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Steven McIntosh and Ian Youngs

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  1. The Bafta TV Awards in 2 minutes

  2. The Bafta party is only just starting

    But our Bafta TV Awards coverage is ending.

    We'd like to think that Joanna Lumley is currently quaffing champagne with Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Charlie Brooker and the cast of Emmerdale at the after-show party.

    You can scroll down to relive all the night's action.

    Or see a list of all the winners and look at the night's best photos.

  3. 'Benedict woz robbed'

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    But let's not be ungracious. Murdered By My Father's Adeel Akhtar won the best leading actor award, for which Cumberbatch was nominated.

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  4. Joanna Lumley gets the top honour

    Joanna Lumley

    Before the night draws to a close, Jennifer Saunders presents Joanna Lumley with the prestigious Bafta Fellowhsip.

    Joanna Lumley takes to the stage to accept the Academy's highest honour:

    Quote Message: We as actors, we're dragged about in golden carriages... we are furnished with words, costumed, made up, we have stunt performers to make us look better. We have people who drive us, who dress us. We have all this.
    Quote Message: For me this is paradise because I'm here where I wanted to be - I'm in the company that I wish to keep ever since I was young. I wanted to be with people who left race and religion and age and gender and shoe size and things outside the door when they came. People who are in our profession don't have those discriminations.

    Joanna Lumley: Six times she was absolutely fabulous

  5. 'Equal representation for actresses'

    Sarah Lancashire and James Nesbitt

    Host Sue Perkins introduced the leading actress category by saying the requirement was "being paid just under the same amount as the leading actor".

    The award was presented to Sarah Lancashire by James Nesbitt, who said he was wearing a badge supporting a campaign called Equal Representation for Actresses. He said:

    Quote Message: For one female role there are three male roles. As the father of two girls, that should change.
  6. The winners and losers

    That's it for the competitive awards - so we now know that Happy Valley and Damilola, Our Loved Boy, are the biggest winners with two prizes each in the main categories.

    Catch up on the full list of winners and nominees here.

    We also know that, surprisingly, there's been nothing for The Crown - despite the fact it led the nominations with five.

  7. WINNER: Leading actress - Sarah Lancashire

    Sarah Lancashire

    "We love you!" shouts an audience member as Lancashire takes to the stage.

    She thanks her co-stars and Happy Valley writer Sally Wainwright, who she describes as "extraordinary"

    Paying tribute to one of her fellow nominees, Lancashire adds: "Claire Foy, you have given me the best 10 hours under a duvet I've ever had."

  8. WINNER: Leading actor - Adeel Akhtar - Murdered By My Father

    Adeel Akhtar

    Benedict Cumberbatch has lost out - with Akhtar picking up the best actor award instead for the one-off drama telling the story of a honour killing. 

    The other nominees were Babou Ceesay and Robbie Coltrane.

  9. WINNER: Entertainment programme - Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway

    Ant & Dec

    "We've already started on next year's series," says Dec. "What a huge lovely cherry on top of the cake."

  10. WINNER: Scripted comedy - People Just Do Nothing

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  11. WINNER: Features - Who Do You Think You Are

    Danny Dyer
  12. WINNER: Best supporting actress - Wunmi Mosaku - Damilola, Our Loved Boy

    Wunmi Mosaku

    Mosaku won for playing Gloria Taylor, the mother of 10-year-old Damilola Taylor, who was killed in 2000. His family's story was turned into a 90-minute BBC One drama, which has already been named best single drama tonight.

    Quote Message: I want to thank the Taylors for your courage and honesty. I'd like to dedicate this to the memory of Damilola and his mother Gloria.
  13. WINNER: Sport - The Open Production Team

    As in golf. This award goes to Sky Sports/European Tour Productions/Sky Sports 1.

  14. WINNER: Supporting actor - Tom Hollander for The Night Manager

    Tom Hollander

    Hollander, who played Hugh Laurie's menacing henchman Corky, was The Night Manager's only nominee.

    In his speech, he said filming the programme was "a very happy time".

    Quote Message: Thank you very much, this was a really fun job and a great part and it was a lovely team of people. To be given this at the end of it is a very, very lovely feeling so thanks all the people who voted for me.

    Many fans of the show were up in arms that Tom Hiddleston, Olivia Colman and/or Hugh Laurie weren't nominated too - but at least the show's got one award.

  15. In memorium

    The ceremony pauses to pay tribute to some of those we've lost in the past year, including Andrew Sachs, Jean Alexander, Gorden Kaye, Robert Vaughan, Jimmy Perry, Tim Piggott-Smith, Colin Dexter, Liz Smith and Caroline Aherne.

  16. WINNER: Reality and constructed factual - Muslims Like Us

    Muslims Like Us

    One of the contributors to the programme, Mehreen says: "There are 1.6 billion Muslims around the world and we knew it was impossible for the 10 of us to represent every single one of them. But the message behind [this programme] is not confined to one community. Regardless of your race or religion, we need to write our own narrative and stand up for what we believe in. 

    "So thank you BBC and Love [Productions] for being brave enough in the current climate to provide us with that platform, Bafta for supporting our show, and my wonderful family who despite the stereotypes have always encouraged me to be a strong woman who has a voice and uses it to make a change."

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