Doctor Who, Jamie Oliver win British TV awards

The new version of Doctor Who, costume drama Bleak House and a series hosted by Jamie Oliver were among the winners at the British equivalent of the Emmy Awards Sunday night.

Doctor Who picked up two honours at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts gala in London: best drama series and the Pioneer Audience Award for best program of 2005, a prize voted on by television viewers.

Winning the audience honour was "lovely, it's gobsmacking," Doctor Who writer Russell T. Davies told the BBC. "It's a programme that children watch and the family watch."

Davies also won BAFTA's Dennis Potter Award for outstanding writing for television.

The acclaimed production of the Charles Dickens classicBleak House was also a double winner. It was named best drama serial and Anna Maxwell Martin won best actressbeating co-star Gillian Anderson.

British chef Jamie Oliver's televised campaign to improve the U.K.'s student lunch program paid off with two trophies. Oliver won the Richard Dimbleby award for "outstanding presenter in the factual arena" while his series Jamie's School Dinners won best factual series.

Other winners at the glittery gala included Holocaust A Musical Memorial Film from Auschwitz (specialist factual award), the British version of The Apprentice (feature award), musical talent search The X Factor (entertainment program award) and the long-running soap Eastenders, which beat out the venerable Coronation Street for the continuing drama trophy.

Counting nearly 6,500 members, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts supports develops and promotes the U.K.'s film and TV industry. It also administers the BAFTA Film Awards London's equivalent to Hollywood's Academy Awards.