Northern Irish Top Boy triumphs at BAFTA TV Awards

Top Boy and Happy Valley won two prizes a piece at the Bafta TV Awards on Sunday.

Graham Norton missed out on a award for his talk show but won for his Eurovision 2023 coverage, while Máiréad Tyers, who was nominated for best comedy actress in Extraordinary, lost to Gbemisola Ikumelo for Black Ops.

Written by Northern Irish writer Roban Bennett, Top Boy first aired on Channel 4 from 2011 to 2013 before being picked up by Netflix in 2019. It won the prize for best drama series, with Jasmine Jobson also winning best supporting actress for her performance in the show.

The BBC produced Happy Valley, set and filmed in the Calder Valley, West Yorkshire, stars best leading actress Sarah Lancashire, James Norton and Siobhan Finneran, and was written and created by Sally Wainwright. The show won the most memorable moment award, the only prize voted for by the public.

Other winners include Timothy Spall for best leading actor in The Sixth Commandment, Matthew Macfadyen for best supporting actor in Succession and Such Brave Girls for best scripted comedy.

Find the full list of winners below:

Leading actress – Sarah Lancashire, Happy Valley

Leading actor – Timothy Spall, The Sixth Commandment

Drama series – Top Boy

Supporting actress – Jasmine Jobson, Top Boy

Supporting actor – Matthew Macfadyen, Succession

P&O Cruises Memorable Moment Award – Catherine Cawood and Tommy Lee Royce, Happy Valley

Male performance in a comedy – Mawaan Rizwan, Juice

Female performance in a comedy – Gbemisola Ikumelo, Black Ops

Entertainment performance – Joe Lycett, Late Night Lycett

Comedy Entertainment – Rob Beckett and Romesh Ranganathan, Rob & Romesh VS

Scripted comedy – Such Brave Girls

Single documentary – Ellie Simmonds: Finding My Secret Family

Sports coverage – Cheltenham Festival Day One

Live event coverage – Eurovision Song Contest 2023

Soap – Casualty

Daytime – Scam Interceptors

Entertainment – Strictly Come Dancing

Factual entertainment – Celebrity Race Across the World

Reality – Squid Game: The Challenge

Factual series – Lockerbie

Specialist factual – White Nanny, Black Child

News coverage – Channel 4 News: Inside Gaza: Israel and Hamas At War

Current affairs – The Shamima Begum Story (This World)

Short Form – Mobility

International – Class Act

Bafta Special Award – Lorraine Kelly

Fellowship – Floella Benjamin