Timothy Spall and his true-crime BBC thriller ‘The Sixth Commandment’ won big at this year’s BAFTA Television Awards with P&O Cruises.
Spall pipped ‘Succession’s Brian Cox to the Best Actor gong for his performance as Peter Farquhar, an elderly man who fell victim to the psychopath behind the so-called Maids Moreton Murders. ‘The Sixth Commandment’ also won the BAFTA for limited run drama.
‘Happy Valley’s Sarah Lancashire won Best Actress for her turn as police sergeant Catherine Cawood in the smash-hit BBC cop drama.
Matthew Macfadyen picked up a richly deserved Best Supporting Actor for turning Tom Wambsgans into everyone’s favourite slimy interloper in HBO/Sky Atlantic’s mega-hit show ‘Succession’.
And there was good news for another seminal show that came to an end last year, with ‘Top Boy’ and its star Jasmine Jobson winning for Best Drama Series and Best Supporting Actress respectively.
Best Female Performance in a Comedy went to Gbemisola Ikumelo for her turn as hapless undercover cop Dom in the BBC’s excellent ‘Black Ops’, while ‘Juice’s Mawaan Rizwan won Male Performance in a Comedy.
In the Best International category, ‘Class Act’, a Netflix series about French tycoon Bernard Tapie, saw off a powerhouse field that included ‘Succession’ and ‘The Bear’.
Here are the winners in the full, and where you can stream them all:
Limited Drama
The Sixth Commandment’ – BBC iPlayer
Drama series
‘Top Boy’ – Netflix
International Series
‘Class Act’ – Netflix
Daytime series
‘Scam Interceptors’ – BBC iPlayer
Comedy and Comedy Entertainment Programme
‘Rob & Romesh Vs…’ – Sky Max and NOW
Best entertainment
‘Strictly Come Dancing’ – BBC iPlayer
Factual entertainment
‘Celebrity Race Across the World’ – BBC iPlayer
Factual Series
‘Lockerbie’ – Sky Documentaries and Now TV
Live Event Coverage
Eurovision Song Contest 2023 – BBC iPlayer
Best Female Performance in a Comedy
Gbemisola Ikumelo, ‘Black Ops’ – BBC iPlayer
Male Performance in a Comedy
Mawaan Rizwan, ‘Juice’ – BBC iPlayer
Leading Actor
Timothy Spall, ‘The Sixth Commandment’ – BBC iPlayer
Leading Actress
Sarah Lancashire, ‘Happy Valley’ – BBC iPlayer
Supporting Actor
Matthew Macfadyen, ‘Succession’ – Sky Atlantic
Supporting Actress
Jasmine Jobson, ‘Top Boy’ – Netflix
Entertainment Performance
Joe Lycett, ‘Late Night Lycett’ – Channel 4 On Demand
Current Affairs
‘The Shamima Begum Story’ – BBC iPlayer
Reality
‘Squid Game: The Challenge’ – Netflix
Scripted Comedy
‘Such Brave Girls’ – BBC iPlayer
News Coverage
Channel 4 News: ‘Inside Gaza: Israel and Hamas at War’
Short Form
‘Mobility’ – BBC iPlayer
Single Documentary
‘Ellie Simmonds: Finding My Secret Family’ – ITVX
Soap
‘Casualty’ – BBC iPlayer
Specialist Factual
‘White Nanny, Black Child’ – My5
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