David Farnor | On 21, Oct 2021

Channel 4 was the big winner at this year’s Edinburgh TV Awards, with We Are Lady Parts, It’s a Sin and All 4 all taking home prizes.

BBC One won the prestigious Channel 4 of the Year award, but Channel 4 walked away with seven of the 18 gongs awards in an online ceremony hosted by rising comedy star Kae Kurd.

Some of the UK’s most acclaimed on-screen acting and presenting talent were in virtual attendance, including Jodie Comer, who won the Variety Outstanding Achievement Award in celebration of her work, which includes Killing Eve and Help. Additional winners included Roman Kemp (Best TV Presenter), Hayley Squires (Best Drama Actor for Adult Material), O-T Fagbenle (Best Comedy Actor for Maxxx) and Rob Beckett and Romesh Ranganathan for Best Entertainment Series (Rob and Romesh vs).

The cast of We Are Lady Parts, Channel 4’s breakout comedy hit, were presented with the Best Comedy Series award by Edinburgh TV Festival International Editor, Tan France. Broadcaster, DJ, writer and TV Foundation New Voices Award winner Yinka Bokinni, who made her on-screen debut in Channel 4 Documentary Damilola: The Boy Next Door, received this year’s Breakthrough Talent award, presented by Alesha Dixon.

In the Best Drama categories, Channel 4’s record-breaking hit It’s A Sin and Netflix’s Lupin were awarded the national and international drama accolades respectively. In the factual shortlists, American’s War on Abortion from ITV won Best Documentary and Joe Lycettedaccept the Best Popular Factual Series Award for his Channel 4 show Joe Lycett’s Got Your Back.

Production Company of the Year was awarded to Bad Wolf and presented to Jane Tranter by rising star and His Dark Materials actor, Amir Wilson, whilst Small Indie of the Year went to Hunting the Football Trolls producer Flicker Productions.

Sky Sports featuring Sky Zero took away The Green Award, and celebrating its first year as a free-to-air channel, Sky Arts won the Specialist Channel of the Year award and Channel 4’s Alex Mahon surprised All 4 with the award for Best On Demand Service.

The success for the broadcaster comes as it’s trying to get its access services up and running again after a fire-related incident several weeks ago that has disrupted its broadcasts since and left All 4 without subtitles or audio description until mid-November.

Variety Outstanding Achievement Award

Jodie Comer

Best Comedy Series

Bloods

Roughcut Television for Sky One

Brassic

Calamity Films for Sky One

Motherland

a Merman Television Production with Twofour in association with Lionsgate for the BBC

Starstruck

Avalon Television for BBC Three and HBO Max

Trying

Apple TV+ and BBC Studios

We Are Lady Parts

We Are Lady Parts is produced by Working Title Television, which is part of NBCUniversal International Studios, for Channel 4

Best Documentary

America’s War on Abortion (Exposure)

Fuuse Films for ITV

Being Frank: The Frank Gardner Story

Curious Films for BBC Two

Damilola: The Boy Next Door

Acme Films for Channel 4.

Muslim in Trump’s America (Exposure)

Fuuse Films for ITV

Nail Bomber: Manhunt

An Expectation Production for Netflix

Storming the Capitol: The Inside Story

ITV News Current Affairs for ITV

Best Drama

All Creatures Great and Small

Playground for Channel 5

Anthony

LA Productions for BBC One

Des

New Pictures for ITV

Gangs of London

Pulse Films, SISTER for Sky Atlantic

I May Destroy You

Various Artists Ltd & FALKNA for BBC One & HBO

It’s A Sin

RED Production Company for Channel 4 and HBO Max in association with All3media International

Best International Drama

Fargo S4

MGM Television and FX Productions for Channel 4

Lovecraft Country

HBO in association with afemme, Monkeypaw, Bad Robot and Warner Bros for Sky Atlantic

Lupin

Gaumont Télévision for Netflix

Ted Lasso

Apple / Doozer Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television and Universal Television

The Queen’s Gambit

Netflix

Your Honor

SHOWTIME Presents, Moonshot Entertainment, King Size Productions, CBS Studios and distributed internationally by ViacomCBS Global Distribution Group

Best Entertainment Series

Britain’s Got Talent

Thames and Syco for ITV

Interior Design Masters

DSP for BBC Two

Rob & Romesh Vs.

CPL Productions for Sky One

Taskmaster

Avalon Television for Channel 4

The Last Leg

Open Mike for Channel 4

The Rap Game UK

Naked for BBC Three

Best On Demand Service

All 4

Disney+

NOW

STV Player

Best Popular Factual Series

Grayson’s Art Club

Swan Films for Channel 4

Joe Lycett’s Got Your Back

Rumpus Media for Channel 4

Long Lost Family: Born Without Trace

Wall to Wall Media for ITV

Portrait Artist of the Year

Storyvault Films Ltd. for Sky Arts

Saved By A Stranger

Blink Films for Channel 4

The School That Tried to End Racism

Proper Content for Channel 4

Best TV Actor – Comedy

Anjana Vasan in We Are Lady Parts

Anna Maxwell Martin in Motherland

Joe Gilgun in BRASSIC

O-T Fagbenle in Maxxx

Samson Kayo in Bloods

Tanya Moodie in Motherland

The Green Award

ITV

Sky Sports featuring Sky Zero

Best TV Actor – Drama

Billie Piper in I Hate Suzie

David Tennant in Des

Hayley Squires in Adult Material

Jason Watkins in Des

Keeley Hawes in It’s a Sin

Rakie Ayola in Anthony

Best TV Presenter

Anita Rani

Bradley Walsh

Graham Norton

Grayson Perry

Roman Kemp

Romesh Ranganathan

Breakthrough Talent

Callum Scott Howells

Hector Abbott

Olly Alexander

Omari Douglas

Rosie Jones

Yinka Bokinni

Specialist Channel of the Year

Crime+Investigation

Sky Arts

Sky Atlantic

Channel of the Year

BBC One

BBC Three

BBC Two

Channel 4

Channel 5

ITV

Global Success Award

All3Media International

Banijay Rights

ITV Studios

Production Company of the Year

Bad Wolf

Bandicoot TV

Big Talk Productions

ITN Productions

Merman Television Limited

World Productions

Small Indie of the Year

Air TV

Big Deal Films

Firecrest Films

Flicker Productions

Red Sky Productions

Strawberry Blond

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