Adolescence wins at Bafta TV awards 2026 at Royal Festival Hall
Adolescence won at the Bafta TV awards 2026 at royal festival hall. The series also put Owen Cooper and Christine Tremarco on the winners’ list, giving it more than one major result on the night.
Stephen Graham was among the nominees tied to Adolescence, while the full winners’ list also included The Studio, Sheridan Smith, Steve Coogan, Katherine Parkinson and Bob Mortimer. The scale of the list matters because it shows how broadly the 2026 TV field was spread across comedy, drama and factual programming.
Adolescence and its awards haul
Adolescence was one of the night’s winners, and its double result through Cooper and Tremarco made it the clearest title-level success in the list. For a series in a crowded awards field, multiple wins in the same ceremony usually signal that voters saw more than one performance worth separating from the pack.
Owen Cooper won for Adolescence, and Christine Tremarco won for Adolescence as well. That put the title alongside the other repeat winners on the list and gave it a stronger finish than a single-category win would have done.
Other winners in 2026
Sheridan Smith won for I Fought the Law, Steve Coogan won for How Are You? Its Alan (Partridge), Katherine Parkinson won for Here We Go and Bob Mortimer won for Last One Laughing UK. The category list also included The Studio, Amandaland, Simon Schama: The Road to Auschwitz, The Celebrity Traitors, Gaza: Doctors Under Attack and Hustle and Run as winners.
That spread tells the story of the night more clearly than any single title does. Comedy, factual programming and drama all landed wins, so the ceremony did not tilt toward one genre or one network-style lane.
Stephen Graham among nominees
Stephen Graham was listed among the nominees for Adolescence, which kept the series visible across the competition even before the winners were tallied. For readers tracking the awards race, that nomination list is the clearest clue to where the field was strongest before the final results landed.
The main takeaway from royal festival hall is straightforward: Adolescence left with wins, not just nominations, and it did so in a ceremony that spread recognition across several titles. For anyone watching the 2026 TV awards race, that is the result that will shape the conversation, because the list shows a broad sweep rather than a single runaway winner.
