BBC's Wolf Hall leads Bafta TV award nominations

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Wolf Hall is set to dominate this year’s Bafta television awards with four nominations with its star Mark Rylance competing with Luther’s Idris Elba for the best acting prize.

There was also a first Bafta nomination for singer Adele, for her BBC1 special Adele at the BBC.

BBC2’s Wolf Hall led the pack in the nominations announced on Wednesday, with three nominations each for Peter Kay’s BBC1 comedy Car Share and Channel 4 drama, This is England ’90.

Related: Bafta TV awards 2016: full list of nominations

But there was nothing for BBC1 drama Poldark, starring Aidan Turner, which became one of the most talked-about TV events of last year.

Rylance, who won an Oscar earlier this month for his role in Steven Spielberg’s Bridge of Spies, will go up against Elba, Ben Wishaw for his role in BBC2’s London Spy, and This is England’s Stephen Graham.

Rylance’s Wolf Hall co-star Claire Foy is nominated for best actress alongside Sheridan Smith for BBC1’s The C-Word, Suranne Jones, star of BBC1’s Doctor Foster, and Ruth Madeley (BBC3’s Don’t Take My Baby).

Adele, who won four awards at the Brit awards last month following the record-breaking success of her third album, 25, is nominated in the entertainment category for her TV special in which she sang songs from the album and talked to Graham Norton.

She will compete against Chris Evans’ TFI Friday anniversary special on Channel 4, BBC1’s Strictly Come Dancing and Simon Cowell’s Britain’s Got Talent for ITV.

BBC1’s The Great British Bake Off, the most-watched TV programme of 2015, received its fifth consecutive Bafta nomination.

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