Best supporting actor is the category most likely to be of interest to Utopia fans: Adeel Akhtar's nomination here is the lone Bafta acknowledgement of the second series of Dennis Kelly's distinctive drama, now sadly cancelled.
Cohen said the project, which is likely to have a budget of around £10m, was a result of conversations about bringing "more distinctive, landmark dramas to BBC1".
Laura Mackie, director of drama for ITV, added: "Whitechapel is a striking and distinctive crime drama that has struck a real chord with the ITV1 audience.
Millions of people do, taking pleasure in seeing top-flight soccer and in the tournament's distinctive global drama.
Carol Morley's The Falling is fascinating, rich and strange: a languorous, funny and utterly distinctive psychological drama about an outbreak of hysterical fainting at a girls' school in the 1960s, luxuriating in its own tragicomic enigma.
Is it being based in Manchester that helps make Red's dramas distinctive?
With its Bristol setting (chosen by Stewart to be a welcome change from the London suburbs hitherto ubiquitous to such dramas), distinctive score by George Fenton, and breakout performance from the then little-known Trevor Eve, Shoestring became a ratings hit.
Ben Stephenson, Controller of Drama Commissioning, BBC, said: "I hope The Last Kingdom will expand BBC2's distinctive portfolio of drama.
I won't spoil it for you but I am not convinced it lived up to the "distinctive piece of drama" billing it was given.
