The Crown up for TV Baftas – but Colman’s Queen is snubbed

THE CROWN and Chernobyl lead the way at this year’s TV Baftas – but Olivia Colman has missed out.

Royal Netflix story The Crown is up for best drama series, and supporting actress and actor for Helena Bonham Carter, inset, as Princess Margaret and Josh O’Connor as a young Prince of Wales.

But the Queen herself – Oscarwinner Colman played the monarch – has not been nominated.

Suranne Jones has been nominated for her portrayal of Anne Lister in Gentleman Jack, which was filmed in Halifax. In the single documentary category, The Family Secret, made by what is now Candour Productions in Leeds, is in the running.

Gritty Sky drama Chernobyl is up for best mini-series, as well as leading actor for Jared Harris and supporting actor for Stellan Skarsgard.

Chernobyl is showered with nominations – 11 – in the craft categories, meaning it is the biggest nominee, with 14, for the TV and craft gongs combined.

BBC Three hit Fleabag is up for three of the main TV awards, including scripted comedy. Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Sian Clifford, who played sisters in the show, are both nominated, for best female performance in a comedy programme. Fleabag is up against three Channel 4 shows – Catastrophe, Derry Girls and Stath Lets Flats – for best scripted comedy.

Brexit: The Uncivil War could win best single drama for Channel 4. Glenda Jackson is up for leading actress, for her return to the screen in BBC One drama Elizabeth Is Missing.

The former MP is up against Jodie Comer in Killing Eve, Samantha Morton in I Am Kirsty and Jones for Gentleman Jack.