BAFTA has announced the winners of the 2026 BAFTA Television Awards.
Celebrating the best of television broadcast in 2025, the ceremony was hosted by Greg Davies with musical performances from Cat Burns and AURORA.
Adolescence was the only programme to win in four categories: Owen Cooper won his first BAFTA for Supporting Actor; Christine Tremarco won Supporting Actress, also a first-time BAFTA winner; first-time BAFTA winner Stephen Graham won Leading Actor; and the programme itself won Limited Drama.
In the Leading Actress category, Narges Rashidi won her first BAFTA for Prisoner 951.
Steve Coogan won the Actor in a Comedy award for his performance in How Are You? It’s Alan (Partridge) and Katherine Parkinson won Actress in a Comedy for her performance in Here We Go.
Bob Mortimer won Entertainment Performance for Last One Laughing, which also won the BAFTA for Entertainment.
The Celebrity Traitors won in the Reality category and also picked up the P&O Cruises Memorable Moment Award – the only award voted for by the British public.
The nation crowned Alan Carr winning The Celebrity Traitors as their most memorable TV moment of 2025.
In other highlights:
- Code of Silence won Drama Series
- EastEnders won Soap for the second year running
- Amandaland won Scripted Comedy
- Scam Interceptors won Daytime
- VE Day 80: A Celebration to Remember won Live Event
- UEFA Women’s Euro 2025 won Sports Coverage
- Go Back to Where You Came From won Factual Entertainment
- See No Evil won Factual Series
- Grenfell: Uncovered won Single Documentary
- Specialist Factual was won by Simon Schama: The Road to Auschwitz
- News Coverage was presented to Channel 4 News: Israel-Iran: The Twelve Day War
- Gaza: Doctors Under Attack won Current Affairs
Meanwhile, Short Form was won by Hustle and Run and the BAFTA for International went to The Studio.
Children’s: Scripted was won by Crongton and World.War.Me (Sky Kids Investigates) won for Children’s: Non-Scripted.
The Television Special Award was presented by Richard Osman to Martin Lewis CBE in recognition of his “extraordinary TV work and lasting positive impact on British audiences”.
The Fellowship, the highest accolade bestowed by BAFTA upon an individual in recognition of an outstanding and exceptional contribution to film, games or television, was presented by Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins to broadcaster Dame Mary Berry DBE for her “exceptional contribution to television with a career spanning six decades”.
The BAFTA Television Awards follows the recent BAFTA Television Craft Awards, during which Ryan Kernaghan ISC won Photography & Lighting: Fiction for Trespasses, while Jordan Bryon secured Photography: Factual for Our Land: Israel’s Other War.
