Channel 4 enjoys BAFTA success

Dilly ding, dilly dong! Let the bells ring out with the glad tidings that Channel 4 has enjoyed yet another night of awards success.

This Is England ’90 won two awards, for Best Mini Series, and Best Supporting Actress for Chanel Cresswell. A less self-respecting writer would, at this stage, make a comment about it being a good night for both the Channel and the Chanel, but you don’t get that sort of guff here. Oh no.

Michaela Coel continues on her one-woman assault on the awards world, collecting her bijillionth gong for E4’s Chewing Gum, for Best Female Performance in a Comedy. The Reality and Constructed Factual Award was won by First Dates, a programme that is so good that if it was a person, it would definitely be getting into a taxi to go for more drinks in Soho.

The Single Documentary Award went to the riveting and heart-breaking My Son the Jihadi, while the News Coverage award went to Channel 4 News for its outstanding reporting of the Paris massacre. The Best Factual Series award was taken into custody by The Murder Detectives.

In other news from the weekend, Leicester City were crowned Premier League Champions, a delightful and implausible tale of the smaller organisation taking on bigger rivals thanks to a mixture of courage, inventiveness, skill and determination, and riding to triumph on a wave of popular acclaim. In that respect, some might say that there are strong parallels with Channel 4’s success. The only difference is, our triumph doesn’t mean you have to watch Gary Lineker in his pants.

Dilly ding, dilly dong indeed.