Top Boy and Happy Valley won the most prizes at the Bafta TV awards in London, Succession fans delighted in Matthew Macfadyen being feted, Graham Norton missed out on a BAFTA for his talk show but his Eurovision 2023 coverage won an award and Cork's Máiréad Tyers up for best comedy actress for Disney + Extraordinary lost to Gbemisola Ikumelo for Black Ops.
Top Boy, a series written by Northern Irish writer Ronan Bennett, first aired on Channel 4 from 2011 to 2013 and Netflix got on board in 2019. It evolved from its plot of the main characters selling drugs to make a quick buck in a Hackney Council estate, to expanding the enterprise internationally and well known actors ask to be in the show.
Happy Valley is a BBC production around since 2015, set and filmed in the Calder Valley, West Yorkshire. Starring Sarah Lancashire, James Norton and Siobhan Finneran, it was written and created by Sally Wainwright a 'who dunnit' with characters that people are very invested in.
Here are the winners in full:
Leading actress – Sarah Lancashire, Happy Valley
Leading actor – Timothy Spall, The Sixth Commandment
Drama series – Top Boy
Supporting actress – Jasmine Jobson, Top Boy
Supporting actor – Matthew Macfadyen, Succession
P&O Cruises Memorable Moment Award – Catherine Cawood and Tommy Lee Royce's final kitchen showdown moment in Happy Valley
Male performance in a comedy – Mawaan Rizwan, Juice
Female performance in a comedy – Gbemisola Ikumelo, Black Ops
Entertainment performance – Joe Lycett, Late Night Lycett
Comedy Entertainment – Rob Beckett and Romesh Ranganathan, Rob & Romesh VS
Scripted comedy – Such Brave Girls
Single documentary – Ellie Simmonds: Finding My Secret Family
Sports coverage – Cheltenham Festival Day One
Live event coverage – Eurovision Song Contest 2023
Soap – Casualty
Daytime – Scam Interceptors
Entertainment – Strictly Come Dancing
Factual entertainment – Celebrity Race Across the World
Reality – Squid Game: The Challenge
Factual series – Lockerbie
Specialist factual – White Nanny, Black Child
News coverage – Channel 4 News: Inside Gaza: Israel and Hamas At War
Current affairs – The Shamima Begum Story (This World)
Short Form – Mobility
International – Class Act
Bafta Special Award – Lorraine Kelly
Fellowship – Floella Benjamin
