Oscar season may be over, but London is in awards mode again on Sunday thanks to the BAFTA TV Awards.
The 2026 BAFTA TV honors are being handed out at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall in the British capital. Netflix drama Adolescence led the nominations with 11, followed by Disney+’s A Thousand Blows with seven. Comedian and Taskmaster host Greg Davies is hosting the awards ceremony.
Adolescence and The Celebrity Traitors were the biggest winners of the recent BAFTA Television Craft Awards, with each show receiving two prizes. Other honors went to Slow Horses, Andor, Amadeus, Reunion, Trespasses, The Celebrity Traitors, The Last Musician of Auschwitz and Mussolini: Son of the Century.
Sunday’s ceremony comes a month after BAFTA apologized “unreservedly” for the controversy surrounding John Davidson’s Tourette’s Syndrome outbursts at this year’s BAFTA Film Awards ceremony, following an independent review that found “a number of structural weaknesses in BAFTA’s planning, escalation procedures and crisis coordination arrangements.” In particular, the review highlighted that BAFTA “did not fully appreciate the nature of the risk associated with a live broadcast appearance, early warning signs were not escalated, and the absence of a clear operational command structure limited BAFTA’s ability to respond effectively once the incident occurred.”
Outgoing BAFTA chair Sara Putt, in her opening remarks, wished a happy 100th birthday to David Attenborough, which he celebrated on Friday, and said that “TV isn’t going anywhere” but will endure despite disruption and challenges.
Davies quipped in the opening monologue that “a quick AI search” showed him that TV started when Attenborough “first hugged a monkey.” He also welcomed such nominees as Colin Firth, mentioning how attractive his aunt finds him, Ashley Walters and Stephen Graham and the whole team behind Adolescence.
With the TV craft honors complete, the stage is set for the remaining TV awards to celebrate the best of British TV. Who will win in London? Find out here.
THR will update the list of Sunday’s 2026 BAFTA TV Awards below throughout the ceremony, with winners highlighted in bold.
Reality
The Celebrity Traitors
The Jury: Murder Trial
Squid Game: The Challenge
Virgin Island
Supporting Actress
Aimee Lou Wood, The White Lotus
Christine Tremarco, Adolescence
Chyna McQueen, Get Millie Black
Emilia Jones, Task
Erin Doherty, Adolescence
Rose Ayling-Ellis, Reunion
Supporting Actor
Ashley Walters, Adolescence
Fehinti Balogun, Down Cemetery Road
Joshua McGuire, The Gold
Owen Cooper, Adolescence
Paddy Considine, MobLand
Rafael Mathe, The Death of Bunny Munro
Children’s: Non-Scripted
A Real Bug’s Life
Boosnoo!
Deadly 60 Saving Sharks
Word.War.Me (Sky Kids Investigates)
Children’s: Scripted
Crongton
Horrible Science
Shaun the Sheep
The Wonderfully Weird World of Gumball
Current Affairs
Breaking Ranks: Inside Israel’s War (Exposure)
The Covid Contracts: Follow the Money
Gaza: Doctors Under Attack
Undercover in the Police
Daytime
The Chase
Lorraine
Richard Osman’s House of Games
Scam Interceptors
Drama Series
Blue Lights
A Thousand Blows
Code of Silence
This City Is Ours
Entertainment
The Graham Norton Show
Last One Laughing
Michael McIntyre’s Big Show
Would I Lie To You?
Entertainment Performance
Amanda Holden, Alan Carr, Amanda & Alan’s Spanish Job
Bob Mortimer, Last One Laughing
Claudia Winkleman, The Celebrity Traitors
Lee Mack, The 1% Club
Rob Beckett, Romesh Ranganathan, Rob & Romesh Vs…
Romesh Ranganathan, Romesh: Can’t Knock the Hustle
Factual Entertainment
The Assembly
Go Back to Where You Came From
Knife Edge: Chasing Michelin Stars
Race Across the World
Factual Series
Bibaa & Nicole: Murder in the Park
Educating Yorkshire
See No Evil
The Undercover Police Scandal: Love and Lies Exposed
Actress in a Comedy
Diane Morgan, Mandy
Jennifer Saunders, Amandaland
Katherine Parkinson, Here We Go
Lucy Punch, Amandaland
Philippa Dunne, Amandaland
Rosie Jones, Pushers
International
The Bear
The Diplomat
Pluribus
Severance
The Studio
The White Lotus
Leading Actor
Colin Firth, Lockerbie: A Search for Truth
Ellis Howard, What it Feels Like for a Girl
James Nelson-Joyce, This City is Ours
Matt Smith, The Death of Bunny Munro
Stephen Graham, Adolescence
Taron Egerton, Smoke
Leading Actress
Aimee Lou Wood, Film Club
Erin Doherty, A Thousand Blows
Jodie Whittaker, Toxic Town
Narges Rashidi, Prisoner 951
Sheridan Smith, I Fought The Law
Sian Brooke, Blue Lights
Limited Drama
Adolescence
I Fought the Law
Trespasses
What It Feels Like For a Girl
Live Event Coverage
Holocaust Memorial Day 2025, BBC Studios / BBC One
Last Night of the Proms: Finale, Livewire Pictures / BBC One
VE Day 80: A Celebration to Remember, BBC Studios / BBC One
Actor in a Comedy
Jim Howick, Here We Go
Jon Pointing, Big Boys
Lenny Rush, Am I Being Unreasonable?
Mawaan Rizwan, Juice
Oliver Savell, Changing Ends
Steve Coogan, How Are You? It’s Alan (Partridge)
News Coverage
BBC Newsnight: Grooming Survivors Speak, BBC Newsnight / BBC Two
Channel 4 News: Israel-Iran: The Twelve Day War, Channel 4 News / Channel 4
Sky News: Gaza: Fight for Survival, Sky News / Sky News
Scripted Comedy
Amandaland
Big Boys
How Are You? It’s Alan (Partridge)
Things You Should Have Done
Short Form
Donkey
Hustle and Run
Rocket Fuel
Zoners
Single Documentary
Grenfell: Uncovered
Louis Theroux: The Settlers
One Day in Southport
Unforgotten: The Bradford City Fire
Soap
Casualty
Coronation Street
Eastenders
Specialist Factual
Belsen: What They Found
Simon Schama: The Road to Auschwitz
Surviving Black Hawk Down
Vietnam: The War That Changed America
Sports Coverage
The 2025 Ryder Cup, Sky Sports
The FA Cup Final, BBC Sport
UEFA Women’s Euro 2025, BBC One
Wimbledon, BBC Sport
P&O Cruises Memorable Moment Award (voted for by the public)
Adolescence, Jamie Snaps at the Psychologist
BIG BOYS, “I didn’t make it, did I?”
Blue Lights, The police are warned of an ambush to plot to silence a key witness
The Celebrity Traitors, Alan Carr wins
Last One Laughing, Bob Mortimer and Richard Ayoade’s speed date
What It Feels Like For a Girl, Byron leaves for Brighton to start Uni, where she introduces herself as Paris
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