The Thick of It wins hat-trick at Broadcasting Press Guild awards

The Thick of It has won a hat-trick of prizes at this year's Broadcasting Press Guild awards including a best actor prize for Peter Capaldi for his performance as Malcolm Tucker. Armando Iannucci's political satire, which transferred from BBC4 to BBC2 for last year's series, also won best comedy/entertainment show and the writing award at the ceremony, which took place in central London today. Sky's digital channel, Sky Arts, has won two prizes for its series, Sky Arts Theatre Live!, while former BBC Radio 2 breakfast host Sir Terry Wogan will receive the Harvey Lee Award for outstanding contribution to broadcasting. Choirmaster Gareth Malone won best TV performer in a non-acting role for BBC2's The Choir: Unsung Town, with the series also named best factual entertainment show. In an awards dominated by the BBC, which picked up 12 of the 15 prizes, best single drama went to BBC4 biopic Enid, while best drama series was BBC1's Iraq drama, Occupation. The best actress prize was collected by Maxine Peake, for her roles in BBC1 dramas Criminal Justice and The Street. Andrew Marr's The Making of Modern Britain was named best documentary series, with Man on Wire, part of BBC2's Storyville strand, picking up best single documentary. Radio 4 won two radio awards – Desert Island Discs picked up the radio programme of the year prize, while PM presenter Eddie Mair was named radio broadcaster of the year. The awards, sponsored by Dave, the UKTV-owned digital channel, took place at the Theatre Royal in London's Drury Lane, and were voted for by journalists who write about TV and radio. Broadcasting Press Guild Awards 2010 – the winners Best single drama Enid (A Carnival Films and Television production for BBC4) Best drama series Occupation (A Kudos Film & Television production for BBC1) Best single documentary Man on Wire (A Wall To Wall production, in association with Red Box Films, for BBC, Discovery Films and the UK Film Council, for BBC2) Best documentary series Andrew Marr's The Making of Modern Britain (A BBC production for BBC2) Best comedy/entertainment The Thick of It (A BBC production for BBC2) Best factual entertainment The Choir: Unsung Town (A Twenty Twenty Television production for BBC2) Best multichannel programme Sky Arts Theatre Live! (A Sky Arts Theatre Live! production for Sky Arts) Best actor Peter Capaldi (Malcolm Tucker, in The Thick of It for BBC2) Best actress Maxine Peake (Juliet Miller in Criminal Justice and Madeleine in The Street, for BBC1) Best TV performer in a non-acting role Gareth Malone for The Choir: Unsung Town (A Twenty Twenty Television production for BBC2) Writer's award Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Roger Drew, Will Smith, Sean Gray, Armando Iannucci, Ian Martin, Tony Roche and the cast (The Thick of It, a BBC production for BBC2) Radio broadcaster of the year Eddie Mair (The PM Programme, BBC News for BBC Radio 4) Radio programme of the year Desert Island Discs (A BBC Radio production for BBC Radio 4) Innovation award Sky Arts Harvey Lee Award for outstanding contribution to broadcasting Sir Terry Wogan • To contact the MediaGuardian news desk email [email protected] or phone 020 3353 3857. For all other inquiries please call the main Guardian switchboard on 020 3353 2000. • If you are writing a comment for publication, please mark clearly "for publication".