BAFTA TV Awards 2022: Air date, nominees for Must-See Moment

By Lewis Knight

Published: Wednesday, 23 March 2022 at 12:00 am

It’s one of the most glamorous nights in the television calendar.

The Virgin Media BAFTA TV Awards 2022 will arrive on our screens this spring and see the best and brightest stars of the small screen turn out to celebrate the highs of television in the last year.

One of the key awards has to be the audience-voted Must-See Moment, which was last year won by Nigella Lawson’s iconic pronunciation of microwave as ‘meecro-wah-vey’.

So, who will take home those iconic masks this year?

Here is everything you need to know about the Virgin Media BAFTA TV Awards 2022.

BAFTA TV Awards 2022 air date

The Virgin Media BAFTA TV Awards 2022 will take place and be televised on Sunday 8th May 2022.

The event will be live and in-person and held at the Royal Festival Hall on London’s South Bank.

This follows the BAFTA Television Craft Awards which take place at The Brewery in East London on Sunday 24th April 2022.

How to watch the BAFTA TV Awards 2022

The Virgin Media BAFTA TV Awards 2022 will air on BBC One and BBC iPlayer on the day of the event.

The exact timings and broadcast details have yet to be confirmed beyond this.

We will be sure to update this section with further information close to transmission.

BAFTA TV Awards 2022 nominees for Must-See Moment

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A moment featuring Callum Scott Howells as Colin in It’s A Sin has been recognised
Channel 4

On the 23rd March 2022, BAFTA confirmed the nominees for the Must-See Moment.

This is the only award voted for by the British public and is intended to show the diversity of British television.

The nominees are as follows.

  • An Audience with Adele (ITV) – Adele is surprised by the teacher who changed her life.
  • I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here (ITV) – Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly’s “Evening Prime Minister” dig at reports of Downing Street lockdown parties.
  • It’s A Sin (Channel 4) – Colin (Callum Scott Howells) receives a devastating AIDS diagnosis.
  • RuPaul’s Drag Race UK (BBC Three) – Bimini Bon Boulash’s verse in the ‘UK Hun?’ performance.
  • Squid Game (Netflix) – The Red Light, Green Light game.
  • Strictly Come Dancing (BBC One) – Rose Ayling-Ellis and Giovanni Pernice’s silent dance to Clean Bandit’s Symphony.

Viewers can vote for their favourite moment at the link on the Virgin Media website where they will be automatically be entered into a prize draw to win tickets to the event.

Voting is now open and closes at 5pm on 19th April 2022.

The Virgin Media BAFTA TV Awards 2022 will take place on Sunday 8th May 2022. Looking for something else to watch? Check out our TV Guide to see what’s on tonight.

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