BAFTA has announced the winners of the 2026 BAFTA Television Awards with P&O Cruises at a ceremony in London. Celebrating the very best of television broadcast in 2025, the ceremony was hosted by Greg Davies with musical performances from Cat Burns and AURORA.
Adolescence was the only programme to win four categories: Owen Cooper won his first BAFTA for Supporting Actor, Christine Tremarco won Supporting Actress, also a first-time BAFTA winner. First-time BAFTA winner Stephen Graham won Leading Actor and the programme won Limited Drama.
In the Leading Actress category, Narges Rashidi won her first BAFTA for Prisoner 951.
Steve Coogan won the Actor in a Comedy award for his performance in How Are You? It’s Alan (Partridge); and Katherine Parkinson won Actress in a Comedy for her performance in Here We Go.
Bob Mortimer won Entertainment Performance for Last One Laughing which also won the BAFTA for Entertainment.
The Celebrity Traitors won in the Reality category; and also picked up the P&O Cruises Memorable Moment Award, the only award voted for by the British public. The nation crowned Alan Carr winning The Celebrity Traitors as their most memorable TV moment of 2025.
Code of Silence won Drama Series; and EastEnders won Soap for the second year running.
Amandaland won Scripted Comedy; Scam Interceptors won Daytime.
VE Day 80: A Celebration to Remember won Live Event; UEFA Women’s Euro 2025 won Sports Coverage.
Go Back to Where You Came From won Factual Entertainment; See No Evil won Factual Series; Grenfell: Uncovered won Single Documentary.
Specialist Factual was won by Simon Schama: The Road to Auschwitz; News Coverage was presented to Channel 4 News: Israel-Iran: The Twelve Day War and Gaza: Doctors Under Attack won Current Affairs.
Short Form was won by Hustle and Run and the BAFTA for International went to The Studio.
Children’s: Scripted was won by Crongton; and World.War.Me (Sky Kids Investigates) won for Children’s: Non-Scripted.
The Television Special Award was presented by Richard Osman to Martin Lewis CBE in recognition of his extraordinary TV work and lasting positive impact on British audiences.
The Fellowship, the highest accolade bestowed by BAFTA upon an individual in recognition of an outstanding and exceptional contribution to film, games or television, was presented by Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins to broadcaster Dame Mary Berry DBE for her exceptional contribution to television with a career spanning six decades.
The Awards ceremony took place at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall and was broadcast on BBC One and BBC iPlayer in the UK. In Australia on HBO, in New Zealand on Sky Arts (NZ), in 23 countries across Africa and the Middle East on MBC Channels, as well as 13 countries across Asia on Rewind Networks and on seven ships within the P&O Cruises fleet.
View the full list of winners here
