- Chernobyl wins Best Drama Series and Best Writer awards
- The Virtues scoops Best Mini Series with actor Stephen Graham winning Best Actor
- BPG Awards, presented today, selected by TV and film writers
Chernobyl and The Virtues were honoured in the drama categories of the BPG Awards, which were presented today at a ceremony in London.
HBO/Sky Atlantic production Chernobyl picked up the Best Drama Series award, while Channel 4’s The Virtues scooped the Best Single Drama/Mini-series award.
The BPG (Broadcasting Press Guild) Awards are given for work commissioned or premiered in the UK and screened in 2019 and are selected independently by BPG members, including TV and radio correspondents, critics and previewers.
Star of The Virtues Stephen Graham won the BPG award for best actor for his performances in the Channel 4 mini-series, as well as his performances in Line of Duty and A Christmas Carol.
Glenda Jackson was named best actress for her first screen appearance in 27 years in the BBC1’s Elizabeth Is Missing.
Film and television director Michael Apted was awarded the BPG Jury Prize, for the Up series which began in 1964 as Seven Up - a profile of 14 seven-year-old children for the current affairs series World In Action. As a young researcher, Apted was involved in selecting the children and over the past 56 years, the series has become an institution, revisiting the subjects every seven years, with Apted directing every series from two to nine.
The full list of BPG TV and Radio Awards winners:
Best Single Drama/Mini-series
The Virtues
Warp Films for Channel 4
Best Drama Series
Chernobyl
A Sister, Mighty Mint and Word Games production in association with HBO for Sky Atlantic
Best Single Documentary
For Sama
A Channel 4 News & ITN Productions Feature Documentary for Channel 4 and PBS Frontline
Best Documentary Series
Thatcher: A Very British Revolution
BBC Studios for BBC Two
Best Entertainment
The Graham Norton Show
So Television for BBC One
Best Comedy
Fleabag, Series 2
Two Brothers Pictures Ltd for BBC Three and Amazon Prime Video
Audio Broadcaster of the Year
Samira Ahmed
Front Row, BBC Radio 4, and How I Found My Voice, an Intelligence Squared/Acast podcast
Radio Programme of the Year
Hooked: The Unexpected Addicts
A BBC Radio 5 Live production
Podcast of the Year
Have You Heard George’s Podcast?
George the Poet for BBC Sounds
Best Actor
Stephen Graham for The Virtues (Channel 4), Line of Duty, Series 5 (BBC1) and A Christmas Carol (BBC1)
Best Actress
Glenda Jackson for Elizabeth Is Missing (BBC1)
Best Writer
Craig Mazin for Chernobyl (Sky Atlantic)
Breakthrough Award
Ncuti Gatwa for Sex Education (Netflix)
BPG Jury Prize
Michael Apted for the Up series
A Granada TV / MultiStory Media production for ITV
Harvey Lee Award
Moira Stuart OBE
Newsreader and presenter, for five decades of outstanding broadcasting
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