Bella and Hannah lead the way at Royal Television Society Awards
Hannah Waddingham and Bella Ramsey were among the winners at the Royal Television Society Awards.
BBC drama picked up two prizes at the event in London, and truecrime series
won three awards including Best Male Supporting Actor for Éanna Hardwicke.
Ramsey won Best Supporting Actor – Female for
Kane Robinson was named best male leading actor for which was called “the best show on Netflix” by the when it ended in September.
Sarah Lancashire was nominated for best female leading actor for her role as police sergeant Catherine
Cawood but lost out to Tamara Lawrence, for which tracked the lives of three women arriving at a prison on the same day.
Eurovision 2023 cohost Hannah Waddingham won best entertainment performance, and told BBC News: “The aftermath of Eurovision has been so fun and unexpected and I am so jealous of the people doing it this year – what I would give to be doing it again.”
The entertainment programme award was won by
a spin-off of the South Korean dystopian drama. It saw 465 people compete for $4.56m – £3.66m – thought to be reality TV’s biggest cash prize.
Stephen Lambert, the chief executive of the studio behind that show as well as
and received the Out Standing award.
Gbemisola Ikumelo and Hammed Animashaun won the female and male comedy performance awards for
in which they play hapless community-support officers recruited to work on a Met Police undercover operation.
On the red carpet, they said it was a “delicate balance trying to make a show that had comedy, a hint of drama and a bit of social commentary”.
The BBC won 21 awards across 30 categories at the ceremony, which was hosted by comedian Tom Allen.