London, Europe Brief News – Actors Jodie Comer, Sean Bean and Matthew Macfadyen were among the winners at the British Academy Television Awards (BAFTA) in London on Sunday night.
Time and Big Zuu’s Big Eats both took home two awards, and Coronation Street was named best Continuing Drama.
Despite leading the nominations with 11, It’s A Sin unfortunately lost out, taking home none of the awards announced at tonight’s ceremony. However, the Channel 4 show’s director Peter Hoar and editor Sarah Brewerton were both honoured at the BAFTA TV Craft Awards a couple of weeks ago.
Richard Ayoade hosted the ceremony at the Royal Festival Hall in London, which is available to watch on BBC iPlayer.Bean won the leading actor prize for prison drama Time, which also scooped the award for mini-series.
Comer, who rose to fame playing an assassin in Killing Eve, won leading actress for Help, a drama set in a care home during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Her co-star Cathy Tyson won supporting actress while supporting actor went 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, while 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.
