Timothy Spall has received the BAFTA TV Award for Main Actor this night, beating out top-name competitors.
Spall emerged because the winner forward of Brian Cox for Succession, Dominic West for The Crown, Kane Robinson for High Boy, Papa Essiedu for The Lazarus Challenge and Steve Coogan for The Reckoning.
Lashana Lynch offered the British actor with the prize.
His win meant The Crown went residence empty-handed regardless of being up for 4 performing awards and a variety of others.
In true-crime drama The Sixth Commandment, from Wild Mercury Productions and True Imaginative and prescient Productions, aired on BBC1 final July within the UK. It starred Spall as college lecturer, Peter Farquhar, who was manipulated and finally murdered by his former pupil and lodger, Ben Subject, who was performed by Éanna Hardwicke, nominated earlier right this moment within the Finest Supporting Actor class.
Final yr’s winner was Ben Whishaw for his efficiency in BBC medical drama That is Going to Damage.
The awards passed off right this moment (Could 12) in London on the Royal Competition Corridor. Romesh Ranganathan and Rob Beckett hosted once more, with scores of the UK’s greatest stars in attendance.