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The 2026 BAFTA TV Awards: Full Nominees List

Royal Television Society Programme Awards 2026 - Arrivals

Stephen “Two Sheds” Graham
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Stephen Graham is going to need a second shed in his back garden for all his awards. Two Sheds Graham, they’ll call him. Adolescence led the nominations for the 2026 BAFTA TV Awards, much as it has at every other awards show for which it was eligible. The Netflix limited series nabbed 11 nominations, including Leading Actor, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress, and Memorable Moment. That’s an audience-voted category, so we’ll have to see what the Vox Gogglebox thinks about Adolescence. How does it stack up against Alan Carr’s Traitors win or Bob Mortimer on Last One Laughing UKWe’ll find out when the TV wing of the BAFTAs May 10.

Read on for the full list of nominees:

Drama Series
A Thousand Blows
Blue Lights
Code of Silence
This City Is Ours

Limited Drama
Adolescence
I Fought the Law
Trespasses
What It Feels Like for a Girl

International
The Bear
The Diplomat
Pluribus
Severance
The Studio
The White Lotus

Scripted Comedy
Amandaland
Big Boys
How are you? It’s Alan (Partridge)
Things You Should Have Done

Reality
The Celebrity Traitors
The Jury: Murder Trial
Squid Game: The Challenge
Virgin Island

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
Siân Brooke, Blue Lights

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

Actress in a Comedy
Diane Morgan, Mandy
Jennifer Saunders, Amandaland
Katherine Parkinson, Here We Go
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)

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

Limited Drama
Adolescence
I Fought the Law
Trespasses
What It Feels Like for a Girl

International
The Bear
The Diplomat
Pluribus
Severance
The Studio
The White Lotus

Scripted Comedy
Amandaland
Big Boys
How are you? It’s Alan (Partridge)
Things You Should Have Done

Reality
The Celebrity Traitors
The Jury: Murder Trial
Squid Game: The Challenge
Virgin Island

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
Siân Brooke, Blue Lights

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

Actress in a Comedy
Diane Morgan, Mandy
Jennifer Saunders, Amandaland
Katherine Parkinson, Here We Go
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)

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

Supporting Actor
Ashley Walters, Adolescence
Fehinti Balogun, Down Cemetery Road
Joshua McGuire, The Gold
Owen Cooper, Adolescence
Paddy Considine, MobLand
Rafael Mathé, The Death of Bunny Munro

Memorable Moment (Audience Vote)
Adolescence: Jamie snaps at the psychologist
Big Boys: “I didn’t make it, did I?”
Blue Lights: the police are warned of an ambush plot to silence a key witness
The Celebrity Traitors: Alan Carr wins
Last One Laughing UK: 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

Writer: Comedy
Daisy May Cooper and Selin Hizli, Am I Being Unreasonable?
Jack Rook, Big Boys
Kat Sadler, Such Brave Girls
Steve Coogan, Rob Gibbons, and Neil Gibbons, How Are You? It’s Alan (Partridge)

Writer: Drama
Ailbhe Keogan, Trespasses
Jack Thorne and Stephen Graham, Adolescence
Paris Lees, What It Feels Like for a Girl
Will Smith, Slow Horses

Director: Multicamera
Ben Archard, Eddie Lewis, and 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

Director: Fiction
Dawn Shadforth, Trespasses
Janus Metz, Andor
Philip Barantini, Adolescence
Sam Donovan, Severance

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

Editing: Fiction
Fiona Brands, Slow Horses
Simon Smith, The Last of Us
Úna Ní Dhonghaíle, Prisoner 951
Yan Miles, Andor

Editing: Factual
Jennifer Asheitu Hampson, Attack on London: Hunting the 7/7 Bombers
Mel Quigley and Andy Kemp, Gaza Doctors Under Attack
Paul Hammacott, Louis Theroux: The Settlers
Samuel R. Santana, Grenfell: Uncovered

Production Design
Andor
Juice
A Thousand Blows
Trespasses

Costume Design
Andor
Lockerbie: A Search for Truth
A Thousand Blows
Trespasses

Makeup & Hair Design
Amadeus
Lockerbie: A Search for the Truth
Slow Horses
A Thousand Blows

Photography & Lighting: Fiction
Adolescence
The Last of Us
Severance
Trespasses

Sound: Fiction
Adolescence
Andor
Lockerbie: A Search for Truth
Slow Horses

Sound: Factual
The Celebrity Traitors
Formula 1: Drive to Survive
The Last Musician of Auschwitz
The Lost Music of Auschwitz

Soap
Casualty
Coronation Street
EastEnders

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

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

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

Shortform
Donkey
Hustle and Run
Rocket fuel
Zoners

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

Live Event Coverage
Holocaust Memorial Day 2025
Last Night of the Proms: Finale
VE Day 80: A Celebration to Remember

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

Single Documentary
Grenfell: Uncovered
Louis Theroux: The Settlers
One Day in Southport
Unforgotten: The Bradford City Fire

Sports Coverage
The 2025 Ryder Cup
The FA Cup Final
Uefa Women’s Euro 2025
Wimbledon 2025

Daytime
The Chase
Lorraine
Richard Osman’s House of Games
Scam Interceptors

Children’s Non-Scripted
A Real Bug’s Life
BooSnoo!
Deadly 60 Saving Sharks
World.War.Me

Children’s Scripted
Crongton
Horrible Science
Shaun the Sheep
The Wonderfully Weird World of Gumball

Titles & Graphic Identity
Code of Silence
The Death of Bunny Munro
A Thousand Blows
UEFA Women’s Euro 2025

Special, Visual, and Graphic Effects
Andor
Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age
“USS Callister: Into Infinity” (Black Mirror)
The Witcher

Scripted Casting
Adolescence
Get Millie Black
Reunion
What It Feels Like for a Girl

Photography: Factual
Our Land: Israel’s Other War
Secrets of the Penguins
State of War: Fighting the Narcos (Exposure)
Surviving Black Hawk Down

Original Music: Fiction
The Death of Bunnie Munro
“Hotel Reverie” (Black Mirror)
Mussolini: Son of the Century
A Thousand Blows

Original Music: Factual
The Last Musician of Auschwitz
Moon: Nature’s Secret Force
Pangolin: Kulu’s Journey
The Sycamore Gap Mystery

Emerging Talent: Fiction
Chloe English, G’wed
Emily McDonald, Am I Being Unreasonable?
Eros V, Juice
Janice Okoh, Just Act Normal

Emerging Talent: Factual
Alexandra Lacey, The Twister: Caught in the Storm
Elle Mower, Convicting My Ex
Olaide Sadiq, Grenfell: Uncovered

Entertainment: Craft Team
The Celebrity Traitors
One Shot: With Ed Sheeran
Rob & Romesh vs…
Squid Game: The Challenge

Children’s: Craft Team
Boosnoo!
The Scarecrows’ Wedding
The Very Small Creatures
The Wonderfully Weird World of Gumball


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