‘Baby Reindeer’ Star Richard Gadd and Jeff Goldblum Among BAFTA TV Awards Presenters

K.J. Yossman

“Baby Reindeer” star Richard Gadd and “Jurassic Park” icon Jeff Goldblum are among those set to present a BAFTA TV award on Sunday night.

Also signed up to presenting duties on the night are Gadd’s “Baby Reindeer” co-star Jessica Gunning, Bond actor Lashana Lynch and “The Hobbit’s” Martin Freeman.

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The audience will also be studded with British TV icons. Those scheduled to attend include “The Crown’s” Dominic West and Elizabeth Debicki, “Ted Lasso” actor Hannah Waddingham, “Succession” stars Brian Cox and Harriet Walter, former Doctor Who David Tennant, “Harry Potter” alum Helena Bonham Carter, “Bad Sisters” creator Sharon Horgan and some of the cast of “Slow Horses.”

The ceremony, which is set to take place in London on May 12, will be hosted by comedians Rob Beckett and Romesh Ranganathan while Michelle Visage and Tom Allen are hosting the BAFTA red carpet.

As well as the usual slew of awards, nominees and guests will enjoy a dance version of “Peaky Blinders” and a performance from British singer Ella Eyre.

The ceremony will be broadcast in the U.K. on the BBC and iPlayer while it will show on BritBox in the U.S. and other select territories.

Among the shows vying for an award on Sunday are “The Crown,” “Black Mirror” and “Slow Horses.”

Meanwhile some of the “memorable moments” in TV up for a BAFTA are Catherine Cawood and Tommy Lee Royce’s final kitchen showdown in “Happy Valley,” Ncuti Gatwa’s reveal as the 15th Doctor Who and David Beckham teasing his wife Victoria about her “working class” upbringing in his Netflix documentary “Beckham.”

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