Mr Bates vs The Submit Workplace and Mr Loverman had been the massive victors on the BAFTA TV Awards, that means Child Reindeer didn’t proceed its dominant successful streak.
Hosted by The Traitors star Alan Cumming, the BAFTA ceremony occurred in glowing spring sunshine on the banks of the River Thames at London’s Royal Pageant Corridor on Sunday.
The prizes had been pretty evenly shared, however maybe unsurprisingly, it was a notable night time for Mr Bates vs The Submit Workplace, the ITV collection that dominated the UK rankings final yr and fuelled a nationwide dialog about injustices confronted by harmless British postmasters, who had been convicted of theft, fraud, and false accounting.
The collection gained Finest Restricted Drama, beating Child Reindeer, which has been a darling of the awards season after cleansing up on the Emmys and Golden Globes. Jessica Gunning did, nevertheless, take house the prize for Finest Supporting Actress for Child Reindeer, finishing a possible historic TV Awards sweep.
ITV additionally gained the Particular Award for commissioning Mr Bates vs The Submit Workplace, with content material chief Kevin Lygo accepting the prize. He used his speech to make the case for British storytelling amid considerations {that a} funding disaster will forestall collection like Mr Bates from being made sooner or later. “It falls to us to keep in mind that these are extremely necessary tales,” he informed a room stuffed with British TV grandees. Mr Bates screened on PBS Masterpiece within the U.S.
Lennie James took house Finest Main Actor in a extremely aggressive class. His prize for Mr Loverman, the BBC adaptation of Bernardine Evaristo‘s seventh novel, meant the likes of Richard Gadd and Gary Oldman missed out. Ariyon Bakare gained Finest Supporting Actor for his flip in Mr Loverman. The collection doesn’t presently have a house within the U.S.
Lennie James in ‘Mr Loverman’
Marisa Abela gained Finest Main Actress for HBO/BBC collection Trade. In an emotional speech, she thanked Mickey Down and Konrad Kay for altering her life.
Shōgun continued its awards streak, choosing up Finest Worldwide collection. Showrunner Justin Marks appeared to reference Donald Trump‘s tariff plan in his acceptance speech, saying “good tv is really a borderless nation.”
Danny Dyer was the favored winner of Finest Male Efficiency In A Comedy. The previous Soccer Manufacturing unit actor has garnered plaudits for his work in Disney+ collection Rivals, however took house the BAFTA prize for Sky’s Mr Massive Stuff. “What a contact,” he mentioned as he picked up his masks, earlier than joking: “Performing so dangerous it’s humorous.”
Ruth Jones gained Finest Feminine Efficiency In A Comedy after the wildly well-liked festive finale of Gavin & Stacey. She thanked her co-writer and co-star James Corden, with whom she has shared an “astonishing journey” on the BBC collection over the previous 17 years.
Ukraine: Enemy In The Woods secured the prize for Finest Single Documentary, a second that can have raised a number of eyebrows within the room. Producer HOYO Movies stirred controversy with its latest movie Gaza: How one can Survive a Warzone, which is presently the topic of a BBC investigation after being narrated by the son of a Hamas official. “We hope to proceed to make many extra documentaries like this — it’s what we dwell for,” mentioned HOYO founder Jamie Roberts.
In one of many extra political moments of the night time, Marcel Mettelsiefen used his Finest Present Affairs win for State Of Rage to explain the scenario in Gaza as “collective punishment.” “This violence must cease now,” he added. “Let’s break this silence.”
Elsewhere, Kirsty Wark, the previous BBC Newsnight presenter, obtained the BAFTA Fellowship, the British Academy’s prime accolade. The BBC’s protection of Glastonbury Pageant gained its first BAFTA for 30 years, clinching Finest Reside Occasion Protection.
BAFTA handed out tv prizes for its Craft Awards final month, throughout which winners included Child Reindeer creator Gadd, who took house the award for Author: Drama.
The BAFTA TV Awards screened on BBC One within the UK and BritBox within the U.S. Under is the whole record of winners (in daring) and nominees for the BAFTA TV Awards 2025.
Drama Sequence
WINNER: Blue Lights (BBC)
Sherwood (BBC)
Supacell (Netflix)
Wolf Corridor: The Mirror and the Gentle (BBC)
Restricted Drama
Child Reindeer (Netflix)
Misplaced Boys and Fairies (BBC One)
WINNER: Mr Bates vs the Submit Workplace (ITV)
One Day (Netflix)
Worldwide
After The Social gathering (Channel 4)
Colin From Accounts (BBC)
Say Nothing Disney+)
WINNER: Shōgun (Disney+)
True Detective: Night time Nation (Sky Atlantic)
You Are Not Alone: Preventing The Wolfpack (Netflix)
Main Actress
Anna Maxwell Martin, Till I Kill You (ITV)
Billie Piper, Scoop (Netflix)
Lola Petticrew, Say Nothing (Disney+)
WINNER: Marisa Abela, Trade (BBC)
Monia Dolan, Mr Bates vs the Submit Workplace (ITV)
Sharon D Clarke, Mr Loverman (BBC)
Main Actor
David Tennant, Rivals (Disney+)
Gary Oldman, Gradual Horses (Apple TV+)
WINNER: Lennie James, Mr Loverman (BBC)
Martin Freeman, The Responder (BBC)
Richard Gadd, Child Reindeer (Netflix)
Toby Jones, Mr Bates vs the Submit Workplace (ITV)
Feminine Efficiency In A Comedy
Anjana Vasan, We Are Girl Components (Channel 4)
Kate O’Flynn, Everybody Else Burns Channel 4)
Lolly Adefope, The Franchise (Sky)
Nicola Coughlan, Massive Temper (Channel 4)
WINNER: Ruth Jones, Gavin & Stacey (BBC)
Sophie Willan, Alma’s Not Regular (BBC)
Male Efficiency In A Comedy
Bilal Hasna, Extraordinary (Disney+)
WINNER: Danny Dyer, Mr Massive Stuff (Sky)
Dylan Thomas-Smith, G’wed (ITV)
Nabhaan Rizwan, Kaos (Netflix)
Oliver Savell, Altering Ends (ITV)
Phil Dunning, Smoggie Queens (BBC)
Supporting Actor
WINNER: Ariyon Bakare, Mr Loverman (BBC)
Christopher Chung, Gradual Horses (Apple TV+)
Damian Lewis, Wolf Corridor: The Mirror and the Gentle (BBC)
Jonathan Pryce, Gradual Horses (Apple TV+)
McKinley Belcher III, Eric (Netflix)
Sonny Walker, The Gathering (Channel 4)
Supporting Actress
WINNER: Jessica Gunning, Child Reindeer (Netflix)
Katherine Parkinson, Rivals (Disney+)
Maxine Peake, Say Nothing (Disney+)
Monica Dolan, Sherwood (BBC One)
Nava Mau, Child Reindeer (Netflix)
Sue Johnston, Truelove (Channel 4)
Scripted Comedy
WINNER: Alma’s Not Regular (BBC)
Brassic (Sky Max)
G’Wed (ITV1)
Ludwig (BBC)
Leisure
The 1% Membership (ITV)
Michael McIntyre’s Massive Present (BBC)
Taskmaster (Channel 4)
WINNER: Would I Lie To You? (BBC)
Leisure Efficiency
Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly, Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night time Takeaway (ITV)
Claudia Winkleman, The Traitors (BBC)
Graham Norton, The Graham Norton Present (BBC)
WINNER: Joe Lycett, Late Night time Lycett (Channel 4)
Romesh Ranganathan and Rob Beckett, Rob & Romesh Vs (Sky)
Stacey Solomon, Type Your Life Out (BBC)
Specialist Factual
WINNER: Atomic Individuals (BBC)
Billy & Molly: An Otter Love Story (Nationwide Geographic)
Kids of the Cult (ITV)
Miners’ Strike 1984: The Battle For Britain (Channel 4)
Actuality
Dragons’ Den (BBC)
WINNER: The Jury: Homicide Trial (Channel 4)
Love Is Blind (Netflix)
The Traitors (BBC)
Present Affairs
Storyville: Life and Loss of life in Gaza (BBC)
Maternity: Damaged Belief (ITV)
WINNER: State of Rage (Channel 4)
Ukraine’s Battle: The Different Aspect (ITV)
Brief Kind
Brown Brit (Channel 4)
Peaked (Channel 4)
WINNER: Quiet Life (BBC)
Spud (BBC)
Factual Leisure
In Vogue: The 90s (Vogue Studios, Disney+)
Race Throughout The World (BBC)
WINNER: Rob and Rylan’s Grand Tour (BBC)
Type Your Life Out (BBC)
Factual Sequence
American Nightmare (Netflix)
Freddie Flintoff’s Discipline of Desires on Tour (BBC)
The Push: Homicide on the Cliff (Channel 4)
WINNER: To Catch a Copper (Channel 4)
Reside Occasion Protection
D-Day 80: Tribute To The Fallen (BBC)
WINNER: Glastonbury 2024 (BBC)
Final Night time of The Proms (BBC)
Information Protection
WINNER: BBC Breakfast: Submit Workplace Particular (BBC One)
Channel 4 Information: Inside Sednaya (Channel 4)
Channel 4 Information: Undercover Inside Reform’s Marketing campaign (Channel 4)
Single Documentary
Hell Jumper (BBC Two)
Inform Them You Love Me (Sky Documentaries)
WINNER: Ukraine: Enemy In The Woods (BBC Two)
Undercover: Exposing The Far Proper (Channel 4)
Cleaning soap
Casualty (BBC One)
Coronation Avenue (ITV1)
WINNER: EastEnders (BBC One)
Sport
Euro 2024 (BBC)
WINNER: Paris 2024 Olympics (BBC)
Wimbledon (BBC)
Daytime
WINNER: Clive Myrie’s Caribbean Journey (BBC)
Free Ladies (ITV1)
Morning Reside (BBC)
Richard Osman’s Home of Video games (BBC)
Kids’s Non-Scripted
BoosNoo! (Sky)
WINNER: FYI Investigates: Incapacity and Me (Sky)
Operation Ouch! (CBBC)
Reu and Harper’s Surprise World (Channel 5)
Kids’s Scripted
WINNER: CBeebies As You Like It at Shakespeare’s Globe (CBeebies)
Horrible Histories (CBBC)
Prepared Eddie Go! (Sky Children)
Tweedy & Fluff (Channel 5)
P&O Cruises Memorable Second
Bridgerton: The carriage scene, the place Colin admits his true emotions for Penelope (Netflix)
Gavin & Stacey: The Finale: Smithy’s marriage ceremony, when Mick stands up (BBC)
Mr Bates vs the Submit Workplace: Jo Hamilton telephones the Horizon helpline (ITV)
Rivals: Rupert Campbell-Black and Sarah Stratton are caught in a recreation of bare tennis (Disney+)
WINNER: Strictly Come Dancing: Chris McCausland and Dianne Buswell waltz (BBC)
The Traitors: “Paul isn’t my son … however Ross is!” (BBC)
