Gavin & Stacey stars and creators Ruth Jones and James Corden collected the Judges' Award at the Royal Television Society (RTS) Programme Awards in London on Tuesday night.
Jones and Corden picked up the award after the final episode of Gavin & Stacey aired on Christmas Day after a gap of five years.
Presenting the award to Jones and Corden, writer and director Richard Curtis said: "In obsessing about viewing figures and competitive platforms and awards - although I love awards, obviously - we forget there are no real winners or losers - there's just creative people giving people things to laugh at, be moved by, be educated by, be comforted by - morning, afternoon, and night.
"So when the Gavin & Stacey finale went out - millions of us looked forward to it, and watched it - and by very simple maths - you and your team gave people in the UK 27 and three-quarter million happy hours. That's a huge thing - that's so much happiness - so many merry Christmas Days hyper-charged and so many ghastly Christmas Days fixed right at the end."
The Traitors and Strictly Come Dancing host Claudia Winkelman was honoured with the Outstanding Achievement Award.
RTS gave a Special Award for Television Journalism to journalists in Gaza for "their courage and commitment as they face extraordinary danger".
The BBC sitcom Alma's Not Normal picked up three awards during the ceremony at London's Grosvenor House Hotel.
Creator Sophie Willan won both the Female Comedy Performance and Comedy Writer awards, and Alma's Not Normal also collected the Comedy Drama prize.
Musical drama This Town won the newly combined Limited Series and Single Drama award, one of 16 wins for the BBC that included coverage of the 80th anniversary of D-Day in the Live Event category.
The Leading Actor awards went to Lennie James for his role in the BBC's Mr Loverman and Anna Maxwell Martin for ITV's true-crime drama Until I Kill You.
Industry won the Drama Series award.
Danny Dyer was named Best Male Supporting Actor for his role in the Disney+ series Rivals, which also collected the Best Drama Writer award for Dominic Treadwell-Collins and Laura Wade.
Jessica Gunning won Best Female Supporting Actor for Netflix's Baby Reindeer.
Channel 4's coverage of the 2024 Paralympics won both Sports categories - Best Programme and Presenter, Commentator, or Pundit for Rose Ayling-Ellis and Clare Balding.
Loose Women won the Daytime Programme category.
The Traitors was named Best Entertainment Programme.
Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly won the Entertainment Performance award for Saturday Night Takeaway.
Freddie Flintoff's Field of Dreams on Tour won the Formatted Popular Factual Prize.
Casualty beat EastEnders and Hollyoaks to be named Best Soap and Continuing Drama.
The RTS winners:
Outstanding Achievement
Claudia Winkleman
Breakthrough Award
Josh Tedeku - Boarders (Studio Lambert for BBC)
Children's Programme
Quentin Blake's Box of Treasures (Eagle Eye Productions for BBC)
Comedy Drama
Alma's Not Normal (Expectation for BBC)
Comedy Entertainment
Junior Taskmaster (Avalon UK for Channel 4)
Comedy Performance - Female
Sophie Willan - Alma's Not Normal (Expectation for BBC)
Comedy Performance - Male
Oliver Savell - Changing Ends (Baby Cow Productions for ITV1)
Daytime Programme
Loose Women (ITV Studios Daytime for ITV1)
Documentary Series
The Push: Murder on the Cliff (Candour Productions for Channel 4)
Drama Series
Industry (Bad Wolf for BBC in association with HBO)
Entertainment
The Traitors (Studio Lambert Scotland for BBC)
Entertainment Performance
Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly - Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway (Lifted Entertainment (Part of ITV Studios) in co-production with Mitre Studios for ITV1)
Formatted Popular Factual
Freddie Flintoff's Field of Dreams on Tour (South Shore Productions for BBC)
History
Atomic People (Minnow Films for BBC)
Leading Actor - Female
Anna Maxwell Martin - Until I Kill You (World Productions for ITV1)
Leading Actor - Male
Lennie James - Mr Loverman (Fable Pictures for BBC)
Limited Series and Single Drama
This Town (Kudos, Nebulastar, co-produced with Mercury Studios, in association with Stigma Films for BBC)
Live Event
D-Day 80: Tribute to the Fallen (BBC Studios Event Productions for BBC)
Presenter
Liz Carr - Better Off Dead? (Burning Bright Productions co-produced with the OU for BBC)
Science & The Natural World
Billy & Molly: An Otter Love Story (Silverback Films for National Geographic and Disney+)
Scripted Comedy
Things You Should Have Done (Roughcut TV for BBC)
Single Documentary
Hell Jumper (Expectation for BBC)
Soap and Continuing Drama
Casualty (BBC Studios Drama Productions for BBC)
Sports Presenter, Commentator, or Pundit
Rose Ayling-Ellis and Clare Balding - Paris 2024 Paralympics (Whisper for Channel 4)
Sports Programme
Paris 2024 Paralympics (Whisper for Channel 4)
Supporting Actor - Female
Jessica Gunning - Baby Reindeer (Clerkenwell Films for Netflix)
Supporting Actor - Male
Danny Dyer - Rivals (Happy Prince, part of ITV Studios for Disney+)
Writer - Comedy
Sophie Willan - Alma's Not Normal (Expectation for BBC)
Writer - Drama
Dominic Treadwell-Collins and Laura Wade - Rivals (Happy Prince, part of ITV Studios for Disney+)
Arts
My Sexual Abuse: The Sitcom (Swan Films for Channel 4)
Source: Press Association
