Stefan Golaszewski wins Bafta for writing BBC Two comedy

Stefan Golaszewski has won a Bafta award for creating the BBC Two comedy Mum.

It is the second British Academy award for the writer, as his previous comedy Him & Her was named best sitcom in the 2017 award.

Golaszewski started his career with the Cambridge Footlights and the sketch group Cowards, alongside Tom Basden, Tim Key and Lloyd Woolf.

He picked up his prize at the Bafta Craft Awards tonight. Also nominated were Julia Davis for  Camping, Phoebe Waller-Bridge for Fleabag,  and Steve Coogan, Neil Gibbons and Rob Gibbons  for Alan Partridge’s Scissored Isle.

The Academy has been criticised for marginalising writers’ work by including their category in this event, alongside many technical aspects of TV production, rather than as part of the main, televised, Bafta TV awards.

Also at tonight’s ceremony, renowned prop master Bobby Warans was presented with the Bafta Special Award tonight for his outstanding contribution to the industry. 

Warans has worked on nearly 100 programmes in the past 40 years,  including Absolutely Fabulous, Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway, Episodes, French and Saunders, Harry Hill’s TV Burp, The Morecambe and Wise Show, Noel’s House Party and The Two Ronnies. 

His award was presented by Paul Merton.

Published: 23 Apr 2017