Bafta TV Awards 2020: What time and how can I stream event live online?

The television awards ceremony will be presented by comedian Richard Ayoade behind closed doors and broadcast on BBC One

The Bafta television awards will be airing tomorrow, Friday 31 July. Due to the pandemic, the awards ceremony will take place entirely behind closed doors with no audience.

The event will be broadcast on BBC One as usual. After it has aired it will be available to watch on BBC iPlayer.

To replace the red carpet that usually precedes the awards ceremony, a Baftas pre-show will air via live-stream at 6.00pm.

Comedian Richard Ayoade will take over from Graham Norton to present the awards from a closed studio, with all nominees having already recorded acceptance speeches in advance.

Ayoade previously won a Bafta television award in 2014 for his performance in The IT Crowd.

The event was originally due to take place on 17 May but was postponed due to the pandemic. It is not the first awards ceremony to go behind closed doors, with the Royal Television Society Awards and the Bafta Games Awards both being adapted in accordance with lockdown rules.

Chernobyl and Netflix’s The Crown lead the pack with the most nominations. Chernobyl, the Sky miniseries about the 1986 nuclear power plant disaster, earned 14 nods, including for Best Mini-Series and Leading Actor.

Other shows up for the best drama award are The End of the F***ing World, Gentleman Jack and Giri/Haji.

In previous years, the lack of diversity in the nominations has been a huge talking point. This year, however, the TV nominations are the most diverse in Bafta TV's 65-year history.