Particle physicist picks up best presenter prize, while Wonders of the Solar System scoops science and natural history award
Professor Brian Cox, the particle physicist and one-time pop musician, was a double winner at the Royal Television Society awards where he was named as best presenter and his Wonders of the Solar System series took the science and natural history prize.
After beating competition from Piers Morgan and Reggie Yates for the former accolade he thanked the BBC for allowing an academic to become a presenter.
Cox has said previously that the inspiration for the series was Carl Sagan's Cosmos: A Personal Journey, which the BBC screened in 1981, and that his hope was that he will inspire a new generation to marvel at Earth's place in the universe.
Another double winner was Miranda Hart, who has won huge acclaim for her BBC2 sitcom Miranda, which is soon to be moved to BBC1. She collected the prize for best comedy performance and her show landed the award for best scripted comedy.
"I'm really thrilled because I don't really like writing ? I find [it] really hard work," she said as she collected her scriptwriting prize at the event, staged at London's Grosvenor House hotel.
The BBC took the lion's share of the awards, with ITV taking just two ? Ant and Dec for best entertainment performance prize, as well as the entertainment title, which went to The X Factor.
Jim Broadbent was named best actor for his role in the Channel 4 drama Any Human Heart, while the best actress prize went to Vicky McClure for her performance in the same station's This Is England '86. The series, which continued the story of characters first seen in the Shane Meadows film This Is England, was the winner of the best drama writer prize, shared by Meadows and Jack Thorne.
? This article was amended on 16 March 2011. The original referred to Brian Cox as astrophysicist and one-time pop musician. This has been corrected.
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2011/mar/16/brian-cox-royal-television-society-awards
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