Adolescence led the winners at this year’s Bafta Television Awards with P&O Cruises – winning four categories.
The Netflix series won the Best Limited Drama prize, while three of its cast picked up awards. Owen Cooper won Supporting Actor, Christine Tremarco won Supporting Actress, and Stephen Graham won Leading Actor.
Adolescence’s four prizes saw it break the record for the most wins at the Bafta TV Awards ceremony in a single year.
BBC1’s The Celebrity Traitors and Prime Video’s Last One Laughing followed with two prizes each. 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's victory in The Celebrity Traitors as their most memorable TV moment of 2025.
In the Leading Actress category, Narges Rashidi won her first Bafta for BBC1’s real-life drama Prisoner 951, where she played Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British-Iranian woman who was imprisoned in Tehran for six years.
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 role in the family sitcom Here We Go.
Elsewhere, Code of Silence, which starred Rose Ayling-Ellis as a deaf woman who helps police with her lip-reading skills, won the Drama Series award.
In other categories, EastEnders won Soap prize for the second year running, Amandaland won scripted comedy, and Scam Interceptors won best daytime show.
VE Day 80: A Celebration to Remember took home the coveted Live Event prize, and UEFA Women’s Euro 2025 won the award for sports coverage.
The Current Affairs prize went to Gaza: Doctors Under Attack after it was pulled by the BBC last year, which the broadcaster said was because of impartiality concerns. It was later shown by Channel 4 instead.
Specialist factual was won by Simon Schama: The Road to Auschwitz, and the News Coverage prize was presented on Channel 4 News for Israel-Iran: The Twelve Day War.
Go Back to Where You Came From won the Factual Entertainment award; See No Evil won in the Factual Series category; and Grenfell: Uncovered won the Single Documentary prize.
Short Form was won by Hustle and Run, and the Bafta for International went to Seth Rogan’s Apple TV series 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, while the Bafta Fellowship was presented to Dame Mary Berry DBE.
The awards ceremony took place at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall.
Adolescence and The Celebrity Traitors also led the winners for this year’s Bafta Television Craft Awards, taking home two prizes each. Discover more here.
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