‘Pachinko,’ ‘Intercourse Schooling’ & Jodie Comer Win At Edinburgh TV Awards – Deadline

Apple TV+’s Pachinko and Netflix’s Sex Education are among the many huge winners on the Edinburgh TV Awards. Jodie Comer, Mo Gilligan and Sharon Horgan’s indie additionally scooped goings on the occasion, held this night in Scotland’s capital because the Edinburgh TV Competition’s second day involves an finish.

Soo Hugh’s South Korean sequence Pachinko gained the house Greatest Worldwide Drama class, marking Apple TV+’s first win on the awards. Intercourse Schooling, which comes from Sony-owned indie Eleven was named Greatest Comedy, whereas Martin Freeman-fronted BBC drama The Responder was Greatest Drama.

Within the appearing classes, Killing Eve star Jodie Comer, who final yr’s Excellent Achievement Award recipient, gained the Greatest TV Actor in a Drama award for her efficiency in Jack Thorne’s Channel 4 care house drama Assist, and Daisy Haggard gained Greatest TV Actor in a Comedy for the BBC’s Again To Life. Breakthrough Actor went to Danielle Macdonald for BBC One sequence The Vacationer.

Elsewhere, Sharon Horgan and Clelia Mountford’s Merman, which is behind comedies equivalent to This Means Up and Motherland, was awarded Manufacturing Firm of the 12 months, and Firecrest Movies obtained the Small Indie of the 12 months Award. Channel 4 was named Channel of the 12 months.

The Greatest Presenter Class which went to The Huge Breakfast pair AJ Odudu and Mo Gilligan, with the latter’s The Lateish Present was named Greatest Leisure Sequence.

Slapstick comedian and author Sophie Duker hosted the occasion, which celebrates high UK and worldwide content material, broadcasters, streamers and producers.

The Edinburgh TV Competition’s Inventive Director, Stewart Clarke, stated: “It’s been an completely phenomenal yr for TV manufacturing as soon as once more, with the most effective of our enterprise nominated and rightly celebrated. Congratulations to all the massively well-deserved TV Awards winners, who confronted stiff competitors throughout the board and an enormous thanks goes to our TV Awards Jury headed up by Sue Vertue.”