It’s A Sin fans aren’t happy as the show fails to win a single award at the TV BAFTAs

Channel 4 drama It’s A Sin, created by Russell T Davies and starring Olly Alexander, was tipped to win big at the 2022 TV BAFTAs, after being nominated for five awards and proving a huge hit with viewers when it aired last year. But fans have been left baffled after the critically acclaimed show failed to take home a single award at the prestigious ceremony.

It’s A Sin is a five-episode mini series following the lives of a group of gay men and their friends during the AIDs crisis in the 1980s/ early ’90s. 

The show was nominated for five awards: best mini series; best leading actor (Olly Alexander); best supporting actor (Omari Douglas and Callum Scott Howells); best leading actress (Lydia West); and must-see moment (Colin’s devastating AIDS diagnosis).

Instead, best mini series went to BBC’s prison drama Time; leading actor was Sean Bean (also for Time); best supporting actor was Matthew Macfadyen for Succession; leading actress went to Jodie Comer for Help; and the must-see moment was Rose and Giovanni’s silent dance to Symphony in Strictly Come Dancing.

Fans of the show weren’t too impressed by this outcome. TV critic Scott Bryan tweeted, “[It’s a Sin] won two awards at the BAFTA Craft Awards this year – for Best Editor and Director. Yet is ASTOUNDING that they won nothing at the BAFTA TV Awards tonight. I am speechless.”

He continued, “One of the most necessary, powerful, life-affirming dramas in recent years, shining a light on LGBTQ+ history and receiving viewer and critical acclaim. And yet no awards tonight.”

The author Malorie Blackman also tweeted, “No disrespect to the BAFTA winners tonight but how did It’s A Sin not receive a single award? That series was phenomenal,” while Adil Ray wrote, “How did It’s A Sin not win a single Bafta? Just perplexing. One of the greatest moments of television in the history of television. @BAFTA really needs to take a look what went wrong.”