Bafta TV Awards 2024: The full list of winners as Top Boy beats Happy Valley to top prize
All the victorious shows, actors and writers from the world of the small screen
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Your support makes all the difference.The winners of the 2024 Bafta TV Awards have been announced in London.
Stars of the small screen – including hosts Romesh Ranganathan and Rob Beckett as well as comedian Joe Lycett, who was dressed as Queen Elizabeth after losing a bet – gathered at the Royal Festival Hall to discover this year’s victors, with a truncated of the event broadcast on BBC One after a delay, 24 hours after this year’s Eurovision Song Contest.
Happy Valley and Top Boy were among the ceremony’s major winners, with the latter taking home Best Drama and Best Supporting Actress, and Happy Valley’s Sarah Lancashire winning Leading Actress.
Timothy Spall collected Leading Actor for The Sixth Commandment, while Matthew Macfadyen was awarded Best Supporting Actor for Succession, though was not in attendance to collect the trophy himself. Lorraine Kelly and Baroness Floella Benjamin also pocketed special awards.
The full list of winners can be found below...
Leading Actress
Anjana Vasan, Black Mirror: Demon 79 – Netflix
Anne Reid, The Sixth Commandment – BBC One
Bella Ramsey, The Last of Us – Sky Atlantic
Helena Bonham Carter, Nolly – ITVX
Sarah Lancashire, Happy Valley – BBC One WINNER
Sharon Horgan, Best Interests – BBC One
Leading Actor
Brian Cox, Succession – Sky Atlantic
Dominic West, The Crown – Netflix
Kane Robinson, Top Boy – Netflix
Paapa Essiedu, The Lazarus Project – Sky Max
Steve Coogan, The Reckoning – BBC One
Timothy Spall, The Sixth Commandment – BBC One WINNER
Supporting Actress
Elizabeth Debicki, The Crown – Netflix
Harriet Walter, Succession – Sky Atlantic
Jasmine Jobson, Top Boy – Netflix WINNER
Lesley Manville, The Crown – Netflix
Nico Parker, The Last of Us – Sky Atlantic
Siobhan Finneran, Happy Valley – BBC One
Supporting Actor
Amit Shah, Happy Valley – BBC One
Éanna Hardwicke, The Sixth Commandment – BBC One
Harris Dickinson, A Murder at the End of the World – Disney+
Jack Lowden, Slow Horses – Apple TV+
Matthew Macfadyen, Succession – Sky Atlantic WINNER
Salim Daw, The Crown – Netflix
Female Performance in a Comedy
Bridget Christie, The Change – Channel 4
Gbemisola Ikumelo, Black Ops – BBC One WINNER
Máiréad Tyers, Extraordinary – Disney+
Roisin Gallagher, The Lovers – Sky Atlantic
Sofia Oxenham, Extraordinary – Disney+
Taj Atwal, Hullraisers – Channel 4
Male Performance in a Comedy
Adjani Salmon, Dreaming Whilst Black – BBC Three
David Tennant, Good Omens – Prime Video
Hammed Animashaun, Black Ops – BBC One
Jamie Demetriou, A Whole Lifetime with Jamie Demetriou – Netflix
Joseph Gilgun, Brassic – Sky Max
Mawaan Rizwan, Juice – BBC Three WINNER
Drama Series
The Gold – BBC One
Happy Valley – BBC One
Slow Horses – Apple TV+
Top Boy – Netflix WINNER
Limited Drama
Best Interests – BBC One
Black Mirror: Demon 79 – Netflix
The Long Shadow – ITV1
The Sixth Commandment – BBC One WINNER
Scripted Comedy
Big Boys – Channel 4
Dreaming Whilst Black – BBC Three
Extraordinary – Disney+
Such Brave Girls – BBC Three WINNER
Soap
Casualty – BBC One WINNER
EastEnders – BBC One
Emmerdale – ITV1
Entertainment Programme
Hannah Waddingham: Home For Christmas – Apple TV+
Later… With Jools Holland – BBC Two
Michael McIntyre’s Big Show – BBC One
Strictly Come Dancing – BBC One WINNER
Entertainment Performance
Anthony McPartlin & Declan Donnelly, I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! – ITV1
Big Zuu, Big Zuu’s Big Eats – Dave
Graham Norton, The Graham Norton Show – BBC One
Hannah Waddingham, Eurovision Song Contest 2023 – BBC One
Joe Lycett, Late Night Lycett – Channel 4 WINNER
Rob Beckett & Romesh Ranganathan, Rob & Romesh Vs – Sky Max
Comedy Entertainment Programme
The Graham Norton Show – BBC One
Late Night Lycett – Channel 4
Rob & Romesh Vs – Sky Max WINNER
Would I Lie To You? – BBC One
Factual Entertainment
Celebrity Race Across the World – BBC One WINNER
The Dog House – Channel 4
Endurance: Race To The Pole – Channel 5
Portrait Artist of the Year – Sky Arts
Reality
Banged Up – Channel 4
My Mum, Your Dad– ITV1
Squid Game: The Challenge– Netflix WINNER
Daytime
Loose Women and Men – ITV1
Lorraine – ITV1
Make It at Market – BBC One
Scam Interceptors – BBC One WINNER
International
The Bear – Disney+
Beef – Netflix
Class Act – Netflix WINNER
The Last of Us – Sky Atlantic
Love & Death – ITVX
Succession – Sky Atlantic
Live Event Coverage
The Coronation Concert – BBC One
Eurovision Song Contest 2023 – BBC One WINNER
Royal British Legion Festival of Remembrance – BBC One
Current Affairs
Storyville: Inside Russia: Traitors And Heroes – BBC Four
Putin vs the West – BBC Two
Dispatches: Russell Brand: In Plain Sight – Channel 4
This World: The Shamima Begum Story – BBC Two WINNER
Single Documentary
David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived – Sky Documentaries
Ellie Simmonds: Finding My Secret Family – ITV1 WINNER
Hatton – Sky Crime
Vjeran Tomic: The Spider-Man of Paris – Netflix
Factual Series
Dublin Narcos – Sky Documentaries
Evacuation – Channel 4
Lockerbie – Sky Documentaries WINNER
Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland – BBC Two
Specialist Factual
Chimp Empire – Netflix
The Enfield Poltergeist – Apple TV+
Forced Out – Sky Documentaries
White Nanny, Black Child – Channel 5 WINNER
News Coverage
Inside Gaza: Israel And Hamas At War – Channel 4 News WINNER
Inside Myanmar – The Hidden War – Sky News
Israel-Hamas War – Sky News
Sports Coverage
Cheltenham Festival Day One – ITV1 WINNER
MOTD Live: Fifa Women’s World Cup 2023 – BBC One
Wimbledon 2023 Men’s Final – BBC One
Memorable Moment
Beckham, David teases Victoria about her ‘working class’ upbringing – Netflix
Doctor Who, Ncuti Gatwa revealed as the 15th Doctor – BBC One
Happy Valley, Catherine Cawood and Tommy Lee Royce’s final kitchen showdown – BBC One WINNER
The Last of Us, Bill and Frank’s Story – Sky Atlantic
The Piano, 13-year-old Lucy stuns commuters with jaw dropping piano performance – Channel 4
Succession, Logan Roy’s death – Sky Atlantic
Short Form
Mobility – BBC Three WINNER
The Skewer: Three Twisted Years – BBC iPlayer
Stealing Ukraine’s Children: Inside Russia’s Camps – Vice News
Where It Ends – BBC Three
Writer: Comedy
Jack Rooke, Big Boys – Channel 4 WINNER
Jamie Demetriou, A Whole Lifetime with Jamie Demetriou – Netflix
Kat Sadler, Such Brave Girls – BBC Three
Mawaan Rizwan, Juice – BBC Three
Writer: Drama
Charlie Brooker & Bisha K Ali, Black Mirror: Demon 79 – Netflix WINNER
Jesse Armstrong, Succession – Sky Atlantic
Sally Wainwright, Happy Valley – BBC One
Sarah Phelps, The Sixth Commandment – BBC One
Bafta Special Award
Lorraine Kelly
Bafta Fellowship
Baroness Floella Benjamin
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