TV Baftas 2019 Winners: Killing Eve Cleans Up Taking Home 3 Top Awards
Killing Eve has emerged as the big winner at this year’s TV Baftas.
The BBC series took home three top prizes at Sunday night’s ceremony, and beat Bodyguard to the prestigious Best Drama gong.
The show’s lead character Jodie Comer won Best Actress for her role as Russian assassin Villanelle, while Fiona Shaw, who plays MI6 agent Carolyn Martens, was awarded Best Supporting Actress.
Creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge accepted the Best Drama award, exclaimed “fuck!” on stage, before going on to praise her “charismatic, breathtaking, energetic” team.
“I can’t speak it’s so unbelievably exciting”, she said.“Thanks for everyone for taking risks. Jodie Comer almost swallowed a wasp in Tuscany. It was a really edgy moment that we did capture on camera.”
Bafta previously revealed it had bent the rules to include Killing Eve in this year’s nominations, as usually they require nominees to have had “worldwide premiere transmission in the UK” – which Killing Eve did not.
The show - a BBC America production - aired in the US six months before it was shown here, but bosses allowed it to be included “owing to the significant creative contribution from key talent residing in the UK both in front of and behind the camera.”
Elsewhere, Benedict Cumberbatch was named Best Actor for his titular role in Patrick Melrose.
There were also awards for Britain’s Got Talent and I’m A Celebrity in the Best Entertainment and Best Reality & Constructed Factual categories, while EastEnders won Best Continuing Drama.
Check out the full list of winners below...
Drama series
Bodyguard (BBC One)
Killing Eve (BBC America/BBC Three) – WINNER
Save Me (Sky Atlantic)
Informer (BBC One)
Leading actress
Jodie Comer – Killing Eve (BBC America/BBC Three) – WINNER
Sandra Oh – Killing Eve (BBC America/BBC Three)
Keeley Hawes – Bodyguard (BBC One)
Ruth Wilson – Mrs Wilson (BBC One)
Leading actor
Hugh Grant – A Very English Scandal (BBC One)
Chance Perdomo – Killed By My Debt (BBC Three)
Lucian Msamati – Kiri (Channel 4)
Benedict Cumberbatch – Patrick Melrose (Showtime/Sky Atlantic) – WINNER
Supporting actor
Alex Jennings – Unforgotten (ITV)
Ben Whishaw – A Very English Scandal (BBC One) – WINNER
Kim Bodnia – Killing Eve (BBC One)
Stephen Graham – Save Me (Sky Atlantic)
Supporting actress
Billie Piper – Collateral (BBC Two)
Fiona Shaw – Killing Eve (BBC One) – WINNER
Keeley Hawes – Mrs Wilson (BBC One)
Monica Dolan – A Very English Scandal (BBC One)
Mini-series
A Very English Scandal (BBC One)
Kiri (Channel 4)
Mrs Wilson (BBC One)
Patrick Melrose (Showtime/Sky Atlantic) – WINNER
Female performance in a comedy programme
Daisy May Cooper – This Country (BBC Three)
Jessica Hynes – There She Goes (BBC Four) – WINNER
Julia Davis – Sally4Ever (Sky Atlantic/HBO)
Lesley Manville – Mum (BBC Two)
Male performance in a comedy programme
Alex MacQueen – Sally4Ever (Sky Atlantic/HBO)
Jamie Demetriou – Stath Lets Flats (Channel 4)
Peter Mullan – Mum (BBC Two)
Steve Pemberton – Inside No 9 (BBC Two) – WINNER
International
54 Hours: The Gladbeck Hostage Crisis (ARD/BBC Four)
The Handmaid’s Tale (Hulu/Channel 4)
Reporting Trump’s First Year: The Fourth Estate (Showtime/BBC Two)
Succession (HBO/Sky Atlantic) – WINNER
Entertainment performance
Anthony McPartlin, Declan Donnelly – Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway (ITV)
David Mitchell – Would I Lie To You? (BBC One)
Lee Mack – Would I Lie To You? (BBC One) – WINNER
Rachel Parris – The Mash Report (BBC Two)
Specialist factual
Bros: After the Screaming Stops (BBC Four)
Grayson Perry: Rites of Passage (Channel 4)
Suffragettes With Lucy Worsley (BBC One) – WINNER
Superkids: Breaking Away From Care (Channel 4)
Reality and constructed factual
Dragons’ Den (BBC Two)
I’m a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here! ( ITV) – WINNER
Old People’s Home for 4 Year Olds (Channel 4)
The Real Full Monty: Ladies’ Night (ITV)
Current affairs
Football’s Wall of Silence (Al Jazeera English)
Iran Unveiled: Taking on the Ayatollahs – Exposure (ITV)
Massacre at Ballymurphy (Channel 4)
Myanmar’s Killing Fields: Dispatches (Channel 4) – WINNER
Entertainment programme
Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway (ITV)
Britain’s Got Talent (ITV) – WINNER
Michael McIntyre’s Big Show (BBC One)
Strictly Come Dancing (BBC One)
Scripted comedy
Derry Girls (Channel 4)
Mum (BBC Two)
Sally4Ever (Sky Atlantic/HBO) – WINNER
Stath Lets Flats (Channel 4)
Comedy entertainment programme
The Big Narstie Show (Channel 4)
The Last Leg (Channel 4)
A League of Their Own (Sky One) – WINNER
Would I Lie to You? (BBC One)
Factual series
24 Hours in A&E (Channel 4)
Life and Death Row: The Mass Execution (BBC Three)
Louis Theroux’s Altered States (BBC Two) – WINNER
Prison (Channel 4)
Features
Gordon, Gino and Fred’s Road Trip (ITV)
The Great British Bake Off (Channel 4)
Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing (BBC Two)
Who Do You Think You Are? (BBC One) – WINNER
Live event
Open Heart Surgery: Live (Channel 5)
Royal British Legion Festival of Remembrance (BBC One) – WINNER
The Royal Wedding: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle (BBC One)
Stand Up to Cancer (Channel 4)
News coverage
Bullying and Harassment in the House of Commons – Newsnight (BBC Two)
Cambridge Analytica Uncovered (Channel 4) – WINNER
Good Morning Britain: On a Knife Edge (ITV)
Good Morning Britain: Thomas Markle Exclusive (ITV)
Single documentary
Driven: The Billy Monger Story (BBC Three)
Gun No 6 (BBC Two) – WINNER
My Dad, the Peace Deal and Me (BBC One)
School for Stammers (ITV)
Single drama
Bandersnatch – Black Mirror (Netflix)
Care (BBC One)
Killed By My Debt (BBC Three) – WINNER
Through the Gates – On the Edge (Channel 4)
Soap and continuing drama
Casualty (BBC One)
Coronation Street (ITV)
EastEnders (BBC One) – WINNER
Hollyoaks (Channel 4)
Sport
2018 Six Nations: Scotland v England (BBC One)
2018 World Cup: England v Sweden (BBC One) – WINNER
England’s Test Cricket: Cook’s Farewell (Sky Sports Cricket)
Winter Olympics (BBC Two)
Virgin Media Must-See Moment nominees
Bodyguard – the assassination of Julia Montague (BBC) – WINNER
Coronation Street – Gail’s monologue on the suicide of Aidan Connor (ITV)
Doctor Who – The Doctor meets Rosa Parks (BBC)
Killing Eve – Eve stabs Villanelle (BBC)
Peter Kay’s Car Share – the finale (BBC)
Queer Eye – Tom’s transformation (Netflix)
