Unsurprisingly, Adolescence leads the nominations for the 2026 BAFTA Television Awards, unveiled in London on Tuesday.
The smash-hit Netflix phenomenon earned 11 nods, followed by Disney+’s A Thousand Blows with seven, Andor and Trespasses with six apiece, and The Celebrity Traitors with five.
The Emmy-winning cast of Adolescence has continued to garner critical acclaim, with a best lead actor nod for creator-star Stephen Graham. He’ll go up against 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) and Taron Egerton (Smoke) at the May 10 ceremony, hosted by Taskmaster‘s Greg Davies.
In the leading actress category, Aimee Lou Wood is nominated for her turn in Film Club alongside Erin Doherty (A Thousand Blows), Jodie Whittaker (Toxic Town), Narges Rashidi (Prisoner 951), Sheridan Smith (I Fought the Law), and Sian Brooke (Blue Lights).
Best drama series nominations have gone to A Thousand Blows, Blue Lights, Code of Silence, and This City Is Ours, as Adolescence competes in the limited series category. In the international category, The Bear, The Diplomat, Pluribus, Severance, The Studio, and The White Lotus are set to vie for the BAFTA TV Award.
Also up for BAFTAs are first-time nominees Ashley Walters (Adolescence), Christine Tremarco (Adolescence), Fehinti Balogun (Down Cemetery Road), Owen Cooper (Adolescence), and Paddy Considine (MobLand).
This year’s BAFTA TV Awards with P&O Cruises will take place at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall in the British capital. The ceremony will air that same evening on BBC One and the BBC iPlayer. The BAFTA Television Craft Awards — nominations for which were also revealed Tuesday — will be handed out on Apr. 26.
Check out the BAFTA TV Awards and BAFTA Television Craft Awards nominations below.
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
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
Reality
The Celebrity Traitors
The Jury: Murder Trial
Squid Game: The Challenge
Virgin Island
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
Supporting Actor
Ashely Walters, Adolescence
Fehinti Balogun, Down Cemetery Road
Joshua McGuire, The Gold
Owen Cooper, Adolescence
Paddy Considine, MobLand
Rafael Mathe, The Death of Bunny Munro
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
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
Children’s Craft Team
Ben Bocquelet, Joe Sparrow, Luke Allen, james Lancett, Adrian Cathie, Andy Goodman, The Wonderfully Weird World of Gumball
Lucy Izzard, Andrew Mitchell, Fernando Lechuga, Jean-Marc Petsas, Owen Peters, Bronwen Slater, The Very Small Creatures
Samantha Cutler, Jeroen Jaspaert, Steven Bloomer, Terry Davies, Adrian Rhodes, Shannan Taylor, The Scarecrows’ Wedding
Simon Partington, Andy Farago, Simon Couzens, Sandy Nuttgens, Alex Copley, Andy Brittain, BooSnoo!
Costume Design
Emma O’Loughlin, Trespasses
Maja Meschede, A Thousand Blows
Michael Wilkinson, Andor
Rhona Russell, Lockerbie: A Search for Truth
Director: Factual
Benedict Sanderson, See No Evil
Karim Shah, Gaza: Doctors Under Attack
Olaide Sadiq, Grenfell: Uncovered
Rob Coldstream, Vietnam: The War That Changed America
Director: Fiction
Dawn Shadforth, Trespasses
Janus Metz, Andor
Philip Barantini, Adolescence
Sam Donovan, Severance
Director: Multi-Camera
Ben Archard, Eddie Lewis, Marieke Barker-Benfield, The Celebrity Traitors
Ben Hardy, Last One Laughing
Diccon Ramsay, VE Day 80: A Celebration to Remember
Laurence Cawsey, Super Sunday – Liverpool v Tottenham Hotspur
Editing: Factual
Jennifer Asheitu Hampson, Attack on London: Hunting the 7/7 Bombers
Mel Quigley, Andy Kemp, Gaza: Doctors Under Attack
Paul Hammacott, Louis Theroux: The Settlers
Samuel R. Santana, Grenfell: Uncovered
Editing: Fiction
Fiona Brands, Slow Horses (Episode 6)
Úna Ní Dhonghaíle, Prison 951
Simon Smith, The Last of Us
Yan Miles, Andor
Emerging Talent: Factual
Alexandra Lacey, writer-director, The Twister: Caught in the Storm
Elle Mower, director, Convicting My Ex
Olaide Sadiq, director, Grenfell: Uncovered
Emerging Talent: Fiction
Chloe English, director, G’wed
Emily McDonald, director, Am I Being Unreasonable?
Eros V, director, Juice
Janice Okoh, writer, Just Act Normal
Entertainment Craft Team
Ben Archard, Siggi Rosen-Rawlings, James Tinsley, Stuart Frossell, Martin Adams, Nathan Lindley, The Celebrity Traitors
Diccon Ramsay, Rikki Finlay, Mat Weekes, Ben Norman, James Tinsley, Robert Mansfield, Squid Game: The Challenge
Graham Proud, Toby Wilkinson, Sam Turner, Alex Weeks, Jennifer Ford, Rob & Romesh Vs…
Philip Barantini, Nyk Allen, Jacob Smith, Joe Blodgett, Frank Larson, Brendan Poutier, One Shot: With Ed Sheeran
Make Up & Hair Design
Lucy Sibbick, Victoria Money, Slow Horses
Sjaan Gillings, Lockerbie: A Search for Truth
Sian Wilson, Caroline Greenough , Clare Ramsey, Cheryl Garvey, Madlen Mierzwiak, A Thousand Blows
Vickie Lang, Nik Williams, Barrier Gower, Amadeus
Original Music: Factual
Anne Nikitin, Pangolin: Kulu’s Journey
Jessica Dannheisser, The Last Musician of Auschwitz
Louis Dodd, Matthew Sanches, The Sycamore Gap Mystery
Sophy Purnell, Moon: Nature’s Secret Force
Original Music: Fiction
Ariel Marx, Hotel Reverie (Black Mirror)
Federico Jusid, A Thousand Blows
Nick Cave, Warren Ellis, The Death of Bunny Munro
Tom Rowlands, Mussolini: Son of the Century
Photography: Factual
Camera Team, Secrets of the Penguins
Jordan Bryon, Our Land: Israel’s Other War
Marcel Mettelsiefen, State of War: Fighting the Narcos (Exposure)
Stefano Ferrari, Tim Cragg, Surviving Black Hawk Down
Photography & Lighting: Fiction
Catherine Goldschmidt, The Last of Us
Matthew Lewis, Adolescence
Ryan Kernaghan, Trespasses
Suzie Lavelle, Severance
Production Design
Gillian Devenney, Trespasses
Luke Hull, Rebecca Alleyway, Toby Britton, Andor
Philippa Mumford, Juice
Tom Burton, Grant Bailey, Barbara Herman-Skelding, A Thousand Blows
Scripted Casting
Nathan Toth, What it Feels Like for a Girl
Nathan Toth, Julie Harkin, Reunion
Shaheen Baig, Adolescence
Shaheen Baig, Get Millie Black
Sound: Factual
Andy Deacon, Kevin Dugg, Will Thomas Jonathan Gibson, The Lost Music of Auschwitz
Sount Team, The Celebrity Traitors
Sound Team, Formula 1: Drive to Survive
Tristan Powell, Will Chapman, The Last Musician of Auschwitz
Sound: Fiction
Andrew Sissons, Martin Jensen, Ben Tisdall, Joe Beal, Duncan Price, Conor Thompson, Slow Horses
Danny Hambrook, David Acord, Margit Pfeiffer, James Spencer, Josh Gold, John Finklea, Andor
James Drake, Jules Woods, Rob Entwistle, Kiff McMAnus, Kyle Pickford, Adam Mendez, Adolescence
Lee Walpole, Stuart Hilliker, Saoirse Christopherson, Andy Kennedy, Lee Crichlow, Chris Campion, Lockerbie: A Search for Truth
Special, Visual & Graphic Effects
James Maclachlan, Josie Henwood, Union VFX Studios Malta, Magic Lab Studios, Sam Chynoweth, USS Callister: Into Infinity (Black Mirror)
Luke Murphy, Mohen Leo, Neal Scanlan, Jean-Clement Soret, Andor
Russell Dodgson, Framestore, Andy Jones, Simon Bland, Francois Dumoulin, Gavin McKenzie, Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age
Sara Bennett, Richard Reed, David Stephens, Jet Omoshebi, Caimin Bourne, Scanline, The Witcher
Titles & Graphic Identity
Huge Designs, Code of Silence
Isabella Eklof, Luke Dunkley, Mike Holliday, Tony Kearns, Dean Wares, The Death of Bunny Munro
Light Creative, A Thousand Blows
Nicos Livesey, Bart Yates, Rebecca Little, Aron Sidhu, Steven Lownes, UEFA Women’s Euro 2025
Writer: Comedy
Daisy May Cooper, Selin Hizli, Am I Being Unreasonable?
Jack Rooke, Big Boys
Kat Sadler, Such Brave Girls
Steve Coogan, Rob Gibbons, Neil Gibbons, How Are You? It’s Alan (Partridge)
Writer: Drama
Ailbhe Keogan, Trespasses
Jack Thorne, Stephen Graham, Adolescence
Paris Lees, What It Feels Like For a Girl
Will Smith, Slow Horses
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