Recap: All The Winners At The BAFTA Television Awards 2025

The 2025 BAFTA Television awards took place in London yesterday, with the ceremony broadcast on BBC One yesterday evening. Here’s a recap of the winners.

Toby Jones, Monica Dolan and Sir Alan Bates on stage with the Limited Drama Award for ‘Mr Bates vs The Post Office’ during the 2025 BAFTA Television Awards with P&O Cruises Ceremony. (© John Phillips/BAFTA/Getty Images)

The Winners In Brief

As anticipated, it was a big evening for Mr Bates vs The Post Office, ITV’s dramatisation of the headline-dominating post office scandal, which spurred the government to enact justice for the victims. Accepting the prize for Limited Series, producer Patrick Spence said the series ‘only had the impact it did because the people that watched it stood up and demanded action with rage,’ and that its impact proves the British public ‘cannot abide liars and bullies’.

Lead stars Toby Jones and Monica Dolan missed out on acting commendations, though. Instead, shining newcomer Marisa Abela bagged Leading Actress for her work in Industry, while both Leading Actor and Supporting Actor were snapped up by the BBC’s Bernadine Evaristo adaptation, Mr Loverman – that’s Lennie James and Ariyon Bakare respectively. Elsewhere, winners include Sky’s Mr Bigstuff, Alma’s Not Normal and, on its final victory lap, Baby Reindeer.

But the biggest winner of the evening is the BBC, which bagged 18 of the possible 27 awards up for grabs. This includes wins across factual productions, dramas, comedies, soaps, sport and more. ‘I’m incredibly proud that BAFTA recognised the BBC with a phenomenal 18 awards across such a range of categories showcasing the sheer quality of our programmes in every genre,’ the BBC’s chief content officer Charlotte Moore says on the news. ‘It’s been a year of outstanding creativity on the BBC and all the winners demonstrate our unwavering commitment to backing homegrown storytelling and talent, and bringing people together for unmissable events. I’d like to congratulate all the winners for their exceptional work.’

Here’s the winner’s list in full.

2025 BAFTA Television Awards: All The Winners

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Leading Actress

• Anna Maxwell Martin, Until I Kill You
• Billie Piper, Scoop
• Lola Petticrew, Say Nothing
• Marisa Abela, Industry – WINNER
• Monica Dolan, Mr Bates vs The Post Office
• Sharon D Clarke, Mr Loverman

Leading Actor

• David Tennant, Rivals
• Gary Oldman, Slow Horses
• Lennie James, Mr Loverman – WINNER
• Martin Freeman, The Responder
• Richard Gadd, Baby Reindeer
• Toby Jones, Mr Bates vs The Post Office

David Tennant as Lord Tony Baddingham in Rivals. (Courtesy of Robert Viglasky/Disney)

Limited Drama

• Baby Reindeer
• Lost Boys and Fairies
• Mr Bates vs The Post Office – WINNER
• One Day

Drama Series

• Blue Lights – WINNER
• Sherwood
• Supacell
• Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light

Mr Bates vs The Post Office (© ITV)

Female Performance In A Comedy Programme

• Anjana Vasan, We Are Lady Parts
• Kate O’Flynn, Everyone Else Burns
• Lolly Adefope, The Franchise
• Nicola Coughlan, Big Mood
• Ruth Jones, Gavin & Stacey: The Finale – WINNER
• Sophie Willan, Alma’s Not Normal

Male Performance In A Comedy Programme

• Billy Hasna, Extraordinary
• Danny Dyer, Mr Bigstuff – WINNER
• Dylan Thomas Smith, G’Wed
• Nabhaan Rizwan, Kaos
• Oliver Savell, Changing Ends
• Phil Dunning, Smoggie Queens

Damian Lewis as King Henry VIII in Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light (BBC)

Supporting Actor

• Ariyon Bakare, Mr Loverman – WINNER
• Chrisopher Chung, Slow Horses
• Damian Lewis, Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light
• Jonathan Pryce, Slow Horses
• McKinley Belcher III, Eric
• Sonny Walker, The Gathering

Supporting Actress

• Jessica Gunning, Baby Reindeer – WINNER
• Katherine Parkinson, Rivals
• Maxine Peake, Say Nothing
• Monica Dolan, Sherwood
• Nava Mau, Baby Reindeer
• Sue Johnston, Truelove

Lola Petticrew as Dolours Price & Hazel Doupe as Marian Price in Say Nothing. (Rob Youngson/FX)

Entertainment Performance

• Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly, Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway
• Claudia Winkleman, The Traitors
• Graham Norton, The Graham Norton Show
• Joe Lycett, Late Night Lycett – WINNER
• Romesh Ranganathan and Rob Beckett, Rob & Romesh Vs
• Stacey Solomon, Sort Your Life Out

Scripted Comedy

• Alma’s Not Normal – WINNER
• Brassic
• G’Wed
• Ludwig

Jessica Gunning as Martha in Baby Reindeer. (© Ed Miller/Netflix)

Children’s Non-Scripted

• Boosnoo!
• Disability and Me – WINNER
• Operation Ouch!
• Reu & Harper’s Wonder World

Children’s Scripted

• CBeebies As You Like It at Shakespeare’s Globe – WINNER
• Horrible Histories
• Ready Eddie Go!
• Tweedy & Fluff

Morris De La Roux (ARIYON BAKARE) & Barry Walker (LENNIE JAMES) in Mr Loverman. (BBC/Fable Pictures/Des Willie)

Specialist Factual

• Atomic People – WINNER
• Billy & Molly: An Otter Love Story
• Children of the Cult
• Miners’ Strike 1984: The Battle For Britain

Reality & Constructed Factual

• Dragons’ Den
• The Jury: Murder Trial – WINNER
• Love Is Blind UK
• The Traitors

ANNA MAXWELL-MARTIN as Delia Balmer and SHAUN EVANS as John Sweeney in Until I Kill You. (ITV)

Current Affairs

• Life and Death in Gaza
• Maternity: Broken Trust
• State of Rage – WINNER
• Ukraine’s War: The Other Side

Entertainment Programme

• The 1% Club
• Michael McIntyre’s Big Show
• Taskmaster
• Would I Lie To You? – WINNER

Love is Blind UK. Courtesy of Netflix/Tom Dymond © 2024

Short

• Brown Brit
• Peaked
• Quiet Life – WINNER
• Spud

Factual Entertainment

• In Vogue: The 90s
• Race Across the World
• Rob and Rylan’s Grand Tour – WINNER
• Sort Your Life Out

(c) BBC/Studio Lambert/LLARA PLAZA

Factual Series

• American Nightmare
• Freddie Flintoff’s Field of Dream on Tour
• The Push: Murder on the Cliff
• To Catch a Copper – WINNER

International

• After the Party
• Colin From Accounts
• Say Nothing
• Shogun – WINNER
• True Detective: Night Country
• You Are Not Alone: Fighting The Wolfpack

Nessa (RUTH JONES), Stacey (JOANNA PAGE), Gwen (MELANIE WALTERS), Bryn (ROB BRYDON) & Gavin (MATHEW HORNE) in Gavin and Stacey: The Finale. (BBC/Toffee International Ltd./Tom Jackson)

Live Event

• D-Day 80: Tribute to the Fallen
• Glastonbury 2024 – WINNER
• Last Night of the Proms

News Coverage

• BBC Breakfast, Post Office Special – WINNER
• Channel 4 News, Inside Sednaya, The Fall of Assad
• Channel 4 News, Undercover Inside Reform’s Campaign

Brassic series 6 (© Sky UK Limited)

Single Documentary

• Hell Jumper
• Tell Them You Love Me
• Ukraine: Enemy in the Woods – WINNER
• Undercover: Exposing the Far Right

Soap

• Casualty
• Coronation Street
• Eastenders – WINNER

Tell Them You Love Me © Sky UK Limited

Sport

• BBC, Euro 2024
• BBC, Paris 2024 Olympics – WINNER
• BBC, Wimbledon 2024

Daytime

• Clive Myrie’s Caribbean Adventure – WINNER
• Loose Women
• Morning Live
• Richard Osman’s House of Games

Bridgerton. (L to R) Luke Newton as Colin Bridgerton, Nicola Coughlan as Penelope Featherington in episode 302 of Bridgerton. Cr. Liam Daniel/Netflix © 2023

Memorable Moment

• Bridgerton
• Gavin & Stacey: The Finale
• Mr. Bates vs The Post Office
• Rivals
• Strictly Come Dancing – WINNER
• The Traitors

Learn more about the memorable moments here.

Reflection On The Nominations

Baby Reindeer is leading the show with four nominations (and four more in the craft categories), joined by Mr Bates vs The Post Office with four (including Memorable Moment), Rivals with three (also up for Memorable Moment) and Slow Horses and Say Nothing with three each, too.

The Leading Actor category is stacked with generational talent: David Tennant, Gary Oldman, Lennie James, Martin Freeman and Toby Jones are all tapped for the award, joined by newcomer Richard Gadd for his semi autobiographical Netflix drama Baby Reindeer. In the sister Leading Actress category, it’s slightly more of a mixed bag: industry stalwarts Anna Maxwell Martin, Sharon D Clarke, Monica Dolan and Billie Piper are joined by newcomers Lola Petticrew and Marisa Abela (though the latter has received a BAFTA Film nomination before).  And it’s a double nomination for Dolan, who’s also tapped for Supporting Actress for her work in Sherwood.

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Who Was Snubbed?

Wondering who’s missing? Netflix’s Bridgerton was been snubbed from all but the Memorable Moment category (which was won by Strictly Come Dancing), with season 3 lead Nicola Coughlan nominated for her performance in Big Mood in the female comedy category.

There’s no love lost for streamers. Netflix’s One Day might have been nominated for Limited Series (which was won, perhaps inevitably, by Mr Bates vs The Post Office), but there were no acting commendations for Leo Woodall and Ambika Mod despite acclaim from audiences. Apple TV’s beloved Slow Horses missed out on prizes for all three of its nominations. Disney’s Jilly Cooper romp Rivals missed out in both the categories it was nominated, as did the streamer’s explosive Troubles drama Say Nothing. Shogun, however, took home the trophy for International Series.

Wolf Hall was also royally snubbed: it missed out on Drama Series, with the BBC’s Belfast cop drama Blue Lights taking home the gong. Damian Lewis’ turn as King Henry VIII was nominated in the Supporting Actor category, but Ariyon Bakare took home that prize for his work on fellow BBC book adaptation Mr Loverman. Lead star Mark Rylance, meanwhile, never got a look in.

Elsewhere, despite its roaring success, The Traitors missed out on a prize in all three categories it was nominated.