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Even tick-box Baftas switched off by BBC
Sunday Express
|May 18, 2025
THERE was more chance of seeing Wayne Rooney on Virgin Island than of the Bafta TV Awards getting it right.
All those nonentities, all those nominations for niche shows nobody watched, all those twerps turning the stage into a fancy dress parade....
Ham actor Alan Cummins, our self-amusing host, delivered more costume changes than laughs, with the lamest opening monologue since Sue Perkins. BBC1 needs to install a comedy version of the Batman bat signal, 'Host dying, send in Gervais!' Or anyone with the guts to puncture the industry's puffed-up pomposity.
The night reminded us how much ground the BBC have lost. 2024's most talked-about dramas were made by others: ITV's Mr Bates Vs The Post Office, Disney’s funny, filthy romp Rivals, Baby Reindeer (Netflix), and Apple TV's superb spy series Slow Horses.
Graham Norton - robbed of a win by the over-rated Late Night Lycett - claimed "we're living in the golden age of television". Not all of us, Graham. It costs to watch all those streamers. Pity hard-up pensioners lumbered with back-to-back daytime repeats on BBC1 and BBC2, the tedium interrupted only by News broadcasts and charlatans on Politics Live.
This story is from the May 18, 2025 edition of Sunday Express.
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