Northern Ireland police drama Blue Lights won the BAFTA for Best Drama Series at the ceremony that was staged at the Royal Festival Hall in London on Sunday.
The gritty procedural - starring Siân Brooke, Katherine Devlin, Nathan Braniff and Richard Dormer - is set in the current day and is based at the fictional Blackthorn police station in Belfast.
Show co-creator and co-writer Declan Lawn said: "Thanks to our amazing cast and crew - those here and those back in Belfast... We've been on quite a journey together through this season. It's been pretty extraordinary.
"And thank you, finally, to the people of our home city, for letting us tell these stories," he added. "Belfast, this one's for you."
Baby Reindeer's Jessica Gunning was an early winner at Sunday's TV awards event, picking up the prize for Best Supporting Actress for playing a stalker in the hit Netflix series.
The Netflix hit, said to be inspired by the real-life experiences of creator Richard Gadd, sees his character Donny being hounded by a woman called Martha, played by Gunning, after he serves her a free cup of tea in the pub where he works.
Nicola Coughlan missed out on the double as Strictly Come Dancing beat her Bridgerton carriage scene to the Memorable Moment BAFTA, voted for by the British public.
Professional dancer Dianne Buswell picked up the gong, which recognised a special dance routine with her celebrity partner, blind comedian Chris McCausland.
The winning couple's "blackout" dance, which went viral on social media, saw McCausland place his hands over Buswell's eyes as the room faded to black, mimicking his everyday experience.
When the lights returned, McCausland was spinning around with Buswell on his shoulders as pyrotechnics flared in the background.
Buswell said: "In one minute and 30 seconds of a dance, I feel like this told such a story. A story of hope, determination, resilience and vulnerability."
She added: "This moment meant so much to both of us, so I’m just so thrilled that we have this."
McCausland was not at the ceremony, but Buswell said: "Chris did have something he wanted me to say, and that is, 'after 22 years in comedy, he wins a BAFTA for dancing'."
The Female Performance in a Comedy BAFTA - where Nicola Coughlan was also nominated - was snapped up by Welsh comedian Ruth Jones for BBC sitcom Gavin And Stacey: The Finale.
Former EastEnders star Danny Dyer won the male equivalent for Sky's Mr BigStuff. Siobhán McSweeney had the honour of announcing the win.
"I'm not going to lie, this is immense," Ruth Jones said after collecting her award. "The person I would like to thank most his my dear, dear, talented friend James Corden."
Jones said that without British actor Corden, "Vanessa Shanessa 'Nessa' Jenkins would not exist", as their final instalment of the show brought to a close the love story between his character and hers.
The BAFTA TV award for Leading Actress was won by Industry star Marisa Abela as the ceremony ended on Sunday night in London.
The 28-year-old said she booked the BBC series, about a group of young finance graduates, in her first year of drama school and said the role of Yasmin "changed my life."
Collecting the award, she said: "I've been filming Industry for about six years now and (production company) Bad Wolf and HBO, the fact that they let us carry on after season one is mental."
Elsewhere, EastEnders won the Soap Award and the BAFTA for Limited Drama went to ITV's Mr Bates Vs The Post Office, which has renewed public attention on the subpostmasters who fought to clear their names in the wake of the Horizon scandal.
Yorkshire-born Gunning beat her fellow Baby Reindeer star, trans actress Nava Mau, to the Best Supporting Actress prize, who played Donny's girlfriend Teri.
On stage on Sunday at London’s Royal Festival Hall, Gunning said: "Hello, cheeky chops, gosh, thank you BAFTA, wow", before joking that she used to pretend to be a dog in her garden.
"I sometimes do this kind of cheesy thing where I look back on the younger me and moments in my life, and I imagine the kind of then me, seeing me now, and think, 'little did we know’," she said.
She said last year, she and Gadd were at the ceremony, and "little did we know what the year had in store" while thanking him for changing "her life".
Gunning has previously picked up an Emmy, a SAG award and a Golden Globe for playing Martha, whose interference in Donny’s life makes his world unravel, as the show also dramatises the failing comedian character’s other traumas.
Lennie James won the leading actor BAFTA for his role playing Barrington Walker in LGBT+ drama Mr Loverman.
The actor admitted he had not "prepared anything", explaining: "(I) didn't think this was coming my way."
The BBC series is based on Bernardine Evaristo's novel of the same name about a man who contemplates leaving his wife for his male lover.
James told Evaristo, "Thank you very much for trusting us with your characters."
Mr Loverman also earned a win for Ariyon Bakare, who collected the Best Supporting Actor prize.
Accepting the award, Bakare appeared to stop a few times as he became "nervous" and thanked his sister for her support.
He said: "This award stands on the shoulders of those who came before me, those who might have been afraid to come out, to be who they want to be."
He also thanked James and Sharon D Clarke, who played Barrington’s wife, Carmel.
Collecting the limited drama prize, Mr Bates producer Patrick Spence said that they would never have been able to make the show without ITV and the journalists who had covered the scandal.
He said that people such as Alan Bates "demanded action with such rage" and that the airing of the drama proved the public "cannot abide liars and bullies".
The entertainment programme BAFTA gong was picked up by BBC panel comedy show Would I Lie To You?, hosted by Rob Brydon.
Comedian Lee Mack, who heads up one of the teams competing to lie against each other along with David Mitchell, joked that they probably won due to Brydon's advertisements for BAFTA sponsor P&O Cruises, saying: "We’ve been nominated for eight years but now 'Mr Cruises’ has done it for us."
Brydon responded, saying that his last advertisement was "five years ago", and there was no "whiff of scandal" about them getting the prize, while Mitchell also referenced the cruise line.
Mitchell said the company "is more of a threat to public service broadcasting" than anything else happening.
The BAFTA for Entertainment Performance was presented to comedian and actor Joe Lycett for his Channel 4 comedy programme Late Night Lycett.
Lycett "could not make" the ceremony, according to presenter Greg Davies, who joked he would be keeping the gong.
The Factual Entertainment prize BAFTA went to Rob and Rylan's Grand Tour, about Rylan Clark and Robert Rinder exploring Italy.
Clark thanked the BBC and the production company while calling for a "bigger styling budget" from the corporation because he won a BAFTA.
The BBC Radio 2 presenter and singer also praised the trust in making a TV show about "two gay guys, going through a divorce", before quickly adding in "but not too each other".
Good Morning Britain presenter Rinder hailed their mothers for giving them both "unconditional love", and also praised Clark.
Former Newsnight presenter Kirsty Wark received a standing ovation as she collected her BAFTA Fellowship - the body's highest accolade.
"Thank you so much to BAFTA. It is a privilege and an honour to have my name added to such an incredible roll call," she said.
"My work continues to give me so much, not just wonderful friends and colleagues."
Wark added that the "most joyous change in television" has been "the number of women in senior roles".
The ceremony at the Royal Festival Hall in London was opened by host and Scottish actor Alan Cumming, who referenced his presenting role on The Traitors US in a sketch with footage of him shown in the Scottish Highlands castle where the hit reality series takes place.
On stage, Cumming also joked about his acting career, Facebook, and brought a fake children’s book about long speeches and who winners are supposed to thank.
Source: Press Association
