BAFTA TV Awards live: Adolescence makes history with FOUR wins

Picking up the award for Best Current Affairs for the incredible Gaza: Doctors Under Attack, producer Ben De Pear took aim at the BBC for ‘refusing to air’ the film.

The broadcaster had commissioned the documentary before shelving it, but Channel 4 stepped in the air the film.

Producer Ramita Navai thanked Channel 4 for picking it up, declaring: ‘We refuse to be censored.’

While Ben ended their speech: ‘Just a question for the BBC – given you dropped our film, will you drop us from the Bafta screening later tonight?’

The win was included in the broadcast within a sped-up montage of other awards that had been handed out on the night.

Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins present their former Great British Bake Off co-star Dame Mary Berry with the BAFTA Fellowship.

They declare: ‘She has humanity, grace and a twinkle and is a moral compass in these times of nonsense’.

Dame Mary is greeted with a standing ovation as she accepted Bafta’s highest accolade for her ‘exceptional contribution to television’, joining the ranks of Sir David Attenborough, Baroness Floella Benjamin and Sir Billy Connolly.

She said: ‘I see myself a teacher and television is the biggest classroom there is’.

She concludes her speech by thanking her husband Paul Hunnings and their three children, Thomas, Annabel and William, ‘who is in heaven’.

AURORA has come to the stage to perform a haunting rendition of her song, Through The Eyes Of A Child, as featured in Adolescence, for the In Memoriam section.

It is the moment for the show to honour those within the industry wo passed away this year, from the likes of Dame Patricia Routledge, George Wendt, James Van Der Beek, Prunella Scales, Eric Dane, Ozzy Osbourne, Mel Schilling, Kim Woodburn, Alan Yentob, Jack Shepherd and Dame Jilly Cooper.

Seth Rogen took to the stage to accept the Best International Series Award for his Apple TV show, The Studio – which he created, directed and starred in.

Heaping praise on the awards show, the actor said he approved of Greg’s hosting while also joking that all he knew of Celia Imrie from the night was that she once farted on a TV show.

And he took the moment to pay tribute to his co-star, the legendary Catherine O’Hara, who tragically died in January.

He told the crowd: ‘She meant so much to all of us. I assume her work was as important to you over here, as to us in the US, so this award is for Catherine.’

Best Drama has been won by Code of Silence, beating out A Thousand Blows, Blue Lights and This City Is Ours.

The ITV crime drama stars Rose Ayling-Ellis as a deaf canteen worker who teams up with the police to lip read criminals’ conversations.

The Strictly champion praised ITV for making the set accessible to all and said it showed the industry how easy it was to have inclusivity.

‘We made the crew set as accessible as possible for everyone to come and work. It can be frustrating to keep saying what you need,’ she said.

‘If you listen to us, we’re not that difficult or challenging. We have got the knowledge to make it simple to set up what the industry needs to improve on.’

The only award to be voted for by the public, the P&O Memorable Moment, is scooped up by Alan Carr for his Celebrity Traitors win.

Accepting the gong, the comic questioned whether his victory was down to his own skill, or because ‘the other celebrities were just thick’.

He beat out Jamie Miller shouting at the psychiatrist in Adolescence, Danny’s tragic realisation in Big Boys, Bob Mortimer and Richard Ayoade’s speed date in Last One Laughing, Byron introducing herself as Paris at Uni in What It Feels Like for a Girl and the moment the police are warned of a plot to silence a key witness in Blue Lights.

Martin Lewis was presented with the Bafta Television special award, recognising his ‘extraordinary and lasting impact on British consumers and public life’.

Greg has began his opening monologue by effusing the merits of British television, praising our sports services, soaps, news services and comedies.

No one is safe from the comedian’s wit, with him taking shots at everyone from Lorraine Kelly to The Chase’s Mark Labbett.

However, he admitted there was one subject he wouldn’t dare to even attempt a joke at – the monumentally important series, Adolescence.

But Greg has implemented a special system to prevent speeches from going on too long, with a button that plays Lord Alan Sugar telling them to ‘Shut up!’

While we still have a few more categories to reveal, you can now watch the show NOW on BBC One.

Gaza: Doctors Under Attack lands the big win this year, directed by Karim Shah, Ramita Navai and Ben De Pear, a former editor of Channel 4 News.

It came out top over BBC One’s Undercover in the Police (Panorama), and Breaking Ranks: Inside Israel’s War (Exposure) and The Covid Contracts: Follow the Money – both from ITV.

Go Back To Where You Came From is the winner!

It beat:

The Assembly

Knife Edge: Chasing Michelin Stars

Race Across The World

The show saw six Brits follow routes taken by refugees to reach the UK.

News coverage was won by: Channel 4 News: Israel-Iran: The Twelve Day War

Current Affairs was won by: Gaza: Doctors Under Attack