Winners Best Actor Winner: John Thaw — Inspector Morse (ITV) Other nominees: Joss Ackland — First And Last; John Gielgud — Summer's Lease; Alfred Molina — The Accountant Best Actress Winner: Diana Rigg — Mother Love Other nominees: Peggy Ashcroft — She's Been Away; Judi Dench — Behaving Badly; Gwen Taylor — A Bit of a Do Best Comedy (Programme or Series) Winner: Blackadder Goes Forth Other nominees: After Henry; The New Statesman; Only Fools And Horses Best Light Entertainment Performance Winner: Rowan Atkinson — Blackadder Goes Forth Other nominees: Barry Humphries — The Dame Edna Experience; David Jason — Only Fools And Horses; Victoria Wood — Victoria Wood Best Drama Series Winner: Traffik Other nominees: Inspector Morse (ITV); Mother Love; Summer's Lease Best Single Drama Winner: The Accountant Other nominees: Bomber Harris; First And Last; She's Been Away Best News Coverage Winner: BBC News — Square Massacre Other nominees: BBC Berlin Wall Coverage; BBC Nine O'Clock News — Kate Adie Secret Report from Chinese Hospital; ITN Coverage of Romania Best Factual Series Winner: Forty Minutes Other nominees: Arena (BBC / BBC2); Around the World in 80 Days; World in Action Flaherty Award for Single Documentary Winner: First Tuesday — Four Hours In My Lai Other nominees: Everyman: Romania — State of Fear; Lost Children of The Empire; Viewpoint '89: Cambodia — Year 10: A Special Report by John Pilger Huw Wheldon Award for Arts Programme or Series Winner: Omnibus: Art In The Third Reich Other nominees: Arena — Tales From Barcelona (BBC / BBC2); The South Bank Show — Barry Humphries; The South Bank Show — Dustin Hoffman Light Entertainment Programme or Series Winner: Clive James On The '80s Other nominees: The Dame Edna Experience; Victoria Wood; Whose Line Is It Anyway? Best Children's Educational Documentary Programme Winner: The Really Wild Show Other nominees: Blockbusters; Choices: Who'd Be a Woman; Scene: My Brother David Best Children's Entertainment / Drama Programme Winner: Maid Marian and her Merry Men Other nominees: The BFG; The Chronicles Of Narnia; Woof Foreign Programme Award Hotel Terminus BAFTA Fellowship Award Paul Fox, CBE
External links Archive of winners on official BAFTA website (retrieved 4 June 2013). British Academy Television Awards 1996 at the Internet Movie Database