Wolf Hall’s Mark Rylance has followed his Oscar win with the best actor accolade at the 42nd Broadcasting Press Guild Awards (BPG awards).
The lauded BBC Two production, which merged Hilary Mantel’s Booker Prize-winning novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies, also won the award for best drama series.
Channel 4 comedy Catastrophe was also a double-winner at the event sponsored by Sky’s streaming service NOW TV and held at London’s Theatre Royal on Friday.
The much-admired series was voted best comedy and its writers Rob Delaney and Sharon Horgan picked up the award for best writers.
Best actress went to Suranne Jones for her performance as Gemma Foster in Doctor Foster.
The BPG awards are given only for work commissioned in the UK and voted for by journalists who write about TV and radio.
Here is the full list of winners.
Best actor
Mark Rylance for Wolf Hall – A Company Pictures & Playground Entertainment Production for BBC & Masterpiece, in association with BBC Worldwide and Prescience.
Best actress
Suranne Jones for Doctor Foster – A Drama Republic production for BBC One.
Best comedy
Catastrophe – An Avalon Television production with co-producers Birdbath Productions & Merman for Channel 4.
Best writer
Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney for Catastrophe.
Best single drama
An Inspector Calls – A Drama Republic production for BBC One.
Best drama series
Wolf Hall – A Company Pictures & Playground Entertainment Production for BBC & Masterpiece, in association with BBC Worldwide and Prescience.
Best single documentary
My Son The Jihadi – A True Vision production for Channel 4.
Best documentary series
The Murder Detectives – A Films of Record production for Channel 4.
Best entertainment/ factual entertainment
The Great British Bake Off – Love Productions for BBC One.
Best made for online (digital first)
Peter Kay’s Car Share – Goodnight Vienna Productions for BBC iPlayer.
Radio broadcaster of the year
John Finnemore for John Finnemore’s Souvenir Programme – A BBC Radio Comedy production for BBC Radio 4.
Radio programme of the year
The Reunion presented by Sue MacGregor – A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4.
Breakthrough award
Aidan Turner for his role as Captain Ross Poldark in Poldark – A Mammoth Screen production for BBC One.
Also for his role as Philip Lombard in And Then There Were None – A Mammoth Screen, Agatha Christie Productions and A&E Television Networks production for BBC One.
Innovation award
Russell T Davies – For creating the multiplatform drama series Cucumber, Banana & Tofu and for the differing, but interlinked, audiences of Channel 4, E4 and All 4.
Harvey Lee Award
Outstanding contribution to broadcasting presented to John Lloyd.
The 64-year-old comedy writer, producer and presenter has created many of Britain’s most enduring comedy series on radio and television, including Not The Nine O’Clock News, Blackadder, QI and Spitting Image.
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