BAFTA TELEVISION AWARDS RETURN TO BBC IN 2025, CATEGORIES AND DATES REVEALED

The countdown to next year’s BAFTA Television Craft Awards and the BAFTA Television Awards with P&O Cruises begins, with the categories, eligibility, voting rules and timeline both unveiled.

Celebrating the exceptional storytelling, creativity and craft of British and international television and the people who bring it to life on-and-off screen, the two ceremonies span 49 competitive awards categories, from casting, photography and editing, to writing, performing and directing across all TV genres. 

Earlier this year, 2.7 million people watched the ceremony on BBC One and iPlayer alongside over 7 million views of BAFTA’s social media coverage of the night. Happy Valley, Top Boy and The Sixth Commandment led the wins. 

BAFTA reviews all aspects of its awards annually with BAFTA’s Television Committee and sector peers. Its guiding principles are to celebrate creative excellence, level the playing field, provide a fair and robust process, encourage positive change, and evolve alongside the ever-changing industry landscape.  

As previously announced, three new categories – a Children’s Scripted Award, a Children’s Non-Scripted Award, and a Children’s Craft Team Award – will be introduced into next year’s BAFTA Television Awards with P&O Cruises, and BAFTA Television Craft Awards.

An expanded Entertainment category in the BAFTA Television Awards will include comedy entertainment moving forwards; representing the very best in chat, game, panel and talent shows, as well as music specials, and stand-up and comedy clip shows.  

The voting process for Live Event, News Coverage, Soap, and Sports Coverage has been updated. From 2025, all BAFTA Television voters will determine the nominations and the winners of the most nationally viewed genres of programming.  

The P&O Cruises Memorable Moment Award will also return, honouring the impact of television in the UK and its power to entertain, inform and bring the nation together – looking back at key moments from 2024 that inspired and moved audiences at home.  

The P&O Cruises Memorable Moment Award, the only award voted for by the public, was won earlier this year by Happy Valley for the ‘Catherine Cawood and Tommy Lee Royce’s final kitchen showdown’ scene. A public vote will open in early March 2025 when nominations are announced. 

The 2025 awards will showcase programmes broadcast in the UK between 1 January – 31 December 2024 with one exception – as a dedicated children’s ceremony last took place in Autumn 2022, the eligibility window has been extended for children’s television programmes and their craft teams (1 July 2022 - 31 December 2024), where applicable, for one year only. 

The BAFTA Television Craft Awards will take place on Sunday 27th April 2025, with the BAFTA Television Awards with P&O Cruises on Sunday 11th May 2025.