Doctor Who and Sherlock writer Steven Moffat will be celebrated at this year's Arqiva BAFTAs with a 'Special Award', it has been announced.
Moffat will be recognised for his outstanding creative writing contribution to British television over the last 23 years, which has included work on children's TV, comedy and primetime drama.
"Blimey! A Special Award! I didn't even know I was ill! So thrilled by this - especially after two years of Sherlock and Doctor Who, my two favourite shows ever," said Moffat.
"Of course the work, and the people I get to work with, has always been all the reward I need - a fact I'm very glad that BAFTA has disregarded."
Moffat's TV career began in 1989 on CITV series Press Gang, which helped launch the careers of Julia Sawalha and Dexter Fletcher.
He went on to write for comedy series Murder Most Horrid, Joking Apart, Chalk and most famously Coupling.
Moffat's work on Doctor Who - a show he had been a fan of since childhood - began with a Comic Relief Red Nose Day parody, Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death.
