Netflix’s groundbreaking drama Adolescence was the big winner at Sunday’s star-studded TV Baftas, taking home four awards including Best Actor for Stephen Graham.
Owen Cooper, who played Jamie – a teenage boy who kills his female classmate – triumphed in the Best Supporting category while Christine Tremarco, who portrayed his mum, beat co-star Erin Doherty (who starred as a psychiatrist) to be named Best Supporting Actress. Adolescence, which sparked worldwide conversations about the manosphere and rising violence among boys when it aired last year, also won Limited Drama.
Taking place at London’s Royal Festival Hall, the TV Baftas also saw wins for BBC One mega-hit The Celebrity Traitors, including Memorable Moment for Alan Carr’s shock victory, while Celia Imrie’s infamous pre-challenge flatulence was mentioned in repeated gags throughout the ceremony.
Elsewhere, the makers of the Gaza: Doctors Under Attack documentary took aim at the BBC, which had initially commissioned the one-off film but later shelved it over impartiality concerns, leading to its eventual broadcast on Channel 4.
After the film’s victory in the Current Affairs category, executive producer Ben De Pear thanked the journalists who made the film, then asked: “Finally, just a question for the BBC: given you dropped our film, will you drop us from the Bafta screening later tonight?” The TV broadcast of the ceremony is edited before it airs on BBC One, on a short delay.
One of the most emotional moments of the evening came as personal finance broadcaster and campaigner Martin Lewis accepted the Special Award, in recognition of his “extraordinary and lasting impact on British consumers and public life”.
Receiving the accolade, he said: “I wrote this [speech] on Thursday, 42 years to the day since we suddenly lost my mum just before I was 12. My childhood was over. For six years, I barely left the house and now I’m picking up a Bafta.
“So to all those of you out there struggling with your own demons, know this – life can be transformed. It can get better. If you told that broken, scared boy I’d be a campaign journalist, his jaw would have dropped.”
Musical performances came from Celebrity Traitors star Cat Burns and Norwegian vocalist Aurora.
See the full list of winners below…
Drama series
A Thousand Blows (Disney+)
Blue Lights (BBC One)
Code of Silence (ITV1) – winner
This City Is Ours (BBC One)
Limited drama
Adolescence (Netflix) – winner
I Fought the Law (ITV1)
Trespasses (Channel 4)
What it Feels Like for a Girl (BBC Three)
International
The Bear (Disney+)
The Diplomat (Netflix)
Pluribus (Apple TV)
Severance (Apple TV)
The Studio (Apple TV) – winner
The White Lotus (Sky Atlantic)
Leading actress
Aimee Lou Wood, Film Club (BBC Three)
Erin Doherty, A Thousand Blows (Disney+)
Jodie Whittaker, Toxic Town (Netflix)
Narges Rashidi, Prisoner 951 (BBC One) – winner
Sheridan Smith, I Fought the Law (ITV1)
Siân Brooke, Blue Lights (BBC One)
Leading actor
Colin Firth, Lockerbie: A Search for Truth (Sky Atlantic)
Ellis Howard, What It Feels Like for a Girl (BBC Three)
James Nelson-Joyce, This City is Ours (BBC One)
Matt Smith, The Death of Bunny Munro (Sky Atlantic)
Stephen Graham, Adolescence (Netflix) – winner
Taron Egerton, Smoke (Apple TV)
Actress in a comedy
Diane Morgan, Mandy (BBC Two)
Jennifer Saunders, Amandaland (BBC One)
Katherine Parkinson, Here We Go (BBC One) – winner
Lucy Punch, Amandaland (BBC One)
Philippa Dunne, Amandaland (BBC One)
Rosie Jones, Pushers (Channel 4)
Actor in a comedy
Jim Howick, Here We Go (BBC One)
Jon Pointing, Big Boys (Channel 4)
Lenny Rush, Am I Being Unreasonable? (BBC One)
Mawaan Rizwan, Juice (BBC Three)
Oliver Savell, Changing Ends (ITV1)
Steve Coogan, How Are You? It's Alan (Partridge) (BBC One) – winner
Supporting actress
Aimee Lou Wood, The White Lotus (Sky Atlantic)
Christine Tremarco, Adolescence (Netflix) – winner
Chyna McQueen, Get Millie Black (Channel 4)
Emilia Jones, Task (Sky Atlantic)
Erin Doherty, Adolescence (Netflix)
Rose Ayling-Ellis, Reunion (BBC One)
Supporting actor
Ashley Walters, Adolescence (Netflix)
Fehinti Balogun, Down Cemetery Road (Apple TV)
Joshua McGuire, The Gold (BBC One)
Owen Cooper, Adolescence (Netflix) – winner
Paddy Considine, MobLand (Paramount+)
Rafael Mathé, The Death of Bunny Munro (Sky Atlantic)
Entertainment
The Graham Norton Show (BBC One)
Last One Laughing (Prime Video) – winner
Michael McIntyre’s Big Show (BBC One)
Would I Lie to You? (BBC One)
Entertainment performance
Amanda Holden, Alan Carr, Amanda & Alan’s Spanish Job (BBC One)
Bob Mortimer, Last One Laughing (Prime Video) – winner
Claudia Winkleman, The Celebrity Traitors (BBC One)
Lee Mack, The 1% Club (ITV1)
Rob Beckett, Romesh Ranganathan, Rob & Romesh Vs … (Sky Max)
Romesh Ranganathan, Romesh: Can’t Knock the Hustle (Sky Max)
Scripted comedy
Amandaland (BBC One) – winner
Big Boys (Channel 4)
How are you? It’s Alan (Partridge) (BBC One)
Things You Should Have Done (BBC Three)
Specialist factual
Belsen: What They Found (BBC Two)
Simon Schama: The Road to Auschwitz (BBC Two) – winner
Surviving Black Hawk Down (Netflix)
Vietnam: The War That Changed America (Apple TV)
Reality
The Celebrity Traitors (BBC One) – winner
The Jury: Murder Trial (Channel 4)
Squid Game: The Challenge (Netflix)
Virgin Island (Channel 4)
Current affairs
Exposure: Breaking Ranks – Inside Israel’s War (ITV1)
The Covid Contracts: Follow the Money (ITV1)
Gaza: Doctors Under Attack (Channel 4) – winner
Panorama: Undercover in the Police (BBC One)
Shortform
Donkey (BBC Three)
Hustle and Run (Channel 4) – winner
Rocket Fuel (BBC Three)
Zoners (BBC Three)
Factual entertainment
The Assembly (ITV1)
Go Back to Where you Came From (Channel 4) – winner
Knife Edge: Chasing Michelin Stars (Apple TV)
Race Across the World (BBC One)
Factual series
Bibaa & Nicole: Murder in the Park (Sky Documentaries)
Educating Yorkshire (Channel 4)
See No Evil (Channel 4) – winner
The Undercover Police Scandal: Love and Lies Exposed (ITV1)
Live event coverage
Holocaust Memorial Day 2025 (BBC One)
Last Night of the Proms: Finale (BBC One)
VE Day 80: A Celebration to Remember (BBC One) – winner
News coverage
BBC Newsnight: Grooming Survivors Speak (BBC Two)
Channel 4 News: Israel-Iran: The Twelve Day War (Channel 4) – winner
Sky News: Gaza: Fight for Survival (Sky News)
Single documentary
Grenfell: Uncovered (Netflix) – winner
Louis Theroux: The Settlers (BBC Two)
One Day in Southport (Channel 4)
Unforgotten: The Bradford City Fire (BBC Two)
Soap
Casualty (BBC One)
Coronation Street (ITVX)
EastEnders (BBC One) – winner
Sports coverage
The 2025 Ryder Cup (Sky Sports Main Event)
The FA Cup Final (BBC One)
Uefa Women’s Euro 2025 (BBC One) – winner
Wimbledon 2025 (BBC One)
Daytime
The Chase (ITV1)
Lorraine (ITV1)
Richard Osman’s House of Games (BBC Two)
Scam Interceptors (BBC One) – winner
Children’s non-scripted
A Real Bug’s Life (Disney+)
BooSnoo! (Sky Kids)
Deadly 60: Saving Sharks (CBBC)
World. War. Me (Sky News) – winner
Children’s scripted
Crongton (BBC iPlayer) – winner
Horrible Science (BBC iPlayer)
Shaun the Sheep (CBBC)
The Wonderfully Weird World of Gumball (Cartoon Network)
Memorable moment
Adolescence: Jamie snaps at the psychologist (Netflix)
Big Boys: “I didn’t make it, did I?” (Channel 4)
Blue Lights: the police are warned of an ambush plot to silence a key witness (BBC)
The Celebrity Traitors: Alan Carr wins (BBC) – winner
Last One Laughing UK: Bob Mortimer and Richard Ayoade’s speed date (Prime Video)
What It Feels Like for a Girl: Byron leaves for Brighton to start uni, where she introduces herself as Paris (BBC)
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