Derry Girls wins at BAFTA TV Awards 2023
- Derry Girls has won Best Scripted Comedy at the 2023 BAFTA TV Awards
- Comedy performance awards: Siobhán McSweeney (Derry Girls) and Lenny Rush (Am I Being Unreasonable?)
- Other winners: Friday Night Live, Bad Sisters, Joe Lycett's Got Your Back and Ben Whishaw
The winners of the BAFTA Television Awards 2023 have been announced at a ceremony hosted by Rob Beckett and Romesh Ranganathan and broadcast on BBC One. The comedy-related trophies went to...
Scripted Comedy
Other nominees: Am I Being Unreasonable?, Big Boys, Ghosts.
Comedy Entertainment Programme
Other nominees: The Graham Norton Show, Taskmaster, Would I Lie To You?.
Female Performance In A Comedy Programme
Siobhán McSweeney for playing Sister Michael in Derry Girls
Other nominees: Daisy May Cooper (Am I Being Unreasonable?), Diane Morgan (Cunk On Earth), Lucy Beaumont (Meet The Richardsons), Natasia Demetriou (Ellie & Natasia), Taj Atwal (Hullraisers).
Male Performance In A Comedy Programme
Lenny Rush for playing Ollie in Am I Being Unreasonable?
Other nominees: Daniel Radcliffe (Weird: The Al Yankovic Story), Jon Pointing (Big Boys), Joseph Gilgun (Brassic), Matt Berry (What We Do In The Shadows), Stephen Merchant (The Outlaws).
Drama Series
Other nominees: The Responder, Sherwood, Somewhere Boy.
Features
Joe Lycett Vs Beckham: Got Your Back At Xmas
Other nominees: Big Zuu's Big Eats, The Martin Lewis Money Show, The Misadventures Of Romesh Ranganathan.
Leading Actor
Ben Whishaw for This Is Going To Hurt
Supporting Actress
Anne-Marie Duff for Bad Sisters
Elsewhere during the ceremony, Simon Farnaby and Ben Whishaw picked up the The P&O Cruises Memorable Moment Award for Platinum Jubilee: Party At The Palace, in which Paddington met the Queen.
The Fellowship, the highest accolade bestowed by BAFTA, was presented by Adrian Lester to "award-winning and nationally beloved actor, screenwriter and novelist" Meera Syal in recognition "of her exceptional contribution to television. Syal's cross-cultural stories and performances have united the nation through humour and have played an instrumental force in showcasing the positive representation of British-Asian stories and talent on screen, over four decades and counting."
These results follow on from BAFTA Craft Awards 2023, which took place on Sunday 23rd April. That ceremony saw Derry Girls writer Lisa McGee picking up the comedy writing trophy, with Adam Kay winning a writing award for This Is Going To Hurt. Other winners at the Craft awards included This Is Going To Hurt's editor Selina MacArthur and casting directors Nina Gold and Martin Ware, a production design award for Don't Hug Me I'm Scared creators Becky Sloan and Joe Pelling and the 'Emerging Talent: Factual' category going to Life After Deaf producer and director Charlie Melville.
The full list of winners across all genres can be seen on bafta.org