(L-R) 'Adolescence,' 'A Thousand Blows,' 'Andor.' Courtesy of Netflix/Disney+ Unsurprisingly, Adolescence leads the nominations for the 2026 BAFTA Television Awards, unveiled in London on Tuesday.
The smash-hit Netflix phenomenon earned 11 nods, followed by Disney+’s A Thousand Blows with seven, Andor and Trespasses with six apiece, and The Celebrity Traitors with five.
The Emmy-winning cast of Adolescence has continued to garner critical acclaim, with a best lead actor nod for creator-star Stephen Graham. He’ll go up against Colin Firth (Lockerbie: A Search for Truth), Ellis Howard (What It Feels Like For a Girl), James Nelson-Joyce (This City Is Ours), Matt Smith (The Death of Bunny Munro) and Taron Egerton (Smoke) at the May 10 ceremony, hosted by Taskmaster‘s Greg Davies.
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In the leading actress category, Aimee Lou Wood is nominated for her turn in Film Club alongside Erin Doherty (A Thousand Blows), Jodie Whittaker (Toxic Town), Narges Rashidi (Prisoner 951), Sheridan Smith (I Fought the Law), and Sian Brooke (Blue Lights).
Best drama series nominations have gone to A Thousand Blows, Blue Lights, Code of Silence, and This City Is Ours, as Adolescence competes in the limited series category. In the international category, The Bear, The Diplomat, Pluribus, Severance, The Studio, and The White Lotus are set to vie for the BAFTA TV Award.
Also up for BAFTAs are first-time nominees Ashley Walters (Adolescence), Christine Tremarco (Adolescence), Fehinti Balogun (Down Cemetery Road), Owen Cooper (Adolescence), and Paddy Considine (MobLand).
This year’s BAFTA TV Awards with P&O Cruises will take place at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall in the British capital. The ceremony will air that same evening on BBC One and the BBC iPlayer. The BAFTA Television Craft Awards — nominations for which were also revealed Tuesday — will be handed out on Apr. 26.
Check out the BAFTA TV Awards and BAFTA Television Craft Awards nominations below.
Children’s: Non-Scripted
A Real Bug’s Life Boosnoo! Deadly 60 Saving Sharks Word.War.Me (Sky Kids Investigates)
Children’s: Scripted
Crongton Horrible Science Shaun the Sheep The Wonderfully Weird World of Gumball
Current Affairs
Breaking Ranks: Inside Israel’s War (Exposure) The Covid Contracts: Follow the Money Gaza: Doctors Under Attack Undercover in the Police
Daytime
The Chase Lorraine Richard Osman’s House of Games Scam Interceptors
Drama Series
A Thousand Blows Code of Silence This City Is Ours
Entertainment
The Graham Norton Show Last One Laughing Michael McIntyre’s Big Show Would I Lie To You?
Entertainment Performance
Amanda Holden, Alan Carr, Amanda & Alan’s Spanish Job Bob Mortimer, Last One Laughing Claudia Winkleman, The Celebrity Traitors Lee Mack, The 1% Club Rob Beckett, Romesh Ranganathan, Rob & Romesh Vs… Romesh Ranganathan, Romesh: Can’t Knock the Hustle
Factual Entertainment
The Assembly Go Back to Where You Came From Knife Edge: Chasing Michelin Stars Race Across the World
Factual Series
Bibaa & Nicole: Murder in the Park Educating Yorkshire See No Evil The Undercover Police Scandal: Love and Lies Exposed
Actress in a Comedy
Diane Morgan, Mandy Jennifer Saunders, Amandaland Katherine Parkinson, Here We Go Lucy Punch, Amandaland Philippa Dunne, Amandaland Rosie Jones, Pushers
International
The Bear The Diplomat Pluribus Severance The Studio The White Lotus
Leading Actor
Colin Firth, Lockerbie: A Search for Truth Ellis Howard, What it Feels Like for a Girl James Nelson-Joyce, This City is Ours Matt Smith, The Death of Bunny Munro Stephen Graham, Adolescence Taron Egerton, Smoke
Leading Actress
Aimee Lou Wood, Film Club Erin Doherty, A Thousand Blows Jodie Whittaker, Toxic Town Narges Rashidi, Prisoner 951 Sheridan Smith, I Fought The Law Sian Brooke, Blue Lights
Limited Drama
Adolescence I Fought the Law Trespasses What It Feels Like For a Girl
Live Event Coverage
Holocaust Memorial Day 2025, BBC Studios / BBC One Last Night of the Proms: Finale, Livewire Pictures / BBC One VE Day 80: A Celebration to Remember, BBC Studios / BBC One
Actor in a Comedy
Jim Howick, Here We Go Jon Pointing, Big Boys Lenny Rush, Am I Being Unreasonable? Mawaan Rizwan, Juice Oliver Savell, Changing Ends Steve Coogan, How Are You? It’s Alan (Partridge)
News Coverage
BBC Newsnight: Grooming Survivors Speak, BBC Newsnight / BBC Two Channel 4 News: Israel-Iran: The Twelve Day War, Channel 4 News / Channel 4 Sky News: Gaza: Fight for Survival, Sky News / Sky News
Reality
The Celebrity Traitors The Jury: Murder Trial Squid Game: The Challenge Virgin Island
Scripted Comedy
Amandaland Big Boys How Are You? It’s Alan (Partridge) Things You Should Have Done
Short Form
Donkey Hustle and Run Rocket Fuel Zoners
Single Documentary
Grenfell: Uncovered Louis Theroux: The Settlers One Day in Southport Unforgotten: The Bradford City Fire
Soap
Casualty Coronation Street Eastenders
Specialist Factual
Belsen: What They Found Simon Schama: The Road to Auschwitz Surviving Black Hawk Down Vietnam: The War That Changed America
Sports Coverage
The 2025 Ryder Cup, Sky Sports The FA Cup Final, BBC Sport UEFA Women’s Euro 2025, BBC One Wimbledon, BBC Sport
Supporting Actor
Ashely Walters, Adolescence Fehinti Balogun, Down Cemetery Road Joshua McGuire, The Gold Owen Cooper, Adolescence Paddy Considine, MobLand Rafael Mathe, The Death of Bunny Munro
Supporting Actress
Aimee Lou Wood, The White Lotus Christine Tremarco, Adolescence Chyna McQueen, Get Millie Black Emilia Jones, Task Erin Doherty, Adolescence Rose Ayling-Ellis, Reunion
P&O Cruises Memorable Moment Award (voted for by the public)
Adolescence, Jamie Snaps at the Psychologist BIG BOYS, “I didn’t make it, did I?” Blue Lights, The police are warned of an ambush to plot to silence a key witness The Celebrity Traitors, Alan Carr wins Last One Laughing, Bob Mortimer and Richard Ayoade’s speed date What It Feels Like For a Girl, Byron leaves for Brighton to start Uni, where she introduces herself as Paris
Children’s Craft Team
Ben Bocquelet, Joe Sparrow, Luke Allen, james Lancett, Adrian Cathie, Andy Goodman, The Wonderfully Weird World of Gumball Lucy Izzard, Andrew Mitchell, Fernando Lechuga, Jean-Marc Petsas, Owen Peters, Bronwen Slater, The Very Small Creatures Samantha Cutler, Jeroen Jaspaert, Steven Bloomer, Terry Davies, Adrian Rhodes, Shannan Taylor, The Scarecrows’ Wedding Simon Partington, Andy Farago, Simon Couzens, Sandy Nuttgens, Alex Copley, Andy Brittain, BooSnoo!
Costume Design
Emma O’Loughlin, Trespasses Maja Meschede, A Thousand Blows Michael Wilkinson, Andor Rhona Russell, Lockerbie: A Search for Truth
Director: Factual
Benedict Sanderson, See No Evil Karim Shah, Gaza: Doctors Under Attack Olaide Sadiq, Grenfell: Uncovered Rob Coldstream, Vietnam: The War That Changed America
Director: Fiction
Dawn Shadforth, Trespasses Janus Metz, Andor Philip Barantini, Adolescence Sam Donovan, Severance
Director: Multi-Camera
Ben Archard, Eddie Lewis, Marieke Barker-Benfield, The Celebrity Traitors Ben Hardy, Last One Laughing Diccon Ramsay, VE Day 80: A Celebration to Remember Laurence Cawsey, Super Sunday – Liverpool v Tottenham Hotspur
Editing: Factual
Jennifer Asheitu Hampson, Attack on London: Hunting the 7/7 Bombers Mel Quigley, Andy Kemp, Gaza: Doctors Under Attack Paul Hammacott, Louis Theroux: The Settlers Samuel R. Santana, Grenfell: Uncovered
Editing: Fiction
Fiona Brands, Slow Horses (Episode 6) Úna Ní Dhonghaíle, Prison 951 Simon Smith, The Last of Us Yan Miles, Andor
Emerging Talent: Factual
Alexandra Lacey, writer-director, The Twister: Caught in the Storm Elle Mower, director, Convicting My Ex Olaide Sadiq, director, Grenfell: Uncovered
Emerging Talent: Fiction
Chloe English, director, G’wed Emily McDonald, director, Am I Being Unreasonable? Eros V, director, Juice Janice Okoh, writer, Just Act Normal
Entertainment Craft Team
Ben Archard, Siggi Rosen-Rawlings, James Tinsley, Stuart Frossell, Martin Adams, Nathan Lindley, The Celebrity Traitors Diccon Ramsay, Rikki Finlay, Mat Weekes, Ben Norman, James Tinsley, Robert Mansfield, Squid Game: The Challenge Graham Proud, Toby Wilkinson, Sam Turner, Alex Weeks, Jennifer Ford, Rob & Romesh Vs… Philip Barantini, Nyk Allen, Jacob Smith, Joe Blodgett, Frank Larson, Brendan Poutier, One Shot: With Ed Sheeran
Make Up & Hair Design
Lucy Sibbick, Victoria Money, Slow Horses Sjaan Gillings, Lockerbie: A Search for Truth Sian Wilson, Caroline Greenough , Clare Ramsey, Cheryl Garvey, Madlen Mierzwiak, A Thousand Blows Vickie Lang, Nik Williams, Barrier Gower, Amadeus
Original Music: Factual
Anne Nikitin, Pangolin: Kulu’s Journey Jessica Dannheisser, The Last Musician of Auschwitz Louis Dodd, Matthew Sanches, The Sycamore Gap Mystery Sophy Purnell, Moon: Nature’s Secret Force
Original Music: Fiction
Ariel Marx, Hotel Reverie (Black Mirror) Federico Jusid, A Thousand Blows Nick Cave, Warren Ellis, The Death of Bunny Munro Tom Rowlands, Mussolini: Son of the Century
Photography: Factual
Camera Team, Secrets of the Penguins Jordan Bryon, Our Land: Israel’s Other War Marcel Mettelsiefen, State of War: Fighting the Narcos (Exposure) Stefano Ferrari, Tim Cragg, Surviving Black Hawk Down
Photography & Lighting: Fiction
Catherine Goldschmidt, The Last of Us Matthew Lewis, Adolescence Ryan Kernaghan, Trespasses Suzie Lavelle, Severance
Production Design
Gillian Devenney, Trespasses Luke Hull, Rebecca Alleyway, Toby Britton, Andor Philippa Mumford, Juice Tom Burton, Grant Bailey, Barbara Herman-Skelding, A Thousand Blows
Scripted Casting
Nathan Toth, What it Feels Like for a Girl Nathan Toth, Julie Harkin, Reunion Shaheen Baig, Adolescence Shaheen Baig, Get Millie Black
Sound: Factual
Andy Deacon, Kevin Dugg, Will Thomas Jonathan Gibson, The Lost Music of Auschwitz Sount Team, The Celebrity Traitors Sound Team, Formula 1: Drive to Survive Tristan Powell, Will Chapman, The Last Musician of Auschwitz
Sound: Fiction
Andrew Sissons, Martin Jensen, Ben Tisdall, Joe Beal, Duncan Price, Conor Thompson, Slow Horses Danny Hambrook, David Acord, Margit Pfeiffer, James Spencer, Josh Gold, John Finklea, Andor James Drake, Jules Woods, Rob Entwistle, Kiff McMAnus, Kyle Pickford, Adam Mendez, Adolescence Lee Walpole, Stuart Hilliker, Saoirse Christopherson, Andy Kennedy, Lee Crichlow, Chris Campion, Lockerbie: A Search for Truth
Special, Visual & Graphic Effects
James Maclachlan, Josie Henwood, Union VFX Studios Malta, Magic Lab Studios, Sam Chynoweth, USS Callister: Into Infinity (Black Mirror) Luke Murphy, Mohen Leo, Neal Scanlan, Jean-Clement Soret, Andor Russell Dodgson, Framestore, Andy Jones, Simon Bland, Francois Dumoulin, Gavin McKenzie, Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age Sara Bennett, Richard Reed, David Stephens, Jet Omoshebi, Caimin Bourne, Scanline, The Witcher
Titles & Graphic Identity
Huge Designs, Code of Silence Isabella Eklof, Luke Dunkley, Mike Holliday, Tony Kearns, Dean Wares, The Death of Bunny Munro Light Creative, A Thousand Blows Nicos Livesey, Bart Yates, Rebecca Little, Aron Sidhu, Steven Lownes, UEFA Women’s Euro 2025
Writer: Comedy
Daisy May Cooper, Selin Hizli, Am I Being Unreasonable? Jack Rooke, Big Boys Kat Sadler, Such Brave Girls Steve Coogan, Rob Gibbons, Neil Gibbons, How Are You? It’s Alan (Partridge)
Writer: Drama
Ailbhe Keogan, Trespasses Jack Thorne, Stephen Graham, Adolescence Paris Lees, What It Feels Like For a Girl Will Smith, Slow Horses
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