The British Academy of Film and Television announced the winners of the 2020 British Academy Television Awards and, like their counterparts across the pond a year ago, HBO and Sky’s “Chernobyl” was the big winner. That being said, there were some major surprises. And we’re not just talking about the awkwardness of a televised ceremony where winners chimed in via zoom.

READ MORE: Primetime Emmys are officially going virtual for 2020

While “Chernobyl” took nine BAFTA TV honors including seven from the BAFTA TV Craft Ceremony on July 17.

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There’s probably very little chance that you recognize the name, Jonathan Entwistle. That being said, you likely know the two Netflix series he’s shaped. The British filmmaker gained a ton of attention after directing the first four and a half episodes of the acclaimed first season of 2017’s “The End of the F***ing World” and was rewarded with his own series, “I’m Not Okay With This,” which debuted this past February.

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For those looking for any Emmy Awards trends in the 2020 BAFTA Television Awards, there were decidedly few. Thanks to a different qualification calendar, the HBO mini-series “Chernobyl” and Amazon Prime and BBC’s “Fleabag” dominated the proceedings. Oh, “The Crown,” which is once again major Emmy player this year, also snagged some jewels, but wasn’t that expected?

READ MORE: “Chernobyl” avoids a genre meltdown and is one of the year’s best series [Review]

“Chernobyl” led all programs with 14 nominations with “Fleabag” and “The Crown” earning seven nods each.

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The Streaming Wars are upon us, as November is dominated by clashing platforms – new ones in particular – trying to get a leg up on one another in terms of original content.

READ MORE: AMC Networks CEO Says The Success Of His Company is Dependent On “Targeted, Hyper-Focus” Streaming Services

Both Apple TV+ and Disney+ launch this month with multiple original series under their names and with big names signed on as well.

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Netflix, Apple, Disney, and WarnerMedia can sit there and sign massive producers, actors, and filmmakers to these nine-figure deals to develop streaming content for their platforms all day long. Those projects are great for gaining headlines and some viewership, but they’re not the foundation for a quality library. And that’s proven by the surprise hit Netflix series “The End of the F**king World.” The offbeat series, in its fairly short first season, showed that quality storytelling and an interesting premise is really all you need.

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It was, as we’ve discussed already, a great year for movies (The 25 Best Films Of 2018). It was perhaps a less great one on TV, at least on the surface. There were more scripted shows than ever once again, but with some heavy-hitters skipping a year, and a few high-profile disappointments (Hi, “The Romanoffs!”), it was hard not to feel that the ageless TV vs. film debate came out of 2018 with a point on the movies board.

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You’ve read our Best Films of 2018… So Far feature, or you will (you will!) and now it’s time to move onto the small screen, and as we know the quality of television has jumped leaped and bounds in the age of Peak TV (Ridley Scott just said this week filmmakers should be careful because Television is catching up with movies, which still very debatable). There’s a zillion shows out there, it’s impossible to keep up and all of it is exhausting frankly.

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Happy New Year! Time to chug the last of the eggnog before starting the diet that will be inevitably broken in three weeks. Luckily, with television season running at full steam all year round, there are plenty of quality shows to get you through the darkest months of winter. Below are the top ten television picks to start off 2018:

“Lovesick”
Synopsis: Dylan grows closer to Abigail, but things remain complicated with Evie.

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Well, 2017 ended and thankfully the world didn’t implode, but Netflix is bringing you a different sort of apocalypse with “The End Of The F**king World.”

Already aired on Channel 4 and All 4 in the U.K. this fall, the streaming giant now brings the series, based on the comic run by Charles S. Forsman, to the rest of the world.

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It is a fairly certain fact that the end is nigh. Whether it’s a sudden nuclear attack, or a somewhat gradual descent into anarchy remains to be seen, but there’s no debate that it’s just about the end of the fucking world. But let’s all hope we aren’t obliterated before the debut of a new Netflix show, appropriately titled, “The End of the Fucking World.”

Netflix has partnered with E4 for the upcoming series based on Charles Forsman’s 2013 wildly beloved, critically acclaimed, and award-winning comic book series, titled – you guessed it – “The End of the Fucking World.” According to Digital Spy, director Jonathan Entwistle calls it “a live action version which will transport Charles’s visions of the US to a nihilistic, recession-laden UK.”

Channel4 gives us a delightfully moody taste of what to expect:

James, 17, is pretty sure he’s a psychopath – emotionally detached, cold and disdainful, he’s decided he’s ready to graduate from killing animals.

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