2001 British Academy Television Awards

UK television awards ceremony British Academy Television Awards 2001 13 May 2001 Grosvenor House Hotel Angus Deayton Da Ali G Show Clocking Off Michael Gambon Longitude Judi Dench Last of the Blonde Bombshells Sacha Baron Cohen Da Ali G Show BBC One 6.82 million British Academy Television Awards 2000 2000 British Academy Television Awards 2002 2002 The 2001 British Academy Television Awards were held on Sunday 13 May 2001. The ceremony took place at the Grosvenor House Hotel in Park Lane, London and was broadcast live on BBC One. Winners and nominees BBC News 13 May 2001 https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1328946.stm 13 April 2025 The 2001 Bafta award winners Best Drama SeriesBest Single Drama Clocking Off (Red Production Company/BBC One) The Cops (World Productions/BBC Two) Fat Friends (Rollem Productions/Tiger Aspect Productions/Yorkshire Television/ITV) The Sins (BBC/BBC One) |valign="top" | Care (BBC/BBC ONE) Donovan Quick (Making Waves Film & TV Limited/BBC Scotland/BBC Two) Nice Girl (BBC/BBC Two) Storm Damage (BBC/BBC Two) |- !style="background:#BDB76B;" |British Academy Television Award for Best Comedy Programme or Series !style="background:#BDB76B;" |Best Soap Opera |- |valign="top" | ''Da Ali G Show' (TalkBack Productions/Channel 4) Baddiel and Skinner Unplanned (Avalon Television/ITV) Smack The Pony (TalkBack Productions/Channel 4) Victoria Wood With All The Trimmings (Good Fun/Ovation Entertainment Limited/BBC One) |valign="top" | Emmerdale (BBC One) (Yorkshire Television/ITV) Coronation Street (Granada Television/ITV) EastEnders (BBC/BBC One) Hollyoaks (Mersey Television/Channel 4) |- !style="background:#BDB76B; width: 50%" |Best Actor !style="background:#BDB76B; width: 50%" |Best Actress |- |valign="top" | Michael Gambon – Longitude (Channel 4) Steven Mackintosh – Care (BBC One) Pete Postlethwaite – The Sins (BBC One) Steve McFadden – EastEnders (BBC) |valign="top" | Judi Dench – The Last of the Blonde Bombshells (BBC One) Geraldine James – The Sins (BBC One) Amanda Redman – At Home with the Braithwaites (ITV) Fay Ripley – Cold Feet (ITV) Alison Steadman – Fat Friends (ITV) |- !style="background:#BDB76B;" |Best Comedy Performance !style="background:#BDB76B;" |Best Drama Serial |- |valign="top" | Sacha Baron Cohen – Da Ali G Show (Channel 4) Caroline Aherne – The Royle Family (BBC One) Kathy Burke – Gimme Gimme Gimme (BBC Two) Dawn French – The Vicar of Dibley (BBC One) |valign="top" | Longitude (Granada Television/A&E Network/Channel 4) Nature Boy – (BBC/BBC Two) Never Never – (Company Pictures/Channel 4) This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper – (Granada Television/ITV) |- !style="background:#BDB76B;" |Best Entertainment Performance !style="background:#BDB76B;" |Best Entertainment Programme |- |valign="top" | Graham Norton – So Graham Norton (Channel 4) Rory Bremner – Blair Did It All Go Wrong? (Channel 4) Angus Deayton – Have I Got News For You (BBC One/BBC Two) Paul Merton – Have I Got News For You (BBC One/BBC Two) |valign="top" | So Graham Norton (Channel 4) Have I Got News For You (Hat Trick Productions/BBC One/BBC Two) The Weakest Link (BBC/BBC Two) Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (Celador/ITV) |- !style="background:#BDB76B;" |Best Factual Series !style="background:#BDB76B;" |Best Specialist Factual |- |valign="top" | Britain at War in Colour (TWI/Carlton Television/ITV) Castaway 2000 (Lion TV/BBC Scotland/BBC One) Fifteen (Windfall Films/Channel 4) Horizon (BBC/BBC Two) |valign="top" | Howard Goodall's Big Bangs (Tiger Aspect Productions/Channel 4) Arena: Wisconsin Death Trip (BBC/BBC Two) Elizabeth (United Productions/Channel 4) A History of Britain by Simon Schama (BBC/BBC Two) |- !style="background:#BDB76B;" |Best Single Documentary !style="background:#BDB76B;" |Best News and Current Affairs Journalism |- |valign="top" | 100% White (Diverse Productions/Channel 4) The Boy David - The Return (Man Alive Group/BBC One) Endurance: Shackleton and the Antarctic (White Mountain Films/NOVA/American Museum of Natural History/Channel 4) The Man Who Bought Mustique (Café Productions/Channel 4) |valign="top" | Out of Africa (Insight News Productions/CNN/Channel 4) Mozambique Floods (BBC/BBC One/BBC Two) Mozambique Floods (the event and the aftermath) (ITN/ITV) Panorama: Who Bombed Omagh? (BBC/BBC One) |- !style="background:#BDB76B;" |Best Sport !style="background:#BDB76B;" |Best Situation Comedy |- |valign="top" | Sydney Olympics 2000 (BBC/BBC One/BBC Two) British Grand Prix 2000 (Mach1/ITV) Test Cricket (Sunset + Vine/Channel 4) Today at the Paralympics (VTV Limited/BBC Two) |valign="top" | Black Books (Assembly Film & Television/Channel 4) Blackadder: Back & Forth (Tiger Aspect Productions/Sky One) One Foot in the Grave (BBC/BBC One) The Royle Family (Granada Television/BBC One) |- !style="background:#BDB76B;" |Best Features !style="background:#BDB76B;" |Innovation Award |- |valign="top" | The Naked Chef (Optomen/BBC Two) Faking It (RDF Media/Channel 4) House of Horrors (Granada Television/ITV) What the Romans Did for Us (BBC/BBC Two) |valign="top" | Big Brother (Bazal/Channel 4) Castaway 2000 (Lion TV/BBC Scotland/BBC One) Doctors (BBC/BBC One) Nice Girl (BBC/BBC Two) |- !style="background:#BDB76B;" |Lew Grade Audience Award (as voted for by Radio Times readers) !style="background:#BDB76B;" |BAFTA Fellowship |- |valign="top" | Inspector Morse: The Remorseful Day (ITV) Hero of the Hour (ITV) Seeing Red (ITV) A Touch of Frost (ITV) The Vicar of Dibley (BBC One) |valign="top" | John Thaw|- !style="background:#BDB76B;" |Dennis Potter Award !style="background:#BDB76B;" |Alan Clarke Award |- |valign="top" | Lynda La Plante|valign="top" | Ruth Caleb|- |- !style="background:#BDB76B;" |Special Award !style="background:#BDB76B;" |Special Award |- |valign="top" | Coronation Street''|valign="top" | Patrick Moore''' References External links Archive of winners on official BAFTA website (retrieved February 5, 2006). British Academy Television Awards 2001 https://web.archive.org/web/20081231230418/http://www.imdb.com/Sections/Awards/BAFTA_Awards/2001#BAFTA_TV_Award 2008-12-31 at the Internet Movie Database. 2001 Category:2001 awards in the United Kingdom Category:2001 television awards Category:2001 in British television Category:May 2001 in the United Kingdom