Float Series 2 has won the 2024 BAFTA Scotland for Scripted Television!
We are thrilled to share that the second series of our queer YA iPlayer drama FLOAT has taken home the BAFTA Scotland for Scripted Television!
Here is a bit of Director and Executive Producer Arabella Page Croft’s acceptance speech:
“Being a producer has never been harder in today’s market and our training grounds in the UK are being lost and swept away in vulnerable BBC days – today a tiny show like FLOAT – a true underdog – winning this BAFTA is another marker of their importance.
Thank you so much BBC Commissioners Louise Thornton and Gavin Smith, Screen Scotland, our brilliant team at Black Camel Pictures and BAFTA & the jury for this wonderful award.
FLOAT is an example of what a training initiative like BBC writer’s room can deliver. Most of our team were new to their roles. The hugely talented theatre writer Stef Smith – who created Float – was writing TV drama for the first time, Bjorn Hanson stepped up from being my PA to produce FLOAT and is now a fully fledged primetime drama producer. Hannah Jarrett-Scott and Jess Hardwick, our wonderful lead actors playing Jade and Collette were working in front of the camera for the very first time. They have already gone on to winning primetime drama roles. I was directing (a dream I had had for years) for the first time.
I would also like to thank in particular Dawn Hill in the BBC press department who really got behind both series of FLOAT and was a huge advocate to journalists. Libby Brooks at the Guardian, Jamie Dunn at The Skinny, Brian Ferguson at The Scotsman and Kaye Adams were tremendous. Without their well positioned interviews and articles a tiny show like FLOAT could have sunk. We are so grateful.”
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