Little Britain wins Bafta double

Hit sketch show Little Britain scored two prizes at the Bafta TV Awards in London, named best comedy series, while its stars, Matt Lucas and David Walliams, won best comedy performance.

Channel 4's Sex Traffic also picked up two awards - best drama serial with its star Anamaria Marinca winning best actress.

Rhys Ifans won best actor and I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here won best entertainment show.

But hosts Ant and Dec lost out in the entertainment performance category to Paul O'Grady for his ITV1 afternoon chat show.

Coronation Street was named best continuing drama for the third year in a row, while Channel 4's Shameless won best drama series.

Little Britain also won best comedy series last year - but on that occasion, Lucas and Walliams lost out in the comedy performance category to The Office's Ricky Gervais.

"We are really lucky that Ricky Gervais wasn't eligible this year," Walliams said. "The Bafta is the big one in terms of the amount of talent that is in that room."

Then when picking up the second award, he added: "We'd really like to thank the BBC who have believed in us for many years, even when we were rubbish."

Lucas agreed: "We were really mediocre. Now we're brilliant, aren't we, so we've made up for it now."


Omagh, about the 1998 Omagh bomb, was named best single drama while Black Books, starring Dylan Moran and Bill Bailey, won best sitcom.

The Green Wing, the hospital-based comedy sketch drama, won the only award voted for by the public, The Pioneer Award.

Special awards for outstanding achievements went to Michael Palin, Jon Snow, Sir David Frost, Paul Greengrass and Alan Plater.