The Bafta television awards have
taken place in London. Here are some of the key moments from the red
carpet and the winners' room in pictures.
Georgina
Campbell was the surprise winner of best actress - beating the likes of
Sarah Lancashire and Sheridan Smith. The young actress won for her
portrayal of a domestic violence victim in BBC Three's Murdered by My
Boyfriend.
"This is insane," she said. "The women who are in this
category are absolutely brilliant. If I have the career they have in a
few years time I will count myself very, very, lucky." Jason
Watkins won best leading actor for his portrayal of Christopher
Jeffries, whose life was turned upside down by a fortnight of press
intrusion in 2010, when he was arrested and released without charge over
the murder of Bristol architect Joanna Yeates. Poldark stars Heida Reed and Eleanor Tomlinson made an impact on the red carpet in their contrasting gowns. Double winners Ant and Dec commiserate with Mary Berry, whose Great British Bake Off failed to win any prizes this year. Bafta host Graham Norton won best comedy entertainment programme for his BBC One chat show, exclaiming "yay, me!"
Jessica Hynes scooped best comedy performance (female) for her role as Siobhan Sharpe, a babbling BBC brand consultant in W1A. Gemma
Jones won best supporting actress for her portrayal of Mary Baldwin in
Marvellous - a biopic about Neil Baldwin, who refused to accept the
limitations of his learning disability.
Speaking backstage the
actress, who played Bridget Jones's mother in the two hit films, said
they had better "hurry up" filming the third book or she would be "on a
zimmer frame". Game of Thrones star Maisie Williams was on hand to present the award for best scripted comedy to BBC Four's Detectorists.
But her own show lost out on a fiercely-contested Audience Award to hit drama Sherlock. Hosts
Tess Daly and Claudia Winkelman, along with 2014 contestant Judy Murray
were on hand to support Strictly Come Dancing. Ultimately, though, the
show went home empty handed. Tamsin Greig, Russell Tovey and Emma Willis were among the attendees. James
Corden, whose comedy series The Wrong Mans was up for an award, jetted
in from the US, where he recently started presenting his own chat show.
"I landed at 14:00 BST and I leave at 09:00 tomorrow morning," he said. "I'm on the plane longer than I'm here!" Homeland
star David Harewood was nominated for best sitcom along with the rest
of the cast of mistaken-identity thriller The Wrong Mans.
He will soon be seen as CIA agent Hank Henshaw in the TV adaptation of Supergirl. Downton Abbey and W1A's Hugh Bonneville enjoyed the ceremony with his wife Lulu Williams.
Former
Coronation Street star Michelle Keegan attended just weeks before her
marriage to Mark Wright; while Davina McCall and John Bishop appeared to
have co-ordinated their wardrobes. Stephen Rea won the Best Supporting Actor award for his role as Sir Hugh Hayden-Hoyle in BBC Two's The Honourable Woman.
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