Tennant, Cox and Lowden receive nominations for Baftas

SEVERAL Scots have been nominated for the Bafta TV awards.

David Tennant, Jack Lowden and Brian Cox are all nominated for major performances throughout the year.

Cox is nominated in the leading actor category for his role as patriarch Logan Roy, alongside The Crown’s Dominic West, Kane Robinson for Top Boy, Paapa Essiedu for The Lazarus Project, and Timothy Spall for The Sixth Commandment.

Succession – the satirical comedy-drama from British screenwriter Jesse Armstrong which follows the Roy family and their power battles for four seasons and came to an end last year – has six nominations, including a nod in the memorable moment category.

The nomination marks Cox’s first Bafta TV nomination since 1993, when he was nominated for The Lost Language Of Cranes.

First-time Bafta TV nominees include Tennant (above), who is nominated in the male performance in a comedy category for Good Omens.

The supporting actor category sees Lowden nominated for his performance in Slow Horses, alongside Matthew Macfadyen for Succession, Amit Shah for Happy Valley, Eanna Hardwicke for The Sixth Commandment, Harris Dickinson for A Murder At The End Of The World, and Salim Daw for The Crown.

Popular series Happy Valley has seven nominations in total, including the previously announced P&O Cruises memorable moment award, which is voted for by the public, while Apple TV+ espionage drama Slow Horses, which stars Gary Oldman, and BBC true crime drama series The Sixth Commandment have six nominations each.

Happy Valley actress Sarah Lancashire is nominated in the leading actress category, alongside veteran actress Anne Reid for her role in The Sixth Commandment, which explores the deaths of Peter Farquhar and Ann Moore-Martin in Maids Moreton, Buckinghamshire.