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Despite a strong category there was only ever going to be one winner in the Best Actor category at tonight's TVChoice Awards, Benedict Cumberbatch.

For his work on Sherlock the actor beat Downton's Allen Leech, The Escape Artist's David Tennant and Law & Order: UK's Bradley Walsh for the prestigious gong.

The TVChoice Awards - hosted by comic David Mitchell - were held tonight in Park Lane's Hilton Hotel and along with Best Actor Sherlock also won Best Drama Series.

Call the Midwife (BBC One), Downton Abbey (ITV) and Waterloo Road (BBC One) were nominated.

Here are the writers Steven Moffat and Mark Gattis and the cast with the award.

In among fellow BBC shows cop drama Happy Valley won Best New Drama.

The Sarah Lancashire-starring crime drama scooped the gong ahead of fellow BBC One shows The Crimson Field and The Musketeers.

ITV's The Widower was also nominated.

The first series - which saw 6.2 million viewers tune in for the gripping finale - had viewers wanting a second series after just one episode.

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