Aidan Turner makes a new friend and dodgy Peaky Blinders ballet: 7 surprises from the Bafta TV awards

Seven moments you might have missed from the 2024 Baftas TV awards ceremony at London’s Royal Festival Hall on Sunday May 12

Danny Dyer and Aidan Turner backstage during the 2024 BAFTA Television Awards (Photo by Iona Wolff/BAFTA via Getty Images)

Chris Wasser

That’s it for another year, thankfully. Save for a handful of genuinely thrilling moments –chief among them, a magnificent speech from beloved children’s presenter Floella Benjamin, accepting a long overdue Bafta Fellowship prize for her services to television, this year’s Bafta TV awards occasionally looked as if it might fall apart at any minute. But there were some surprises.

A Drama series win for Netflix’s Top Boy was one of them (the odds were in Happy Valley’s favour), and nobody expected The Crown to leave empty-handed. Elsewhere, Netflix’s Class Act triumphed over Succession in the International series category (a shock victory, that one), and the fabulous Hannah Waddingham, star of Apple TV’s Home for Christmas special, sipped from a nifty bracelet flask after losing out in the Entertainment Programme field to Strictly Come Dancing.