Baby Reindeer’s awards reign continues. When the 2025 BAFTA Television Awards, in collaboration with P&O Cruises, announced this year’s nominees, Netflix’s sleeper-hit miniseries—about a Scottish comedian’s experience with a stalker—led the pack with eight nods. The Disney+ series Rivals, the Apple TV+ series Slow Horses, and the ITV series Mr Bates vs the Post Office followed with six noms each.
The series, created and written by comedian Richard Gadd, who also stars, was nominated in the categories of limited drama, leading actor, director fiction, editing fiction, sound fiction, writer: drama, and best supporting actress, earning double recognition in the latter for Golden Globe and Emmy winner Jessica Gunning and Nava Mau. Veteran actors such as Oscar winner Gary Oldman, former Doctor Who star David Tennant, Martin Freeman, and Toby Jones were nominated alongside Gadd for leading actor. Gunning and Mau were nominated alongside British stars Sue Johnston, Katherine Parkinson, Monica Dolan, and Maxine Peake, who stars in the IRA drama Say Nothing.
Elsewhere, breakout stars like Bridgerton’s Nicola Coughlan and Industry’s Marisa Abela were recognized in the comedy and drama lead-actress categories, respectively. Abela was not the only EE BAFTA Rising Star nominee to score a television nod—Nabhaan Rizwan, her Industry costar and fellow Rising Star contender, also scored a nod for his work on the recently canceled Netflix show Kaos. Comedian and actor Lolly Adefope got a nomination for her work on HBO’s canceled showbiz series The Franchise. I Hate Suzie star Billie Piper will be back at the BAFTAs once again, this time for her work in the Netflix film Scoop, which follows how the women of Newsnight secured the infamous 2019 Prince Andrew interview in which he discussed his relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Ted Lasso’s Brett Goldstein also earned a nod—not for acting, but for writing the Apple TV+ series Shrinking.
The BBC leads the BAFTA nominations with 75 total. The BAFTA TV Awards will be held on Sunday, May 11, at London’s Royal Festival Hall, with Alan Cumming serving as host. But Cumming himself is not nominated at the BAFTA TV Awards for hosting the hit reality series The Traitors—because he hosts the American version of the series. Not to worry, though: The Traitors is nominated for best reality program, and Cumming’s counterpart, Claudia Winkleman, who hosts the UK version of the show, is nominated for best entertainment performance.
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