The 2025 BAFTA TV Awards are nigh! Not the BAFTAs as you may think of them, not the Oscars, but a secret, third thing (well, it’s not that big a secret—it’s TV). Fans in our neck of the woods with a yen for British TV can tune in when the 2025 BAFTA TV Awards stream in New Zealand exclusively on Sky Arts on May 12.
This year the BAFTA TV Awards—technically the 2025 BAFTA Television Awards with P&O Cruises, because corporate sponsorship loves making things awkward to say—are hosted by Alan Cumming. Presumably Cumming will be taking care to carefully scrape off all the blue paint before slipping into his tux—he’s currently filming Avengers: Doomsday in the UK, in which he reprises his role as teleporting mutant Nightcrawler from X2: X-Men United.
This year Northern Irish cop series Blue Lights, small town murder mystery Sherwood, gritty superhero series Supacell, and historical epic Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light are competing for Best Drama Series. I really should get around to watching Wolf Hall, and it’s a bit weird I haven’t already.
Best International Production is being fought over by Aussie comedy Colin From Accounts, superlative historical drama Shogun (I’d put money on that one), IRA drama Say Nothing, grim documentary You Are Not Alone: Fighting the Wolf Pack, and True Detective: Night Country, the fourth season of the bleak anthology crime drama.
David Tennant, Gary Oldman, Lennie James, Toby Jones, Martin Freeman, and Richard Gad are up for Best Actor, while Billie Piper, Marisa Abella, Anna Maxwell Martin, Lola Petticrew, Monica Dolan, and Sharon D. Clarke are nominated for Best Actress. Oldman and Piper seem like the safest bet there, but the Best Actress category is a tight one, so proceed with caution.
For the full list of nominees, shoot over to the official BAFTA site.
