The Doctor Who star beat three Line of Duty stars at the National Television Awards. <\/p>
Doctor Who star David Tennant beat the likes of Line of Duty<\/a> stars Martin Compston, Vicky McClure and Adrian Dunbar this evening as he scooped the award for Drama Performance at the National Television Awards.<\/p>\n The actor received the award for his role as Scottish serial killer Dennis Nilsen in ITV\u2019s true-crime drama Des<\/a>, which aired on the channel last year.<\/p>\n The drama attracted huge viewership, with 10 million tuning in to watch the first episode in the week it launched.<\/p>\n Further ITV Hub statistics revealed the three-part drama generated consumption hours of 2.2 million. It is now top of the ITV Hub\u2019s most watched shows on catch-up.<\/p> The Real Des: The Dennis Nilsen Story<\/a>, a documentary which followed the drama, also ranked in fifth place amongst the top 10 catch up shows.<\/p>\n Tennant\u2019s Good Omens and Staged co-star Michael Sheen presented the award.<\/p>\n The pair starred in the second series of the BBC sitcom earlier this year, so fans will have been delighted to see them back on the small screen together.<\/p>\n It\u2019s a Sin protagonist Olly Alexander was also nominated for the award, alongside the three Line of Duty stars.<\/p>\n It wasn\u2019t all doom and gloom for Alexander, however, as earlier in the night, the Years and Years star picked up an award for It\u2019s a Sin, which won Best New Drama.<\/p>\n The Russell T Davies drama, which aired on Channel 4 earlier in the year, followed three men Ritchie (Alexander), Colin (Callum Scott Howells) and Roscoe (Omari Douglas) who lived through the HIV\/AIDS crisis in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n Check out more Drama<\/a> coverage or visit our TV Guide<\/a>\u00a0to see what\u2019s on tonight.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n The Doctor Who star beat three Line of Duty stars at the National Television Awards. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":4183,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/09\/david-tennant-beats-line-of-duty-stars-to-win-nta-for-best-drama-performance.jpg",620,413,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/09\/david-tennant-beats-line-of-duty-stars-to-win-nta-for-best-drama-performance-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/09\/david-tennant-beats-line-of-duty-stars-to-win-nta-for-best-drama-performance-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/09\/david-tennant-beats-line-of-duty-stars-to-win-nta-for-best-drama-performance.jpg",620,413,false],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/09\/david-tennant-beats-line-of-duty-stars-to-win-nta-for-best-drama-performance.jpg",620,413,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/09\/david-tennant-beats-line-of-duty-stars-to-win-nta-for-best-drama-performance.jpg",620,413,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/09\/david-tennant-beats-line-of-duty-stars-to-win-nta-for-best-drama-performance.jpg",620,413,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"The Doctor Who star beat three Line of Duty stars at the National Television Awards.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/4182"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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