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Bean won the leading actor prize for prison
drama "Time", which also scooped the award for mini-series.
Comer, who rose to fame playing an assassin in "Killing Eve",
won leading actress for "Help", a drama set in a care home
during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Her co-star Cathy Tyson won supporting actress while supporting
actor went to Macfadyen for "Succession", a show about power
struggles within a U.S. family media empire.
Coming-of-age story "In My Skin" won the drama series category,
while U.S. mini-series "The Underground Railroad", an adaptation
of Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about a Black
slave's quest for freedom, won in the international category.
Female performance in a comedy programme went to Sophie Willan
for "Alma's Not Normal" while Jamie Demetriou won male
performance in the same category for "Stath Lets Flats".
Veteran comedian and actor Billy Connolly was awarded the BAFTA
Fellowship, the highest accolade given by the academy.
Rapper Big Zuu won two awards - entertainment performance and
features for his show "Big Zuu's Big Eats".
Several winners used their acceptance speech to voice support
for publicly owned but commercially funded broadcaster Channel
4, which the British government last month announced plans to
sell.
(Reporting by Marie-Louise Gumuchian; editing by John
Stonestreet)
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