Niamh Algar, starring as a hospital doctor who becomes embroiled in a medical scandal in the ITV series, was named Best Actor.

ITV’s much-garlanded campaigning drama, Mr Bates vs the Post Office picked up yet another award, with Gwyneth Hughes named Best Writer.

The ceremony, hosted by Bradford-born comedian, writer and actor Jessica Knappett, was held at Headingley Stadium in Leeds.

In the news categories, ITV Yorkshire’s regional programme Calendar bagged two awards for its investigation into knife crime: News Programme and News Story for reporter Jonathan Brown.

Another programme addressing the same subject, BBC Yorkshire’s On the Front Line: The Knife Crime Emergency, took home the Single Documentary prize. It told the story of the NHS workers who deal with knife crime injuries at Leeds General Infirmary.

The News Reporter category was won by Anne-Marie Tasker from BBC Look North Yorkshire and Lincolnshire.

Leeds producer Duck Soup Films, whose first TV drama, Lost Boys & Fairies, aired to acclaim on BBC One earlier this year, was named Production Company of the Year.

Channel 5 chalked up a couple of wins on the night: Features for its Air Fryers cookery series, made by ITN Productions, and High Volume Factual for The Yorkshire Vet, which is produced by Leeds indie Daisybeck Studios.

Channel 4 documentary Princess Anne: The Plot to Kidnap a Royal, which recounted the kidnap attempt that ended with a shoot-out on the Mall 50 years ago, also won two awards: Animation, VFX, and CGI and Professional Excellence: Post-production.

RTS Yorkshire Chair Michael Donnelly said: “In the wake of another year of uncertainty and difficulty for our industry, Yorkshire stepped up.”