Strictly takes TV award vote despite claims

Strictly Come Dancing has been voted the victor of 1 of the apical prizes astatine the National Television Awards, contempt a hard fewer months for the amusement pursuing claims astir the attraction of immoderate its contestants.

The BBC creation contention was named champion endowment amusement astatine the ceremonial connected Wednesday.

There was a treble solemnisation for co-host Claudia Winkleman, whose different show, The Traitors, was named champion world competition.

The night's different large winners included ITV play Mr Bates vs the Post Office, positive Ant and Dec, who extended their NTA winning streak to 23 years.

The BBC's flagship Saturday nighttime amusement has been successful the headlines for the incorrect reasons successful caller months, aft 2 nonrecreational dancers were dropped pursuing complaints astir their behaviour and teaching methods successful rehearsals.

But days earlier it returns to screens for its caller series, Strictly proved it has not mislaid its radiance with viewers, who voted it champion endowment amusement implicit competitors including The Great British Bake Off and Britain's Got Talent.

The caller ungraded was not referenced connected stage, but its hosts were intelligibly overjoyed to win.

"My bosom is beating, Claude," Tess Daly said to her co-host.

"It means the world, genuinely, to each of us."

Winkleman added: "This means everything. We're truthful grateful. We're going to bash the conga."

Mr Bates vs the Post Office was voted champion caller play and Toby Jones won champion play show for playing the rubric role.

In his acceptance speech, the histrion said: "This means an atrocious lot, not conscionable to maine but to the bonzer radical who inspired our show, immoderate of whom are successful the assemblage this evening."

A radical of the subpostmasters who were wrongly convicted of fraud and mendacious accounting joined the show's stars connected signifier astatine the ceremonial astatine the O2 arena successful London.

The programme besides received a peculiar interaction award, with 1 of the existent Post Office ungraded victims utilizing the acceptance code to criticise the enactment offered by the caller government.

"What I'd similar you to cognize is I went to Westminster a mates of weeks backmost and saw the caller minister," Jo Hamilton said. "And spot me, thing has changed."

Ant and Dec jointly won the champion TV presenter trophy again, extending their winning streak successful the class to 23 years.

This year, the duo held disconnected challenges from Winkleman, Alison Hammond, Bradley Walsh and Stacey Solomon.

"It's really, truly hard to enactment into words conscionable however this feels twelvemonth aft year," Declan Donnelly said.

"It's a joy," Ant McPartlin added. "We cognize we're going to not triumph it 1 twelvemonth - but it's not tonight."

Donnelly enactment the latest triumph down to a fortunate charm from his six-year-old girl Isla.

"She near for schoolhouse archetypal happening this greeting and she said, 'Daddy, bully luck tonight, I anticipation you triumph the trophy'. In information she said, 'Take my articulator balm, I deliberation it volition beryllium bully luck'. Isla, it worked!"

One of Ant and Dec's shows, I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here!, was besides voted victor of the Bruce Forsyth amusement grant - beating different of their deed programmes, Saturday Night Takeaway.

The night's different winners included presenter Kate Garraway, whose highly idiosyncratic programme astir her precocious hubby Derek Draper was named champion authored documentary.

"It's truthful unusual to beryllium present - this one's for you Derek, absolutely," she said, accepting the trophy alongside their children Billy and Darcey.

Draper died successful January aft surviving with utmost complications from Covid.

The Good Morning Britain co-host besides praised carers crossed the country, and called for a strategy that amended supports them.

"We request a strategy which catches america erstwhile we fall, not catches america out," she said. "I'm going to support the combat connected for each of you."

Authored documentary

• Winner: Kate Garraway: Derek's Story
• Beckham
• Rhod Gilbert: A Pain successful the Neck
• Robbie Williams
• Rose Ayling-Ellis: Signs for Change

Bruce Forsyth Entertainment Award

• Winner: I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here!
• Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway
• The Graham Norton Show
• The Masked Singer
• Michael McIntyre’s Big Show

Comedy

• Winner: Mrs Brown's Boys
• Brassic
• The Gentlemen
• Ghosts
• Not Going Out

Daytime

• Winner: The Chase
• Deal oregon No Deal
• Loose Women
• This Morning
• The Repair Shop

Drama performance

• Winner: Toby Jones - Mr Bates vs the Post Office
• Brenda Blethyn - Vera
• Jessica Gunning - Baby Reindeer
• Michelle Keegan - Fool Me Once
• Vicky McClure - Trigger Point

Expert

• Winner: David Attenborough - Mammals
• Anton Du Beke - Strictly Come Dancing
• Kaleb Cooper - Clarkson's Farm
• Martin Lewis - The Martin Lewis Money Show
• Torvill & Dean - Dancing connected Ice

Factual entertainment

• Winner: Sort Your Life Out
• Clarkson’s Farm
• Gogglebox
• Martin Lewis Money Show Live
• The Yorkshire Vet

New drama

• Winner: Mr Bates vs the Post Office
• Baby Reindeer
• Fool Me Once
• One Day
• Red Eye

Quiz crippled show

• Winner: The 1% Club
• Ant & Dec’s Limitless Win
• Beat the Chasers
• Michael McIntyre’s The Wheel
• Richard Osman’s House of Games

Reality competition

• Winner: The Traitors
• The Apprentice
• Celebrity Big Brother
• Love Island
• Race Across the World

Returning drama

• Winner: Bridgerton
• Call the Midwife
• The Crown
• Trigger Point
• Vera

Serial drama

• Winner: Emmerdale
• Casualty
• Coronation Street
• EastEnders
• Hollyoaks

Serial play performance

• Winner: Peter Ash - Coronation Street
• Angela Wynter - EastEnders
• David Neilson - Coronation Street
• Diane Parish - EastEnders
• Eden Taylor-Draper - Emmerdale

Talent show

• Winner: Strictly Come Dancing
• Britain's Got Talent
• The Great British Bake Off
• MasterChef
• The Voice UK

TV presenter

• Winner: Ant & Dec - I'm a Celebrity
• Alison Hammond - This Morning
• Bradley Walsh - The Chase
• Claudia Winkleman - The Traitors
• Stacey Solomon - Sort Your Life Out

Special designation award

• Winner: Davina McCall