‘Baby Reindeer’ Leads BAFTA TV Awards With 8 Nominations

Baby Reindeer’s awards reign continues. When the 2025 BAFTA Television Awards, in collaboration with P&O Cruises, announced this year’s nominees, Netflix’s sleeper-hit miniseries—about a Scottish comedian’s experience with a stalker—led the pack with eight nods. The Disney+ series Rivals, the Apple TV+ series Slow Horses, and the ITV series Mr Bates vs the Post Office followed with six noms each.

The series, created and written by comedian Richard Gadd, who also stars, was nominated in the categories of constrained drama, leading actor, director fiction, editing fiction, sound fiction, writer: drama, and best supporting actress, earning double recognition in the latter for Golden Globe and Emmy winner Jessica Gunning and Nava Mau. Veteran actors such as Oscar winner Gary Oldman, former Doctor Who star David Tennant, Martin Freeman, and Toby Jones were nominated alongside Gadd for leading actor. Gunning and Mau were nominated alongside British stars Sue Johnston, Katherine Parkinson, Monica Dolan, and Maxine Peake, who stars in the IRA drama Say Nothing.

Elsewhere, breakout stars like Bridgerton‘s Nicola Coughlan and Industry‘s Marisa Abela were recognized in the leading actress in a comedy and drama categories, respectively. Abela’s not the only EE BAFTA rising star nominee to score a television nod—her former Industry co-star and fellow rising star Nabhaan Rizwan also scored a nod for his work on the recently canceled Netflix series Kaos. Comedian and actress Lolly Adefope got a nomintion for her work on HBO’s canceled showbiz show The Franchise. I Hate Suzy star Billie Piper is back at the BAFTAs once again for her work in the Netflix film Scoop, which followed how the women of Newsnight secured the infamous 2019 Prince Andrew interview in which he detailed his relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Ted Lasso‘s Brett Goldstein also earned a nod—not for acting, but for writing the Apple TV+ series Shrinking.

The BBC leads the BAFTA nominations list with 75 total. The BAFTA TV Awards will be held on Sunday, May 11 at London’s Royal Festival Hall with host Alan Cumming. But Cumming himself is not nominated at the BAFTA TV awards for hosting hit reality tv series The Traitors—because he hosts the American version of the series. Not to worry, though: The Traitors is nominated from best reality program, and Cumming’s counterpart Claudia Winkelman, who hosts the U.K. version of the show, is nominated for best entertainment performance.