The volume of international production and its export capacity at a global level cannot erase the fact that, when speaking of good television fiction, series lovers tend to think of the United Kingdom as one of the most prolific countries. And what are the best British series on air according to the British themselves? Like every spring, the British Academy of Film and Arts Television (that is, the British Academy of Film and Television) has responded to the question with the delivery of the Bafta awards.
Sisters Until Death, created by Sharon Horgan (Catastrophe) and produced by Apple TV, won the award for best drama series, beating proposals such as The responder, Somewhere boy and Sherwood, which won the award for best supporting actor for Adeel Akhtar. "The work begins and ends with the writers," defended the creator when going up to collect the award, showing solidarity with the strike of the United States writers union.
His series, which has been renewed for a second season, focuses on the Garvey sisters, who live in Dublin, and who consider murdering the husband of one of them behind his back, due to the years of mistreatment and annulment of the one who has it. subjected. Ironically, despite having won the Bafta for best drama, Bad Sisters finds its best definition in black comedy and is an adaptation of Malin-Sarah Gozin's Flemish Clan format. Anne-Marie Duff, who plays the sister with a terrible husband, took home the best supporting actress award.
In the field of comedy, the British academy wanted to recognize the final season of Derry Girls, produced by Channel 4 and accessible in Spain through Netflix. Lisa McGee, its creator, wrote a partly histrionic, partly emotional comedy about growing up as a teenager in Northern Ireland within a state you don't consider your own and with the IRA active.
Competing in the category were Big boys, Ghosts and Am I being unreasonable, who won the best comedy actor award for Lenny Rush. Derry Girls, for the record, also triumphed in the category of best comedy actress for Siobhán McSweeney, the Catholic nun who serves as a reference for the reckless students.
Mood, a BBC musical production, took the surprise prize for best miniseries of 2022. Written by Nicôle Lecky, based on her play Superhoe and who also stars in the series, Mood centers on Sasha, who aspires to be a singer. and that it has a relationship between useful and toxic with social networks. The six episodes of her prevailed over A spy among friends, The thief, his wife and the canoe and This is going to hurt you, which started as a favorite and settled for the Bafta for best dramatic performance for Ben Wishaw.
And, in the category of best single dramatic production, where episodes of anthology series and movies for television compete, Channel 4's I am Ruth took the honor. This is an installment of the series I am… created by Dominic Savage that in each episode narrates the conflicts of a different female character. Kate Winslet was the protagonist of this installment, who wrote the episode with Savage, and which focuses on the difficulties of a mother to address the mental health problems of her daughter, played by Mia Threapleton, her daughter in the real life. Winslet took home the award for best dramatic performance.
The Bafta Academy recognized Netflix's Dahmer as the best international series ahead of The bear, Wednesday, Oussekine, Pachinko and The white lotus; The BBC's Casualty took home the award for best soap opera or continuing drama; ITV's The Masked Singer rose to top entertainment show; and, on reality television, the British version of Traitors, broadcast by the BBC, took the statuette.
