Emotional Stephen Graham's swearing edited out of BAFTA win – plus full 2026 winners list

Other winners featured in the ceremony include:

• Soap – EastEnders (BBC One)
• Sports coverage – Uefa Women's Euro 2025 (BBC One)
• Daytime – Scam Interceptors (BBC One)
• Current affairs – Gaza: Doctors Under Attack (Channel 4)
• Factual entertainment – Go Back To Where You Came From (Channel 4)
• Entertainment performance – Bob Mortimer - Last One Laughing (Prime Video)

The award for Best Drama Series goes to Code Of Silence (ITV1).

Other nominees include:

• A Thousand Blows (Disney+)
• Blue Lights (BBC One)
• This City Is Ours (BBC One)

Deaf actress Rose Ayling-Ellis, the star of the show, gave a moving speech, thanking the inclusive set on the show and adding: “The industry needs to improve and hopefully it will.”

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Narges Rashidi has won Best Leading Actress for Prisoner 951 (BBC One).

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Other nominees included:

• Aimee Lou Wood - Film Club (BBC Three)
• Erin Doherty - A Thousand Blows (Disney+)
• Jodie Whittaker - Toxic Town (Netflix)
• Sheridan Smith - I Fought The Law (ITV1)
• Siân Brooke - Blue Lights (BBC One)

Dedicating the prize to the British-Iranian woman who was imprisoned in Tehran, and her family, Rashidi said: “Your resilience, your dignity, your love through impossible circumstances have moved us all.

“Your courage will stay with me for the rest of my life. This is for you.”

She added: “I was a seven-year-old who survived war. In Gaza, in Ukraine, in Sudan, they may never get that opportunity, that chance.”

The wonderful Stephen Graham has taken home the last award of the evening, for Best Leading Actor in Adolescence (Netflix).

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Other nominees include:

• Colin Firth - Lockerbie: A Search for Truth (Sky Atlantic)
• Ellis Howard - What it Feels Like for a Girl (BBC Three)
• James Nelson-Joyce - This City is Ours (BBC One)
• Matt Smith - The Death of Bunny Munro (Sky Atlantic)
• Taron Egerton - Smoke (Apple TV)

In his acceptance speech, Stephen looked emotional as he spoke to the crowd.

“I might take my time. I’ve been nominated eight times and this is the first time I’ve won. Nice one Bafta, this is lovely.”

“When I was a kid, I watched a telly programme called Scully, written by Alan Bleasdale, and it had the wonderful Drew Schofield in it and he lived across the road from my nana’s house so he showed me that I could be on the telly.”

"He was my inspiration, so for any other young kid, no matter where you’re from, anything is possible.

“We are all people that have done that, we get to do what we love, which is different.

“We’re not digging holes, we’re not digging ditches, we’re not saving lives, but we have to opportunity to tell the human condition, and we have the obligation to tell beautiful stories and we need to keep that going.”

Referring to his co-star Owen Cooper, who won Best Supporting Actor earlier in the evening, Stephen said: “The kid’s already said it, but in the words of The Beatles, all we need is love, namaste.”

Riding on the high of his first BAFTA win, Leading Actor winner Stephen Graham thanked The Beatles in his acceptance speech.

A source who watched from the crowd told HELLO!: "An overwhelmed Stephen swore in his speech, before apologising and swearing again."

However, this was edited out of the BBC broadcast. 

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And that's a wrap on the TV BAFTAs 2026! 🏆 Thanks so much for following along with us. 

Here are the full list of winners:

• Leading actress – Narges Rashidi, Prisoner 951
• Leading actor – Stephen Graham, Adolescence
• Limited drama – Adolescence
• Supporting actress – Christine Tremarco, Adolescence
• Supporting actor – Owen Cooper, Adolescence
• P&O Cruises Memorable Moment Award – Alan Carr winning The Celebrity Traitors
• Actor in a comedy – Steve Coogan, How Are You? It’s Alan (Partridge)
• Actress in a comedy – Katherine Parkinson, Here We Go
• Reality – The Celebrity Traitors
• Drama series – Code Of Silence
• Entertainment – Last One Laughing
• Entertainment performance – Bob Mortimer, Last One Laughing
• Scripted comedy – Amandaland
• Children’s: non-scripted – World. War. Me. (Sky Kids Investigates)
• Children’s: scripted – Crongton
• Current affairs – Gaza: Doctors Under Attack
• Daytime – Scam Interceptors
• Factual entertainment – Go Back To Where You Came From
• Factual series – See No Evil
• International – The Studio
• Live event coverage – VE Day 80: A Celebration To Remember
• News coverage – Channel 4 News: Israel-Iran: The Twelve-Day War
• Short form – Hustle And Run
• Single documentary – Grenfell: Uncovered
• Soap – EastEnders
• Specialist factual – Simon Schama: The Road To Auschwitz
• Sports coverage – Uefa Women’s Euro 2025
• Bafta Special Award – Martin Lewis
• Fellowship – Dame Mary Berry