Graham Norton, Sharon Horgan and Mairéad Tyers among Irish stars nominated for Bafta TV awards

Sharon Horgan, Róisín Gallagher, Éanna Hardwicke, Graham Norton and Máiréad Tyers are among the nominees for the prestigious UK gongs.

The Dry star Gallagher has been nominated in the Female Performance in a Comedy category for The Lovers.

Cork native Tyers is also nominated in the same category for Disney+ series Extraordinary, and one of the show's writers, Emma Moran, is nominated for her work as part of the writing team.

Hardwicke is nominated for a Supporting Actor award for the BBC true-crime series The Sixth Commandment.

Cork-born Hardwicke, is up against stiff competition in the category where Matthew Macfadyen is nominated for his performance as Tom Wambsgans in the final series of Succession. Also nominated on this list is Amit Shah for Happy Valley, Harris Dickinson for A Murder At The End Of The World, Jack Lowden for Slow Horses, and Salim Daw for The Crown.

Bad Sisters creator Horgan is in the running on the Leading Actress list for her role in BBC drama Best Interests, also starring Irish newcomer Niamh Moriarty.

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Horgan is up against Helena Bonham Carter, who is also nominated in the leading actress category for her role in ITVX’s Nolly, which saw her playing Crossroads star Noele Gordon, known to her friends as Nolly, in the Russell T Davies drama about the rise and fall of the actress.

Best Interests, from Bafta-winning writer Jack Thorne, sees Horgan star alongside Michael Sheen as his wife.

The Graham Norton Show is named in the Comedy Entertainment category and Cork-born Norton is nominated for Entertainment Performance.

The final series of Netflix’s royal drama The Crown leads the way at the Bafta television and craft awards with eight nominations.

Among the nominations for the sixth series, which was released in two parts last year, are a leading actor nomination for Dominic West who played Charles, then the Prince of Wales, and a supporting actor nomination for Salim Daw, for his role as Mohamed Al-Fayed, the father of Diana, Princess of Wales’s partner, Dodi Fayed.

The series has also scored two nominations in the supporting actress category, with Elizabeth Debicki nominated for her role as Diana, Princess of Wales and Lesley Manville for her role as Princess Margaret.

Other actresses nominated in the supporting category include Dame Harriet Walter for Succession, Jasmine Jobson for Top Boy, Nico Parker for HBO/Sky Atlantic’s The Last Of Us and Siobhan Finneran for Sally Wainwright’s BBC drama series Happy Valley.

Black Mirror’s Demon 79, one of five episodes in the sixth series of Charlie Brooker’s dark, satirical series, has seven nominations across the television awards and television craft categories.

Popular series Happy Valley has seven nominations in total, including the previously announced P&O Cruises memorable moment award, which is voted for by the public, while Apple TV+ espionage drama Slow Horses, which stars Gary Oldman, and BBC true crime drama series The Sixth Commandment have six nominations each.

Happy Valley actress Sarah Lancashire is nominated in the leading actress category, alongside veteran actress Anne Reid for her role in The Sixth Commandment, which explores the deaths of Peter Farquhar and Ann Moore-Martin in Maids Moreton, Buckinghamshire.

Also scoring a leading actress nomination is Bella Ramsey for her role in The Last Of Us, the TV adaptation of the hugely popular video game which is set in a post-apocalyptic world where society has been destroyed by a pandemic.

Programmes with five nominations each include The Last Of Us, excluding its nod in the memorable moment category, and ITV drama The Long Shadow, which charts the five-year hunt to find Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper.

Succession, the satirical comedy-drama from British screenwriter Jesse Armstrong which followed the Roy family and their power battles for four seasons and came to an end last year, has six nominations, including a nod in the memorable moment category.

Scottish actor Brian Cox is nominated in the leading actor category for his role as patriarch Logan Roy, alongside The Crown’s West, Kane Robinson for Top Boy, Paapa Essiedu for The Lazarus Project, and Timothy Spall for The Sixth Commandment.

The nomination marks Cox’s first Bafta TV nomination since 1993, when he was nominated for The Lost Language Of Cranes.

Steve Coogan, known for portraying comedy character Alan Partridge, is also nominated in the leading actor category for his portrayal of serial sex offender Jimmy Savile in BBC’s The Reckoning.

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Savile died in October 2011 aged 84 having never been brought to justice for his crimes.

The Eurovision Song Contest 2023 and documentary series Once Upon A Time In Northern Ireland have each received four nominations.

First-time Bafta TV nominees include David Tennant, who is nominated in the male performance in a comedy category for Good Omens, while fellow first-time nominee Hannah Waddingham has two nominations this year, in the entertainment category and the entertainment performance category.

In the live event category, the Coronation concert is nominated alongside the Eurovision Song Contest and the Royal British Legion Festival of Remembrance.