BAFTA hopes for Yorkshire's Gentleman Jack, Candour Productions and Emmerdale

Television programmes made in Yorkshire are lined up in the new BAFTA TV Awards nominations released today.

Gentleman Jack has been nominated for best drama series in the awards, while Suranne Jones is also in the running for her portrayal of Anne Lister in the show.

Shibden Hall in Halifax, where businesswoman Miss Lister lived, was used to film Sally Wainwright's BBC and HBO show.

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Jones is up for leading actress against Jodie Comer in Killing Eve, Glenda Jackson in Elizabeth is Missing and Samantha Morton in I Am Kirsty.

In the single documentary round, The Family Secret, made by what is now Candour Productions in Leeds, is in the running.

The documentary about child sexual abuse was made by Anna Hall, Sally Ogden, Luke Rothery, Brian Woods - at what was formerly called True Vision Yorkshire in Farsley - for Channel 4.

Creative director Ms Hall told The Yorkshire Post: "This was a really difficult film to make. It was a really difficult subject, it was about child sexual abuse within a family.

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"It was really important we did the right thing for each contributor in that film. It was a very long and slow process to get it done."

Suranne Jones as Anne Lister in Gentleman Jack. BBC Pictures/Lookout Point/HBO - Photographer: Aimee Spinks.Suranne Jones as Anne Lister in Gentleman Jack. BBC Pictures/Lookout Point/HBO - Photographer: Aimee Spinks.
Suranne Jones as Anne Lister in Gentleman Jack. BBC Pictures/Lookout Point/HBO - Photographer: Aimee Spinks.

"Kath [whose story the documentary's tells] is absolutely thrilled that we've been nominated for a BAFTA," she added.

"So many people said 'This is exactly what happened to me, it took me 46 years to tell anyone, [or] it took 23 years."

She added: "It's really difficult to get on the BAFTA shortlist for documentaries.

"It's a massive honour for us to be on the list."

Anna Hall, creative director of Candour Productions.Anna Hall, creative director of Candour Productions.
Anna Hall, creative director of Candour Productions.
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Sinead Rocks, Channel 4’s Managing Director for Nations & Regions, said: "Brilliant news and well deserved."

BBC Four's Yorkshire Ripper Files: A Very British Crime Story is nominated for the specialist factual award.

The three-part documentary looked at the story of Peter Sutcliffe, dubbed The Yorkshire Ripper, focusing on the police investigation and social attitudes at time when his murders began in Leeds and continued around the north of England.

Leeds-based Emmerdale, from ITV, is also nominated in the soap and continuing drama category.