BAFTA’s for Berry & Hynes as both win for Comedy Performance

The Velvet Onion

Matt Berry and Jessica Hynes celebrated wins at the 2015 British Academy Television Awards this weekend, for their roles in Toast of London and W1A respectively.

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The duo were the real toast of London on Sunday evening, alongside other winnners including Jason Watkins (Being Human, Psychoville, Trollied) for his performance in The Lost Honour of Christopher Jeffries, and Mackenzie Crook (Game of Thrones, The Office, Ant Muzak), who wrote, directed and starred in winning sitcom Detectorists.

Up for Male Performance in a Comedy Programme, Matt Berry was up against stiff competition in the form of Hugh Bonneville (for W1A), Tom Hollander (for Rev) and Brendan O’Carroll (for Mrs Brown’s Boys), but the award went to the great man himself, currently knee deep in preparation for the third series of his runaway smash hit.

Collecting his award, Matt’s surprise was and…

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