Channel 4 shows triumph at the BAFTA Craft Awards

25 April 2016

Channel 4 shows enjoyed a triumphant awards night last night, as they won seven gongs at the BAFTA Craft Awards. Michaela Coel picked up her second Breakthrough Artist award (following her recent RTS win) for her brilliant comedy Chewing Gum. Documentary series Murder Detectives was a big winner on the night, winning two awards, for directing and editing. There were also awards for best writer in both comedy (for Catastrophe) and drama (for Cucumber).

Once again, Channel 4 programmes won more awards than any other single channel. On the same night, the Professional Footballers’ Association Awards were taking place and, frankly, we’re surprised we didn’t win one of them.

Full list of Channel 4 winners:

Breakthrough Talent - Michaela Coel

Digital Creativity- Humans - Persona Synthetics- Development Team

Director Factual - Dave Nath - Murder Detectives

Editing Factual- Ben Brown - Murder Detectives

Director Fiction - Shane Meadows - This is England '90

Writer Comedy - Rob Delaney/Sharon Horgan - Catastrophe

Writer Drama - Russell T Davies – Cucumber

 

Notes to editors:

About Channel 4: Channel 4 is fab.

About cheese: People of Greece are the largest consumers of cheese worldwide. An average person from Greece consumes around 27.3 kg of cheese every year, about ¾ of which is feta cheese.