Julie Walters wins TV BAFTA -
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Julie Walters wins the TV BAFTA for the third year in a row
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Screen stars Ricky Gervais and Julie Walters have completed hat-tricks at the Bafta TV awards, both picking up awards for the third year running.
Gervais won best comedy performance again, and The Office also won best sitcom for the third year in a row.
Walters was named best actress once more for her role in The Wife of Bath.
Jonathan Ross, Coronation Street, Bill Nighy and Little Britain also picked up awards after stars walked down a red carpet that was foaming in the rain.
Gervais beat The Office co-star Martin Freeman to win best comedy performance for the show's Christmas special.
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"Oh dear - it's better being the underdog," Gervais told the audience when accepting his comedy performance trophy.
"It's probably the last time I'll be up here for a while - this is an end to the chapter... apart from the DVD."
Gervais, who recently became the first UK star to win a TV comedy acting prize at the US Golden Globe awards, almost missed out on this year's Bafta nomination when the BBC missed the deadline for putting his name forward.
But Bafta allowed his name to be added to the longlist after the "clerical error" was explained.
On accepting the best sitcom prize, Gervais said: "This is fantastic. I've just found out the first one was a clerical error."
Jonathan Ross picked up two awards in entertainment categories
The stars of comedy sketch show Little Britain, Matt Lucas and David Walliams, were also nominated for comedy performance.
But they got a huge cheer when they beat Bo Selecta, Creature Comforts and Double Take to pick up the best comedy programme prize.
Julie Walters, meanwhile, beat Dame Helen Mirren, Miranda Richardson and Gina McKee to be named best actress.
Her award, for her role in BBC One's Canterbury Tales adaptation, follows honours for Murder in 2003 and My Beautiful Son in 2002.
In the best actor category, Bill Nighy added the Bafta TV award to the Bafta film award he won in February for Love Actually.
Coronation Street triumphed over The Bill, Casualty and Holby City
The TV accolade came for his role in political drama State of Play, and he beat off competition from co-star David Morrissey.
Also nominated were Jim Broadbent, for The Young Visiters, and the new Doctor Who, Christopher Eccleston, for The Second Coming.
Jonathan Ross picked up two awards - best entertainment performance and best entertainment programme - for his Friday Night with Jonathan Ross show.
"I shall treat it like a baby and suckle it gently," he said when picking up one award.
And Coronation Street took the best continuing drama title after its great rival, EastEnders, failed to be nominated for anything.
In other categories, reality show Wife Swap won the features award and The Deal - which portrayed Tony Blair and Gordon Brown in 1994 - was named best single drama.
And The Secret Policeman, a BBC One undercover investigation that exposed racism in the police force, picked up the current affairs award.
The BBC won a total of 11 of the ceremony's 17 trophies.
Former BBC director general Greg Dyke, presenting the current affairs prize, got a standing ovation from the audience.
"It's a shame more of you weren't around in January," he said, referring to the events surrounding the Hutton Report that led to his resignation.
Before the ceremony, the stars had to walk down a soggy, frothing red carpet. "I've just swam up from Aylesbury," David Jason joked.
Bafta is now gaining a reputation for red carpets that foam in the rain - the "wet carpet" gained almost as much attention as the stars at Bafta's 2002 film awards.
The ceremony, hosted by Davina McCall, was held at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London. It will be shown on ITV1 on Monday.