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Last Updated: Thursday, 20 March 2008, 08:13 GMT
The Bill wins soap award battle
The Bill has come out top in the battle of the soaps at the Royal Television Society Awards.
The ITV1 show beat off competition from Coronation Street and Holby City in the soap and continuing drama category.
BBC Three's The Mighty Boosh won best sitcom, with BBC Two quiz show QI, presented by Stephen Fry, winning the entertainment award.
Eamonn Holmes, who hosted the London ceremony, said QI was "old-fashioned" but "part of the zeitgeist".
Speaking after the awards, Noel Fielding, who plays Vince Noir in The Mighty Boosh, told BBC News: "It's taken about 10 years for people to get their heads around it, which we knew would happen, so it's a slow build.
"Its like building a watch, an elaborate sort of intricate watch, but we've done it now and they can tell the time."
Other comedy winners were duo David Mitchell and Robert Webb, who picked up the comedy performance award for Channel 4's Peep Show.
Harry Hill picked up best entertainment performance for TV Burp, in which he pokes fun at the week's most bizarre TV clips.
The judges described Hill as someone who had moved his ITV1 show "from the edge to the heart of the schedule".
The BBC's Andrew Marr won two awards - best history programme and best presenter for his History of Modern Britain.
BBC Two car show Top Gear won the features and lifestyle series award, with presenters James May and Richard Hammond picking up the award without frontman Jeremy Clarkson.
"Actually Hammond and I were only here because we were told to be," said May.
Hammond added: "We would like to say, because it's a rare opportunity, thank you very much."
The best actor gong went to Matthew Macfadyen for his portrayal of a paedophile in one-off Channel 4 drama Secret Life.
Best actress went to Sally Hawkins for her lead role in ITV's Jane Austen adaptation, Persuasion.
Lifetime achievement
Channel 4 successes on the night included Meet The Natives, which took the formatted documentary award.
You're Not Splitting Up My Family won the observational documentary award and Come Dine With Me beat ITV1's Loose Women to take the best daytime programme award.
Wildlife presenter Sir David Attenborough, meanwhile, picked up the lifetime achievement award.
Accepting his award in a pre-recorded video clip, Sir David said: "When I joined the BBC 56 years ago, there was only one professional television organisation in this country, I imagine in the world, and that of course was this one.
"If there is one award that one values in television, it is the first one, it is this one."
RTS awards: Winners list
The 2008 Royal Television Society Awards have been handed out in London.
Lifetime achievement award
Sir David Attenborough
Situation comedy and comedy drama
The Mighty Boosh (BBC Three)
Entertainment programme
QI (BBC Two)
Arts
Genius of Photography (BBC Four)
Comedy performance
David Mitchell and Robert Webb, Peep Show (Channel 4)
Soap and continuing drama
The Bill (ITV1)
Daytime programme
Come Dine With Me (Channel 4)
International award
Flight of the Conchords (BBC Four)
Presenter
Andrew Marr - Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain (BBC Two)
Formatted documentary
Meet the Natives (Channel 4)
History
Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain (BBC Two)
Science and natural history
Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives (BBC Four)
Observational documentary
You're Not Splitting Up My Family (Channel Four)
Features and lifestyle series
Top Gear (BBC Two)
Drama series
The Street (BBC One)
Drama serial
Britz (Channel 4)
Single drama
Stuart: A Life Backwards (BBC Two)
Writer - drama
Cranford (BBC One)
Writer - comedy
The IT Crowd (Channel 4)
Actress
Sally Hawkins, Persuasion (ITV1)
Actor
Matthew Macfadyen, Secret Life (Channel 4)
Entertainment performance
Harry Hill - Harry Hill's TV Burp (ITV1)
Digital channel programme Award
Fonejacker (Channel 4)
Children's drama
My Life as a Popat - Evil Granny (ITV1)
Children's programme
Serious Andes (BBC One)
Nations and regions programme
Boys Behind Bars (BBC Scotland)
Judge's award
Glenwyn Benson
Last Updated: Thursday, 20 March 2008, 08:13 GMT
The Bill wins soap award battle
The Bill has come out top in the battle of the soaps at the Royal Television Society Awards.
The ITV1 show beat off competition from Coronation Street and Holby City in the soap and continuing drama category.
BBC Three's The Mighty Boosh won best sitcom, with BBC Two quiz show QI, presented by Stephen Fry, winning the entertainment award.
Eamonn Holmes, who hosted the London ceremony, said QI was "old-fashioned" but "part of the zeitgeist".
Speaking after the awards, Noel Fielding, who plays Vince Noir in The Mighty Boosh, told BBC News: "It's taken about 10 years for people to get their heads around it, which we knew would happen, so it's a slow build.
"Its like building a watch, an elaborate sort of intricate watch, but we've done it now and they can tell the time."
Other comedy winners were duo David Mitchell and Robert Webb, who picked up the comedy performance award for Channel 4's Peep Show.
Harry Hill picked up best entertainment performance for TV Burp, in which he pokes fun at the week's most bizarre TV clips.
The judges described Hill as someone who had moved his ITV1 show "from the edge to the heart of the schedule".
The BBC's Andrew Marr won two awards - best history programme and best presenter for his History of Modern Britain.
BBC Two car show Top Gear won the features and lifestyle series award, with presenters James May and Richard Hammond picking up the award without frontman Jeremy Clarkson.
"Actually Hammond and I were only here because we were told to be," said May.
Hammond added: "We would like to say, because it's a rare opportunity, thank you very much."
The best actor gong went to Matthew Macfadyen for his portrayal of a paedophile in one-off Channel 4 drama Secret Life.
Best actress went to Sally Hawkins for her lead role in ITV's Jane Austen adaptation, Persuasion.
Lifetime achievement
Channel 4 successes on the night included Meet The Natives, which took the formatted documentary award.
You're Not Splitting Up My Family won the observational documentary award and Come Dine With Me beat ITV1's Loose Women to take the best daytime programme award.
Wildlife presenter Sir David Attenborough, meanwhile, picked up the lifetime achievement award.
Accepting his award in a pre-recorded video clip, Sir David said: "When I joined the BBC 56 years ago, there was only one professional television organisation in this country, I imagine in the world, and that of course was this one.
"If there is one award that one values in television, it is the first one, it is this one."
RTS awards: Winners list
The 2008 Royal Television Society Awards have been handed out in London.
Lifetime achievement award
Sir David Attenborough
Situation comedy and comedy drama
The Mighty Boosh (BBC Three)
Entertainment programme
QI (BBC Two)
Arts
Genius of Photography (BBC Four)
Comedy performance
David Mitchell and Robert Webb, Peep Show (Channel 4)
Soap and continuing drama
The Bill (ITV1)
Daytime programme
Come Dine With Me (Channel 4)
International award
Flight of the Conchords (BBC Four)
Presenter
Andrew Marr - Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain (BBC Two)
Formatted documentary
Meet the Natives (Channel 4)
History
Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain (BBC Two)
Science and natural history
Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives (BBC Four)
Observational documentary
You're Not Splitting Up My Family (Channel Four)
Features and lifestyle series
Top Gear (BBC Two)
Drama series
The Street (BBC One)
Drama serial
Britz (Channel 4)
Single drama
Stuart: A Life Backwards (BBC Two)
Writer - drama
Cranford (BBC One)
Writer - comedy
The IT Crowd (Channel 4)
Actress
Sally Hawkins, Persuasion (ITV1)
Actor
Matthew Macfadyen, Secret Life (Channel 4)
Entertainment performance
Harry Hill - Harry Hill's TV Burp (ITV1)
Digital channel programme Award
Fonejacker (Channel 4)
Children's drama
My Life as a Popat - Evil Granny (ITV1)
Children's programme
Serious Andes (BBC One)
Nations and regions programme
Boys Behind Bars (BBC Scotland)
Judge's award
Glenwyn Benson