first of all to all of you for joining us here this evening the beautiful Royal Festival Hall

For our annual celebration of the finest television this country has to offer

Honestly so much great TV isn't there I tell you you've all been working harder than the plug in air freshener at the Ecuadorian Embassy

That's hard that is working there

If you have tuned in to see the final episode of line of duty

I'm afraid you miss that that was last week, but say all you need to know is

It's not a spoiler nobody knows what it means touching its straws we just

Knowledge, even though everyone loved it

The interviews are they're incredible a more forensically detailed interrogation of times date and mobile phone data

Hasn't been seen since that time Sean Walsh got home late from strictly practice

Yeah, yes snog one dancer

Now ladies and gentlemen

As we all know the country became bitterly divided this year after a controversial

Extension was granted to give more time people were angry

particularly as Raul then went on to win bagels every

Week after an error of judgment a baker gets kicked out this week it was Danny literally a showstopper

It felt like things really moved on this year, you know

We now have a female host of question time and all female lineup a Newsnight. It's fantastic

Don't integrate for a quality, but it saves the BBC a fortune

Don't clap of that test daily

Full disclosure by the way, a woman wrote that joke. I'm just reading these things aloud, okay

Vision has continued air to embrace the modern

LGBTQ world with programs such as butterfly queer I and soon to come drag race UK. Yeah, I know

Not to mention Danny Dyer's brave decision to live simultaneously as a middle-aged man at a young woman

Beautiful beautiful

One of my favorite TV modes of the year was when bears the Happy Mondays went on bargain hunt

If you're watching bears, seriously that did happen you did do it

Hey and what about killing Eve ladies and gentlemen

Jody comer and Sandra Oh Oh

Have you ever seen such an enthralling love/hate rivalry played out between two actresses on television?

Well keep watching because they can't both win tonight

Hey, let's mention the brass documentary there boys

It was

Must-see television. Now a lot of people have argued about which one emerged with the most dignity. Well, I tell him balance

It's probably the basest Craig took time to take part

Pili horse with a bodyguard she's here. Hello

I

Feel I should say hello now because of jade mercury has anything to do with it

You won't see the end of the show. Will you know or will she?

Now if you are going to do a speech tonight if you are a winner

Please be like David Budd in The Bodyguard and say as few words as possible

Yeah, when it comes to award shows I have a mantra it's the same one

I use before sex the sooner we start the sooner we finish

So, let's take a look at what fantastic year we've had in TV

Congratulations to the Patrick Melrose team

This gripping five-part drama is based on the acclaimed semi autobiographical novels by Edwardson

Tobin Benedict Cumberbatch plays the title role of troubled Melrose trying to overcome his addictions and demons

Benedict is also nominated for leading actor later tonight

Thank you

so we

Collectively want to thank the fantastic people at Sky and at Sky, Atlantic

particularly and Manson's I Bennett

our amazing

production team

and

We had a great adapter in

David Nicholls Edward burger is an amazing director and

I think all of us were brought to this project by the fantastic writing of Edwards and organ and

this is an adaptation of his five Patrick Melrose novels and

we hope you like the series but frankly the books are better and

They are available in all the good bookstores, thank you

Thank you

Now presenting PA MTA

Ac-12 and auc open ocg its line of duties mark thompson trail

And the BAFTA goes to English. Oh you repeat sorry Wow, did you

Did you did yeah

Okay

This is going really well, it's a king can't was mr. Ave and we haven't even flavors juicedlink the KitKat we've gotten away

I'm gonna get home for another two hours uncle Emilio and

Fiona Shaw

Work-obsessed mi

That's thrilling drama killing Eve her co-stars Jody coma and Sandra

Oh are closed nominated in the leading actress category later this evening

It's fair to say every good bead needs strong support and Jonah celebrates her first back the win from the first ever

nomination

Was heavy

And since I

began to play

Karen in killing Eve, which has been probably the greatest pleasure of my life people have begun to suspect that. I am a spy

And I just want to thank the director

Harry Brad bear for that because he said no. No, you can't pay this part with an Irish accent and

I just want to make a few things. Thanks to Sally

currently at

Sid gentle thanks to my

incomparable agent

Polymerase

Thank you to my beautiful cast who I work with all the time the gorgeous Kim and

Jody and Sandra and

Thanks to my astonishing wife's in our leader Aguila whose life inspires many more than me

But my final thanks is of course to Phoebe while a bridge

Whose glass shattering genius and

wayward imagination

You know produces things out of her mind from coke cans to rats

to Russia and all I can say is

Look, baby

Both hands extraordinary. Thank you very much

Changes drama Bandersnatch after Chaudhary and will alter

With so many great nominees. It's a shame only one of you can win. That's true

but as we learn on Bandersnatch, the others can always, you know restart and try again their

Alternate realities and all that. Yeah. Yeah wrong path my great reference, mate

thanks, mate and the bathtub and team performance goes to

Lemak for would I lie to you?

To win for his first nomination he

Jinan, would I lie to you alongside fellow nominee David Mitchell ever since the show's inception back in

2007 ride together music television he was

Right, I'll keep it brief because I know we just want to go for dinner now

Especially this year because there's no chocolate under the sea

Are you still on bbc1 or is it channel 5 now so

Thanks for this I don't want to sound ungrateful

But on the off chance that we do get to come back that shoe

Is there any chance we couldn't do it on the same day as the final Premier League game? That would be handy I'm Annika

I couldn't have watched it anyway, because I've got a virgin media and the receptions terrible

Because it's on in about an hour

We can nominate it

We get nominated as a show for the last five or six years

It's been really nice to be nominated and we lose every year as a show

and

We're all bitterly disappointed every year and earlier this evening. We lost again. I just hope this goes some way to

Rob and David that I've been singled out. I

Mean he's getting paid more but this is gonna kill him

Genuinely as Steve said about Reese to Smith before it is three of us and it goes to rob and David as well and all

The production team on Zepa tron, so thank you very much. Thank you

- pretends the bathtub or drama series, please

Welcome to shining megastars Riviera's Julia Stiles and magnifiers James Norton

It's impossible not to feel a sense of awe at the sheer quality of the nominated drama series

This country has produced over the past 12 months. I know because my country likes to steal all of them and

It's no exaggeration to suggest that many of you

Here this evening have played a huge part in assuring in what is now often described as a golden age of television dramas

so pat on the back and

the BAFTA goes to

Killing

Drama theories

Based on eugenics is code

novella series and developed television by the mastermind behind the hilarious feedback Phoebe Waller bridge

Co-star Sandra. Oh and Jody coma

Nominated believing acted later tonight. I'm sure everyone is if we can't wait to watch there is too

Oh my god

Well

Thank you all so much thank you back to so much for this as you can see

This is an unbelievably charismatic and brilliant an energetic risk-taking team and it wouldn't have none of this would happen without with one

Single one of them. I can't speak so unbelievably exciting

It's a massive massive. Thank you. First and foremost said Luke Jennings who wrote the novellas that these are based off

So none of this would have ever appeared and these characters would never receive it wasn't

Mentis ali bhutto gentlemanly morris and everyone said gentle films stop making this happen and

bringing this incredible team together for Harry Bradbury for leading the charge and Colin rotten for producing the hell out of this show and

and then Jenny Robbins who just story lines more than anyone has ever story lying to anything before and

Yeah, and then our incredible incredible cast and just to say thanks to everyone in it for just taking massive risks the whole time

Jody coma almost swallowed a wasp in Tuscany it was

It was a really edgy moment. This ER that we did capture somewhere and maybe one day and thank you so much

Gary John Romita

the most amazing editor who has been another author in this whole process and

And I have to say I can now stand and say Thank You fili for being the most extraordinary

collaborator

amazing writer

just

and

Thank you very much

The resent penultimate award fees, but to one of our greatest actors star peaky blinders and mother father son, it's Helen McCrory

Good evening, ladies and gentlemen Graham

It's always an honor to present this evening which is why I think and remember my right glasses

But I haven't ladies and gentlemen, so, excuse me

It is hard to imagine

Than the leading actor category this year Oh

With such towering ability

What self-respecting actress like myself could stand here and say they wouldn't want Lucien's pose?

chances youthful grace Benedict sheer power or Hughes phone number

But seriously, I'd like to congratulate them or I would I saw them all and they are four

phenomenal

performances

Congratulations

The

2019

BAFTA for Best British actor goes to

Benedict Cumberbatch

Domination was back in 2005 the BBC biopic at Stephen wolf

But for the hollow crown

20:17, but this is the first time he has taken the back to her

Oh

Gosh I think I gotta fall over I

Rarefied air, but I'm very used to being a bridesmaid. I'm

Not the bride

Thank You BAFTA for this and I

Breathe rarefied air because it's it's a gift what we got to do as storytellers. It's even more of a gift when it's

material is refined as this series penned by David and

directed by ed Berger

Produced by Rachel and Michael and my best friend Adam Ackland

with a crew to die for in a cast Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jessica, Anna and

Everybody Rudy I'm gonna forget their names now

But I'll keep it short because I think everyone probably does need to go to the bathroom right now

But we all stand on one man's shoulders an extraordinary human being

The greatest gift and reward of which is being able to say I'm his friend

The man who wrote the five novels that this was based on whose life

There is much of what Patrick Melrose endured in the series and in the books. That's Edwardson or burn

Thank you for your your wit your courage

an extraordinary thing to try and mirror and achieve and to bring home a story of salvation and

Great kindness, which is what you embody my friends. So this is for you. I

Do have to thank one other person who's very important in my world, which is my wife

Sophie and our family

Yeah, you're my rock you'll I had to go pretty weird for this one

There was some things I had to do and it was very nice to come home and feel

Stable again and my agent John grant for putting up for me when I'm very unstable. He'll have to give me a drink after these

Everyone who works with Conway fangirl that Elaine obviously I have to mention you Karen Hartley Thomas

You can come back into the country now if she left because she couldn't bear to see me not winning. It's alright

I've got one and I gonna bring it home. Thank you very much everybody. Good night

Our final nominees there and to announce the winner is our very own multi BAFTA winning

Oscar-nominated writer actor and funny man, please. Welcome the brilliant Steve Coogan

Good evening. Good evening when I was asked to thank you for responding Thank You, Kenton

When I was asked to present the Best

Leading Actress