Focus on… celebrating storytelling in games
Mike Leigh: Screenwriters' Lecture
Meet 2025's P&O Cruises Memorable Moment
Meet 2025's P&O Cruises Memorable Moment
ITV - Mr Bates vs The Post Office: Special Award 2025
Mike Leigh: Screenwriters' Lecture
Chris Sanders: Screenwriters’ Lecture
In conversation with... Stacey Dooley
BAFTA has announced the winners of the BAFTA Television Awards with P&O Cruises 2025 at a ceremony in London. Celebrating the very best of television broadcast in 2024, the ceremony was hosted by Alan Cumming, with musical performances from Jessie J, Tom Grennan and Esther Abrami.
Mr Loverman was the only programme to win two categories: Lennie James won his first acting BAFTA – Leading Actor and Ariyon Bakare won Supporting Actor, also a first-time BAFTA winner.
First time nominees Marisa Abela won the Leading Actress award for her performance in Industry; and Jessica Gunning won Supporting Actress for her performance in Baby Reindeer.
In the Female Performance in a Comedy category, Ruth Jones won her first TV Awards BAFTA for Gavin & Stacey: The Finale. First-time BAFTA nominee Danny Dyer won Male Performance in a Comedy Programme for his role in Mr Bigstuff.
For the second consecutive year, Joe Lycett was awarded the BAFTA for Entertainment Performance for his show Late Night Lycett.
This year BAFTA introduced two new categories celebrating the best of children’s television. Children’s: Scripted was won by CBeebies As You Like It at Shakespeare’s Globe; and Disability and Me (FYI Investigates) won for Children’s: Non-Scripted.
Mr Bates vs The Post Office won Limited Drama; Blue Lights won Drama Series; and EastEnders won Soap & Continuing Drama. EastEnders had previously been presented with a BAFTA Special Award at the BAFTA Television Craft Awards last month.
Alma’s Not Normal won Scripted Comedy; Would I Lie to You? won Entertainment Programme and Clive Myrie’s Caribbean Adventure won Daytime.
Glastonbury 2024 won Live Event and Paris 2024 Olympics won Sports Coverage.
Rob and Rylan’s Grand Tour won Factual Entertainment; The Jury: Murder Trial won Reality; To Catch a Copper won Factual Series; Ukraine: Enemy in the Woods won Single Documentary.
Specialist Factual was won by Atomic People; News Coverage was presented to BBC Breakfast: Post Office Special and State of Rage won Current Affairs.
Short Form was won by Quiet Life and the BAFTA for International went to Shōgun.
The P&O Cruises Memorable Moment Award, the only award at tonight’s ceremony to be voted for by the public, was won by Strictly Come Dancing.
The Television Special Award was presented by Baroness Floella Benjamin to ITV for their commissioning of Mr Bates vs The Post Office, recognising the power of public service television in telling home-grown stories that have a significant impact, leading to societal change.
The Fellowship, the highest accolade bestowed by BAFTA upon an individual in recognition of an outstanding and exceptional contribution to film, games or television, was presented by the host Alan Cumming to broadcaster Kirsty Wark for her unwavering dedication and unmatched legacy in the world of news and current affairs broadcasting.
The Awards ceremony took place at the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall and was broadcast on BBC One and iPlayer in the UK, and internationally on BritBox on demand in the U.S, Canada, Australia, and the Nordics. 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.
A list of the night’s attendees, performers and guest presenters can be found here.
The Official Partners of the 2025 BAFTA Television Awards with P&O Cruises are: P&O Cruises, Samsung, Champagne Taittinger, Casillero Del Diablo, Deloitte, Global, Hildon, Lancôme, Schwarzkopf Professional, Sea Containers London, and TikTok.
Visit www.bafta.org/media-centre/TV for all supporting documents including the full list of today’s winners, information on photography and video clips, logos, accreditation and more.
For more information, please contact:
Notes to Editors:
Please credit the full title: BAFTA Television Awards with P&O Cruises.
Entertainment Programme is given in honour of Lew Grade
Single Documentary is given in honour of Robert Flaherty
Specialist Factual is given in honour of Huw Wheldon
1Lennie James has previously been a BAFTA winner as a writer for Drama Series and previously nominated in Writer Drama and Single Drama but this is his first acting nomination and win.
2Ruth Jones has previously won in the BAFTA Cymru Awards.
BAFTA Social:
Follow @BAFTA on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok and X to get all the latest updates, exclusive behind-the-scenes footage and interviews from the 2025 BAFTA Television Awards with P&O Cruises.
Social posts should use #BAFTATVAwards with @PandOCruises
Instagram: @BAFTA
Facebook: @BAFTA
TikTok: @BAFTA
X: @BAFTA
YouTube: @BAFTA
LinkedIn: @BAFTA
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:
Wave Awards 2024 – Best Ocean Cruise Line
British Travel Awards 2024 – Best Cruise Line for Family Holidays (winner) and Best Cruise Line for No-Fly Cruise Holidays (silver accreditation)
Best in Cruise Awards by Cruise Critic Awards 2024 – Best Cruise Line and Best for Families
The Travel Industry Awards 2024 by TTG – Ocean Cruise Line of the Year company is part of Carnival Corporation & PLC (NYSE/LSE: CCL; NYSE:CUK).
