Peaky Blinders wins Best Drama Series at 2018 TV BAFTAs

The fourth season of Peaky Blinders was named the Best Drama series.

Peaky Blinders has beaten Line of Duty and The Crown to be named the Best Drama Series at the TV BAFTAs in its fourth season.

Sean Bean was named the Best Actor for Broken, while the Best Actress BAFTA went to Molly Windsor for Three Girls, which was named the Best Mini-Series.

Murder in Successful won the Best Comedy Entertainment Programme prize, while the Best Scripted Comedy went to This Country, whose star Daisy May Cooper was named the Best Female Performer in a Comedy. The Best Male Performer in a Comedy was Toby Jones, for the Detectorists.

The Best Supporting Actor was Brian F O’Byrne for ITV’s Little Boy Blue, while Vanessa Kirby was named the Best Supporting Actress for her role as Princess Margaret in the Netflix drama The Crown.

Ant & Dec beat themselves to win the Best Entertainment Programme for Britain’s Got Talent, but only Declan Donnelly turned up to collect the award, after much publicised alcohol problems forced Ant McPartlin to withdraw from his presentation duties. The pair weren’t nominated for the Best Entertainment Performance though; that went to Graham Norton.

Love Island won the Best Reality BAFTA, Casualty was named the best soap, The Handmaid’s Tale picked up the award for the best International Programme and in a battle between Sky News and ITN, Sky took the Best News Coverage award for its reports on the Rohingya Crisis.

The only TV BAFTA winner chosen by viewers was the Must See TV Moment, which went to Blue Planet II for the scene showing a grieving mother pilot whale.

The recently retired sports commentator John Motson was given a special award and the former BBC foreign news correspondent Kate Adie was honoured with a BAFTA Fellowship.

And here is the full list of winners:

FELLOWSHIP
KATE ADIE

SPECIAL AWARD
JOHN MOTSON

COMEDY ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAMME
MURDER IN SUCCESSVILLE Andy Brereton, Avril Spary, James De Frond, Tom Davis – Shiny Button Productions / Tiger Aspect Productions / BBC Three

CURRENT AFFAIRS
UNDERCOVER: BRITAIN’S IMMIGRATION SECRETS (PANORAMA) Karen Wightman, Joe Plomin, Callum Tulley, Gary Beelders – BBC Current Affairs / BBC One

DRAMA SERIES
PEAKY BLINDERS Production Team – Caryn Mandabach Productions / Tiger Aspect Productions / BBC Two

ENTERTAINMENT PERFORMANCE
GRAHAM NORTON The Graham Norton Show – So Television / BBC One

ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAMME (i)
BRITAIN’S GOT TALENT Amelia Brown, Lee McNicholas, Richard Holloway, Charlie Irwin – Thames / Syco / ITV

FACTUAL SERIES
AMBULANCE Jo Hughes, Bruce Fletcher, Kirsty Cunningham, Simon Ford – Dragonfly / BBC One

FEATURES
CRUISING WITH JANE McDONALD Production Team – Elephant House Studios / Channel 5

FEMALE PERFORMANCE IN A COMEDY PROGRAMME
DAISY MAY COOPER This Country – BBC Studios Comedy / BBC Three

INTERNATIONAL
THE HANDMAID’S TALE Bruce Miller, Warren Littlefield, Kari Skogland – MGM / Channel 4

LEADING ACTOR
SEAN BEAN Broken – LA Productions / BBC One

LEADING ACTRESS
MOLLY WINDSOR Three Girls – BBC Studios Drama / Studio Lambert / BBC One

LIVE EVENT
WORLD WAR ONE REMEMBERED: PASSCHENDAELE Production Team – BBC Studios / BBC Two

MALE PERFORMANCE IN A COMEDY PROGRAMME
TOBY JONES Detectorists – Channel X North / Treasure Trove Productions / Lola Entertainment / BBC Four

MINI-SERIES
THREE GIRLS Nicole Taylor, Philippa Lowthorpe, Susan Hogg, Simon Lewis – BBC Studios Drama / Studio Lambert / BBC One

NEWS COVERAGE
THE ROHINGYA CRISIS (SKY NEWS) Production Team – Sky News

REALITY & CONSTRUCTED FACTUAL
LOVE ISLAND Production Team – ITV Studios / Motion Content Group / ITV2

SCRIPTED COMEDY
THIS COUNTRY Daisy May Cooper, Charlie Cooper, Tom George, Simon Mayhew-Archer – BBC Studios Comedy / BBC Three

SHORT FORM PROGRAMME
MORGANA ROBINSON’S SUMMER Production Team – Merman / Sky Arts

SINGLE DOCUMENTARY (ii)
RIO FERDINAND: BEING MUM AND DAD Rio Ferdinand, Grant Best, Matt Smith, Martin Thompson – Only The Best Productions / BBC One

SINGLE DRAMA
MURDERED FOR BEING DIFFERENT Aysha Rafaele, Scott Bassett, Paul Andrew Williams, Nick Leather – BBC Studios’ Documentary Unit / BBC Three

SOAP & CONTINUING DRAMA
CASUALTY Production Team – BBC Studios Continuing Drama / BBC One

SPECIALIST FACTUAL (iii)
BASQUIAT – RAGE TO RICHES David Shulman, Janet Lee – BBC Studios’ Documentary Unit / BBC Two

SPORT
THE GRAND NATIONAL Paul McNamara, Richard Willoughby, Amy Lewin, Tony Cahalane – ITV Sport / ITV

SUPPORTING ACTOR
BRÍAN F. O’BYRNE Little Boy Blue – ITV Studios / ITV

SUPPORTING ACTRESS
VANESSA KIRBY The Crown – Left Bank Pictures / Netflix

VIRGIN TV’S MUST-SEE MOMENT (voted for by the public)
BLUE PLANET II Mother Pilot Whale Grieves – BBC Studios’ Natural History Unit / BBC Worldwide / Open University / WDR/ BBC America / Tencent / France Televisions / CCTV9 / BBC One