Damilola, Our Loved Boy and Happy Valley won two awards each at tonight’s BAFTA TV Awards.
Damilola, Our Loved Boy received the award for Single Drama as well as Supporting Actress prize for Wunmi Mosaku.
In the Leading Actress category, Sarah Lancashire won the BAFTA for her performance in Happy Valley. The West Yorkshire drama also won a second BAFTA for Drama Series.
It was a good night for the BBC, which won 19 of the 26 prizes on offer. The BBC’s factual department did particularly well, with wins in six categories as well as two factual dramas.
There was disappointment though for Netflix drama The Crown. Nominated for five BAFTAs, it walked away empty handed on the evening.
Adeel Akhtar won the BAFTA for Leading Actor for his portrayal of a single father in one-off drama Murdered by My Father.
In Supporting Actor, Tom Hollander took the BAFTA for his performance as Lance ‘Corky’ Corkoran in The Night Manager while National Treasure fought off the competition to win in Mini Series.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge won in the Female Performance in a Comedy Programme category for Fleabag.
Steve Coogan won Male Performance in a Comedy Programme for Alan Partridge’s Scissored Isle, the sixth BAFTA of his career.
Meanwhile, the mockumentary series that follows pirate radio station Kurupt FM in west London, People Just Do Nothing, triumphed in Scripted Comedy.
The BAFTA for Reality & Constructed Factual was won by Muslims Like Us, while the long-running series Who Do You Think You Are? took the BAFTA in Features.
The award for News Coverage went to Victoria Derbyshire: Footballers’ Abuse, and Teenage Prison Abuse Exposed (Panorama) received the BAFTA for Current Affairs.
Exodus: Our Journey to Europe, which revealed the gruelling journeys of people smuggling themselves into Europe, received the BAFTA for Factual Series.
Hillsborough secured the BAFTA for Single Documentary, while the BAFTA for Specialist Factual went to Planet Earth II.
The BAFTA for Soap & Continuing Drama was awarded to Emmerdale for the second time.
The BAFTA for Entertainment Performance was presented to Michael McIntyre for Michael McIntyre’s Big Show, while the award for Entertainment Programme went to Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway, the programme’s third BAFTA in this category to date. Charlie Brooker’s 2016 Wipe won for Comedy & Comedy Entertainment Programme.
The Open took home the BAFTA for Sport, while the award for Live Event was presented to The Queen’s 90th Birthday Celebration.
The Special Award was presented to the former editor of BBC Storyville Nick Fraser.
The Fellowship, the highest accolade the Academy bestows, was presented to Joanna Lumley.
The Virgin TV’s Must-See Moment, the only award voted for by the public, was won by Planet Earth II: Snakes vs Iguana Chase.
The ceremony was hosted by Sue Perkins at the Royal Festival Hall, London.
2016 WINNERS
(presented in 2017)
FELLOWSHIP
JOANNA LUMLEY
SPECIAL AWARD
NICK FRASER
COMEDY & COMEDY ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAMME
CHARLIE BROOKER’S 2016 WIPE Production Team – House of Tomorrow/BBC Two
CURRENT AFFAIRS
TEENAGE PRISON ABUSE EXPOSED (PANORAMA) Production Team – BBC Productions/BBC One
DRAMA SERIES
HAPPY VALLEY Sally Wainwright, Juliet Charlesworth, Nicola Shindler, Neasa Hardiman – Red Production Company/BBC One
ENTERTAINMENT PERFORMANCE
MICHAEL MCINTYRE Michael McIntyre’s Big Show – Hungry McBear/BBC One
ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAMME
ANT & DEC’S SATURDAY NIGHT TAKEAWAY Production Team – ITV Studios/Mitre Television/ITV
FACTUAL SERIES
EXODUS: OUR JOURNEY TO EUROPE Production Team – KEO Films/The Open University/BBC Two
FEATURES
WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? Colette Flight, Sarah Feltes, Anna Kirkwood, Helen Nixon – Wall to Wall Media/BBC One
FEMALE PERFORMANCE IN A COMEDY PROGRAMME
PHOEBE WALLER-BRIDGE Fleabag – Two Brothers Pictures/BBC Three
INTERNATIONAL
THE PEOPLE V OJ SIMPSON: AMERICAN CRIME STORY Ryan Murphy, Nina Jacobson, Brad Simpson – Fox 21 Television Studios/FX Productions/BBC Two
LEADING ACTOR
ADEEL AKHTAR Murdered by My Father – BBC Studios/BBC Three
LEADING ACTRESS
*SARAH LANCASHIRE Happy Valley – Red Production Company/BBC One
LIVE EVENT
THE QUEEN’S 90TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION Production Team – ITV Studios/Spun Gold Television/ITV
MALE PERFORMANCE IN A COMEDY PROGRAMME
STEVE COOGAN Alan Partridge’s Scissored Isle – Baby Cow Productions/Sky Atlantic
MINI-SERIES
NATIONAL TREASURE George Ormond, Marc Munden, Jack Thorne, John Chapman – The Forge/Channel 4
NEWS COVERAGE
VICTORIA DERBYSHIRE: FOOTBALLERS’ ABUSE Victoria Derbyshire, Louisa Compton, Jo Adnitt – BBC News/BBC Two
REALITY & CONSTRUCTED FACTUAL
MUSLIMS LIKE US Kieran Smith, Nicholas Packer, Oliver Manley, Mobeen Azhar – Love Productions/BBC Two
SCRIPTED COMEDY
PEOPLE JUST DO NOTHING Production Team – Roughcut TV/BBC Three
SINGLE DOCUMENTARY
HILLSBOROUGH Production Team – Very Much So Productions/Passion Pictures/BBC Two
SINGLE DRAMA
DAMILOLA, OUR LOVED BOY Levi David Addai, Euros Lyn, Susan Horth, Colin Barr – Minnow Films/BBC One
SOAP & CONTINUING DRAMA
EMMERDALE Production Team – ITV Studios/ITV
HOLLYOAKS Bryan Kirkwood, Emily Gascoyne, Vikki Tennant, Colette Chard – Lime Pictures/Channel 4
SPECIALIST FACTUAL
PLANET EARTH II Michael Gunton, Tom Hugh-Jones, Elizabeth White, David Attenborough – BBC Studios/BBC Natural History Unit/BBC America/ZDF/France Television/BBC One
SPORT
THE OPEN Production Team – Sky Sports/European Tour Productions/Sky Sports 1
SUPPORTING ACTOR
TOM HOLLANDER The Night Manager – The Ink Factory/Demarest/Character Seven/BBC One
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
WUNMI MOSAKU Damilola, Our Loved Boy – Minnow Films/BBC One
VIRGIN TV’S MUST-SEE MOMENT
PLANET EARTH II: Snakes vs Iguana Chase – BBC Studios/BBC Natural History Unit/BBC America/ZDF/France Television/BBC One
Staff Reporter
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