2025 Nominees

David Mitchell, Ludwig

Big Talk Studios, That Mitchell and Webb Company, BBC

UK

- Best Performance in a Comedy

David Mitchell has been acclaimed as a legend of British sitcom but Ludwig sees his first foray into 60 minute comedy drama. Bringing to life a wholly original new TV detective, Mitchell plays John ‘Ludwig’ Taylor, a reclusive puzzle-designer whose twin brother goes missing. In order to unravel the mystery of his disappearance, John must take on his twin brother James's identity as DCI on Cambridge's major crimes squad. Mitchell is indeed ‘world-beatingly good’ (The Guardian) in the role, whether making hilarious fish-out-of-water gaffes with James’s police colleagues, conjuring up a sensitive inner world with a deep personal history, or finding his feet as a mastermind detective and landing withering bon mots to suspects. With 9.5 million viewers in its first 28 days and 5* reviews abounding, the assessment of Radio Times that ‘John feels like the role of a lifetime for Mitchell’ is increasingly undeniable.