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Channel 4 has enjoyed a successful afternoon at the Bafta TV Awards amid uncertainty over its future – winning a total of five awards.

The event at the Royal Festival Hall on Southbank in London, which featured its first full audience in two years, also saw the BBC claim nine awards and ITV take home seven.

Hosted by comedian Richard Ayoade, the ceremony celebrated the best of British television across multiple categories.

A number of winners used their speeches to hail the value of Channel 4 and criticise Government plans to privatise the broadcaster.

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00:04Hello, everyone. I'm so nervous. I want to say a huge thank you to The Forge and Channel 4 for
00:14believing in this script from the very, very beginning.
00:16And I want to thank Jack Thorne for a moment for us because hopefully the show how powerful TV can
00:23be where it's actually infused some changes. It's even helped for BSL law to be passed recently. It made people
00:32stand up.
00:46Where we can, you know, hopefully put a smile on people's faces. So we counted ourselves very lucky to be
00:51able to get in the car and go to work every day and to do the job that we love
00:55to do. And for it to be nominated and then win a BAFTA is just, I mean, we feel very
01:02overjoyed right now.
01:13I think, I think before the show came up, like when we were filming the show, I think we were
01:18making a show that felt really intimate. It felt like it was kind of our thing.
01:21A minority of people. So there's always that. And it's a queer tale. So there was that fear that it's
01:27a mass audience.
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