BAFTA CEO on TV Awards Noms, Female Directors, and Why It’s “a Good Time to Be a Couch Potato”
BAFTA CEO Jane Millichip, the former Sky Studios chief content officer and chief commercial officer, says Thursday’s nominations for the 2025 BAFTA Television Awards reflect the health and strength of the U.K. TV industry’s creative output.
“The British TV sector is in rude health, creatively and in terms of craft production quality,” she tells The Hollywood Reporter. “The range of the styles and genres and the depth of the quality is really on display here. And we have quite a lot of first-time nominees, particularly in the performing categories, which is really refreshing. Almost half the [contenders in the] performing categories are first-time nominees, including some surprising names, such as Jonathan Pryce and Danny Dyer.”
Netflix hit series Baby Reindeer leads the nominations for the 2025 BAFTA Television Awards and the BAFTA Television Craft Awards, unveiled on Thursday, with eight, followed by Disney+ series Rivals, Apple TV+ hit Slow Horses and ITV...
“The British TV sector is in rude health, creatively and in terms of craft production quality,” she tells The Hollywood Reporter. “The range of the styles and genres and the depth of the quality is really on display here. And we have quite a lot of first-time nominees, particularly in the performing categories, which is really refreshing. Almost half the [contenders in the] performing categories are first-time nominees, including some surprising names, such as Jonathan Pryce and Danny Dyer.”
Netflix hit series Baby Reindeer leads the nominations for the 2025 BAFTA Television Awards and the BAFTA Television Craft Awards, unveiled on Thursday, with eight, followed by Disney+ series Rivals, Apple TV+ hit Slow Horses and ITV...
- 3/27/2025
- by Georg Szalai
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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