Baby Reindeer, Mr Bates, Rivals: All The Nominees To Know At The BAFTA Television Awards

The nominees are in for the 2025 BAFTA Television awards – and Baby Reindeer is top of the pile. Here’s everything you need to know.

The 2025 BAFTA Television Awards In Brief

Baby Reindeer is leading the show with four nominations (and four more in the craft categories), joined by Mr Bates vs The Post Office with four (including Memorable Moment), Rivals with three (also up for Memorable Moment) and Slow Horses and Say Nothing with three each, too.

The Leading Actor category is stacked with generational talent: David Tennant, Gary Oldman, Lennie James, Martin Freeman and Toby Jones are all tapped for the award, joined by newcomer Richard Gadd for his semi autobiographical Netflix drama Baby Reindeer. In the sister Leading Actress category, it’s slightly more of a mixed bag: industry stalwarts Anna Maxwell Martin, Sharon D Clarke, Monica Dolan and Billie Piper are joined by newcomers Lola Petticrew and Marisa Abela (though the latter has received a BAFTA Film nomination before).  And it’s a double nomination for Dolan, who’s also tapped for Supporting Actress for her work in Sherwood.

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Who Has Been Snubbed?

Wondering who’s missing? Netflix’s Bridgerton has been snubbed from all but the Memorable Moment category, with season 3 lead Nicola Coughlan nominated for her performance in Big Mood in the female comedy category. 

Likewise, One Day might be nominated for Best Limited Series, but there are no acting commendations for Leo Woodall and Ambika Mod. Ncuti Gatwa’s first term as the titular Doctor Who also doesn’t get a look in.

Wolf Hall star Mark Rylance has also been royally snubbed, though his co-star Damian Lewis is up for Best Supporting Actor for his work as King Henry VIII.

BAFTA Television Awards: The 2025 Nominees Are In

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Leading Actress

• Anna Maxwell Martin, Until I Kill You
• Billie Piper, Scoop
• Lola Petticrew, Say Nothing
• Marisa Abela, Industry
• Monica Dolan, Mr Bates vs The Post Office
• Sharon D Clarke, Mr Loverman

Leading Actor

• David Tennant, Rivals
• Gary Oldman, Slow Horses
• Lennie James, Mr Loverman
• Martin Freeman, The Responder
• Richard Gadd, Baby Reindeer
• Toby Jones, Mr Bates vs The Post Office

David Tennant as Lord Tony Baddingham in Rivals. (Courtesy of Robert Viglasky/Disney)

Limited Drama

• Baby Reindeer
• Lost Boys and Fairies
• Mr Bates vs The Post Office
• One Day

Drama Series

• Blue Lights
• Sherwood
• Supacell
• Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light

Mr Bates vs The Post Office (© ITV)

Female Performance In A Comedy Programme

• Anjana Vasan, We Are Lady Parts
• Kate O’Flynn, Everyone Else Burns
• Lolly Adefope, The Franchise
• Nicola Coughlan, Big Mood
• Ruth Jones, Gavin & Stacey: The Finale
• Sophie Willan, Alma’s Not Normal

Male Performance In A Comedy Programme

• Billy Hasna, Extraordinary
• Danny Dyer, Mr Bigstuff
• Dylan Thomas Smith, G’Wed
• Nabhaan Rizwan, Kaos
• Oliver Savell, Changing Ends
• Phil Dunning, Smoggie Queens

Damian Lewis as King Henry VIII in Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light (BBC)

Supporting Actor

• Ariyon Bakare, Mr Loverman
• Chrisopher Chung, Slow Horses
• Damian Lewis, Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light
• Jonathan Pryce, Slow Horses
• McKinley Belcher III, Eric
• Sonny Walker, The Gathering

Supporting Actress

• Jessica Gunning, Baby Reindeer
• Katherine Parkinson, Rivals
• Maxine Peake, Say Nothing
• Monica Dolan, Sherwood
• Nava Mau, Baby Reindeer
• Sue Johnston, Truelove

Lola Petticrew as Dolours Price & Hazel Doupe as Marian Price in Say Nothing. (Rob Youngson/FX)

Entertainment Performance

• Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly, Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway
• Claudia Winkleman, The Traitors
• Graham Norton, The Graham Norton Show
• Joe Lycett, Late Night Lycett
• Romesh Ranganathan and Rob Beckett, Rob & Romesh Vs
• Stacey Solomon, Sort Your Life Out

Scripted Comedy

• Alma’s Not Normal
• Brassic
• G’Wed
• Ludwig

Jessica Gunning as Martha in Baby Reindeer. (© Ed Miller/Netflix)

Children’s Non-Scripted

• Boosnoo!
• Disability and Me
• Operation Ouch!
• Reu & Harper’s Wonder World

Children’s Scripted

• CBeebies As You Like It at Shakespeare’s Globe
• Horrible Histories
• Ready Eddie Go!
• Tweedy & Fluff

Morris De La Roux (ARIYON BAKARE) & Barry Walker (LENNIE JAMES) in Mr Loverman. (BBC/Fable Pictures/Des Willie)

Specialist Factual

• Atomic People
• Billy & Molly: An Otter Love Story
• Children of the Cult
• Miners’ Strike 1984: The Battle For Britain

Reality & Constructed Factual

• Dragons’ Den
• The Jury: Murder Trial
• Love Is Blind UK
• The Traitors

ANNA MAXWELL-MARTIN as Delia Balmer and SHAUN EVANS as John Sweeney in Until I Kill You. (ITV)

Current Affairs

• Life and Death in Gaza
• Maternity: Broken Trust
• State of Rage
• Ukraine’s War: The Other Side

Entertainment Programme

• The 1% Club
• Michael McIntyre’s Big Show
• Taskmaster
• Would I Lie To You?

Love is Blind UK. Courtesy of Netflix/Tom Dymond © 2024

Short

• Brown Brit
• Peaked
• Quiet Life
• Spud

Factual Entertainment

• In Vogue: The 90s
• Race Across the World
• Rob and Rylan’s Grand Tour
• Sort Your Life Out

(c) BBC/Studio Lambert/LLARA PLAZA

Factual Series

• American Nightmare
• Freddie Flintoff’s Field of Dream on Tour
• The Push: Murder on the Cliff
• To Catch a Copper

International

• After the Party
• Colin From Accounts
• Say Nothing
• Shogun
• True Detective: Night Country
• You Are Not Alone: Fighting The Wolfpack

Nessa (RUTH JONES), Stacey (JOANNA PAGE), Gwen (MELANIE WALTERS), Bryn (ROB BRYDON) & Gavin (MATHEW HORNE) in Gavin and Stacey: The Finale. (BBC/Toffee International Ltd./Tom Jackson)

Live Event

• D-Day 80: Tribute to the Fallen
• Glastonbury 2024
• Last Night of the Proms

News Coverage

• BBC Breakfast, Post Office Special
• Channel 4 News, Inside Sednaya, The Fall of Assad
• Channel 4 News, Undercover Inside Reform’s Campaign

Brassic series 6 (© Sky UK Limited)

Single Documentary

• Hell Jumper
• Tell Them You Love Me
• Ukraine: Enemy in the Woods
• Undercover: Exposing the Far Right

Soap

• Casualty
• Coronation Street
• Eastenders

Tell Them You Love Me © Sky UK Limited

Sport

• BBC, Euro 2024
• BBC, Paris 2024 Olympics
• BBC, Wimbledon 2024

Daytime

• Clive Myrie’s Caribbean Adventure
• Loose Women
• Morning Live
• Richard Osman’s House of Games

Bridgerton. (L to R) Luke Newton as Colin Bridgerton, Nicola Coughlan as Penelope Featherington in episode 302 of Bridgerton. Cr. Liam Daniel/Netflix © 2023

Memorable Moment

• Bridgerton
• Gavin & Stacey: The Finale
• Mr. Bates vs The Post Office
• Rivals
• Strictly Come Dancing
• The Traitors

Learn more about the memorable moments and vote for your favourite here.

WATCH

The BAFTA Television Awards with P&O Cruises will air on Sunday 11 May 2025 on BBC One and iPlayer. The ceremony will be hosted by Alan Cumming. bafta.org