“Adolescence” took home the BAFTA Television Award for limited drama on Sunday night, capping a remarkable sweep for the Netflix series across the 2025–26 awards season.
The show already took home two awards on Sunday evening: best supporting actor for Owen Cooper and best supporting actress for Christine Tremarco.
Created, co-written and executive produced by Stephen Graham and Jack Thorne, and directed by Philip Barantini, “Adolescence” follows 13-year-old Jamie Miller (Cooper) as he is arrested on suspicion of stabbing a female classmate, Katie Leonard, and traces the impact of that arrest on his family – father Eddie (Graham), mother Manda (Tremarco) and sister Lisa (Amélie Pease) – as well as on the detective investigating the case, DI Luke Bascombe (Ashley Walters), and on the clinical psychologist assigned to assess Jamie, Briony Ariston (Erin Doherty).
“Jack and Stephen, your amazing script…it ripped out our hearts and punched us in the gut,” said producer and Warp Films co-founder Mark Herbert, as the cast and creative team accept the award.
He added that the cast and crew had all been wonderful, saying: “On our call sheet we had the words ‘Don’t be a dick,’ that was our motto.”
Each of the four episodes was filmed in one unbroken continuous take by cinematographer Matthew Lewis, with no cuts or digital blending of shots. Produced by Warp Films with Plan B Entertainment – whose executive producers include Brad Pitt, Jeremy Kleiner and Dede Gardner – the series premiered on Netflix on March 13, 2025 and became the second-most-watched English-language series in Netflix’s history.
“Adolescence” led this year’s nominations with 12 nods across the BAFTA Television Awards and Television Craft Awards. The series received 13 Emmy nominations at the 77th Primetime Emmy Awards and won nine, including outstanding limited series, and acting wins for Graham, Cooper and Doherty. It won all four categories in which it was nominated at the 2026 Golden Globes and prompted a national conversation in the U.K. about online safety, incel culture and the pressures facing young men. Co-writer Jack Thorne attended Downing Street to meet Prime Minister Keir Starmer on the subject, and Netflix made the series available to schools as a free teaching resource.
“Adolescence” beat out “I Fought The Law,” “Trespasses” and “What It Feels Like For A Girl” for the limited drama award.
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