Tonight, at the 2021 British Academy Television Awards, Sky celebrated four wins, including Drama Series for Sky Original Save Me Too and Entertainment Programme for Sky Arts Life & Rhymes.
Following 24 nominations, Sky won a total of 6 BAFTAs, with BAFTA Television Craft awards going to I Hate Suzie Director Georgi Bank-Davies for Emerging Talent: Fiction and Marcus Viner landing Director: Multi-Camera for Sky Arts ENOs Drive & Live: La Boh me - Somethin Else, both announced earlier this month.
Other wins on the night include the Sport BAFTA for Sky Sports coverage of England V West Indies Test Cricket and Sky News won the News Coverage BAFTA for Inside Idlib.
Commenting on the wins Zai Bennett, Managing Director, Content, Sky UK and Ireland, said: From best-in-class storytelling to genre defying event TV with every Sky Original commission we're looking for ways to make content that will surprise and delight our customers. We're incredibly proud that Save Me Too, and Life & Rhymes have been recognised at tonight's BAFTAS and it fuels our ambition to make more ground-breaking TV in the years ahead.
SKY'S BRITISH ACADEMY TELEVISION AWARD WINS
DRAMA SERIES
SAVE ME TOO Simon Heath, Jessica Sykes, Lennie James, Lizzie Rusbridger, Coky Giedroyc, Jim Loach - World Productions/Sky Atlantic
ENTERTAINMENT SERIES
LIFE & RHYMES Production Team - CPL Productions, Licklemor Productions/Sky Arts
NEWS COVERAGE
SKY NEWS: INSIDE IDLIB Production Team - Sky News/Sky News
SPORT
ENGLAND V WEST INDIES TEST CRICKET Production Team - Sky Sports/Sky Sports Cricket
SKY'S BRITISH ACADEMY CRAFT AWARD WINS
EMERGING TALENT: FICTION
GEORGI BANK DAVIES (Director) I Hate Suzie - Bad Wolf/Sky Atlantic
DIRECTOR: MULTI-CAMERA
MARCUS VINER - ENOs Drive & Live: La boh me - Somethin Else, ENO/Sky Arts
Sky continues to invest in the cultural economy of the UK and Ireland with the very best original content, spanning drama, comedy, factual and entertainment. Forthcoming Sky Original highlights for this year include true-crime drama Landscapers starring Olivia Colman and Wolfe, a forensic crime-series starring Babou Ceesay as a brilliant, but flawed forensic pathologist, not to mention the return of comedy-drama Brassic for its third season.
All episodes of this year's BAFTA winning and nominated content such as Save Me Too, Life & Rhymes, I Hate Suzie and The Third Day are available to watch on demand for all Sky customers and on streaming service NOW.
Notes to Editors:
For more information, please contact:
Claire Barson, Senior PR Manager, Sky: claire.barson@sky.uk
Gehan Bashumailah, PR Executive, Sky: gehan.bashmailah@sky.uk
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Sky Originals Save Me Too & Life of Rhymes win at BAFTA Television Awards
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