2025 BAFTA TV and TV Craft Nominees’ Party supported by P&O Cruises takes place at V&A

Posted: 24 Apr 2025
  • The BAFTA Television Craft Awards will take place on Sunday 27 April 2025 
  • The BAFTA Television Awards with P&O Cruises will take place on Sunday 11 May 2025 
  • Download photography here. Password: TVAwards2025Press 

Tonight, the BAFTA Television and Television Craft Awards Nominees’ Party, supported by P&O Cruises, took place at the V&A in South Kensington, London. The event marks the start of celebrations for this year’s nominees, recognising talent across both the BAFTA Television Craft Awards and the BAFTA Television Awards with P&O Cruises.  

Those in attendance included Ada Player, Alex Horne, Amber Harrison, Ariyon Bakare, Billie Piper, Bilal Hasna, Bron Waugh, David Tennant, Diane Buswell, Diane Carson, Dilly Carter, Dylan Thomas-Smith, Evie Ward-Drummond, Gemma Barraclough, Iwan Carrington, Jake Kenny-Byrne, Jessica Gunning, Joe Sugg, Judi Love, Lola Petticrew, Lolly Adefope, Luke Rollason, Mat Horne, Mark Ferris, Monica Dolan, Nabhaan Rizwan, Nicola Coughlan, Phil Dunning, Ralph Ineson, Ross Carson, Siobhan McSweeney, and Sonny Walker among a host of nominees across all of this year’s BAFTA Television Craft and Television Awards’ categories. Recently announced BAFTA Fellow, Kirsty Wark, was also in attendance. 

Guests were treated to food and cocktails inspired by P&O Cruises’ destinations, the Mediterranean, the Caribbean, and the Norwegian Fjords. Drinks served on the night included Champagne Taittinger, Casillero del Diablo, bottlegreen, and Hildon water. 

Now in its third year as the headline sponsor of the BAFTA Television Awards, and its second year supporting the Nominees’ Party, P&O Cruises continues its prestigious partnership with BAFTA – bringing together moments of celebration, adventure and entertainment. 

The BAFTA Television Craft Awards will take place on Sunday 27 April and will once again be hosted by Stacey Dooley. The BAFTA Television Awards with P&O Cruises will be hosted by Alan Cumming and will be broadcast on BBC One and BBC iPlayer on Sunday 11 May. 

The BAFTA Television Awards with P&O Cruises and Red Carpet ceremony will be available on BritBox on demand in the U.S., Canada, Australia, and the Nordics. It will also be available in Australia on Foxtel, in New Zealand on Sky Arts (NZ), in 24 countries across Africa and the Middle East on AlThaqafeya and MBC Channels, as well as 13 countries across Asia on Rewind Networks and on seven ships within the P&O Cruises fleet.   

BAFTA is supported by official partners to the BAFTA Television Awards with P&O Cruises (P&O Cruises, Lancôme, Sea Containers London, and Schwarzkopf Professional), and the BAFTA Television Craft Awards (Ecotricity, 3 Mills Studios, Hotcam, Microsoft and Sara Putt Associates). 

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Accreditation:
BAFTA Television Awards’ media, photography and publicist accreditation for the red carpet and backstage areas is now open and will close at 23.59 Friday 25th April.  

For further information on media and photography accreditation please contact: 

E: Multitude Media – BAFTA Team [email protected] 

BAFTA: Press Office –  [email protected]   

Photography: 

FREE Promotional Imagery available for use within a 3-month period of the event taking place: 

Pre-awards promotional images of the BAFTA ‘mask’ award, hosts & additional content 

BAFTA Television Nominees’ Party supported by P&O Cruises – Official handout imagery from the party will be available at approx. 21:00 (BST) on Thursday 24 April 2025 

BAFTA Television Craft Awards – A selection of handout imagery from the red carpet, ceremony & winner’s press room areas from approx. 15:30 (BST) onwards, Sunday 27 April 2025 

BAFTA Television Awards with P&O Cruises – A selection of handout imagery from the red carpet, ceremony & winners’ press room areas from approx. 15:30 (BST) onwards, Sunday 11 May 2025 

All the above will be available to download via BAFTA Photoshelter (without a log-in): https://bafta.photoshelter.com/galleries/C0000pzh2SdkMTKk/BAFTA-Television-Awards 

Password: TVAwards2025Press 

For exclusive placement enquiries and personal use imagery please contact: [email protected] 

  

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THE FOLLOWING RESTRICTIONS APPLY TO USING EXCERPTS OF ONSTAGE EVENTS WITHIN THE SOUTHBANK CENTRE’S ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL AT THE 2025 BAFTA TELEVISION AWARDS WITH P&O CRUISES 

  • BAFTA will be creating video content at this year’s BAFTA Television Awards with P&O Cruises for broadcasters, wires and online content providers/publishers to use free-of-charge for editorial.
  • The content will include clips suitable for media to use as required, as well as packages appropriate for publishing directly online
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  • Event coverage will also be available to license from Screenocean.com, BAFTA’s partner agency for clip sales. Clips will be available from Wednesday 14 May and will feature acceptance speeches as well as interviews from the red carpet and the backstage winners’ area. For further information please contact Screenocean at [email protected]or +44(0)1954 262052.

About BAFTA 
BAFTA’s mission as a charity is to champion the creative and cultural importance of the screen arts across film, games and television. Through its Awards ceremonies and year-round programme of talent initiatives and learning events that include masterclasses, lectures, scholarships, bursaries and mentoring schemes in the UK and North America, BAFTA identifies and celebrates excellence, discovers, inspires and nurtures new screen talent, and enables learning and creative collaboration. For more, visit www.bafta.org. BAFTA is a registered charity (no. 216726). 

About P&O Cruises
P&O Cruises is Britain’s favourite cruise line, welcoming guests onboard its seven ships to experience holidays with a blend of discovery, choice, relaxation and exceptional service catered towards British tastes. With a proud history spanning more than 187 years, each ship has its own appeal from family friendly or exclusively for adults with every sailing delivering each guest a holiday like never before. 

With over 180 destinations worldwide, P&O Cruises itineraries are carefully curated to inspire discovery and are varied to suit newcomers and experienced guests alike. P&O Cruises prides itself on working with top culinary talent; Food Heroes include chefs Marco Pierre White, José Pizarro and Shivi Ramoutar and as well as award-winning drinks expert Olly Smith. Kjartan Skjelde has created Norwegian speciality dishes for sailings to the Norwegian fjords. 

Recent awards for P&O Cruises include: 

  1. Wave Awards 2024 – Best Ocean Cruise Line
  2. British Travel Awards 2024 – Best Cruise Line for Family Holidays (winner) and Best Cruise Line for No-Fly Cruise Holidays (silver accreditation)
  3. Best in Cruise Awards by Cruise Critic Awards 2024 – Best Cruise Line and Best for Families
  4. The Travel Industry Awards 2024 by TTG – Ocean Cruise Line of the Year

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