Bafta TV Awards 2017: Sarah Lancashire Wins Lead Actress As "Happy Valley" and "Damilola, Our Loved Boy" Make Most of Drama

The prestigious awards event of the 2017 British Academy Television Awards ceremony was held at the Royal Albert Hall, in London and was hosted by Sue Perkins.
The annual ceremony, saw artistes, presenters and TV programmes rewarded for their year long work.

Sarah Lancashire won lead actress award

Sarah Lancashire in the BBC1 "Happy Valley" won the lead actress awards, as the same TV series won the Drama series of the year and Adeel Akhtar won the lead actor award for BBC3 drama series "Murdered By My Father".
Also in the winning list is Wunmi Mosaku for the the supporting actress of the award for the BBC1 drama Damilola, Our Loved Boy and Tom Hollander won supporting actor of the year award for the BBC1 drama "The Night Manager".

See List of categories and winners bellow:
Drama Series
Happy Valley (BBC1)
Entertainment performance
Michael McIntyre's Big Show (BBC1)
Special Factual
Planet Erath II (BBC1)
Female performance in comedy programme
Phoebe Waller Bridge - Fleabag (BBC3)
Mini-series
National Treasure
Male performance in a comedy programme
Steve Coogan - Alan Partridge's Scissored Isle (Sky Atlantic)
Virgin TV's must-see moment
Planet Earth II - Snake v iguanas chase

Reality and Constructed factual
Muslims Like Us (BBC2)
Comedy and comedy entertainment programme
Charlie Brooket's 2016 Wipe (BBC2)
Supporting actor
Tom Hollander - The Night Manager (BBC1)
Soap and continuing drama
Emmerdale (ITV)
Sport
The Open (Sky Sport 1)
Supporting actress
Wunmi Mosaku - Damilola, Our Loved Boy (BBC1)
Features
Who Do You Think You are? (BBC1)
Scripted comedy
People Just Do Nothing
Entertainment
Ant&Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway (ITV)
Leading actor
Adeel Akhtar -Murdered By My Father (BBC3)

"Damilola, Our Loved Boy" won Best Single Drama Award

Leading actress
Sarah Lancashire - Happy Valley
Single Documentary
Hillsborough (BBC1)
Current affair
Teenage Prison Abuse Exposed: Panorama (BBC1)
Single drama
Damilola, Our Loved Boy (BBC1)
International
American Crime Story - The People vs OJ Simpson (FX/BBC)
FA
Factual series
Exodus: Our Journey to Europe (BBC2)
News coverage
Victoria Derbyshire (BBC2)
Live Event
The Queen's 90th Birthday Celebration