Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman lead acting nominations at BAFTA TV Awards... as X Factor is snubbed in the Entertainment category

DAILY MAIL
By LUCY MAPSTONE FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 03:02 EST, 8 April 2015 | UPDATED: 05:13 EST, 8 April 2015



He missed out on the Academy Award for Best Actor during this year's awards season.
But Benedict Cumberbatch is now in the running to pick up a TV BAFTA for his performance as the master detective Sherlock Holmes, arguably his most famous role of all.

The star, who lost out on a Best Actor Oscar earlier this year for his portrayal of Alan Turing in The Imitation Game, is nominated for the Leading Actor prize at the House Of Fraser BAFTA Television Awards, which will take place on May 10.

However, he faces stiff competition from the esteemed likes of Toby Jones for Marvellous, James Nesbitt for The Missing and Jason Watkins for The Lost Honour Of Christopher Jefferies.
It is the third nomination for Benedict's performance in the hit show, a modern day re-imagining of the beloved detective who lives on Baker Street, but he has yet to take home the title.

Seasoned BAFTA TV winner Olivia Colman - who has three BAFTA wins under her esteemed belt - has received yet another nomination, this time in the Female Performance In A Comedy Programme category for Rev.

Nominated for the fourth consecutive year, she'll be up against the incredible talents of Tamsin Greig in Episodes, Jessica Hynes in W1A and Catherine Tate for Catherine Tate's Nan.

The actresses nominated in the Leading Actress category are Line Of Duty star Keely Hawes, Sheridan Smith for Cilla, Sarah Lancashire for Happy Valley and Georgina Campbell who starred in Murdered By My Boyfriend.

The nominations were announced at BAFTA’s central London headquarters by actors Freddie Fox and Sherlock star Amanda Abbington.


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Tom Hiddleston and Hugh Laurie scale the Matterhorn for The Night Manager

RADIO TIMES
By James Gill
Monday 23 March 2015 at 02:10PM



Tom Hiddleston and Hugh Laurie have begun their ascent of John le Carré's The Night Manager in the Swiss Alps – with the dramatic peak of the Matterhorn as picturesque backdrop.

The BBC drama of the same name is a six-part adaptation of the espionage novel. Along with Hiddleston and Laurie, Rev stars Olivia Colman and Tom Hollander will reunite for the BBC/AMC co-production.

The Night Manager tells the story of British soldier Jonathan Price (Hiddleston) who is on a mission to infiltrate the inner circle of arms dealer Richard Onslow Roper (Laurie). The series was announced last October, with stars Hiddleston and Laurie confirmed in January 2015.

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Tom Hollander: I was badly paid in Pirates of the Caribbean (TELEGRAPH)

Tom Hollander , the star of 'Rev', says he was paid 'badly' for his role as Lord Cutler Beckett in 'Pirates of the Caribbean'.

 Tim Walker7:30AM GMT 29 Mar 2013

Most British actors may hanker after parts in Hollywood blockbusters, but Tom Hollander, who is best known for playing the priest in Rev, says the experience left him feeling neither very satisfied, nor very rich.

Of his role as Lord Cutler Beckett, the “heavy” in Pirates of the Caribbean, he recalls that, while the production was “staggeringly expensive”, he was “badly” paid

Speaking at the Names Not Numbers Festival at Aldeburgh in Suffolk, the 45-year-old actor said that whenever he was allowed time off, he got as far away from the set as possible.

“It was a way of getting my own back. When they changed the schedule at the last minute, I would say, 'That’s fine, but I’m in Calcutta’, and they would say 'No problem’, and I would be airlifted out of the Third World in Lufthansa first class.”

He felt that there was a camaraderie among the character actors involved in the project and they all tended to compare notes in the smoking room of Miami airport.

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Rev writer admits show won't return this year James Wood says BBC2 sitcom's cast are 'too bloody successful' but hopes to make a third series in 2013 Share 32 Email Ben Dowell guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 9 May 2012 06.35 EDT (THE GUARDIAN)

The writer of Rev has admitted there will not be a third series of the award-winning BBC2 sitcom this year because the cast, including Tom Hollander and Olivia Colman, are "too bloody successful".

So far the BBC has made two series and a Christmas special, and has attracted a range of impressive guest stars including Ralph Fiennes, Richard E Grant, Hugh Bonneville, Geoffrey Palmer, James Purefoy and the veteran actor Sylvia Syms.

James Wood, the co-creator with Hollander of the comedy about a London inner-city vicar, told MediaGuardian: "The cast are too bloody successful."

Wood said he was "cautiously optimistic" about getting the cast together in 2013 but this could not be guaranteed.


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