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Five Bafta Cymru awards for BBC's Sherlock | Five Bafta Cymru awards for BBC's Sherlock |
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The BBC One drama Sherlock has swept the board at the Bafta Cymru awards, winning five categories. | The BBC One drama Sherlock has swept the board at the Bafta Cymru awards, winning five categories. |
Sherlock, the modern-day retelling of Sherlock Holmes commissioned by BBC Cymru Wales, won best television drama and best director for Euros Lyn. | Sherlock, the modern-day retelling of Sherlock Holmes commissioned by BBC Cymru Wales, won best television drama and best director for Euros Lyn. |
The best actor award went to Stuart Brennan for his role as the Welsh boxer Howard Winstone. | The best actor award went to Stuart Brennan for his role as the Welsh boxer Howard Winstone. |
Meanwhile, BBC Wales's Week In Week Out won an award for its programme University Challenged. | |
The investigative series examined the way in which the University of Wales validated courses in overseas institutions. | |
The 20th annual awards was held Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff on Sunday. | The 20th annual awards was held Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff on Sunday. |
BBC Cymru Wales productions took 11 of the 26 awards, while independent production company Rondo Media won in four categories, closely followed by Fiction Factory with three awards. | BBC Cymru Wales productions took 11 of the 26 awards, while independent production company Rondo Media won in four categories, closely followed by Fiction Factory with three awards. |
Programmes on the Welsh language channel S4C claimed prizes in eight categories. | Programmes on the Welsh language channel S4C claimed prizes in eight categories. |
Best actress | Best actress |
But it was Sherlock's night. | But it was Sherlock's night. |
Starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman, it won awards for best television drama, best director (fiction), production design, hair and make-up and photography (fiction). | Starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman, it won awards for best television drama, best director (fiction), production design, hair and make-up and photography (fiction). |
Sherlock won two prizes at the Bafta TV Awards ceremony in London last week. | Sherlock won two prizes at the Bafta TV Awards ceremony in London last week. |
The best actor award went to Stuart Brennan, who is said to have spent five years in training for his role in Risen: The Howard Winstone Story. Winstone, from Merthyr Tydfil, died in 2000. | The best actor award went to Stuart Brennan, who is said to have spent five years in training for his role in Risen: The Howard Winstone Story. Winstone, from Merthyr Tydfil, died in 2000. |
Television producer Gareth Gwenlan, who worked on the BBC comedies Only Fools and Horses, The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin and To the Manor Born, received a lifetime achievement award for his contribution to the British and Welsh television industry. | |
The Hollywood actor from Cardiff, Matthew Rhys, was also honoured with The Sian Phillips Award, while BBC Wales' Snowdonia 1890 was given the Gwyn Alf Williams Award. | The Hollywood actor from Cardiff, Matthew Rhys, was also honoured with The Sian Phillips Award, while BBC Wales' Snowdonia 1890 was given the Gwyn Alf Williams Award. |
Mali Harries won best actress for her role in The Indian Doctor, which was made by Rondo for the BBC, and set in a Welsh mining village in 1963. | |
Angharad Mair, of Welsh language magazine programme Wedi 7 on S4C, was awarded best presenter, while comedian Rhod Gilbert's Work Experience for BBC Wales won best factual series for his trials with the Bin Men. | Angharad Mair, of Welsh language magazine programme Wedi 7 on S4C, was awarded best presenter, while comedian Rhod Gilbert's Work Experience for BBC Wales won best factual series for his trials with the Bin Men. |