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What’s the Best on British TV? Here Are This Year’s BAFTA Winners

May 9, 2016  •  Post A Comment

The BAFTA Awards were presented Sunday, honoring the best in British television. Among the top winners were “Wolf Hall,” which won for Drama Series and Leading Actor for Mark Rylance; and “Have I Got News for You,” the winner for Comedy and Entertainment Program.

Suranne Jones won Leading Actress for “Doctor Foster.”

Here’s the list of winners:

DRAMA SERIES

WOLF HALL, Peter Kosminsky, Peter Straughan, Mark Pybus, Colin Callender — Playground Entertainment, Company Pictures/BBC Two

COMEDY AND COMEDY ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAM

HAVE I GOT NEWS FOR YOU, Richard Wilson, Mark Barrett, Danny Carr, John L Spencer — Hat Trick Productions/BBC One

LEADING ACTOR

MARK RYLANCE, Wolf Hall — BBC Two

LEADING ACTRESS

SURANNE JONES, Doctor Foster — BBC One

SUPPORTING ACTOR

TOM COURTENAY, Unforgotten — ITV

SUPPORTING ACTRESS

CHANEL CRESSWELL, This Is England ’90 — Channel 4

MALE PERFORMANCE IN A COMEDY PROGRAM

PETER KAY, Peter Kay’s Car Share –BBC iPlayer

FEMALE PERFORMANCE IN A COMEDY PROGRAM

MICHAELA COEL, Chewing Gum — E4

SCRIPTED COMEDY

PETER KAY’S CAR SHARE, Peter Kay, Gill Isles, Sian Gibson, Paul Coleman — Goodnight Vienna Productions/BBC iPlayer

MINISERIES

THIS IS ENGLAND ’90, Shane Meadows, Mark Herbert, Jack Thorne, Rebekah Wray-Rogers — Warp Films/Channel 4

ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAM

STRICTLY COME DANCING, Louise Rainbow, Vinnie Shergill, Sarah James, Nikki Parsons — BBC Entertainment/BBC One

ENTERTAINMENT PERFORMANCE

LEIGH FRANCIS, Celebrity Juice — ITV2

FEATURES

THE GREAT BRITISH BAKE OFF, Paulo Proto, Andy Devonshire, Anna Beattie — Love Productions/BBC One

INTERNATIONAL SERIES

TRANSPARENT, Production Team — Amazon Studios/Amazon Prime Instant Video

SOAP AND CONTINUING DRAMA

EASTENDERS, Production Team — BBC Drama Production London/BBC One

FACTUAL SERIES

THE MURDER DETECTIVES, Production Team — Films of Record/Channel 4

SINGLE DOCUMENTARY

MY SON THE JIHADI, Production Team — True Vision/Channel 4

SINGLE DRAMA

DON’T TAKE MY BABY, Jack Thorne, Ben Anthony, Pier Wilkie, Aysha Rafaele — BBC Documentaries Production/BBC Three

CURRENT AFFAIRS

OUTBREAK: THE TRUTH ABOUT EBOLA (THIS WORLD), Dan Edge, Sasha Achilli — Mongoose Pictures/Quicksilver Media/BBC Two

NEWS COVERAGE

CHANNEL 4 NEWS: PARIS MASSACRE, Jon Snow, Lindsey Hilsum, Jonathan Rugman, Ben de Pear — Channel 4 News/Channel 4

REALITY AND CONSTRUCTED FACTUAL

FIRST DATES, Nicola Lloyd, Martin Conway, Adam Chapman — Twenty Twenty/Channel 4

SPECIALIST FACTUAL

BRITAIN’S FORGOTTEN SLAVE OWNERS, Production Team — BBC History Unit/BBC Two

SPORT

THE ASHES, Bryan Henderson, Mark Lynch, David Lloyd, Ian Ward — Sky Sports/Sky Sports 2

LIVE EVENT

BIG BLUE LIVE, Production Team — BBC/BBC One

FELLOWSHIP

RAY GALTON AND ALAN SIMPSON

SPECIAL AWARD

LENNY HENRY

RADIO TIMES AUDIENCE AWARD

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