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The show managed to beat out strong competition from EastEnders, Coronation Street and Hollyoaks to take home the prestigious accolade on Sunday.
The actor, 44, ripped into Normal People star Paul Mescal, 25, and actor Greg Davies, 53, during the ceremony in London on Sunday, leaving some fans to say he 'smashed' the presenting gig.
She failed to pick up a gong at the BAFTA TV Awards on Sunday afternoon.
BAFTA TV Awards 2021: The full list of winners
Coel paid particular tribute to Ita O'Brien, the show's "intimacy director". She said O'Brien was crucial to "making the space safe for creating physical, emotional, and professional boundaries so that we can make work about exploitation, loss of respect, about abuse of power, without being exploited or abused in the process". The intimacy director role is "essential for every production company that wants to make work exploring themes of consent", Coel said . The Crown empty-handed. The fictionalised account of the modern British royal family, which swept the board at the Golden Globes earli...