Watkins beats Cumberbatch at the Baftas

London

JASON WATKINS beat Benedict Cumberbatch to take the Best Actor honour at Britain's top television awards, while Georgina Campbell was named best actress by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (Bafta).

Cumberbatch, who plays Sherlock Holmes in the hit series Sherlock, has been nominated more times than anyone else in the top categories of the Bafta television awards, but had to forgo it once again as Watkins won on Sunday for his portrayal of the title character in The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies.