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The British Academy Television Award for Best Soap and Continuing Drama is one of the major categories of the British Academy Television Awards (BAFTAs), the primary awards ceremony of the British television industry, presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts . Eligible drama series must be transmitted for at least 20 episodes a year. Only one episode of no more than an hour may be entered, and the episode selected must not be a special, as it must be fully representative of the series.[1] The award was first given in 1999, for soap operas transmitted in 1998. Its title was changed from Best Soap to Best Continuing Drama in 2003,[2] and to Best Soap and Continuing Drama in 2012. As of 2019, the award has been won by EastEnders nine times, Coronation Street six times, Casualty and Emmerdale twice, and The Bill and Holby City once each.
Winners and nominees
Year
Title
Production company
Broadcaster
Recipient(s)
1999 [3]
EastEnders (winner)
BBC
BBC One
Matthew Robinson
Brookside
Mersey Television
Channel 4
Phil Redmond
Coronation Street
Granada Television
ITV1
Carolyn Reynolds
Hollyoaks
Mersey Television
Channel 4
Phil Redmond , Jo Hallows
2000 [4]
EastEnders (winner)
BBC
BBC One
Matthew Robinson
Brookside
Mersey Television
Channel 4
Phil Redmond , Paul Marquess
Coronation Street
Granada Television
ITV1
Jane Macnaught
Emmerdale
Yorkshire Television
ITV1
Keith Richardson, Kieran Roberts, Chris Thompson
2001 [5]
Emmerdale (winner)
Yorkshire Television
ITV1
Kieran Roberts, Oliver Horsbrugh , Karin Young
Coronation Street
Granada Television
ITV1
Production team
EastEnders
BBC
BBC One
Production team
Hollyoaks
Mersey Television
Channel 4
Phil Redmond , Jo Hallows
2002 [6]
EastEnders (winner)
BBC
BBC One
Production team
Coronation Street
Granada Television
ITV1
Production team
Doctors
BBC
BBC One
Production team
Hollyoaks
Mersey Television
Channel 4
Phil Redmond , Jo Hallows
2003 [7]
Coronation Street (winner)
Granada Television
ITV1
Carolyn Reynolds, Kieran Roberts
Doctors
BBC
BBC One
Production team
EastEnders
BBC
BBC One
Production team
Hollyoaks
Mersey Television
Channel 4
Phil Redmond , Jo Hallows
2004 [8]
Coronation Street (winner)
Granada Television
ITV1
Carolyn Reynolds, Kieran Roberts
The Bill
Talkback Thames
ITV1
Paul Marquess , Donna Wiffen, Jake Riddell
Casualty
BBC
BBC One
Mal Young , Mervyn Watson
Holby City
BBC
BBC One
Mal Young , Kathleen Hutchison
2005 [9]
Coronation Street (winner)
Granada Television
ITV1
Tony Wood, Ian Bevitt, John Fay
The Bill
Talkback Thames
ITV1
Paul Marquess , Claire Phillips, Donna Wiffen
Doctors
BBC
BBC One
Production team
Holby City
BBC
BBC One
Production team
2006 [10]
EastEnders (winner)
BBC
BBC One
Production team
Casualty
BBC
BBC One
Production team
Coronation Street
ITV Productions
ITV1
Tony Wood, Tracey Rooney, Daran Little
Holby City
BBC
BBC One
Production team
2007 [11]
Casualty (winner)
BBC
BBC One
Production team
Coronation Street
ITV Productions
ITV1
Stephen Russell, Tim O'Mara, Steve Frost , Kieran Roberts
EastEnders
BBC
BBC One
Production team
Emmerdale
ITV Productions
ITV1
Keith Richardson, Kathleen Beedles , Lindsay Williams, Piotr Szkopiak
2008 [12]
Holby City (winner)
BBC
BBC One
Production team
The Bill
Talkback Thames
ITV1
Johnathan Young , Tim Key, Maxwell Young, Robert Del Maestro
EastEnders
BBC
BBC One
Production team
Emmerdale
ITV Productions
ITV1
Keith Richardson, Kathleen Beedles , John Anderson, Tim Dynevor
2009 [13]
The Bill (winner)
Talkback Thames
ITV1
Production team
Casualty
BBC
BBC One
Production team
EastEnders
BBC
BBC One
Production team
Emmerdale
ITV Studios
ITV1
Production team
2010 [14]
EastEnders (winner)
BBC
BBC One
Production team
Casualty
BBC
BBC One
Production team
Coronation Street
ITV Studios
ITV1
Production team
The Bill
Talkback Thames
ITV1
Production team
2011 [15]
EastEnders (winner)
BBC
BBC One
Production team
Casualty
BBC
BBC One
Production team
Coronation Street
ITV Studios
ITV1
Production team
Waterloo Road
Shed Productions
BBC One
Sharon Hughff, Sharon Channer, Fraser MacDonald, Lis Steele
2012 [16]
Coronation Street (winner)
ITV Studios
ITV1
Production team
EastEnders
BBC
BBC One
Production team
Holby City
BBC
BBC One
Production team
Shameless
Company Pictures
Channel 4
Paul Abbott , George Faber, David Threlfall , Lawrence Till
2013 [17]
EastEnders (winner)
BBC
BBC One
Production team
Coronation Street
ITV Studios
ITV
Production team
Emmerdale
ITV Studios
ITV
Production team
Shameless
Company Pictures
Channel 4
Production team
2014 [18]
Coronation Street (winner)
ITV Studios
ITV
Production team
Casualty
BBC
BBC One
Production team
EastEnders
BBC
BBC One
Production team
Holby City
BBC
BBC One
Production team
2015 [19]
Coronation Street (winner)
ITV Studios
ITV
Production team
Casualty
BBC
BBC One
Production team
EastEnders
BBC
BBC One
Production team
Hollyoaks
Lime Pictures
Channel 4
Production team
2016 [20]
EastEnders (winner)
BBC
BBC One
Production team
Coronation Street
ITV Studios
ITV
Production team
Emmerdale
ITV Studios
ITV
Production team
Holby City
BBC
BBC One
Oliver Kent, Simon Harper, Kate Hall, Joe Ainsworth
2017 [21]
Emmerdale (winner)
ITV Studios
ITV
Production team
Casualty
BBC
BBC One
Production team
EastEnders
BBC
BBC One
Production team
Hollyoaks
Lime Pictures
Channel 4
Bryan Kirkwood , Emily Gascoyne, Vikki Tennant, Colette Chard
2018 [22]
Casualty (winner)
BBC
BBC One
Production team
Coronation Street
ITV Studios
ITV
Production team
Emmerdale
ITV Studios
ITV
Production team
Hollyoaks
Lime Pictures
Channel 4
Bryan Kirkwood , Emily Gascoyne, Vikki Tennant, Colette Chard
2019 [23]
EastEnders (winner)
BBC
BBC One
Production team
Casualty
BBC
BBC One
Production team
Coronation Street
ITV Studios
ITV
Production team
Hollyoaks
Lime Pictures
Channel 4
Bryan Kirkwood , Emily Gascoyne, Colette Chard, Kevin Rundle
2020
Casualty
BBC
BBC One
Production team
Coronation Street
ITV Studios
ITV
Production team
Emmerdale
ITV Studios
ITV
Production team
Holby City
BBC
BBC One
Production team
Eligible programmes
Total awards by network
Programmes with multiple wins and nominations
Multiple wins
Multiple nominations
References
External links
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