Happy Valley, Top Boy and The Sixth Commandment were among the shows to receive two awards at this year’s BAFTA TV Awards.
The final season of the BBC’s Happy Valley missed out on the Best Drama Series prize to Top Boy, the show about two drug dealers which Netflix revived, a decade after it was dropped by Channel 4. Top Boy’s Jasmine Jobson was named the best supporting actress. She said the show had changed her life; she used to be a normal girl from west London, working full time in a bar, and now acting paid her bills.
Sarah Lancashire’s portrayal of police officer Catherine Cawood earned her a second Best Actress BAFTA for her lead role in Happy Valley. The show also won the award for the most memorable TV moment, as voted for by viewers; the final confrontation between Catherine and her nemesis, Tommy Lee Royce.
The Sixth Commandment was named the Best Limited Series, as well as earning Timothy Spall his first BAFTA for lead actor. “We’re privileged, particularly when you’re telling real stories about real lives, that people give you permission to do this,” he said. Best supporting actor went to Matthew Macfadyen for Succession.
BAFTA also used the ceremony to present the former children’s TV presenter and diversity campaigner Baroness Benjamin with a Fellowship and the organisation gave a special award to Lorraine Kelly to mark her forty years in television.
The revived BBC Three had a good night in the comedy awards, with Such Brave Girls – about a single mother and her two adult daughters – being named the best scripted comedy and Mawaan Rizwan winning the BAFTA for the best male performance in a comedy. The best female performer in a comedy was Gbemisola Ikumelo, who also created the police sitcom Black Ops.
Other award-winning shows include Casualty for Best Soap, Strictly Come Dancing for best entertainment programme and last year’s Eurovision Song Contest show was named the best live event coverage.
The comedians Joe Lycett, Rob Beckett and Romesh Ranganathan also received BAFTAs.
And here is the full list of winners in the main BAFTA TV categories:
Drama series
Top Boy (Netflix) – WINNER
Limited drama
The Sixth Commandment (BBC One) – WINNER
Leading actress
Sarah Lancashire, Happy Valley (BBC One) – WINNER
Leading actor
Timothy Spall, The Sixth Commandment (BBC One) – WINNER
Supporting actress
Jasmine Jobson, Top Boy (Netflix) – WINNER
Supporting actor
Matthew MacFadyen, Succession (Sky Atlantic) – WINNER
Scripted comedy
Such Brave Girls (BBC Three) – WINNER
Female performance in a comedy programme
Gbemisola Ikumelo, Black Ops (BBC One) – WINNER
Male performance in a comedy programme
Entertainment performance
Joe Lycett, Late Night Lycett (Channel 4) – WINNER
Comedy entertainment programme
Rob & Romesh Vs … (Sky Max) – WINNER
Entertainment programme
Strictly Come Dancing (BBC One) – WINNER
Factual entertainment
Celebrity Race Across The World (BBC One) – WINNER
Factual series
Lockerbie (Sky Documentaries) – WINNER
Single documentary
Ellie Simmonds: Finding My Secret Family (ITV1) – WINNER
Reality
Squid Game: The Challenge (Netflix) – WINNER
Specialist factual
White Nanny, Black Child (Channel 5) – WINNER
Live event
Eurovision Song Contest (BBC One) – WINNER
Short film
Sport
Cheltenham Festival Day One (ITV1) – WINNER
News coverage
Channel 4 News: Inside Gaza, Israel and Hamas at War (Channel 4) – WINNER
Current affairs
The Shamima Begum Story (BBC Two) – WINNER
Daytime
Soap
International
Class Act (Netflix) – WINNER
P&O Cruises memorable moment
Happy Valley: Catherine Cawood and Tommy Lee Royce’s final kitchen showdown (BBC One) – WINNER