy series about the Games, Twenty Twelve.

Awards will be handed out on April 28 in London.