Double Bafta win for Peter Kay

...as Tim Minchin gets a Logie

Peter Kay’s Car Share was a double winner at last night’s Bafta awards.

The show won best scripted comedy, with its star taking the best comedy performance prize.

The comedian milked laughs from silently mugging up his emotional response to receiving the latter, before issuing a simple: ‘Thanks.’

And when taking the scripted comedy award, he said: ‘It was just two people in a car talking - who'd have thought it in this day and age?’

Michaela Coel won the award for best female comedy performance for E4's Chewing Gum, over fellow nominees Miranda Hart, Sian Gibson and Sharon Horgan, and used her acceptance speech by paying her respects to Victoria Wood.

Have I Got News For You won the best comedy programme award, and Leigh Francis won best entertainment performance for Celebrity Juice.

Hancock's Half Hour and Steptoe and Son creators Ray Galton and Alan Simpson were unable to pick up their fellowship, Bafta’s highest accolade, but sent a video message.

Sir Lenny Henry, picking up a special award for his outstanding contribution to TV, used to his speech to renew his call more diversity both in front and behind the camera, saying that he hoped that ‘all those 14-year-olds out there superglued to their phones who hope to work in TV irrespective of their race, gender sexuality, class, disability, can realise that Ambition as I was able to realise mine’.

Amazon comedy series Transparent, in which Jeffrey Tambor plays a transgender woman, won the international award. The actor said: ‘This is series that says it's OK to change... be who you are and to hell with the consequences. Believe, love, be free.’

The ceremony, hosted by Graham Norton, took place at London's Royal Festival Hall and aired on BBC One.

Meanwhile Tim Minchin won one of Australia’s biggest TV awards last night, too. He was named most outstanding supporting actor at the Logies for his role in the convict drama, The Secret River.

At the same ceremony, Shaun Micallef’s satirical show Mad As Hell won the award for most outstanding comedy show. He got laughs from his acceptance speech in which he called the celebrities a throng of ‘backslapping, narcissistic, drug-addled perverts’.