Winners

• Best Actor
• Winner: Mark Rylance — The Government Inspector (Channel 4)
• Nominees: Bernard Hill — A Very Social Secretary (More4); Denis Lawson — Bleak House (BBC One); Rufus Sewell — The Taming of the Shrew (BBC One)

• Best Actress
• Winner: Anna Maxwell Martin — Bleak House (BBC One)
• Nominees: Gillian Anderson — Bleak House (BBC One); Lucy Cohu — The Queen's Sister (Channel 4); Anne-Marie Duff — Shameless (Channel 4)

• Best Comedy (Programme or Series)
• Winner: Help (BBC / BBC Two)
• Nominees: The Catherine Tate Show (Tiger Aspect Productions / BBC Two); Creature Comforts (Aardman Animations / ITV); Little Britain (BBC / BBC One / BBC Three)

• Best Comedy Performance
• Winner: Chris Langham — The Thick of It (BBC Four);
• Nominees: Peter Capaldi — The Thick of It (BBC Four); Ashley Jensen — Extras (BBC Two); Catherine Tate — The Catherine Tate Show (BBC Two)

• Best Drama Serial
• Winner: Bleak House (BBC / Deep Indigo Productions / WGBH / BBC One)
• Nominees: Fingersmith (Sally Head Productions / BBC One); Funland (BBC / BBC Three); To the Ends of the Earth (BBC / Power Productions / Tightrope Pictures / BBC Two)

• Best Drama Series
• Winner: Doctor Who (BBC Wales / BBC One)
• Nominees: Bodies (Hat Trick Productions / BBC Three); Shameless (Company Pictures / Channel 4); Spooks (Kudos Film & Television / BBC One)

• Best Single Drama
• Winner: The Government Inspector (Mentorn Television / Stonehenge Films / arte France Cinéma / Channel 4)
• Nominees: Much Ado About Nothing (BBC Northern Ireland / BBC One); The Queen's Sister (Touchpaper Television / Channel 4); Red Dust (BBC / Distant Horizon / Videovision Entertainment / Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa / BBC Films / BBC Two)

• Best Continuing Drama
• Winner: EastEnders (BBC / BBC One)
• Nominees: Casualty (BBC / BBC One); Coronation Street (Granada Television / ITV); Holby City (BBC / BBC One)

• Best Current Affairs
• Winner: Dispatches - Beslan (??? / Channel 4)
• Nominees: Panorama Special - Undercover Nurse (BBC / BBC One); Dispatches - Iraq: The Reckoning (??? / Channel 4); Storyville - A Company of Soldiers (??? / BBC Four)

• Best Entertainment Performance
• Winner: Jonathan Ross — Friday Night with Jonathan Ross (BBC One)
• Nominees: Jeremy Clarkson — Top Gear (BBC Two); Jack Dee — Jack Dee Live at the Apollo (BBC One); Noel Edmonds — Deal or No Deal (Channel 4)

• Best Factual Series or Strand
• Winner: Jamie's School Dinners (Fresh One Productions / Channel 4)
• Nominees: 49 Up (Granada Television / ITV); Cocaine (??? / Channel 4); Coast (BBC Birmingham / BBC Two)

• Best Feature
• Winner: The Apprentice (talkbackTHAMES / BBC Two)
• Nominees: Dragons' Den (BBC / BBC Two); Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares (??? / Channel 4); Top Gear (BBC / BBC Two)

• Flaherty Award for Single Documentary
• Winner: Make Me Normal (Century Films / Channel 4)
• Nominees: Children of Beslan (??? / BBC Two); The Real Sex Traffic (??? / Channel 4); Taxidermy: Stuff the World (Century Films / BBC Two)

• Huw Wheldon Award for Specialist Factual
• Winner: Holocaust, a Memorial Film From Auschwitz(BBC / BBC Two)
• Nominees: The Boy with the Incredible Brain (Focus Productions / Five); Life in the Undergrowth (BBC Natural History Unit / BBC One); No Direction Home (Spitfire Pictures / BBC Two)

• Lew Grade Entertainment Programme or Series
• Winner: The X Factor (talkbackTHAMES / SYCOtv / ITV)
• Nominees: Friday Night with Jonathan Ross (Open Mike Productions / BBC One); Have I Got News For You (Hat Trick Productions / BBC One); Strictly Come Dancing (BBC / BBC One)

• News Coverage
• Winner: BBC Ten O'Clock News - 7 July 2005, London Bombs (BBC / BBC One)
• Nominees: Channel 4 News - The Attorney General Story (ITN / Channel 4); ITV Evening News - The Shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes (ITN / ITV); Sky News - 7 July bombings (Sky News)

• Situation Comedy Award
• Winner: The Thick of It (BBC / BBC Four)
• Nominees: Extras (BBC / HBO / BBC Two); Peep Show (Objective Productions / Channel 4); The Worst Week of My Life (Hat Trick Productions / BBC One)

• Sport
• Winner: The Ashes - England v Australia (Sunset + Vine / Channel 4)
• Nominees: Champions League Final Live: AC Milan v Liverpool (Granada Sport / ITV); Formula One - United States Grand Prix (North One Television / Granada Sport / ITV); The Open Championship - Final Round of Jack Nicklaus (BBC / BBC Two)

• Interactivity
• Winner: Channel 4 News - Breaking the News (Illumina Digital / ITN / Channel 4 / More 4)
• Nominees: Coast (BBC/BBC Two); Not Forgotten / Lost Generation (Wall To Wall / Darlow Smithson / Channel 4); Shakespeare's Stories (BBC Interactive Drama and Entertainment / BBC One)

• The Pioneer Award
• Winner: Doctor Who (BBC One)
• Nominees: The Apprentice (BBC Two); Bleak House (BBC One); The Catherine Tate Show (BBC Two); Desperate Housewives (Channel 4); Jamie's School Dinners (Channel 4); Strictly Come Dancing (BBC One); The X-Factor (ITV)

• The Dennis Potter Award
• Russell T. Davies

• The Alan Clarke Award
• Adam Curtis

• The Richard Dimbleby Award
• Jamie Oliver

• Fellowship
• Ken Loach

References

• Winners report from bbc.co.uk.
• List of BAFTA Television Award nominees from the official BAFTA website (retrieved March 28 2006).
• List of BAFTA Television Craft Award nominees from the official BAFTA website (retrieved April 12 2006)
• List of nominees from BBC News Online (retrieved March 27 2006).

External links

• http://www.channel4.com/breakingthenews Breaking the News - Interactivity category
• http://www.channel4.com/lostgeneration Lost Generation - Interactivity category