The Crown star Elizabeth Debicki missed out on the Best Supporting Actress gong at the BAFTA TV Awards 2024 held at The Royal Festival Hall in London on Sunday night.
Top Boy’s Jasmine Jobson scooped the award instead for her incredible role as Jaq in the Netflix drug dealing series – beating Elizabeth Debicki from The Crown.
Top Boy also won in the Drama Series – beating Happy Valley, The Gold and Slow Horses.
Accepting the award, the actress, 29, said: ‘Oh my goodness, my dress is making me slide everywhere. I don’t know what to say, I’m so overwhelmed, I was not expecting this.
‘I just try to do what I do to change a life and save a life.’

The Crown star Elizabeth Debicki missed out on the Best Supporting Actress gong at the BAFTA TV Awards 2024 held at The Royal Festival Hall in London on Sunday night

Elsewhere Strictly Come Dancing won the Best Entertainment Bafta, defeating shows including Hannah Waddingham: Home For Christmas
Then, sweetly shouting out her niece, she said: ‘My baby girl, Auntie Jasmine did it, I did it! The girl finally brought it home.’
She looked stunning in a silver dress as she later posed backstage with her award and was every inch the proud star.
She also beat the likes of Siobhan Finneran for Happy Valley and Lesley Manville for The Crown in the Best Supporting Actress category.
Matthew Macfadyen won the Best Supporting Actor gong for his role in the hugely-popular series Succession.
He scooped the gong – which was presented by Helena Bonham Carter – beating the likes of Amit Shah for Happy Valley and Jak Lowden for Slow Horses.
He wasn’t however present at the ceremony to collect the award.
Elsewhere Strictly Come Dancing won the Best Entertainment Bafta, defeating shows including Hannah Waddingham: Home For Christmas.
Ted Lasso and West End star Waddingham, 49, could be hilariously seen swigging from a hip flask as the camera cut to her.
Collecting the gong, Strictly host Tess Daly said: ‘We are properly and genuinely overwhelmed.
‘Thank you Bafta for making it worth putting on Spanx on the hottest day of the year.
‘We have been on for 20 years, so this is the best birthday present.’
Strictly also beat Michael McIntyre’s Big Show and Later with Jools Holland in the Entertainment category.
Tess and Claudia Winkleman – who both looked stunning in white outfits – looked as proud as ever as they posed backstage with the awards.
The Memorable Moment Award went to Happy Valley – Catherine Cawood and Tommy Lee Royce’s final kitchen showdown on BBC One.
They beat the Netflix Beckham documentary where David teases Victoria about her ‘working class’ upbringing and Logan Roy’s death in Succession.
Elsewhere Squid Game: The Challenge won the Reality gong, while The Eurovision Song Contest 2023 won the award for Live Event Coverage.
Hannah Waddingham, who co-hosted the contest in Liverpool last year, accepted the trophy.
She said: ‘The week we had this time last year was, I know for everybody here, the most exceptional, stressful week but so fabulous.’
Mawaan Rizwan accepted the Male Performance in a Comedy Programme Award for Juice and looked thrilled as he headed up onto the stage.
Accepting the award, Rizwan said: ‘I want to thank the people in my life who go un-thanked; my partner, my bestie.
‘I’m so not boundaried as a person, so thank you for putting up with me and giving me the support you do.’
He also thanked the team who made the series, saying: ‘You lot believed in me, so thank you for making that happen.’
Ending on a joke, he said: ‘And thank you to my therapist – we had a conversation last week where we said I had to stop relying on external forms of validation.’
Meanwhile the Female performance in a Comedy Programme Award went to Gbemisola Ikumelo for her role in Black Ops – a BBC series which follows two hapless community support police officers who are unexpectedly recruited into an off-the-books undercover operation.
‘God is good,’ she shouted on the stage, with members of the audience enthusiastically repeating it back to her.
‘This is how I know diversity is working,’ she added.
She also joked her agent would be telling her next employers: ‘Yesterday’s price is not today’s price.’
The Sixth Commandment won the Limited Series Award – which was presented by Baby Reindeer stars Richard Gadd and Jessica Gunning.
The BBC One show is based on a real-life story about a teacher who is courted by a student, triggering a criminal case.
Elsewhere hosts Romesh Ranganathan and Rob Beckett accepted the Comedy Entertainment Award onstage.
Lockerbie on Sky Documentaries won the Bafta for Best Factual Series. The award was presented by Anita Rani.
It looked at the true story of Britain’s deadliest terrorist atrocity and the most fatal terrorist attack on America before 9/11: the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 in 1988.
Accepting the award, director John Dower said: ‘Our story is such a horrific one, 270 murdered and they were just travelling home for Christmas.’
He added that he wanted to thank the individuals who ‘let us make the film we wanted to make and that doesn’t happen much anymore’.
Mobility on BBC Three – a comedy short about disabled teenagers from Huddersfield – won the Short-Form Bafta, while White Nanny, Black Child won the specialist factual prize.
Director Andy Mundy-Castle became emotional on stage as he collected the gong for White Nanny, Black Child, saying: ‘This has been a tough, tough place to break into, I come from a council estate in Brixton.
‘Oh god, am I the first one to cry?
‘I’ve dreamed for many years about being on this stage.
‘I just want to say to people who come from the same background as me, keep on dreaming, keep on working, keep on getting into good trouble.’
White Nanny, Black Child is about a group of Nigerians fostered by white families in the 70s.
It reveals the heartfelt impact of their challenging upbringing, in a moving and sometimes unsettling meditation on identity, belonging and the nature of family.
Casualty won the Soap gong, beating Emmerdale and EastEnders, after Coronation Street was snubbed in the nominations this year.
Accepting the award, the team thanked the crew in Cardiff and BBC Studios for all their work.
‘Casualty is proud to be a continuing drama,’ one team member says. ‘It doesn’t get better than this,’ he added.
The Shamima Begum Story on BBC Two won the Current Affairs Award. The show beat the likes of Inside Russia: Traitors And Heroes (Storyville) on BBC Four and Russell Brand: In Plain Sight (Dispatches) on Channel 4.
Cheltenham Festival Day One won the Sports Coverage Award beating Wimbledon and the Women’s World Cup in the category.
The Best International Award went to Netflix’s Class Act and the News Coverage gong went to Inside Gaza: Israel And Hamas At War (Channel 4 News).
Class Act on the streaming platform tells the story of the late Bernard Tapie, a French politician and businessman, who defines himself as an outstanding public figure – through his successes and his failures.
‘Please watch our show. It’s called Class Act. It’s quite good,’ said star Laurent Lafitte on stage.
Elsewhere Scam Interceptors on BBC One won the gong in the Daytime category – beating both Loose Women and Lorraine.
After the team accepted the award, host Romesh Ranganathan joked about the BBC One show catching his uncle.
The Factual Entertainment Award went to Celebrity Race Across The World – a series which follows stars on an epic 10,000km race from Africa to the Arctic.
Awards hosts Rob and Romesh kicked off the ceremony by issuing stern instructions to the star-studded audience.
Beckett said: ‘We are back for a second year as hosts. There were a few mistakes made last year so if you win, we love a good acceptance speech – but keep it tight.’
Ranganathan added: ‘Actually don’t say anything at all.
‘Producers, you can come up to the stage if you must, but please stand at the back and let the famous people talk.
‘To the actors, it’s impossible to ‘fall in love with a script’ – you read it, you liked it and thought it would make you some money.’
Beckett continued: ‘If you have got to make a political point, remember we have got to follow you – so keep it light.’
The Single Documentary gong went to Ellie Simmonds: Finding My Secret Family on ITV.
As she accepted the award, Ellie said she hadn’t planned anything to say, but started by thanking both her adoptive and birth parents.
‘I don’t know if you’ve watched it, but I cry a lot,’ she added as she thanked a number of her team members.
‘If you want to adopt, adopt different disabilities,’ she said.
Elsewhere during the ceremony Ella Eyre performed on stage and looked stunning in am off-the-shoulder red dress.
Also during the ceremony Lorraine Kelly won the Special Award.
Accepting the BAFTA, the TV show host said it was an ‘amazing’ honour and took a moment to thank everyone she had worked with over the years.
‘I never ever take it for granted that so many people trust me with their stories,’ she said.
‘I would just say don’t pull up the ladder… I just want everyone to have the best opportunities.’

Accepting the award, the actress, 29, said: ‘Oh my goodness, my dress is making me slide everywhere. I don’t know what to say, I’m so overwhelmed, I was not expecting this’

Tess and Claudia Winkleman – who both looked stunning in white outfits – looked as proud as ever as they posed backstage with the awards

Mawaan Rizwan accepted the Male Performance in a Comedy Programme Award for Juice and looked thrilled as he headed up onto the stage

Elsewhere Squid Game: The Challenge won the Reality gong, while The Eurovision Song Contest 2023 won the award for Live Event Coverage

Hannah Waddingham, who co-hosted the contest in Liverpool last year, accepted the trophy on stage

John Dower accepts the Factual Series Award for Lockerbie on stage during the 2024 BAFTA Television Awards

Toni Ireland, John Hay, guest, guest, Stephen Lambert and Stephen Yemoh with the Reality Award for Squid Game: The Challenge

Stephen Lambert, John Hay and Toni Ireland accept the Reality Award for Squid Game: The Challenge on stage

Actor Laurent Lafitte accepts the International Award for Class Act on stage at the star-studded event

Rav Wilding accepts the Daytime Award for Scam Interceptors on the stage

Rob Beckett and Romesh Ranganathan are hosting this year’s event

Richard Willoughby, Ed Chamberlin, Bridget Toomey, Dionne Robinson-Smith, Paul McNamara and Producer Dylan Clark pose backstage with the Sports Coverage Award for Cheltenham Festival Day One

Esme Wren accepts the News Coverage Award for Channel 4 News: Inside Gaza: Israel and Hamas at War

Jack Carroll, Thomas Gregory, Akaash Meeda, David Simpson and Sam Ward in the press room after winning the Short Form award for Mobility

Singer Ella Eyre performed during the ceremony

Stefania Aleksander, Tess Daly, Sarah James, Claudia Winkleman, Nicola Fitzgerald, Jack Gledhill and Robin Lee-Perrella pose with the Entertainment Award for Strictly