Mr Bates Vs The Post Office wins Bafta but fight for victims ‘not over yet’ - The four-part series tells the story about subpostmasters being wrongly convicted of offences such as fraud because of faulty software.

At the Baftas, Kevin Lygo, managing director of ITV Studios, was honoured with the Special Award for commissioning 'Mr Bates Vs The Post Office', and he took the opportunity to call on all television networks to persist in creating programmes that "make power to account".

Mr Bates Vs The Post Office also took home the limited drama trophy, with prodocer Patrick Spence saying they would never have been able to make the show without ITV, the journalists who covered the wrongful conviction of the subpostmasters punished due to the Horizon IT scandal, and the campaigners.