The Royal Television Society (RTS) has announced the winners of the RTS Programme Awards 2018

The RTS Programme Awards, chaired by Wayne Garvie, honours excellence across all genres of television programming and recognise exceptional actors, presenters, writers and production teams, as well as the programmes themselves.

The BBC scooped 17 awards for its programmes and talent, and also won the coveted RTS Channel of the Year award.

BBC’s comedy series This Country (BBC Three) won three awards: Daisy May Cooper and Charlie Cooper took home the Writer – Comedy and Comedy Performance prizes, and the show also secured the Scripted Comedy award. 

Daniel Lawrence Taylor was presented with the Breakthrough Award for his performance in Timewasters (ITV2). 

The Drama Series award saw a hard-fought category that was won by Channel 4’s The End of the F***ing World.

Channel 4 followed its 2017 success with a consecutive win for Adam Hills, Alex Brooker and Josh Widdicombe (The Last Leg, Channel 4) in the Entertainment Performance category. The Entertainment programme award went to Love Island (ITV).

The Judges’ Award went to Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones for Black Mirror. 

A full list of winners appears here.