Appropriate Adult and Coronation Street amongst big winners at TV BAFTAs

Though they may not be quite as lavishing as the film equivalent, the TV BAFTAs revealed their winners last night with the crime drama Appropriate Adult sweeping the acting awards with three wins.

The gritty drama which focused on the relationship between ‘appropriate adult’ Janet Leach and serial killer Fred West claimed leading acting wins for its stars Emily Watson and Dominic West as well as a supporting actress win for Monica Dolan as Rose West.

Surprisingly though, it missed out on a fourth win for Best Mini-Series losing out to This Is England 88′ (disappointingly its stars Joe Gilgun and Vicky McClure went home empty-handed).

Andrew Scott was the other acting win for his role as Moriarty in the BBC series Sherlock although its main star Benedict Cumberbatch lost out in Best Actor.

The other big programme I rooted for finally claimed its well deserved victory in Best Continuing Drama as Coronation Street clinched the award ahead of Eastenders (proving that the critics are better than the public when it comes to voting!).

The painful Celebrity Juice won the Audience Award (oh the irony!) while Graham Norton and Jennifer Saunders were amongst the TV personalities to win gongs.

Rolf Harris was given the BAFTA Fellowship for his contributions to television over the years.

The show was hosted by Dara O’Brien at London’s Royal Festival Hall last night. The full list of winners is below:

Leading Actor
Dominic West (Appropriate Adult)

Leading Actress
Emily Watson (Appropriate Adult)

Supporting Actor
Andrew Scott (Sherlock)

Supporting Actress
Monica Dolan (Appropriate Adult)

Entertainment Performance
Graham Norton (The Graham Norton Show)

Female Performance In A Comedy Programme
Jennifer Saunders (Absolutely Fabulous)

Male Performance In A Comedy Programme
Darren Boyd (Spy)

Single Drama
Random

Mini-Series
This is England ’88

Drama Series
The Fades

Soap and Continuing Drama
Coronation Street

International Programme
Borgen

Factual Series
Our War

Specialist Factual
Mummifying Alan: Egypt’s Last Secret

Single Documentary
Terry Pratchett: Choosing to Die

Features
The Great British Bake-Off

Reality And Constructed Factual
The Young Apprentice

News Coverage
Channel 4 News: Japanese earthquake

Sport And Live Event
The Royal Wedding

New Media
Psychoville

Entertainment Programme
Derren Brown: The Experiments

Comedy Programme
Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle

Situation Comedy
Mrs Brown’s Boys

YouTube Audience Award
Celebrity Juice

BAFTA Fellowship
Rolf Harris

Be the first to comment on "Appropriate Adult and Coronation Street amongst big winners at TV BAFTAs"

Leave a comment

Your email address will not be published.


*