Leading star Lucy Punch was shockingly snubbed for a BAFTA TV Award on Sunday night, despite recently being hailed as a 'comedy icon' in Amandaland series two. Fans took to X to share their shock and claimed the three actresses were 'robbed'.
Despite recently being hailed as a 'comedy icon' in Amandaland series two, leading star Lucy Punch was shockingly snubbed for a BAFTA TV Award on Sunday night.
The British star was up for the Best Actress in a Comedy gong for her incredible performance in series one of the hit BBC show, but failed to win the award along with co-stars Jennifer Saunders and Philippa Dunne, who were in the same category. Rounding out the category was Diane Morgan (Mandy), Rosie Jones (Pushers) and overall winner Katherine Parkinson, for her performance in Here We Go.
Fans took to X to share their shock as one shared a meme saying she's 'ignoring the verdict' while others claimed the three actresses were 'robbed'. Despite the leading actresses being snubbed in the category, Amandaland went on to win Best Scripted Comedy. The hit show, which series two has been branded as a 'triumph' and the 'best sitcom by a mile', beat Big Boys, How Are You? Its Alan (Partridge) and Things You Should Have Done.
Elsewhere during the BAFTA's Christine Tremarco surprisingly won the Best Supporting Actress gong beating her co-star Erin Doherty, who previously took home the Golden Globe and Emmy Award. Lucy Punch played the character in all three seasons of the original show Motherland before bringing Amanda back to life in January last year followed by a Christmas special, all of which won enormous praise for the thigh-slapping antics of the character.
Following Thursday's return, critics swarmed to praise the show as the Daily Mail and the Telegraph gave it five stars, saying: 'This show is bursting with invention, so full of possibilities that it crams three or four sources of fun into half an hour.
' Lucy's performance was lavished with praise although her mother Felicity, played by Joanna Lumley, and Philippa Dunne, who stars as downtrodden Anne, were deemed 'magnetic' and 'sterling' as her supporting characters. Series two sees attention-hungry Amanda has found her metier as an online influencer. It doesn't matter that, since she doesn't have any followers, she's not actually influencing anyone. She has a lifestyle brand and 'it's all she needs'.
Reviewers have likened the character to comedy icons The Office's David Brent and Steve Coogan's legendary Alan Partridge in their cringeworthy lack of self-awareness, arrogance and poorly-hidden deep insecurities. On the subject, The Guardian's Rachel Aroesti writes: 'Amanda slots neatly into a lineage of British comedy icons; file her next to the delusional, narcissistic, indefatigable likes of Alan Partridge and David Brent.
' The Independent's Katie Rosseinsky joined in the praise, with four stars: 'It’s relatively straightforward comic fodder, but the jokes are sharp and sometimes unexpectedly dark enough to puncture the cosiness (“Have you been DBS checked? ” Amanda’s colleague at her “co-lab” asks her, before she promptly spits back: “Women can’t be paedophiles, Daniel! ”).
'And Punch, with her huge smile and doe eyes, manages to make even Amanda’s absurdities and insecurities endearin
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