‘Baby Reindeer’ stumbles at the BAFTA TV Awards, while ‘Shōgun’ claims another win

Baby Reindeer has been on an awards show hot streak since its April 2024 release. But the 2025 BAFTA Television Awards dimmed its flame.

The miniseries created by and starring Scottish comedian Richard Gadd was up for four awards across three categories at Sunday’s ceremony, but only took home one: Best Supporting Actress went to Jessica Gunning.

The series lost in the Limited Drama category to Mr Bates vs The Post Office, a four-part series airing on the U.K.’s ITV, led by Leading Actor nominee Toby Jones, and based on the real-life Post Office Horizon scandal. Gadd was also up for Leading Actor, but lost to The Walking Dead star Lennie James for his performance in the Bernardine Evaristo adaptation Mr Loverman.

Gunning faced considerable competition in her category, coming from previous BAFTA TV winner and Sherwood nominee Monica Dolan, Maxine Peake for Say Nothing, British soap legend Sue Johnston for Truelove, and her own Baby Reindeer costar Nava Mau.

With the BAFTAs being the last major ceremony to award TV series from the previous year, Baby Reindeer still exits its run with an incredible nomination-to-win ratio. The new Netflix title won Best Limited Series and Best Supporting Actress for Gunning at both the Critics Choice Awards and Golden Globes; Gunning, Gadd, and Mau all won for their performances as the Independent Spirit Awards, the series won a prestigious Peabody Award, and it went home with six trophies out of a combined 11 nominations across the Primetime and Creative Arts Emmys this year.

The year’s other highly decorated new series, Shōgun, collected the trophy for Best International Programme, the single category in which it was nominated at the 2025 BAFTA TV Awards.

Shōgun has blazed an even more impressive trail through this season’s awards circuit, being nominated for an astounding 25 Emmys across the Primetime and Creative Arts ceremonies and winning 18. Anna Sawai, the Japanese actress who stars as Toda Mariko, was a particular awards favorite, taking home prizes for her work from the Emmys, Golden Globes, Screen Actors Guild Awards, and TV Critics Association Awards.

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Elsewhere at the BAFTAs, hosted this year by The Traitors star Alan Cumming, the night’s big prize (Best Drama Series) went to Blue Lights, a Northern Irish police procedural featuring House of the Dragon actress Siân Brooke and Game of Thrones actor Nathan Braniff. Marisa Abela took home the Best Leading Actress prize for her performance on Industry, Ruth Jones took home the Female Comedy Performance prize for Gavin & Stacey: The Finale, and Danny Dyer took home the corresponding men’s prize for Mr Bigstuff.