David Farnor | On 29, Jan 2020

Mrs Brown’s Boys beat Fleabag at the 2020 National Television Awards last night, winning the comedy prize for the fifth year in a row.

Brendan O’Carroll’s Saturday night sitcom trumped a host of comedy big-hitters, including Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Golden Globes and Emmy winning comedy, Channel 4’s popular Derry Girls and two Netflix shows: Sex Education and Ricky Gervais’ After Life.

The continuing success of Mrs Brown’s Boys at an awards ceremony voted for by the British public set the tone for an evening in which many of the usual faces took home prizes: Emmerdale bagged the coveted best soap prize for the fourth year in a row, while This Morning won the live magazine show prize for the 10th straight year and Strictly Come Dancing waltzed away with the talent show prize for the fifth year in a row.

Peaky Blinders bagged two gongs, including the drama performance award for Cillian Murphy and the best drama prize, a category the gangster series has also won before.

Ant and Dec, meanwhile, were crowned the best presenters for the 19th consecutive year.

David Walliams, who hosted in place of usual front-man Dermot O’Leary, collected the best TV judge prize for Britain’s Got Talent, while Little Mix’s Jesy Nelson won best factual programme for her cyber-bullying documentary Odd One Out. The Great British Bake Off rose to the occasion to beat Love Island in the best challenge show race.

One category that guaranteed a new winner, though, was the new drama prize, which went to HBO and Sky Atlantic’s Chernobyl, which beat competition from ITV’s A Confession and BBC One’s Gentleman Jack and The Capture. One face fans were pleased to see again, meanwhile, was Sir Michael Palin, who received a special recognition award and used his time on-stage at London’s O2 arena to pay tribute to his late Monty Python co-star Terry Jones.

Here’s the full list of NTA winners:

NEW DRAMA

A Confession
Chernobyl
Cleaning Up
Gentleman Jack
The Capture

TALENT SHOW

Britain’s Got Talent
Dancing On Ice
Strictly Come Dancing
The Voice Kids

DRAMA

Call The Midwife
Casualty
Killing Eve
Line Of Duty
Peaky Blinders

TV PRESENTER

Ant & Dec
Bradley Walsh
Graham Norton
Holly Willoughby
Phillip Schofield

FACTUAL

Jesy Nelson: ‘Odd One Out’
Ambulance
Gogglebox
Paul O’Grady: For The Love Of Dogs
Gordon, Gino And Fred: Road Trip

DRAMA PERFORMANCE

Cillian Murphy, Thomas Shelby, Peaky Blinders
Idris Elba, DCI John Luther, Luther
Jodie Comer, Villanelle, Killing Eve
Michael Stevenson, Iain Dean, Casualty
Suranne Jones, Anne Lister, Gentleman Jack

THE BRUCE FORSYTH ENTERTAINMENT AWARD

I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!
The Chase
The Graham Norton Show
RuPaul’s Drag Race UK

CHALLENGE SHOW

Love Island
MasterChef
The Apprentice
The Circle
The Great British Bake Off

SERIAL DRAMA

Coronation Street
EastEnders
Emmerdale
Hollyoaks

SERIAL DRAMA PERFORMANCE

Katie McGlynn, Sinead Tinker, Coronation Street
Danny Dyer, Mick Carter, EastEnders
Danny Miller, Aaron Dingle, Emmerdale
Gregory Finnegan, James Nightingale, Hollyoaks

COMEDY

After Life
Derry Girls
Fleabag
Mrs Brown’s Boys
Sex Education

NEWCOMER

Imran Adams, Mitchell Deveraux, Hollyoaks
Jack Nolan, Will Noble, Casualty
Jurell Carter, Nate Robinson, Emmerdale
Max Bowden, Ben Mitchell, EastEnders
Peter Ash, Paul Foreman, Coronation Street

LIVE MAGAZINE SHOW

Good Morning Britain
Loose Women
Sunday Brunch
This Morning

TV JUDGE

David Walliams, Britain’s Got Talent | Britain’s Got Talent: The Champions
RuPaul, RuPaul’s Drag Race UK
Simon Cowell, Britain’s Got Talent | Britain’s Got Talent: The Champions | The X Factor: Celebrity
Sir Tom Jones, The Voice UK
will.i.am, The Voice UK | The Voice Kids

SPECIAL RECOGNITION AWARD

Sir Michael Palin

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