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, produced by Warp Films, led the nominations with 11, followed by Disney+’s A Thousand Blows with seven, and emerged as Sunday’s big winner. 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.
Adolescence began Sunday night with best supporting actress and actor wins for Christine Tremarco and Owen Cooper before receiving the best limited series honor about an hour later. Cooper’s latest trophy adds to his wins at the Primetime Emmy Awards, the Golden Globes and the Actor Awards.
Meanwhile, The Celebrity Traitors walked away with the BAFTA for best reality series.
One award on Sunday was presented by two big British stars of the upcoming HBO Harry Potter series, namely Paapa Essiedu, who is portraying Severus Snape, and Nick Frost, who plays Hagrid. No, they didn’t spill any beans on the series, but they had a bit of a laugh. Essiedu kept referring to Frost as Hagrid, to which his co-star responded: “My name is Nick! I sat next to you at the frigging readthrough.”
Among other key moments from the ceremony, Adam Scott handed the honor for best actor in a comedy to Steve Coogan for How Are You? It’s Alan (Partridge).
Cat Burns entertained the BAFTA crowd with a live performance of “How to Be Human” about halfway through the show.
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.
Factual Entertainment
The Assembly
Go Back to Where You Came From
Knife Edge: Chasing Michelin Stars
Race Across the World
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
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
Sports Coverage
The 2025 Ryder Cup, Sky Sports
The FA Cup Final, BBC Sport
UEFA Women’s Euro 2025, BBC One
Wimbledon, BBC Sport
Soap
Casualty
Coronation Street
Eastenders
Actress in a Comedy
Diane Morgan, Mandy
Jennifer Saunders, Amandaland
Katherine Parkinson, Here We Go
Lucy Punch, Amandaland
Philippa Dunne, Amandaland
Rosie Jones, Pushers
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)
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
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
Limited Drama
Adolescence
I Fought the Law
Trespasses
What It Feels Like for a Girl
Entertainment
The Graham Norton Show
Last One Laughing
Michael McIntyre’s Big Show
Would I Lie To You?
Children’s: Scripted
Crongton
Horrible Science
Shaun the Sheep
The Wonderfully Weird World of Gumball
Children’s: Non-Scripted
A Real Bug’s Life
Boosnoo!
Deadly 60 Saving Sharks
Word.War.Me (Sky Kids Investigates)
Factual Series
Bibaa & Nicole: Murder in the Park
Educating Yorkshire
See No Evil
The Undercover Police Scandal: Love and Lies Exposed
Specialist Factual
Belsen: What They Found
Simon Schama: The Road to Auschwitz
Surviving Black Hawk Down
Vietnam: The War That Changed America
Scripted Comedy
Amandaland
Big Boys
How Are You? It’s Alan (Partridge)
Things You Should Have Done
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
Drama Series
Blue Lights
A Thousand Blows
Code of Silence
This City Is Ours
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
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
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
