BAFTA TV Awards 2016: Mark Rylance and Suranne Jones triumph as Wolf Hall bags Best Drama – the winners in full

Also Poldark beat The Great British Bake Off in the Radio Times Audience Award
Ben Travis9 May 2016
The Weekender

Sign up to our free weekly newsletter for exclusive competitions, offers and theatre ticket deals

I would like to be emailed about offers, event and updates from Evening Standard. Read our privacy notice.

Mark Rylance and Suranne Jones triumphed at the BAFTA TV Awards 2016, winning the Best Actor and Best Actress awards at the star-studded bash.

Rylance’s award saw the second win of the night for the BBC’s historical mini-series Wolf Hall, which also won Best Drama.

In his speech, Rylance celebrated the variety of programming on the BBC, and warned against government broadcasting cuts.

“Woe to any government, or any corporation, who tries to get between the British people and their love of a good joke, a true story, a good song, a fact, a fiction, good sports commentating, newscasters who can hold themselves together as they tell stories about tragedies in Paris,” he said.

Winner: Mark Rylance received Best Actor at the BAFTA TV Awards 2016 for his performance in Wolf Hall
BAFTA / BBC

“The incredible variety of popular culture in this country, it’s really blown my mind tonight.”

Suranne Jones won for drama series Doctor Foster, in which she played a woman who discovers her husband’s infidelity.

“Wow, this is such a big moment for me, and I’ve got terrible baby brain,” Jones joked as she picked up the award.

“You don’t get one of these without a brilliant team behind you, so thank you to my husband Laurence.”

Jones also thanked her agent, directors, and directors of photography, and hailed Doctor Foster writer and creator Mike Bartlett as “a master with a script”.

Dapper: Martin Freeman arrives at the ceremony 

Elsewhere, Strictly Come Dancing beat Britain’s Got Talent to win Entertainment Programme, Michaela Coel paid her respects to Victoria Wood as she accepted Female Comedy Performance, and Lenny Henry received the Special Award at the end of the night.

Poldark beat The Great British Bake Off to win the Radio Times Audience Award, though the beloved baking show did win the Features category – and Hollywood actor Josh Hartnett declared himself a fan.

BAFTA TV Awards 2016

1/42

EastEnders received the Soap award, while Leigh Francis won Entertainment Performance for Celebrity Juice.

This Is England ’90 won Mini-Series, with star Chanel Cresswell winning Supporting Actress.

Peter Kay’s Car Share won Scripted Comedy, while the comedian himself received the Male Comedy Performance award. Have I Got News For You won the Comedy and Comedy Entertainment Programme category.

Don’t Take My Baby won Single Drama, Tom Courtenay won Supporting Actor for Unforgotten, and Britain’s Forgotten Slave Owners was awarded the prize for Specialist Factual programme.

Amazon’s comedy-drama series Transparent won the International Award, and Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, creators of classic British sitcom Steptoe and Son, received the Fellowship award.

Create a FREE account to continue reading

eros

Registration is a free and easy way to support our journalism.

Join our community where you can: comment on stories; sign up to newsletters; enter competitions and access content on our app.

Your email address

Must be at least 6 characters, include an upper and lower case character and a number

You must be at least 18 years old to create an account

* Required fields

Already have an account? SIGN IN

By clicking Create Account you confirm that your data has been entered correctly and you have read and agree to our Terms of use , Cookie policy and Privacy policy .

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Thank you for registering

Please refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged in