Adolescence sweeps BAFTA TV Awards with record four wins for Netflix drama

Adolescence turned the BAFTA Television Awards into a record night for Netflix, taking four prizes and setting a new high-water mark for a single TV awards ceremony. The drama won Limited Drama, plus acting honors for Stephen Graham, Owen Cooper and Christine Tremarco, at the Royal Festival Hall in London as Greg Davies hosted the event.

The four victories broke the previous BAFTA TV record of three awards in one night, a mark held by Killing Eve and Happy Valley. It also extended a strong run for the series after it collected two prizes at the BAFTA Television Craft Awards in April. The latest wins placed Adolescence at the center of a broader shift in prestige television, where a streaming drama can dominate the night while still standing alongside a field of 124 nominated programmes drawn from television broadcast in 2025.

Graham’s win carried its own milestone. It was his first BAFTA acting award after eight previous attempts, a long-delayed recognition for one of British television’s most familiar performers. Cooper’s victory in Supporting Actor and Tremarco’s win in Supporting Actress added to the show’s sweep, and together the trio gave Adolescence a sweep that cut across both the lead and supporting categories.

The Celebrity Traitors also left with more than one trophy. The series won the Reality category and the P&O Cruises Memorable Moment Award, the only BAFTA TV prize voted for by the British public. Viewers chose Alan Carr’s win on the series as the nation’s most memorable television moment of 2025, a sign that reality format storytelling still has a strong grip on mass audiences even in a field increasingly shaped by scripted drama and streaming-backed productions.

Other prizes on the night went to Steve Coogan for comedy acting, Katherine Parkinson in comedy, and Channel 4’s Gaza: Doctors Under Attack in Current Affairs. Martin Lewis CBE received the Television Special Award, while Dame Mary Berry DBE was honored with the BAFTA Fellowship for a six-decade career on television. Cat Burns and AURORA performed during the ceremony, which underlined a familiar but shifting pattern in British TV: broadcasters still matter, public voting still has force, but the clearest momentum is with ambitious serialized drama built for streaming and then carried into the mainstream awards conversation.