BBC leads nominations for RTS Programme Awards 2025

The BBC leads the way with 45 nominations across the 29 categories. Reality series The Traitors was nominated in both the Entertainment and Entertainment Performance categories, the latter for Claudia Winkleman’s hosting of the show, while historical drama series Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light was nominated in the Drama Series and Writer – Drama categories.

The BBC also dominated all three nominations for the Breakthrough, Comedy Drama and Comedy Performance – Female categories. 

Channel 4 received 14 nominations for 2025, with To Catch a Copper and The Push: Murder on the Cliff nominated in the Documentary Series category, and the broadcaster’s coverage of the Paris 2024 Paralympics recognised in both the Sports Presenter, Commentator or Pundit and Sports Programme categories. 

For the Leading Actor categories, Adeel Akhtar for the BBC’s Showtrial, Lennie James for the BBC’s Mr Loverman and Ben Whishaw for Netflix’s Black Doves have all received nominations. 

Anna Maxwell Martin for ITV1’s Until I Kill You, Ambika Mod for Netflix’s One Day, and Monica Dolan for ITV1’s Mr Bates vs The Post Office will all compete for the Leading Actor – Female category. Notably, Monica Dolan is also nominated in the Supporting Actor Female category for the BBC’s Sherwood. This is the first time an actor has been nominated for both categories in the same year.

For the newly combined Limited Series and Single Drama, ITV received two nods for Mr Bates vs The Post Office and Breathtaking while the BBC’s musical series This Town rounded out the category.

Comedian Tom Allen is returning to host the ceremony this year.

Kenton Allen, Chair of the RTS Programme Awards, said: “This year’s nominations exemplify the breadth, creativity and quality of British television – from agenda-setting dramas, landmark documentaries, record-breaking comedies and so much more.”

RTS Programme Awards 2025 nominations in full:

Arts

•    My Sexual Abuse: The Sitcom (Swan Films for Channel 4)
•    In My Own Words: Alison Lapper (Chalk Productions for BBC)
•    Camden (Lightbox in association with Day One Pictures and Radical22 Productions for Disney+)

Breakthrough Award

•    Josh Tedeku - Boarders (Studio Lambert for BBC)
•    Michelle De Swarte - Spent (Various Artists Limited for BBC)
•    Bethany Asher - Sherwood (House Productions for BBC)

Children’s Programme 

•    Dodo (Wildseed Studios, Toonz, Telegael for Sky Kids)
•    BMX All Stars (Big Deal Films for BBC)
•    Quentin Blake's Box of Treasures (Eagle Eye Production for BBC)

Comedy Drama 

•    Boarders (Studio Lambert for BBC)
•    Alma's Not Normal (Expectation for BBC)
•    Ludwig     (Big Talk Studios and That Mitchell & Webb Company for BBC)

Comedy Entertainment 

•    Have I Got News For You (Hat Trick Productions for BBC)
•    Sorry, I Didn't Know (TriForce Productions for ITV1)
•    Junior Taskmaster (Avalon UK for Channel 4)

Comedy Performance – Female

•    Aimee Lou Wood - Daddy Issues (Fudge Park Productions for BBC)
•    Michelle De Swarte - Spent (Various Artists Limited for BBC)
•    Sophie Willan - Alma's Not Normal (Expectation for BBC)

Comedy Performance – Male 

•    Jim Howick - Here We Go (BBC Studios Comedy Productions for BBC)
•    Nabhaan Rizwaan - Kaos (Sister for Netflix)
•    Oliver Savell - Changing Ends (Baby Cow Productions for ITV1)

Daytime Programme 

•    Loose Women (ITV Studios Daytime for ITV1)
•    Clive Myrie's Caribbean Adventure (Alleycats for BBC)
•    BBC Breakfast (BBC Breakfast for BBC)

Documentary Series 

•    To Catch a Copper (Story Films for Channel 4)
•    The Push: Murder on the Cliff     (Candour Productions for Channel 4)
•    On Thin Ice: Putin v Greenpeace (Curve Media Ltd for BBC)

Drama Series 

•    Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light (Playground Entertainment and Company Pictures for BBC and Masterpiece)
•    Supacell (Netflix)
•    Industry (Bad Wolf for BBC in association with HBO)

Entertainment 

•    Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway (Lifted Entertainment (Part of ITV Studios) in co-production with Mitre Studios for ITV1)
•    RuPaul's Drag Race UK (World of Wonder for BBC)
•    The Traitors (Studio Lambert Scotland for BBC)

Entertainment Performance 

•    Steven Frayne - Miracles (Expectation & Seventeen 17 for Sky Max)
•    Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly - Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway (Lifted Entertainment (Part of ITV Studios) in co-production with Mitre Studios for ITV1)
•    Claudia Winkleman - The Traitors (Studio Lambert Scotland for BBC)

Formatted Popular Factual 

•    The Jury: Murder Trial (ScreenDog Productions for Channel 4)
•    Freddie Flintoff's Field of Dreams on Tour (South Shore Productions for BBC)
•    The Martin Lewis Money Show Live - Budget Special (MultiStory for ITV1)

History 

•    Miners' Strike 1984: The Battle for Britain (Swan Films for Channel 4)
•    Atomic People (Minnow Films for BBC)
•    Helmand: Tour of Duty (Passion Pictures & Kailash Films for BBC)

Leading Actor – Female 

•    Anna Maxwell Martin - Until I Kill You (World Productions for ITV1)
•    Ambika Mod - One Day (A Drama Republic Production with Universal International Studios and Focus Features for Netflix)
•    Monica Dolan - Mr Bates vs The Post Office (ITV Studios and Little Gem for ITV1)

Leading Actor – Male 

•    Adeel Akhtar - Showtrial (World Productions for BBC)
•    Lennie James - Mr Loverman (Fable Pictures for BBC)
•    Ben Whishaw - Black Doves (Sister & Noisy Bear for Netflix)

Limited Series and Single Drama

•    Mr Bates vs The Post Office (ITV Studios and Little Gem for ITV1)
•    This Town (Kudos, Nebulastar, co-produced with Mercury Studios, in association with Stigma Films for BBC)
•    Breathtaking (HTM Television for ITV1)

Live Event 

•    Coldplay at Glastonbury 2024 (BBC Studios Music Productions for BBC)
•    The Martin Lewis Money Show Live - Budget Special (MultiStory for ITV1)
•    D Day 80: Tribute to the Fallen (BBC Studios Event Productions for BBC)

Presenter 

•    Liz Carr - Better Off Dead? (Burning Bright Productions co-produced with the OU for BBC)
•    Joe Tracini - Me And The Voice In My Head (Hungry Bear Media for Channel 4)
•    Zuhair Hassan - Big Zuu Goes To Mecca (Acme TV for BBC)

Science & The Natural World 

•    Silverback (Off the Fence & France Télévisions in association with Featuristic Films for BBC)
•    Billy & Molly: An Otter Love Story (Silverback Films for National Geographic and Disney+)
•    Living With Leopards (A Wild Space Production in association with Natural History Film Unit Botswana and Freeborne Media for Netflix)

Scripted Comedy 

•    Things You Should Have Done (Roughcut TV for BBC)
•    We Are Lady Parts (Working Title Television, which is part of Universal International Studios, a division of Universal Studio Group for Channel 4)
•    Gavin & Stacey: The Finale (Fulwell 73 Productions, Tidy Productions for BBC)

Single Documentary 

•    Undercover: Exposing The Far Right (Marking Films Inc and Tigerlily Productions for Channel 4)
•    Tell Them You Love Me (Mindhouse Productions for Sky Documentaries)
•    Hell Jumper (Expectation for BBC)

Soap and Continuing Drama

•    Casualty (BBC Studios Drama Productions for BBC)
•    EastEnders (BBC Studios Drama Productions for BBC)
•    Hollyoaks (Lime Pictures for Channel 4)

Sports Presenter, Commentator or Pundit

•    Rose Ayling-Ellis and Clare Balding - Paris 2024 Paralympics (Whisper for Channel 4)
•    Ian Wright - Euro 2024 (ITV Sport for ITV)
•    Michael Johnson - Paris 2024 Olympics (BBC Sport for BBC)

Sports Programme 

•    Paris 2024 Paralympics (Whisper for Channel 4)
•    Paris 2024 Olympics (BBC Sport for BBC)
•    London Marathon 2024 (BBC Sport for BBC)

Supporting Actor – Female 

•    Monica Dolan - Sherwood (House Productions for BBC)
•    Katherine Parkinson - Rivals (Happy Prince, part of ITV Studios for Disney+)
•    Jessica Gunning - Baby Reindeer (Clerkenwell Films for Netflix)

Supporting Actor – Male 

•    Danny Dyer - Rivals (Happy Prince, part of ITV Studios for Disney+)
•    McKinley Belcher III - Eric (Sister for Netflix)
•    Sonny Walker - The Gathering (World Productions for Channel 4)

Writer – Comedy 

•    Writing Team - Cunk on Life (Broke and Bones for BBC and Netflix)
•    Sophie Willan - Alma's Not Normal (Expectation for BBC)
•    Nida Manzoor - We Are Lady Parts (Working Title Television, which is part of Universal International Studios, a division of Universal Studio Group for Channel 4)

Writer – Drama 

•    Will Smith - Slow Horses (See-Saw Films in association with Apple for Apple TV+)
•    Peter Straughan - Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light (Playground Entertainment & Company Pictures for BBC and Masterpiece)
•    Dominic Treadwell-Collins and Laura Wade - Rivals (Happy Prince, part of ITV Studios for Disney+)