...and Katy Wix nominated for Big Boys

 Animated comedy The Golden Cobra has been nominated for two Welsh Bafta awards.

The show is shortlisted in the entertainment category alongside Welsh-language programmes Sgwrs Dan Y Lloer: Noel Thomas (about a sub-postmaster hit by the Post Office's Horizon scandal); Llond Bol O Sbaen (about a chef’s journey around Spain) and Y Llais (the local version of The Voice).

Golden Cobra’s writers, Adam Llewellyn, James Prygodzicz and Thomas Rees have also been nominated for the  Breakthrough Cymru award.

They are up against Mared Swain, who produced the crime drama Cleddau, and Sara Nourizadeh, who directed the refugee documentary Finding Hope.

Elsewhere, comedy actress Katy Wix has been nominated for her role  as Jules, the over-enthusiastic student union officer  in Jack Rooke’s Channel 4 comedy Bog Boys.

Also shortlisted in this category are  Anna Maxwell Martin for Until I Kill You, Elen Rhys for  Cleddau and  Gwyneth Keyworth – latterly of Death Valley fame – for Lost Boys And Fairies,

The full list of nominees is here.

Winners will be unveiled at a ceremony hosted by Owain Wyn Evans at the ICC Wales in Newport on Sunday October 5.

Evans said: ‘I am absolutely thrilled to be hosting the 2025 BAFTA Cymru Awards. Last year’s ceremony was pure glitz and glamour, and I can’t wait to once again celebrate the incredible creative talent we have here in Wales. 

‘It’s been inspiring to see the amazing productions that have taken place over the past year, and it feels so special to be part of it all. And of course, I’m very much looking forward to the stunning, glamorous looks on the red carpet too. I’m just overjoyed to be presenting it again.’ 

Published: 2 Sep 2025