Peter Moffat's BBC series The Village also earned three nods, with other notable nominees including My Mad Fat Diary, Top of the Lake, Ripper Street and the Doctor Who anniversary special, An Adventure in Space and Time.
Other notable nominees include Jazmine Sullivan, a 21-year-old R&B singer who is up for five awards, including best new artist; and Radiohead, with five nods for "In Rainbows," which the band originally released by itself online, snubbing the industry.
A quick roundup of other notable nominees: it's good to see Claudia Winkleman, initially hired to support the newly-promoted Tess Daily on Strictly (BBC1), now being recognised for her quick wit and the apparent ease with which she can steer a major Saturday-night juggernaut.
Other notable nominees this year include acting nods for Tony Shaloub and Laurie Metcalf, and playwrighting nods for Samuel Hunter and Adam Bock.
Other notable nominees include Mexican balladeer Pepe Aguilar, who received a nod for his romantic ballad "Cuestíon de Esperar," and Mexican regional favorites Los Tigres del Norte, who earned one nomination for norteño album for their live album "Desde el Azteca".
Other notable nominees included both Ray Bradbury and William Shatner in 1977 (the "Star Wars" zeitgeist might have played a role) and the brilliant but cultish British comedians Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, who won the Grammy in 1975 (the "SNL" zeitgeist, maybe).
Downtown L.A.'s Staples Center may be home to the Grammys, but it's a relatively nondescript industrial complex in Burbank that's attracting some of the awards show's most notable nominees this week.
Notable nominees this year include Mary Bridget Davies in "One Night With Janis Joplin," which is currently running on Broadway; Dana Delany in Beau Willimon's "The Parisian Woman" at South Coast Repertory; and "MADtv" alum Nicole Parker for "Funny Girl," produced in Fullerton by 3D Theatrical. .
Notable past nominees include Damien Hirst for his shark in formaldehyde, Tracy Emin for her disheveled bed and Jake and Dinos Chapman for their "subversive wit and black humour" in a show featuring mannequin sex and faux-ethnographic wooden sculptures.
Another notable absence was any nominee from American Ballet Theatre.
