A Touch Of Cloth wins Broadcast Best Comedy award
Sky comedies A Young Doctor's Notebook and A Touch Of Cloth have each picked up a coveted Broadcast Award at a ceremony in central London tonight.
Hosted by television industry trade publication Broadcast, the awards are a prestigious prize in the British television world.
Sky1's A Touch Of Cloth (pictured, right) picked up the award for Best Comedy Programme, sponsored by the Pinewood Studios Group, at the Grosvenor Hotel event, for its two-part second series, A Touch Of Cloth II: Undercover Cloth.
Broadcast in the summer, the spoof of police dramas was created and lead written by Charlie Brooker, starring John Hannah and Suranne Jones in the roles of Jack Cloth and Anne Oldman.
The other nominees in the category were Chickens, Derek, Psychobitches, Plebs and Series 1 of Some Girls.
Meanwhile, the first series of A Young Doctor's Notebook (pictured, below) was named Best Multichannel Programme. Starring Daniel Radcliffe and Jon Hamm, the series is based on the short stories of Russian playwright Mikhail Bulgakov.
The Sky Arts 1 series - part of its Playhouse Presents strand - beat competition from three factual programmes and the comedy series Youngers and Plebs.
Ant And Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway beat competition from the likes of A League Of Their Own, The Graham Norton Show, and the revived Through The Keyhole to win the Best Entertainment Programme category award.
David Walliams's Christmas family story Mr Stink, based on his best-selling childrens' book, was named Best Children's Programme, against series including Strange Hill High.
ITV was named Channel of the Year, for "bucking the trend among major channels to increase its share of viewers in 2013", with a range of programmes including comedies Vicious and Doc Martin.
Referring to winners in other categories, Broadcast editor Chris Curtis said: "2013 was a great year for telly across the board, with some standout shows. Broadchurch breathed new life into the whodunit, Educating Yorkshire was funny and moving, and Gogglebox was a genuine word-of-mouth smash. All three have the potential to be big international successes, and prove the power of British TV."
The awards' eligibility window ran from 6th September 2012 to 17th September 2013.