Bafta TV Awards 2020: Surprise wins as Stath Lets Flats beats Fleabag and Derry Girls for Scripted Comedy and The End of the F***ing World awarded Best Drama
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This year’s Bafta TV Awards were a strange, subdued affair thanks to social-distancing regulations – but there were some deserving and unexpected winners. Stath Lets Flats beat out tough competition in the form of Fleabag and Derry Girls to take home the Scripted Comedy award, while The End of the F***ing World won Best Drama Series.
The Best Mini-Series award, meanwhile, went to Chernobyl, and Glenda Jackson won Leading Actress for Elizabeth Is Missing.
The annual ceremony was broadcast on BBC One and was the first in its history to be held virtually.
Richard Ayoade hosted the event in a closed and socially distanced studio, with winners accepting their awards via video link.
A new category voted for by the general public, called Must-See Moment and recognising memorable scenes from British television of the last year, was won by the recent Christmas special of Gavin and Stacey, for the moment in which Nessa proposed to Smithy.
See the full list of winners here.
Catch up with the action as it happened:
Next up, the award for Drama Series goes to The End of the F***ing World
The penultimate award is for Leading Actor, and it goes to Jared Harris for Chernobyl!
Jared Harris is a deserving winner. And here's our interview with Jessie Buckley, another of Chernobyl's stars.
Daniel Day Lewis was, apparently, the first choice for Jared Harris's role, he says in his acceptance speech!
It's time for the final award of the night, and it's for Leading Actress. My money's on Glenda Jackson
And the Bafta for Leading Actress goes to... Glenda Jackson for Elizabeth Is Missing!
That was, inevitably, a somewhat lacklustre TV viewing experience – but with some very worthy winners
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