
Who won the 2024 comedy Baftas?
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Such Brave Girls was named best Scripted Comedy at the Baftas last night with other winners including Joe Lycett, Mawaan Rizwan and Gbemisola Ikumelo.
Clearly overwhelmed, creator Kat Sadler said ‘this is mad’ as she accepted her award saying: ‘Writing is really hard and this is really nice’.
‘I started writing this show when I was literally under section in hospital and I called [sister and co-star] Lizzie and told her what happened and she told me she was £20,000 in debt and we both laughed and I think that’s where the show started.’
Rizwan and Ikumelo won the male and female comedy awards for Juiced and Black Ops respectively.
Last week, the BBC announced that both Juiced and Such Brave Girls would be returning to second series.
Accepting his award, Rizwan said: ‘I’m really humbled… No I"m not, why am I saying that?! This is the least humbling thing that has every happened to me! You have put me on a pedestal and are going to regret it.’
After thanking everyone involved in the show he added another thank-you to his therapist adding: ‘We literally had a conversation this week about how I need to stop relying on external forms of validation, so bad timing!’
Accepting her award. Ikumelo led a call-and-response to ‘God is good/all the time’.
‘God, thank so much. You took this dark young kid from the ends and brought me into this place of light, and now I get to go on this creative journey that you set me on, and I'm so thankful, Lord, so thank you.
She also thanked series co-creator Akemnji Ndifornyen saying: ‘ I'm stading here with this because you gave me a seat at a table, and in this industry where it can sometimes feel like we're competing against each other, you basically just set ego aside and and to develop and support actors. So I love you, and I demand that you have the world.’
Joe Lycett was awarded the Bafta for best entertainment performance for his show Late Night Lycett.
He attended the awards dressed as Elizabeth I after losing a bet to his aunties about how many social media followers they could amass, and thanked his parents, ‘Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII’.
Mobility, the nine-minute BBC Three comedy film set on a school mobility bus co-written by and co-starring comedian Jack Carroll, was named best short.
Rob Beckett and Romesh Ranganathan – who were hosting the ceremony – also took home their own Bafta, scooping the Comedy entertainment category for for Rob & Romesh Vs.
The final seasons of Top Boy and Happy Valley were among the big winners with the public voting Happy Valley's final kitchen showdown between Catherine Cawood and Tommy Lee Royce as the most memorable moment, the only accolade decided by viewers..
Lorraine Kelly received Bafta’s special award and Baroness Floella Benjamin received the academy’s fellowship.
Here is a full list of winners and nominees
Leading actress
WINNER: Sarah Lancashire, Happy Valley - BBC One
Anjana Vasan, Demon 79 (Black Mirror) - Netflix
Anne Reid, The Sixth Commandment - BBC One
Bella Ramsey, The Last of Us - Sky Atlantic
Helena Bonham Carter, Nolly - ITVX
Sharon Horgan, Best Interests - BBC One
Leading actor
WINNER: Timothy Spall, The Sixth Commandment - BBC One
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
Supporting actress
WINNER: Jasmine Jobson, Top Boy - Netflix
Elizabeth Debicki, The Crown - Netflix
Harriet Walter, Succession - Sky Atlantic
Lesley Manville, The Crown - Netflix
Nico Parker, The Last of Us - Sky Atlantic
Siobhan Finneran, Happy Valley - BBC One
Supporting actor
WINNER: Matthew Macfadyen, Succession - Sky Atlantic
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+
Salim Daw, The Crown - Netflix
Female performance in a comedy
WINNER: Gbemisola Ikumelo, Black Ops - BBC One
Bridget Christie, The Change - Channel 4
Máiréad Tyers, Extraordinary - Disney+
Roisin Gallagher, The Lovers - Sky Atlantic
Sofia Oxenham, Extraordinary - Disney+
Taj Atwal, Hullraisers - Channel 4
Male performance in a comedy
WINNER: Mawaan Rizwan, Juice - BBC Three
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
Drama series
WINNER: Top Boy - Netflix
The Gold - BBC One
Happy Valley - BBC One
Slow Horses - Apple TV+
Limited drama
WINNER: The Sixth Commandment - BBC One
Best Interests - BBC One
Demon 79 (Black Mirror) - Netflix
The Long Shadow - ITV1
Scripted comedy
WINNER: Such Brave Girls - BBC Three
Big Boys - Channel 4
Dreaming Whilst Black - BBC Three
Extraordinary - Disney+
Soap
WINNER: Casualty - BBC One
EastEnders - BBC One
Emmerdale - ITV1
Entertainment programme
WINNER: Strictly Come Dancing - BBC One
Hannah Waddingham: Home For Christmas - Apple TV+
Later… With Jools Holland - BBC Two
Michael McIntyre's Big Show - BBC One
Entertainment performance
WINNER: Joe Lycett, Late Night Lycett - Channel 4
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
Rob Beckett & Romesh Ranganathan, Rob & Romesh Vs - Sky Max
Comedy entertainment programme
WINNER: Rob & Romesh Vs - Sky Max
The Graham Norton Show - BBC One
Late Night Lycett - Channel 4
Would I Lie To You? - BBC One
Factual entertainment
WINNER: Celebrity Race Across The World - BBC One
The Dog House - Channel 4
Endurance: Race To The Pole - Channel 5
Portrait Artist of the Year - Sky Arts
Reality
WINNER: Squid Game: The Challenge - Netflix
Banged Up - Channel 4
Married At First Sight UK - E4
My Mum, Your Dad - ITV1
Daytime
WINNER: Scam Interceptors - BBC One
Loose Women and Men - ITV1
Lorraine - ITV1
Make It At Market - BBC One
International
WINNER: Class Act - Netflix
The Bear - Disney+
Beef - Netflix
The Last of Us - Sky Atlantic
Love & Death - ITVX
Succession - Sky Atlantic
Live event coverage
WINNER: Eurovision Song Contest 2023 - BBC One
The Coronation Concert - BBC One
Royal British Legion Festival of Remembrance - BBC One
Current affairs
WINNER: The Shamima Begum Story (This World) - BBC Two
Inside Russia: Traitors And Heroes (Storyville) - BBC Four
Putin Vs The West - BBC Two
Russell Brand: In Plain Sight (Dispatches) - Channel 4
Single documentary
WINNER: Ellie Simmonds: Finding My Secret Family - ITV1
David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived - Sky Documentaries
Hatton - Sky Crime
Vjeran Tomic: The Spider-Man of Paris - Netflix
Factual series
WINNER: Lockerbie - Sky Documentaries
Dublin Narcos - Sky Documentaries
Evacuation - Channel 4
Once Upon A Time In Northern Ireland - BBC Two
Specialist factual
WINNER: White Nanny, Black Child - Channel 5
Chimp Empire - Netflix
The Enfield Poltergeist - Apple TV+
Forced Out - Sky Documentaries
News coverage
WINNER: Inside Gaza: Israel And Hamas At War - Channel 4 News
Inside Myanmar - The Hidden War - Sky News
Israel-Hamas War - Sky News
Sports coverage
WINNER: Cheltenham Festival Day One - ITV1
MOTD Live: Fifa Women's World Cup 2023 - BBC One
Wimbledon 2023 Men's Final - BBC One
Memorable moment
WINNER: Happy Valley, Catherine Cawood and Tommy Lee Royce's final kitchen showdown - BBC One
David Beckham teases Victoria about her "working class" upbringing - Netflix
Doctor Who, Ncuti Gatwa revealed as the 15th Doctor - BBC One
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
WINNER: Mobility - BBC Three
The Skewer: Three Twisted Years - BBC iPlayer
Stealing Ukraine's Children: Inside Russia's Camps - Vice News
Where It Ends - BBC Three
Published: 13 May 2024