BAFTA TV Awards Winners 2025 Complete List

Mr Bates vs The Post Office and Mr Loverman were the large victors at the BAFTA TV Awards, meaning Baby Reindeer did not continue its dominant winning streak.

Hosted by The Traitors star Alan Cumming, the BAFTA ceremony took place in sparkling spring sunshine on the banks of the River Thames at London’s Royal Festival Hall on Sunday.

The prizes were fairly evenly shared, but perhaps unsurprisingly, it was a notable night for Mr Bates vs The Post Office, the ITV series that dominated the UK ratings last year and fuelled a national conversation about injustices faced by innocent British postmasters, who were convicted of theft, fraud, and false accounting.

The series won Best Limited Drama, beating Baby Reindeer, which has been a darling of the awards season after cleaning up at the Emmys and Golden Globes. Jessica Gunning did, however, take home the prize for Best Supporting Actress for Baby Reindeer, completing a likely historic TV Awards sweep. 

ITV also won the Special Award for commissioning Mr Bates vs The Post Office, with content chief Kevin Lygo accepting the prize. He used his speech to make the case for British storytelling amid concerns that a funding crisis will prevent series like Mr Bates from being made in the future. “It falls to us to remember that these are incredibly important stories,” he told a room full of British TV grandees. Mr Bates screened on PBS Masterpiece in the U.S.

Lennie James took home Best Leading Actor in a highly competitive category. His prize for Mr Loverman, the BBC adaptation of Bernardine Evaristo‘s seventh novel, meant the likes of Richard Gadd and Gary Oldman missed out. Ariyon Bakare won Best Supporting Actor for his turn in Mr Loverman. The series does not currently have a home in the U.S.

Marisa Abela won Best Leading Actress for HBO/BBC series Industry. In an emotional speech, she thanked Mickey Down and Konrad Kay for changing her life.

Shōgun continued its awards streak, picking up Best International series. Showrunner Justin Marks appeared to reference Donald Trump‘s tariff plan in his acceptance speech, saying “good television is truly a borderless nation.”

Danny Dyer was the popular winner of Best Male Performance In A Comedy. The former Football Factory actor has garnered plaudits for his work in Disney+ series Rivals, but took home the BAFTA prize for Sky’s Mr Big Stuff. “What a touch,” he said as he picked up his mask, before joking: “Acting so bad it’s funny.”

Ruth Jones won Best Female Performance In A Comedy after the wildly popular festive finale of Gavin & Stacey. She thanked her co-writer and co-star James Corden, with whom she has shared an “astonishing journey” on the BBC series over the past 17 years.

Ukraine: Enemy In The Woods secured the prize for Best Single Documentary, a moment that will have raised a few eyebrows in the room. Producer HOYO Films stirred controversy with its recent film Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone, which is currently the subject of a BBC investigation after being narrated by the son of a Hamas official. “We hope to continue to make many more documentaries like this — it’s what we live for,” said HOYO founder Jamie Roberts.

In one of the more political moments of the night, Marcel Mettelsiefen used his Best Current Affairs win for State Of Rage to describe the situation in Gaza as “collective punishment.” “This violence needs to stop now,” he added. “Let’s break this silence.”

Elsewhere, Kirsty Wark, the former BBC Newsnight presenter, received the BAFTA Fellowship, the British Academy’s top accolade. The BBC’s coverage of Glastonbury Festival won its first BAFTA for 30 years, clinching Best Live Event Coverage.

BAFTA handed out television prizes for its Craft Awards last month, during which winners included Baby Reindeer creator Gadd, who took home the award for Writer: Drama.

The BAFTA TV Awards screened on BBC One in the UK and BritBox in the U.S. Below is the complete list of winners (in bold) and nominees for the BAFTA TV Awards 2025.

Drama Series
WINNER: Blue Lights (BBC)
Sherwood (BBC)
Supacell (Netflix)
Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light (BBC)

Limited Drama
Baby Reindeer (Netflix)
Lost Boys and Fairies (BBC One)
WINNER: Mr Bates vs the Post Office (ITV)
One Day (Netflix)

International
After The Party (Channel 4)
Colin From Accounts (BBC)
Say Nothing Disney+)
WINNER: Shōgun (Disney+)
True Detective: Night Country (Sky Atlantic)
You Are Not Alone: Fighting The Wolfpack (Netflix)

Leading Actress
Anna Maxwell Martin, Until I Kill You (ITV)
Billie Piper, Scoop (Netflix)
Lola Petticrew, Say Nothing (Disney+)
WINNER: Marisa Abela, Industry (BBC)
Monia Dolan, Mr Bates vs the Post Office (ITV)
Sharon D Clarke, Mr Loverman (BBC)

Leading Actor
David Tennant, Rivals (Disney+)
Gary Oldman, Slow Horses (Apple TV+)
WINNER: Lennie James, Mr Loverman (BBC)
Martin Freeman, The Responder (BBC)
Richard Gadd, Baby Reindeer (Netflix)
Toby Jones, Mr Bates vs the Post Office (ITV)

Female Performance In A Comedy
Anjana Vasan, We Are Lady Parts (Channel 4)
Kate O’Flynn, Everyone Else Burns Channel 4)
Lolly Adefope, The Franchise (Sky)
Nicola Coughlan, Big Mood (Channel 4)
WINNER: Ruth Jones, Gavin & Stacey (BBC)
Sophie Willan, Alma’s Not Normal (BBC)

Male Performance In A Comedy
Bilal Hasna, Extraordinary (Disney+)
WINNER: Danny Dyer, Mr Big Stuff (Sky)
Dylan Thomas-Smith, G’wed (ITV)
Nabhaan Rizwan, Kaos (Netflix)
Oliver Savell, Changing Ends (ITV)
Phil Dunning, Smoggie Queens (BBC)

Supporting Actor
WINNER: Ariyon Bakare, Mr Loverman (BBC)
Christopher Chung, Slow Horses (Apple TV+)
Damian Lewis, Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light (BBC)
Jonathan Pryce, Slow Horses (Apple TV+)
McKinley Belcher III, Eric (Netflix)
Sonny Walker, The Gathering (Channel 4)

Supporting Actress
WINNER: Jessica Gunning, Baby Reindeer (Netflix)
Katherine Parkinson, Rivals (Disney+)
Maxine Peake, Say Nothing (Disney+)
Monica Dolan, Sherwood (BBC One)
Nava Mau, Baby Reindeer (Netflix)
Sue Johnston, Truelove (Channel 4)

Scripted Comedy
WINNER: Alma’s Not Normal (BBC)
Brassic (Sky Max)
G’Wed (ITV1)
Ludwig (BBC)

Entertainment
The 1% Club (ITV)
Michael McIntyre’s Big Show (BBC)
Taskmaster (Channel 4)
WINNER: Would I Lie To You? (BBC)

Entertainment Performance
Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly, Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway (ITV)
Claudia Winkleman, The Traitors (BBC)
Graham Norton, The Graham Norton Show (BBC)
WINNER: Joe Lycett, Late Night Lycett (Channel 4)
Romesh Ranganathan and Rob Beckett, Rob & Romesh Vs (Sky)
Stacey Solomon, Sort Your Life Out (BBC)

Specialist Factual
WINNER: Atomic People (BBC)
Billy & Molly: An Otter Love Story (National Geographic)
Children of the Cult (ITV)
Miners’ Strike 1984: The Battle For Britain (Channel 4)

Reality
Dragons’ Den (BBC)
WINNER: The Jury: Murder Trial (Channel 4)
Love Is Blind (Netflix)
The Traitors (BBC)

Current Affairs
Storyville: Life and Death in Gaza (BBC)
Maternity: Broken Trust (ITV)
WINNER: State of Rage (Channel 4)
Ukraine’s War: The Other Side (ITV)

Short Form
Brown Brit (Channel 4)
Peaked (Channel 4)
WINNER: Quiet Life (BBC)
Spud (BBC)

Factual Entertainment
In Vogue: The 90s (Vogue Studios, Disney+)
Race Across The World (BBC)
WINNER: Rob and Rylan’s Grand Tour (BBC)
Sort Your Life Out (BBC)

Factual Series
American Nightmare (Netflix)
Freddie Flintoff’s Field of Dreams on Tour (BBC)
The Push: Murder on the Cliff (Channel 4)
WINNER: To Catch a Copper (Channel 4)

Live Event Coverage
D-Day 80: Tribute To The Fallen (BBC)
WINNER: Glastonbury 2024 (BBC)
Last Night of The Proms (BBC)

News Coverage
WINNER: BBC Breakfast: Post Office Special (BBC One)
Channel 4 News: Inside Sednaya (Channel 4)
Channel 4 News: Undercover Inside Reform’s Campaign (Channel 4)

Single Documentary
Hell Jumper (BBC Two)
Tell Them You Love Me (Sky Documentaries)
WINNER: Ukraine: Enemy In The Woods (BBC Two)
Undercover: Exposing The Far Right (Channel 4)

Soap
Casualty (BBC One)
Coronation Street (ITV1)
WINNER: EastEnders (BBC One)

Sport
Euro 2024 (BBC)
WINNER: Paris 2024 Olympics (BBC)
Wimbledon (BBC)

Daytime
WINNER: Clive Myrie’s Caribbean Adventure (BBC)
Loose Women (ITV1)
Morning Live (BBC)
Richard Osman’s House of Games (BBC)

Children’s Non-Scripted
BoosNoo! (Sky)
WINNER: FYI Investigates: Disability and Me (Sky)
Operation Ouch! (CBBC)
Reu and Harper’s Wonder World (Channel 5)

Children’s Scripted
WINNER: CBeebies As You Like It at Shakespeare’s Globe (CBeebies)
Horrible Histories (CBBC)
Ready Eddie Go! (Sky Kids)
Tweedy & Fluff (Channel 5)

P&O Cruises Memorable Moment
Bridgerton: The carriage scene, where Colin admits his true feelings for Penelope (Netflix)
Gavin & Stacey: The Finale: Smithy’s wedding, when Mick stands up (BBC)
Mr Bates vs the Post Office: Jo Hamilton phones the Horizon helpline (ITV)
Rivals: Rupert Campbell-Black and Sarah Stratton are caught in a game of naked tennis (Disney+)
WINNER: Strictly Come Dancing: Chris McCausland and Dianne Buswell waltz (BBC)
The Traitors: “Paul isn’t my son … but Ross is!” (BBC)