Hannah Waddingham, ‘Happy Valley,’ Bella Ramsey Among Winners of Royal Television Society Awards

Georg Szalai
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Hannah Waddingham, Bella Ramsey, drama series Happy Valley and Squid Game: The Challenge were among the winners at the 2024 Royal Television Society program awards. The RTS unveiled the honorees in London on Tuesday evening.

The Sixth Commandment won the most awards with three, including for best limited series and best supporting actor Éanna Hardwicke. Comedy Extraordinary and drama Top Boy were among the other winners.

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Waddingham was honored for her work as one of the hosts of the Eurovision Song Contest, while Ramsey won for their role in the prison anthology drama series Time.

The BBC led the winners across the more than two dozen award categories, being able to celebrate a total of 21 honors.

Last year, Kate Winslet and Kit Connor were among the RTS honorees. The organization last year also introduced several new awards categories.

The complete list of Royal Television Society program awards winners for 2024 follows.

Arts

WINNER — Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World (BBC Studios Specialist Factual Productions for BBC)

Other nominees:

  • Becoming Frida Kahlo (Rogan Scotland for BBC)

  • Lewis Capaldi: How I’m Feeling Now (A Netflix Documentary/BMG Presents in association with Quickfire Films/A Pulse Films Production for Netflix)

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Breakthrough Award

WINNER — Lucy Edwards — Japan — The Way I See It — The Travel Show (BBC Current Affairs for BBC)

Nominees:

  • Ashley Thomas — Great Expectations (Hardy, Son & Baker, Scott Free Productions, BBC Studios, FX Network for BBC)

  • Hamza Yassin — Hamza: Strictly Birds of Prey (Silverback Films for BBC)

Children’s Program

WINNER — A Kind of Spark (9 Story Media for BBC)

Nominees:

  • FYI Investigates: Kids Who Vape (Fresh Start Media for Sky Kids & Sky News)

  • Tabby McTat (Magic Light Pictures for BBC)

Comedy Drama 

WINNER — Juice (Various Artists Limited for BBC)

Nominees:

  • Big Boys (Roughcut TV for Channel 4)

  • There She Goes (Merman Television for BBC)

Comedy Entertainment 

WINNER — Rob & Romesh Vs. (CPL Productions for Sky Max)

Nominees:

  • Taskmaster (Avalon for Channel 4)

  • The Graham Norton Show (So Television for BBC)

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Comedy Performance — Female

WINNER — Gbemisola Ikumelo — Black Ops (BBC Studios Comedy Productions and Mondo Deluxe Productions for BBC)

Nominees:

  • Máiréad Tyers — Extraordinary (Sid Gentle Films Ltd for Disney+)

  • Kat Sadler — Such Brave Girls (Various Artists Limited for BBC)

Comedy Performance — Male 

WINNER — Hammed Animashaun — Black Ops (BBC Studios Comedy Productions and Mondo Deluxe Productions for BBC)

Nominees:

  • Freddie Meredith — Such Brave Girls (Various Artists Limited for BBC)

  • Jon Pointing — Big Boys (Roughcut TV for Channel 4)

Daytime Program

WINNER — Scam Interceptors (BBC Studios Documentary Unit for BBC)

Nominees:

  • Good Morning Britain — Matt Hancock Interview (ITV Studios for ITV1)

  • Junior Bake Off (Love Productions for Channel 4)

Documentary Series 

WINNER — Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland (KEO Films & Walk on Air Films for BBC)

Nominees:

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  • Evacuation (Wonderhood Studios for Channel 4)

  • Kids (Expectation for Channel 4)

Drama Series 

WINNER — Happy Valley (Lookout Point in co-production with AMC for BBC)

Nominees:

  • The Gold (Tannadice Pictures, part of Objective Media Group, for BBC and Paramount)

  • Top Boy (Cowboy Films, Easter Partisan Films, Dream Crew and SpringHill Entertainment for Netflix)

Entertainment 

WINNER — Squid Game: The Challenge (Studio Lambert & The Garden for Netflix)

Nominees:

  • Michael McIntyre’s The Wheel (Hungry McBear for BBC)

  • Strictly Come Dancing (BBC Studios Entertainment Productions for BBC)

Entertainment Performance 

WINNER — Hannah Waddingham — Eurovision Song Contest 2023 (BBC Studios Entertainment Productions for BBC)

Nominees:

  • Noel Fielding and Alison Hammond — The Great British Bake Off (Love Productions for Channel 4)

  • Rob Beckett and Romesh Ranganathan — Rob & Romesh Vs. (CPL Productions for Sky Max)

Formatted Popular Factual 

WINNER — Sort Your Life Out (Optomen Television for BBC)

Nominees:

  • Banged Up (Shine TV for Channel 4)

  • The Piano (Love Productions for Channel 4)

History 

WINNER — White Nanny, Black Child (Doc Hearts/Tigerlily Productions for  
Channel 5)

Nominees:

  • Britain’s Human Zoos (Red Bicycle with Milk & Honey for Channel 4)

  • The Man Who Played With Fire (Raw TV for Sky Documentaries)

Leading Actor — Female 

WINNER — Tamara Lawrance — Time (BBC Studios Drama Productions for BBC)

Nominees:

  • Jodie Whittaker — Time (BBC Studios Drama Productions for BBC)

  • Sarah Lancashire — Happy Valley (Lookout Point in co-production with AMC for BBC)

Leading Actor — Male 

WINNER — Kane Robinson — Top Boy (Cowboy Films, Easter Partisan Films, Dream Crew and SpringHill Entertainment for Netflix)

Nominees:

  • Gary Oldman — Slow Horses (See-Saw Films in association with Apple for Apple TV+)

  • Timothy Spall — The Sixth Commandment (Wild Mercury Productions and True Vision for BBC)

Limited Series 

WINNER — The Sixth Commandment (Wild Mercury Productions and True Vision for BBC)

Nominees:

  • Best Interests (AC Chapter One for BBC)

  • Boiling Point (Ascendant Fox and Matriarch Productions with It’s All Made Up Productions for BBC)

Live Event 

WINNER — Eurovision Song Contest 2023 (BBC Studios Entertainment Productions, Windfall Films for BBC)

Nominees:

  • The Coronation Concert (BBC Studios Event Productions for BBC)

  • The Coronation of TM The King and Queen Camilla (BBC Studios Event Productions for BBC)

Presenter 

WINNER — Chris Packham — Inside Our Autistic Minds (BBC Studios Specialist Factual Productions for BBC)

Nominees:

  • Rhod Gilbert — Rhod Gilbert: A Pain in the Neck (Kailash Films & Llanbobl Vision for Channel 4)

  • Stacey Solomon — Sort Your Life Out (Optomen Television for BBC)

Science & The Natural World 

WINNER — Chimp Empire (Keo Films and Underdog Films for Netflix)

Nominees:

  • Inside Our Autistic Minds (BBC Studios Specialist Factual Productions for BBC)

  • Planet Earth III (BBC Studios Natural History Unit, BBC America, ZDF, France Televisions and The Open University for BBC)

Scripted Comedy 

WINNER — Extraordinary (Sid Gentle Films Ltd. for Disney+)

Nominees:

  • Black Ops (BBC Studios Comedy Productions and Mondo Deluxe Productions for BBC)

  • Such Brave Girls (Various Artists Limited for BBC)

Single Documentary 

WINNER — Otto Baxter: Not A F***ing Horror Story (Story Films; Archface Films for Sky Documentaries)

Nominees:

  • Anorexic (Proper Content for Channel 5)

  • The Price of Truth (Oxford Film & Television for Channel 4)

Single Drama 

WINNER — Partygate (Halcyons Heart Films for Channel 4)

Nominees:

  • Consent (Firebird Pictures for Channel 4)

  • Men Up (Quay Street Productions, Boom for BBC)

Soap and Continuing Drama

WINNER — EastEnders (BBC Studios Drama Productions for BBC)

Nominees:

  • Casualty (BBC Studios Drama Productions for BBC)

  • Waterloo Road (Rope Ladder Fiction, Wall to Wall for BBC)

Sports Presenter, Commentator or Pundit

WINNER — Alex Scott — FIFA Women’s World Cup (IMG for BBC)

Nominees:

  • Gabby Logan — FIFA Women’s World Cup (IMG for BBC)

  • Nasser Hussain — The Ashes (Sky Sports Cricket)

Sports Program

WINNER — All Ireland Senior Football Championship Final (BBC Northern Ireland for BBC)

Nominees:

  • 2023 Rugby World Cup (ITV Sport for ITV1 & ITV4)

  • The Ashes (Sky Sports Cricket)

Supporting Actor — Female 

WINNER — Bella Ramsey — Time (BBC Studios Drama Productions for BBC)

Nominees:

  • Jasmine Jobson — Top Boy (Cowboy Films, Easter Partisan Films, Dream Crew and SpringHill Entertainment for Netflix)

  • Ronke Adékoluejo — Rain Dogs (Sid Gentle Films Ltd for BBC)

Supporting Actor — Male 

WINNER — Éanna Hardwicke — The Sixth Commandment (Wild Mercury Productions and True Vision for BBC)

Nominees:

  • Araloyin Oshunremi — Top Boy (Cowboy Films, Easter Partisan Films, Dream Crew and SpringHill Entertainment for Netflix)

  • Mark Gatiss — Nolly (Quay Street Productions for ITVX)

Writer — Comedy 

WINNER — Jack Rooke — Big Boys (Roughcut TV for Channel 4)

Nominees:

  • Bridget Christie — The Change (Expectation for Channel 4)

  • Joe Tucker, Lloyd Wolf, Gbemisola Ikumelo & Akemnji Ndifornyen — Black Ops (BBC Studios Comedy Productions and Mondo Deluxe Productions for BBC)

Writer — Drama 

WINNER — Sarah Phelps — The Sixth Commandment (Wild Mercury Productions and True Vision for BBC)

Nominees:

  • Emma Dennis-Edwards — Consent (Firebird Pictures for Channel 4)

  • Sally Wainwright — Happy Valley (Lookout Point in co-production with AMC for BBC)

Royal Television Society Gold Medal

WINNER — Dame Esther Rantzen

Judges’ Award 

WINNER — Mr Bates vs the Post Office 

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