Halifax-filmed Gentleman Jack receives two Bafta TV nominations

Gentleman Jack, which was created for BBC and HBO in the US, is up for best drama series alongside Netflix's The Crown, Channel 4's The End of the F****ing World and BBC's Giri/Haji.

Suranne Jones, who played Anne Lister, is also up in the leading actress category alongside Glenda Jackson for Elizabeth is Missing, Jodie Comer for Killing Eve and Samantha Morton for I Am Kirsty.

Series one of the drama was broadcast on BBC One last year and told the story of Halifax diarist and landowner Anne Lister as she embarked on her passionate courtship with Ann Walker and her ambitions of opening a coal mine.

The series was filmed at Shibden Hall, Halifax as well as many other locations across Calderdale and West Yorkshire.

Also nominated for a Bafta is BBC Four documentary The Yorkshire Ripper Files: A Very British Crime Story which has been nominated in the specialist factual category.

The series followed the re-examination of the Yorkshire Ripper case by filmmaker Liza Williams, exploring how attitudes towards women in 1970s Britain derailed the investigation.

Killer Peter Sutcliffe murdered and attempted to murder women across Yorkshire, including in Calderdale.

Winners of the 2020 B Virgin Media British Academy Television Awards on Friday, July 31.