Benedict Cumberbatch and Rebecca Hall win honours for Parade's End
On-screen couple Benedict Cumberbatch and Rebecca Hall took the top honours at an awards ceremony yesterday for their performances in period drama Parade's End.
The pair were named best actor and best actress respectively at the Broadcasting Press Guild Awards, where Cumberbatch was also recognised for his starring role in Sherlock as his award was shared between the two performances.
Parade's End, which was shown on BBC Two in five episodes last year, picked up four prizes and was named best drama series, while dramatist Sir Tom Stoppard won the BPG writer's award for his work adapting the original novels by Ford Madox Ford.
The award for best single documentary went to ITV's exposure of Jimmy Savile's sex crimes, which sparked a chain of events including the downfall of BBC director-general George Entwistle and a wide-ranging criminal investigation into allegations of abuse in the entertainment industry.
The awards, which are sponsored by the Discovery Channel and voted for by journalists who write about television and radio, were handed out today at an event at One Whitehall Place in central London.
Other winners include Charlotte Green, who was named radio broadcaster of the year after stepping down following 25 years as a Radio 4 newsreader and announcer.
BBC Two's Olympic spoof Twenty Twelve won the best comedy/entertainment award and Channel 4's Adam Hills won the breakthrough award for his nightly Paralympics show, The Last Leg, which gave an alternative view of the day's events.