‘Adolescence’ Dominates BAFTA TV Awards With Four Wins Including Best Limited Series and Lead Actor for Stephen Graham

Netflix’s Adolescence emerges as the night’s biggest winner at the BAFTA TV Awards, securing four major honors including Limited Series and Lead Actor for Stephen Graham.

Adolescence emerged as the defining force of this year’s BAFTA TV Awards, sweeping four major categories and solidifying its status as one of the most impactful British television productions in recent years. More than a year after its debut on Netflix, the one-shot limited series continues to extend its awards momentum, this time dominating on home soil at London’s Royal Festival Hall.

The Stephen Graham and Jack Thorne-created series won Best Limited Drama, alongside acting honors for Graham in Leading Actor, Owen Cooper in Supporting Actor, and Christine Tremarco in Supporting Actress. The wins cap a sustained awards run that began with the show’s breakout success on Netflix, where it became both a critical standout and a global streaming phenomenon.

The series’ technical ambition and narrative structure — particularly its continuous single-take format — have remained central to its awards recognition, with BAFTA voters reaffirming its impact across both performance and craft categories. The show’s ability to translate an experimental storytelling approach into mainstream emotional resonance has positioned it as one of the defining limited series of its era.

Elsewhere on the night, Code of Silence took Drama Series, while The Celebrity Traitors claimed the public-voted Memorable Moment Award, continuing the dominance of unscripted formats in audience-driven categories. In comedy, Steve Coogan won Leading Actor for How Are You? It’s Alan (Partridge), while Katherine Parkinson took Leading Actress for Here We Go.

International categories also reflected a strong transatlantic presence, with The Studio earning Best International Series. Seth Rogen used his acceptance speech to dedicate the win to the late Catherine O’Hara, underscoring the emotional tone that ran through several of the evening’s victories.

The BAFTA TV Awards also recognized Go Back to Where You Came From in Factual Entertainment, Channel 4 News: Israel-Iran: The Twelve Day War in News Coverage, and Gaza: Doctors Under Attack in Current Affairs, highlighting the continued importance of hard-hitting journalism within the ceremony’s broader scope.

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In scripted categories, Amandaland won Scripted Comedy, while EastEnders took the Soap award. Reality programming was led by The Celebrity Traitors, and Last One Laughing continued its strong run with a win in Entertainment.

Across the night, Adolescence remained the most awarded single title, reinforcing its rare position as a limited series that achieved both critical acclaim and sustained industry recognition across multiple award cycles.

The BAFTA TV Awards continue to function as a key barometer for British television prestige, and this year’s results underscored a continued balance between established long-running formats and newer, high-impact limited series storytelling.

See all the winners from the BAFTA TV Awards below:

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” (WINNER)
Taron Egerton, “Smoke”

Leading Actress
Aimee Lou Wood, “Film Club”
Erin Doherty, “A Thousand Blows”
Jodie Whittaker, “Toxic Town”
Narges Rashidi, “Prisoner 951” (WINNER)
Sheridan Smith, “I Fought the Law”
Siân Brooke, “Blue Lights”

Drama Series
“A Thousand Blows”
“Blue Lights”
“Code of Silence” (WINNER)
“This City Is Ours”

Entertainment Performance
Amanda Holden and Alan Carr, “Amanda & Alan’s Spanish Job”
Bob Mortimer, “Last One Laughing” (WINNER)
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”

International
“The Bear”
“The Diplomat”
“Pluribus”
“Severance”
“The Studio” (WINNER)
“The White Lotus”

P&O Cruises Memorable Moment Award (Voted For By The Public)
“Adolescence”
“Big Boys”
“Blue Lights”
“The Celebrity Traitors” (WINNER)
“Last One Laughing”
“What It Feels Like for a Girl”

Factual Entertainment
“The Assembly”
“Go Back to Where You Came From” (WINNER)
“Knife Edge: Chasing Michelin Stars”
“Race Across the World”

News Coverage
“BBC Newsnight: Grooming Survivors Speak”
“Channel 4 News: Israel-Iran: The Twelve Day War” (WINNER)
“Sky News: Gaza: Fight for Survival”

Current Affairs
“Breaking Ranks: Inside Israel’s War (Exposure)”
“The Covid Contracts: Follow the Money”
“Gaza: Doctors Under Attack” (WINNER)
“Undercover in the Police (Panorama)”

Daytime
“The Chase”
“Lorraine”
“Richard Osman’s House of Games”
“Scam Interceptors” (WINNER)

Sports Coverage
“The 2025 Ryder Cup”
“The FA Cup Final”
“UEFA Women’s Euro 2025” (WINNER)
“Wimbledon 2025”

Soap
“Casualty”
“Coronation Street”
“Eastenders” (WINNER)

Actress in a Comedy
Diane Morgan, “Mandy”
Jennifer Saunders, “Amandaland”
Katherine Parkinson, “Here We Go” (WINNER)
Lucy Punch, “Amandaland”
Philippa Dunne, “Amandaland”
Rosie Jones, “Pushers”

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? Its Alan (Partridge)” (WINNER)

Live Event Coverage
“Holocaust Memorial Day 2025”
“Last Night of the Proms: Finale”
“Ve Day 80: A Celebration to Remember” (WINNER)

Short Form
“Donkey”
“Hustle and Run” (WINNER)
“Rocket Fuel”
“Zoners”

Single Documentary
“Grenfell: Uncovered” (WINNER)
“Louis Theroux: The Settlers”
“One Day In Southport”
“Unforgotten: The Bradford City Fire”

Limited Drama
“Adolescence” (WINNER)
“I Fought the Law”
“Trespasses”
“What It Feels Like for a Girl”

Entertainment*
“The Graham Norton Show”
“Last One Laughing” (WINNER)
“Michael Mcintyre’s Big Show”
“Would I Lie to You”

Children’s: Scripted
“Crongton” (WINNER)
“Horrible Science”
“Shaun the Sheep”
“The Wonderfully Weird World of Gumball”

Children’s: Non-Scripted
“A Real Bugs Life”
“Boosnoo!”
“Deadly 60 Saving Sharks”
“World.War.Me (Sky Kids Investigates)” (WINNER)

Factual Series
“Bibaa & Nicole: Murder in the Park”
“Educating Yorkshire”
“See No Evil” (WINNER)
“The Undercover Police Scandal: Love and Lies Exposed”

Specialist Factual
“Belsen: What They Found”
“Simon Schama: The Road to Auschwitz” (WINNER)
“Surviving Black Hawk Down”
“Vietnam: The War That Changed America”

Scripted Comedy
“Amandaland” (WINNER)
“Big Boys”
“How Are You? It’s Alan (Partridge)”
“Things You Should Have Done”

Reality
“The Celebrity Traitors” (WINNER)
“The Jury: Murder Trial”
“Squid Game: The Challenge”
“Virgin Island”

Supporting Actress
Aimee Lou Wood, “The White Lotus”
Christine Tremarco, “Adolescence”
(WINNER)
Chyna Mcqueen, “Get Millie Black”

Emilia Jones, “Task”

Erin Doherty, “Adolescence”

Rose Ayling-Ellis, “Reunion”

Supporting Actor
Ashley Walters, “Adolescence”

Fehinti Balogun, “Down Cemetery Road”

Joshua Mcguire, “The Gold”

Owen Cooper, “Adolescence”
(WINNER)
Paddy Considine, “Mobland”

Rafael Mathé, “The Death of Bunny Munro”