Adolescence makes history at Bafta TV Awards

Prime Video's hit Last One Laughing was named best entertainment programme, beating BBC One heavyweights The Graham Norton Show, Michael McIntyre's Big Show and Would I Lie To You.

Bob Mortimer's efforts in Last One Laughing, to make his rival comedians crack a smile while he kept a straight face, earned him the Bafta for best entertainment performance.

Steve Coogan won best actor in a comedy for How Are You? It's Alan (Partridge).

He said: "Doing comedy in these troubled times is so important. It's a privilege to make people laugh after all these years."

He continued: "I will keep on doing it. If anyone wants to know when Alan Partridge is going to die, it's about the same time that I am going to die."

Katherine Parkinson was named best comedy actress for her role as mum Rachel in family sitcom Here We Go.

Her competition in the category included a trio of stars from Amandaland (Lucy Punch, Philippa Dunne and Jennifer Saunders) as well as Diane Morgan and Rosie Jones.

Amandalanddid have success in the category for best scripted comedy, four years after Motherland - in which the title character first appeared - won the same award.

Creator Holly Walsh said: "This award means so much, to all the people who come up to us and says 'I am an Amanda' or 'I know an Amanda!'"

The current affairs prize went to Gaza: Doctors Under Attack, which was pulled by the BBC last year, which the broadcaster said was because of impartiality concerns. It was later shown by Channel 4 instead.

The documentary's reporter and producer, Ramita Navai, told the audience: "This award means so much to us," then spoke about the numbers of women, children and healthcare workers who have been killed in Gaza.

"These are the findings of our organisation that the BBC failed to show but we refused to be silenced and censored and we thank Channel 4."

Ben de Pear, the founder of Basement Films behind Gaza: Doctors Under Attack, added he had a question for the BBC: "Given you dropped our film, will you drop us from the Bafta screening later tonight?" He also thanked the journalists on the ground in Gaza.

When the BBC shelved the documentary, it said in a statement "it was determined to report all aspects of the conflict in the Middle East impartially and fairly."

De Pear's comments during the ceremony were later included in BBC One's broadcast of the awards, as part of a round-up of some of the winners.

Netflix's Grenfell: Uncovered, about the 2017 Grenfell Tower fire, which killed 72 people, won best single documentary.

Director Olaide Sadiq thanked Bafta for "this recognition to everyone who has supported the Grenfell story".

"The victims of Grenfell deserve much more than remembrance - they deserve accountability, change and justice," she said.

In other categories, EastEnders was named best soap, Scam Interceptors won best daytime show, and Go Back To Where You Came From picked up the factual entertainment prize.

Former Great British Bake Off judge Dame Mary Berry received the top lifetime achievement accolade, the Bafta Fellowship, at the age of 91.

"I'm really bowled over by this accolade. I'm a cook, I'm a teacher, so I feel very honoured to be given Bafta's highest award," she said.

She finished her speech offering thanks to her three children, including her late son William, who died in a car accident in 1989 at the age of 19. She said: "William is in heaven, but I thank him."

Financial expert Martin Lewis was also given an honorary prize, the Special Award.

An emotional Lewis said he wrote the speech on Thursday, 42 years after the death of his mother when he was 11.

"For six years, barring school, I barely left the house. Now I'm picking up a Bafta," he told the audience.

"Life can be transformed, it can get better. If you had told that broken, scared boy that I'd proudly be a campaigning journalist, his jaw would have dropped.

"So I dedicate this to consumer journalism, where I found my voice."