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Ant And Dec's Repeat Double Whammy At BAFTAs

Geordie duo Ant and Dec are celebrating after their flagship programme won two awards at this year's BAFTA television awards.

It was the second year running that Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway had won two awards.

The programme won best entertainment programme and the presenters won themselves for best entertainment performance.

Benedict Cumberbatch missed out on best leading actor just months after losing in both the BAFTA film awards and the Oscars.

The Sherlock actor lost to Jason Watkins who starred in the ITV drama Lost Honour Of Christopher Jefferies, about a man who was wrongly accused of murder.

Cumberbatch had been nominated for the Oscar and the BAFTA best film actor award for The Imitation Game but both went to Eddie Redmayne who won for his role in The Theory Of Everything.

It was Cumberbatch's third nomination for his performance in Sherlock, in which he plays the role of the Baker Street detective.

But the programme did see some success when it won the Radio Times Audience Award - the only award voted for by the public.

Watkins said later: "I can't believe it. It's very satisfying to be nominated and to win - I just can't believe it."

Cumberbatch was not at the ceremony at London's Theatre Royal Drury Lane as he had stayed at home to look after his heavily pregnant wife.

The award for best actress was won by Georgina Campbell for her harrowing portrayal of a victim of domestic abuse in the BBC Three drama Murdered By My Boyfriend.

Her rivals for the category had been Keeley Hawes in Line Of Duty, Sarah Lancashire for Happy Valley and Sheridan Smith for Cilla.

Shaking as she picked up her gong, she said: "This is insane. The women who are in this category are absolutely brilliant.

"If I have the career they have in a few years time I will count myself very, very, lucky."

Two programmes shown on Sky TV won awards: Live At Five on Sky News for best news coverage and True Detective, shown on Sky Atlantic, which scooped the award for best international programme.

The Lost Honour Of Christopher Jefferies also received the award for best mini-series.

The event's host Graham Norton had the unusual honour of receiving a gong himself when he took the award for comedy and comedy entertainment programme for the Graham Norton Show.

He told the audience: "Yay me. It's much quicker when I win, I should win most things."

Grand Designs presenter Kevin McCloud thanked the "millions and millions of loyal fans" who have followed the Channel 4 programme "for the past 20 years" as he collected the award for best feature.

ITV's Coronation Street took the soap and continuing drama award despite strong competition from EastEnders.

Other winners included Stephen Rea, Jessica Hynes and Gemma Jones.