admin Actor Jodie Comer, Sean Bean and Matthew Macfayden backed the British Academy television awards held in London on Sunday at The Royal Festival hall hosted by Richard Ayoade. Bean won the award for leading actor for British prison drama ‘Time’, Comer won the leading actress for ‘Help’ for playing the assassin in ‘Killing Eve’, a drama set in a care home during the COVID-19 pandemic. Comer’s co-star Cathy Tyson won the supporting actor and the supporting actor was awarded to Macfadyen for ‘Succession’, a show about power struggles within a US family media empire.
Coming-of Age story ‘In my skin’ won the drama series category, whereas the US mini-series ‘The Underground Railroad’, an adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about a Black slave’s quest for freedom, won in the international category.
Sophie William won the female performance in a comedy programme for Alma’s Not Normal and for male performance in a comedy programme was won by Jamie Demetriou for Stath Let’s Flats.
Billy Connolly who is a Veteran Comedian and actor was awarded the BAFTA fellowship, the highest accolade given by the British Academy Television Awards.
Rapper Big Zuu won two awards – entertainment performance and features for his show Big Zuu’s Big Eats.
The winners supported, publicly owned but commercially funded broadcaster Channel 4 through their acceptance speech, which the British Government has planned to sell.
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