Category : BBC
Date : 19.04.2004
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The BBC won 11 out of 17 British Academy (Bafta) Television Awards at last night's ceremony in London.

They included two awards for The Office - Best Comedy Performance and Best Sitcom.

In January this year The Office won two prestigious Golden Globe Awards in Los Angeles.

The BBC Bafta winners were:

Best Actor - Bill Nighy, for State of Play, BBC ONE;

Best Actress - Julie Walters, for Canterbury Tales: Wife of Bath, BBC ONE;

Best Entertainment Performance - Jonathan Ross, for Friday Night With Jonathan Ross, BBC ONE;

Best Comedy Performance - Ricky Gervais, for The Office Christmas Special, BBC ONE;

Best Drama Serial - Charles II - The Power and the Passion, BBC ONE;

Best Factual Series or Strand (Huw Wheldon award) - The National Trust, BBC FOUR and BBC TWO;

Best Documentary (Flaherty award) - ONE life: Lager, Mum and Me, BBC ONE;

Best Current Affairs - The Secret Policeman, BBC ONE;

Best Entertainment Programme or Series (Lew Grade award) - Friday Night With Jonathan Ross, BBC ONE;

Best Situation Comedy - The Office Christmas Special, BBC ONE;

Best Comedy Programme or Series - Little Britain, BBC THREE and BBC TWO.

In addition, BBC Political Editor Andrew Marr won the Richard Dimbleby Award and BBC ONE's Only Fools and Horses won the Radio Times Audience Award.

The British Academy Television Awards were sponsored by the Radio Times.