2025 British Academy Television Awards

71st British Academy Television Awards
71st British Academy Television Awards
Date	11 May 2025
Site	Royal Festival Hall
Hosted by	Alan Cumming
Highlights
Most nominations	Baby Reindeer and Mr Bates vs The Post Office (4)
Television coverage
Channel	BBC One
	← 2024; BAFTA Awards; 2026 →;

The 2025 British Academy Television Awards ceremony is scheduled to be held on 11 May 2025 at the Royal Festival Hall in London, to recognise the excellence in British television of 2024.^[1] The ceremony will be hosted by Alan Cumming and will be broadcast on BBC One.^[2]

The nominations were announced on 27 March 2025 alongside the nominations for the 2025 British Academy Television Craft Awards.^[3] The nominees for the P&O Cruises Memorable Moment were announced on 11 March 2025.^[4] The limited dramas Baby Reindeer and Mr Bates vs The Post Office led the nominations with four each, followed by Mr Loverman, Rivals, Say Nothing, Slow Horses and The Traitors, all with three each.

Ceremony information

Category changes

The academy announced the creation of two categories for the 2025 edition:^[1]

As with their film counterpart, the television awards have created categories specifically for content designed for audiences aged 16 and under, replacing the British Academy Children's Awards. Therefore, two television categories were created: Children's Scripted and Children's Non-Scripted. The former for scripted drama or comedy content either live-action or animation, and the latter for non-scripted such as factual, factual entertainment, documentary and news.

Winners and nominees

The nominations were announced on 27 March 2025.^[5]^[6]

Best Drama Series	Best Scripted Comedy
Blue Lights (BBC One) Sherwood (BBC One) Supacell (Netflix) Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light (BBC One)	Alma's Not Normal (BBC Two) Brassic (Sky Max) G'wed (ITV2) Ludwig (BBC One)
Best Limited Drama	Best Soap
Baby Reindeer (Netflix) Lost Boys and Fairies (BBC One) Mr Bates vs The Post Office (ITV1) One Day (Netflix)	Casualty (BBC One) Coronation Street (ITV1) EastEnders (BBC One)
Best Factual Entertainment	Best International Programme
In Vogue: The 90s (Disney+) Race across the World (BBC One) Rob and Rylan's Grand Tour (BBC Two) Sort Your Life Out (BBC One)	After the Party (Channel 4) Colin from Accounts (BBC Two) Say Nothing (Disney+) Shōgun (Disney+) True Detective: Night Country (Sky Atlantic) You Are Not Alone: Fighting the Wolfpack (Netflix)
Best Actor	Best Actress
Martin Freeman – The Responder as PC Chris Carson (BBC One) Richard Gadd – Baby Reindeer as Donny Dunn (Netflix) Lennie James – Mr Loverman as Barrington Jedidiah "Barry" Walker (BBC One) Toby Jones – Mr Bates vs The Post Office as Alan Bates (ITV1) Gary Oldman – Slow Horses as Jackson Lamb (Apple TV+) David Tennant – Rivals as Lord Tony Baddingham (Disney+)	Marisa Abela – Industry as Yasmin Kara-Hanani (BBC One) Sharon D. Clarke – Mr Loverman as Carmel Walker (BBC One) Monica Dolan – Mr Bates vs The Post Office as Jo Hamilton (ITV1) Anna Maxwell Martin – Until I Kill You as Delia Balmer (ITV1) Lola Petticrew – Say Nothing as Dolours Price (Disney+) Billie Piper – Scoop as Sam McAlister (Netflix)
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
Ariyon Bakare – Mr Loverman as Morris De La Roux (BBC One) McKinley Belcher III – Eric as Michael Ledroit (Netflix) Christopher Chung – Slow Horses as Roddy Ho (Apple TV+) Damian Lewis – Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light as Henry VIII (BBC One) Jonathan Pryce – Slow Horses as David Cartwright (Apple TV+) Sonny Walker – The Gathering as Adam (Channel 4)	Monica Dolan – Sherwood as Ann Branson (BBC One) Jessica Gunning – Baby Reindeer as Martha Scott (Netflix) Sue Johnston – Truelove as Marion (Channel 4) Nava Mau – Baby Reindeer as Teresa "Teri" (Netflix) Katherine Parkinson – Rivals as Lizzie Vereker (Disney+) Maxine Peake – Say Nothing as older Dolours Price (Disney+)
Best Male Comedy Performance	Best Female Comedy Performance
Phil Dunning – Smoggie Queens as Dickie (BBC Three) Danny Dyer – Mr Bigstuff as Lee (Sky Comedy) Bilal Hasna – Extraordinary as Kash (Disney+) Nabhaan Rizwan – Kaos as Dionysus (Netflix) Oliver Savell – Changing Ends as Young Alan Carr (ITV1) Dylan Thomas-Smith – G'wed as Reece Duffy (ITV2)	Lolly Adefope – The Franchise as Dagmara "Dag" Nwaeze (Sky Comedy) Nicola Coughlan – Big Mood as Maggie (Channel 4) Ruth Jones – Gavin and Stacey: The Finale as Nessa Jenkins (BBC One) Kate O'Flynn – Everyone Else Burns as Fiona Lewis (Channel 4) Anjana Vasan – We Are Lady Parts as Amina (Channel 4) Sophie Willan – Alma's Not Normal as Alma Nuthall (BBC Two)
Best Entertainment Performance	Best Entertainment Programme
Rob Beckett and Romesh Ranganathan – Rob and Romesh Vs (Sky Max) Declan Donnelly and Anthony McPartlin – Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway (ITV1) Joe Lycett – Late Night Lycett (Channel 4) Graham Norton – The Graham Norton Show (BBC One) Stacey Solomon – Sort Your Life Out (BBC One) Claudia Winkleman – The Traitors (BBC One)	The 1% Club (ITV1) Michael McIntyre's Big Show (BBC One) Taskmaster (Channel 4) Would I Lie to You? (BBC One)
Best Factual Series	Best Specialist Factual
American Nightmare (Netflix) Freddie Flintoff's Field of Dreams on Tour (BBC One) The Push: Murder on the Cliff (Channel 4) To Catch a Copper (Channel 4)	Atomic People (BBC Two) Billy and Molly: An Otter Love Story (National Geographic) Children of the Cult (ITV1) Miners' Strike 1984: The Battle for Britain (Channel 4)
Best Single Documentary	Best Reality
Hell Jumper (BBC Two) Tell Them You Love Me (Sky Documentaries) Ukraine: Enemy in the Woods (BBC Two) Undercover: Exposing the Far Right (Channel 4)	Dragons' Den (BBC One) The Jury: Murder Trial (Channel 4) Love Is Blind: UK (Netflix) The Traitors (BBC One)
Best Sport Event Coverage	Best Live Event Coverage
Euro 2024 (BBC One) Paris 2024 Olympics (BBC One) Wimbledon 2024 (BBC One)	D-Day 80: Tribute to the Fallen (BBC One) Glastonbury 2024 (BBC Two) Last Night of the Proms (BBC Two)
Best Current Affairs	Best News Coverage
Storyville: "Life and Death in Gaza" (BBC Two) Exposure: "Maternity: Broken Trust" (ITV1) State of Rage (Channel 4) Exposure: "Ukraine's War: The Other Side" (ITV1)	BBC Breakfast: "Post Office Special" (BBC One) Channel 4 News: "Inside Sednaya – The Fall of Assad" (Channel 4) Channel 4 News: "Undercover Inside Reform's Campaign" (Channel 4)
Best Short Form Programme	Best Daytime
Brown Brit (Channel 4) Peaked (Channel 4) Quiet Life (BBC Three) Spud (BBC Three)	Clive Myrie's Caribbean Adventure (BBC Two) Loose Women (ITV1) Morning Live (BBC One) Richard Osman's House of Games (BBC Two)
Best Children's: Scripted	Best Children's: Non-Scripted
CBeebies As You Like It at Shakespeare's Globe (CBeebies) Horrible Histories (CBBC) Ready Eddie Go! (Sky Kids) Tweedy and Fluff (Channel 5)	BooSnoo! (Sky Kids) FYI Investigates: "Disability and Me" (Sky Kids) Operation Ouch! (CBBC) Reu and Harper's Wonder World (Channel 5)
Memorable Moment
Bridgerton: "The carriage scene where Colin admits his true feelings for Penelope" (Netflix) Gavin and Stacey: The Finale: "Smithy's Wedding: Mick Stands Up" (BBC One) Mr Bates vs The Post Office: "Jo Hamilton phones the Horizon helpline" (ITV1) Rivals: "Rupert Campbell-Black and Sarah Stratton are caught in a game of naked tennis" (Disney+) Strictly Come Dancing: "Dianne Buswell and Chris McCausland waltz to "You'll Never Walk Alone"" (BBC One) The Traitors: "Paul isn't my son... but Ross is!" (BBC One)

References

^ ^a ^b "Rules and Guidelines or the 2025 awards" (PDF). British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Retrieved 27 March 2025.
^ Ramachandran, Naman (24 March 2025). "Alan Cumming Set to Host 2025 BAFTA Television Awards". Variety. Retrieved 27 March 2025.
^ "Bafta TV Awards 2025: The list of nominations". BBC. 27 March 2025. Retrieved 27 March 2025.
^ Cremona, Patrick (11 March 2025). "BAFTA Memorable Moment shortlist unveiled – here's how to vote". Radio Times. Retrieved 27 March 2025.
^ Shafer, Ellise; Ritman, Alex (27 March 2025). "Baby Reindeer Dominates BAFTA TV and Craft Awards Nominations With Eight Nods". Variety. Retrieved 27 March 2025.
^ Richardson, Hollie (27 March 2025). "Bafta TV awards 2025 nominations: full list". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 March 2025.

External links

Official website

[Dates-1] "Rules and Guidelines or the 2025 awards" (PDF). British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Retrieved 27 March 2025.

[2] Ramachandran, Naman (24 March 2025). "Alan Cumming Set to Host 2025 BAFTA Television Awards". Variety. Retrieved 27 March 2025.

[3] "Bafta TV Awards 2025: The list of nominations". BBC. 27 March 2025. Retrieved 27 March 2025.

[4] Cremona, Patrick (11 March 2025). "BAFTA Memorable Moment shortlist unveiled – here's how to vote". Radio Times. Retrieved 27 March 2025.

[5] Shafer, Ellise; Ritman, Alex (27 March 2025). "Baby Reindeer Dominates BAFTA TV and Craft Awards Nominations With Eight Nods". Variety. Retrieved 27 March 2025.

[6] Richardson, Hollie (27 March 2025). "Bafta TV awards 2025 nominations: full list". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 March 2025.

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