Top Boy, Happy Valley and The Sixth Commandment are the big winners at this year’s BAFTA TV Awards, taking home two awards each.
The latest season of the acclaimed Netflix series Top Boy was named best drama, and star Jasmine Jobson was also named best supporting actress for her portrayal of Jaq Lawrence.
Happy Valley picked up the award for most memorable moment, the only award voted for by the public, while star Sarah Lancashire was named best actress once again for her portrayal of no-nonsense police sergeant Catherine Cawood – after winning the award for the role. in 2017.
The Sixth Commandment picked up best limited drama and best actor awards for its star, Timothy Spall.
Despite leading the nomination race with eight nominations in total, royal drama The Crown came up empty-handed.
‘You changed my life’
Top Boy’s Jasmine Jobson with her BAFTA. Photo: PA
Crime drama Top Boy follows the lives of Sully (Kane “Kano” Robinson) and Dushane (Ashley Walters) and deals with themes of crime, drugs and violence on the Summerhouse estate in Hackney, east London.
Collecting the award for best drama ahead of Happy Valley, Slow Horses and The Gold, producer Charles Steel paid tribute to stars Walters and Robinson.
Jobson also took the opportunity to tell the BAFTA audience: “I just want to say that I’m the woman in a group full of men, you’ve shown me what it’s like to be strong and independent and how important it is to stand out in a crowded crowd of people where it is easy to become invisible.
“Netflix, Top Boy, you changed my life.”
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Yorkshire-based crime drama Happy Valley was another show that came to an end in 2023, bringing to an end the story of Sergeant Cawood and Tommy Lee Royce (James Norton), the criminal who destroyed his family.
Accepting the award for best actress, Lancashire said it was an honor to win and praised Sally Wainwright, the show’s writer and creator.
“I would like to thank my fellow nominees and their tremendous work,” she said. “Sally Wainwright, I will be forever grateful to you for this opportunity.
“I feel very, very privileged to be surrounded by these brilliant actors and I thank each and every one of you.”
The series also won the award for memorable moment for her character’s explosive final kitchen showdown with Royce, beating out other select moments including David Beckham teasing wife Victoria about her “working class” roots in the Beckham documentary and Logan’s death Roy in Succession.
Timothy Spall won his first BAFTA TV award. Photo: PA
Baroness Floella Benjamin has been awarded the BAFTA Fellowship. Photo: PA
‘Search IMDB’
Accepting the lead actor award for The Sixth Commandment, a true crime drama that explores the murders of Peter Farquhar and Ann Moore-Martin in Buckinghamshire in 2014 and 2017, as well as the subsequent investigation and trial, veteran British star Timothy Spall joked: “Look everything up on IMDB and you’ll see who was involved, because to their every soul, they are brilliant.”
He continued: “Acting is a stupid thing, it’s an old, sentimental thing, getting up pretending to be someone and playing in costume. Sixty-seven years and you think ‘am I still doing this?’
“But sometimes you get the chance to play people to whom something terrible happened and all they wanted was love, and it’s beautiful to be able to tell a story about that. “
Looking at the prize, he added: “I’ve always wanted one of these. I am very happy to be among you.”
Presenters Romesh Ranganathan and Rob Beckett also secured a win, for the Sky show Rob & Romesh Vs.. Photo: PA
Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman celebrate on Strictly Come Dancing. Photo: PA
Elsewhere, Matthew Macfadyen won in the supporting actor category for his performance in the final series of Succession, the conclusion of the drama about the power struggle in a media dynasty, while Strictly Come Dancing won best entertainment in its 20th year at the air.
Tess Daly, who co-hosts with Claudia Winkleman, described the win as “the best birthday present”.
Squid Game: The Challenge was named best reality show, while last year’s Eurovision Song Contest 2023 won the award for live event coverage.
And there was a surprise in the international category, when the French series Class Act beat big programs like The Bear and Succession.
Juice star Mawaan Rizwan and Black Ops star Gbemisola Ikumelo (pictured below) were the winners in the comedy performance categories. Photo: PA
Comedy Awards Include Presenters
In the comedy categories, Mawaan Rizwan won the best male acting award for his role in Juice, about a young gay man who desperately wants to be the center of attention as his family continually steals his thunder, while Gbemisola Ikumelo won the female acting award. for Black Ops.
Upon receiving the award, Rizwan said: “Thank you to my therapist – we had a conversation last week where we said I needed to stop relying on external forms of validation.”
There was even an award for the ceremony’s hosts, comedians Rob Beckett and Romesh Ranganathan, who took home the comedy entertainment award for their Sky show Rob And Romesh vs.
Former Play School children’s presenter Baroness Floella Benjamin was presented with BAFTA’s highest honour, the Fellowship, by broadcaster Clive Myrie, while daytime TV queen Lorraine Kelly was also honored with a special award, presented by Brian Cox , from Succession.
“Don’t climb the ladder” for those who come from the working class, Kelly told the crowd as she accepted her award.
The ceremony also paid tribute to the TV stars we said goodbye to last year, including talk show host Sir Michael Parkinson, Lord of the Rings actor Bernard Hill, newsreader George Alagiah, furry biker Dave Myers , film and TV director Roy Battersby and Friends star Matthew Perry.
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