...as Mackenzie Crook is recognised for his directing on Detectorists

This Country creators Daisy May Cooper and Charlie Cooper have been nominated for two Baftas – two days after scooping three Royal Television Society Awards.

The siblings have been shortlisted for the breakthrough talent and the comedy writer award in the Bafta Craft awards.

Also in the running for best comedy writer are  Paul Coleman, Peter Kay and Sian Gibson for Peter Kay’s Car Share; Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney for Catastrophe, and Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith for Inside No. 9.

Other breakthrough nominees are Bernard MacMahon and Allison McGourty, who made the BBC Four music show Arena, American Epic, The Sessions; Inspector George Gently writer Charlotte Wolf and Tom Pursey  who produced and directed Channel 4’s Fighting Cancer: My Online Diary

Meanwhile, Mackenzie Crook has been nominated or best director of fiction for Detectorists alongside former Oscar nominee Jane Campion for BBC Two’s Top Of The Lakes; Paul Whittington for ITV’s Little Boy Blue and Philippa Lowthorpe for BBC One’s Three Girls. 

Netflix drama The Crown leads the nominations with nine, while Black Mirror is up for five awards, including Charlie Brooker for best drama writer.

The Bafta  Craft Awards, recognise behind-the-scenes talent working in television, and this year’s ceremony will be held in London on Sunday April 22, hosted by Stephen Mangan.

Published: 22 Mar 2018