Well done!

Hmmm... The various miserablist comedies and other shows I've been praising in these scribblings seem to have done rather well at the Baftas the other night.  Let's see:-

Best Female Performance in a Comedy Role:  Jo Brand won for "Getting On"  Hurrah! a reasonably local win!  and Dawn French was nominated for "Roger and Val Have Just Got In" (no nomination for Alfred Molina in the Male equivalent, unfortunately - I raved over his performance).
(And we should also mention Katherine Parkinson's nomination for "The IT Crowd")

Male Performance in a Comedy Role: Well, it was won by Steve Coogan, bizarrely, but there were nominations for James Buckley from "The Inbetweeners" and Tom Hollander for "Rev"

Situation Comedy  was won by "Rev".  Hurrah!  Another local!

Lauren Socha won Best Supporting Actress for "Misfits"

"Being Human" and "Misfits" were nominated for Best Drama Series.

Oh, and the popular YouTube audience award went to "The Only Way is Essex" (sorry...).

But there were also several other nominations and awards that I thought were very well deserved, which I ought to mention:-

Leading Actor: Daniel Rigby for "Eric and Ernie" (that was very fine work. It was on over Christmas. Victoria Wood produced it and played Eric's mum.  I watched it twice).

Leading Actress:  Vicky McClure for "This Is England ’86"    (and Johnny Harris was nominated for the Supporting Actor role)

Lots of nominations for "Sherlock" and "Dr Who," of course - and Martin Freeman duly won Best Supporting Actor, while "Sherlock" won for Best Drama Series.

And both Lynda Baron and Jessie Wallace received nominations as Best Supporting Actress for "The Road to Coronation Street" -which was hugely excellent telly and deservedly won the Single Drama award.   I watched that twice as well.     "Eric and Ernie" was also nominated for that one.

So all in all, a pretty good year.  I've missed out lots of other productions I didn't much care for, but today I'd just like to celebrate the good stuff.  

Defined, for today at least, as the stuff I liked......