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post-news slot to 9.30pm, it became the biggest sitcom on British TV, reaching more than 8 million by the end of its swiftly commissioned second series. Central to its success is the manic energy the 56-year-old invests into every profane line and slap- stick pratfall, sweeping any viewer cynicism aside with his sheer exuberance. He won over the Bafta judges too, steering his show to Best Sitcom.


and OTT; Whitehall pitched it perfectly. All eyes are now on how he fares in his self-penned BBC3 sitcom Bad Education.


7 Daniel Kaluuya


The Fades; Psychoville; Black Mirror


6 Jack Whitehall Fresh Meat


Even the most vocal critics of Jack Whitehall’s stand-up were silenced by the conviction he brought to posh boy JP in comedy drama Fresh Meat, coming to own a role that might appear on paper to be not a million miles from his public persona. Having doggedly pursued the part as his fi rst TV acting role, the comic brought the necessary swagger to the cock- sure yet largely clueless student, while revealing hidden depths later in the series as he conveyed JP’s grief following the death of his father. One false step and the character could have felt showy


Still just 23, Daniel Kaluuya (right) has racked up an impres- sive CV as a writer and TV, fi lm and theatre actor. His magnetic presence was best deployed recently in BBC3 supernatural drama The Fades and, most mem- orably, in 23 Million Merits, part of Charlie Brooker’s disturbing series Black Mirror, where he occupied and fi lled virtually every claustrophobic frame, conveying his character’s repressed spirit often through looks alone before exploding in a fi nal angry speech. At 19, he was a compelling straight man as Psychoville’s Tealeaf, and even before that, he impressed as Posh Kenneth, one of the original line-up on Skins, joining the writing team on series one and penning two episodes in later series.


8 Mary Beard


Meet The Romans With Mary Beard; Pompeii: Life And Death In A Roman Town


“I’m too brainy for men who fear clever women” was Mary Beard’s dignifi ed response to spiteful claims from provocative column- ists AA Gill and Samantha Brick that she was, in Brick’s words, “too ugly for TV”. Her fans – and


9 Olivia Colman Rev; Peep Show Meet The Romans With Mary Beard www.broadcastnow.co.uk


After several years in the shadows of her higher- profi le co-stars in the likes of Green Wing and, most notably, Peep Show, Olivia Colman has had a meteoric rise over the past 18 months. First, Red Productions had the sense to cast her in a dra- matic role in Exile as a woman at loggerheads with her errant brother while she looked after her Alzheimer’s-ridden


The Fades


there are many, not least 9,000- plus Twitter followers – know tedious spats like this are beneath this distinguished historian. Beard is a welcome reminder that if you want to tackle subjects like history, it generally pays to have a bit of knowledge and experience behind you. Viewers warmed to her BBC2 series Meet The Romans for what has been described as her “earthy, essentially anti- authoritarian manner” – qualities she also brought to her valiant attempt to teach Latin to problem pupils in Jamie’s Dream School.


father; then she stunned cinema audiences with her devastating turn opposite Peter Mullan in Paddy Considine’s Tyrannosaur. She was on more familiar territory as Tom Hollander’s strong- minded but loving and sympa- thetic wife in BBC2’s acclaimed Rev, and as Hugh Bonneville’s smitten PA in Twenty Twelve. Next up: reuniting with Peep Show’s Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong for Channel 4 comedy Bad Sugar.


10 Reggie Yates The Voice UK; Rastamouse


Reggie Yates (left) has come a long way since his TV debut as a child in Channel 4 sitcom Des- monds more than 20 years ago. Who else can boast credits as varied as the


Radio 1 chart countdown, a documentary on teen gangs, Grange Hill, talent show The Voice UK and kids phe- nomenon Rastamouse? Yates brought laconic charm to the voice of the crime-fi ghting mouse himself, bring- ing Jamaican-derived


street slang to a CBeebies audience – and, reluctantly but memorably, to Never Mind The Buzzcocks, where his


appearance demonstrated his easy charm and ability to poke fun at himself. He’s become the go-to guy on Radio 1 for big live events such as the Hackney


Weekend, paving the way for his biggest gig to date, The Voice UK, where he was paired with Holly Willoughby.


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