Adolescence, Celebrity Traitors, and EastEnders win big at esteemed television awards ceremony

The Royal Television Society has crowned its winners for its 2026 ceremony.

Leading the charge was the BBC with a total of 16 wins, followed by Netflix with five wins - four of which went to the acclaimed limited series Adolescence.

Elsewhere, EastEnders took home the award for soap & continuing drama, while Channel 4 comedy Big Boys took home the award for comedy drama.

So, without further ado, here is the full list of winners from the big

Royal Television Society Awards 2026 winners: Full list of shows and stars that took home awards

Arts

• WINNER - The Last Musician of Auschwitz
• Nick Cave's Veiled World
• The Trouble With Mr Doodle

Breakthrough award

• WINNER - Owen Cooper, Adolescence
• Ellis Howard, What It Feels Like for a Girl
• Kaydrah Walker-Wilkie, Just Act Normal
• Maximilian Fairley, Unforgotten

Children’s programme

• WINNER - Crongton
• Sky Kids Investigates: World. War. Me.
• Wolf King

Comedy drama

• WINNER - Big Boys
• Dreaming Whilst Black
• Juice

Comedy entertainment

• WINNER - Last One Laughing
• Taskmaster
• Would I Lie to You?

Comedy performance – female

• WINNER - Philippa Dunne, Amandaland
• Jordan Gray, Transaction
• Katherine Parkinson, Here We Go
• Lucy Punch, Amandaland

Comedy performance – male

• WINNER - Steve Coogan, How Are You? It's Alan (Partridge)
• Adjani Salmon, Dreaming Whilst Black
• Jon Pointing, Big Boys
• Oliver Savell, Changing Ends

Daytime programme

• WINNER - BBC Breakfast – Our Girls: The Southport Families
• Loose Women
• The Marvellous Miniature Workshop

Documentary series

• WINNER - Bibaa & Nicole: Murder in the Park
• Boyzone: No Matter What
• Murder 24/7

Drama series

• WINNER - Blue Lights
• Code of Silence
• Slow Horses
• This City Is Ours

Entertainment & reality

• WINNER - The Celebrity Traitors
• Married at First Sight UK
• Race Across The World

Entertainment performance

• WINNER - Rob Beckett & Romesh Ranganathan - Rob & Romesh Vs
• Romesh Ranganathan - Romesh: Can't Knock the Hustle
• Claudia Winkleman - The Celebrity Traitors

Formatted popular factual

• WINNER - The Assembly
• Go Back to Where You Came From
• The Jury: Murder Trial

History

• WINNER - Flight 149: Hostage of War
• Simon Schama: The Road to Auschwitz
• Unforgotten: The Bradford City Fire

Leading actor – female

WINNER - Narges Rashidi, Prisoner 951

• Rose Ayling-Ellis, Code Of Silence
• Erin Doherty, A Thousand Blows
• Tamara Lawrance, Get Millie Black

Leading actor – male

• WINNER - Bobby Schofield, Unforgivable
• Anthony Boyle, House of Guinness
• Malachi Kirby, A Thousand Blows
• Stephen Graham, Adolescence

Limited series and single drama

• WINNER - Adolescence
• Get Millie Black
• I Fought the Law
• What It Feels Like for a Girl

Live event

• WINNER - Holocaust Memorial Day 2025
• VE Day 80: A Celebration to Remember
• Last Night of the Proms: Finale

Presenter

• WINNER - Hamza Yassin, Hamza’s Hidden Wild Isles
• Martin Lewis, The Martin Lewis Money Show Live
• Davina McCall, Stand Up To Cancer: Cancer Clinic Live

Science & the natural world

• WINNER - Underdogs
• Confessions Of A Brain Surgeon
• Pangolin: Kulu's Journey

Scripted comedy

• WINNER - Things You Should Have Done
• Here We Go
• How Are You? It's Alan (Partridge)
• Such Brave Girls

Single documentary

• WINNER - Grenfell: Uncovered (Rogan Productions for Netflix)
• Gaza: Doctors Under Attack
• Groomed: A National Scandal

Soap and continuing drama

• WINNER - EastEnders
• Casualty
• Hollyoaks

Sports presenter, commentator or pundit

• WINNER - Gabby Logan, Women's Rugby World Cup 2025
• Alex Jacques, 2025 Formula 1 Highlights
• Ruby Tui, Women's Rugby World Cup 2025

Sports programme

• WINNER - 2025 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix
• UEFA Women’s Euro 2025 Final
• Women's Rugby World Cup 2025

Supporting actor – female

• WINNER, Anna Friel, Unforgivable
• Aimee Lou Wood, Toxic Town
• Erin Doherty, Adolescence
• Saskia Reeves, Slow Horses

Supporting actor – male

• WINNER - Owen Cooper, Adolescence
• Alexej Manvelov, Dept. Q
• Christopher Chung, Slow Horses
• Joshua McGuire, The Gold

Writer – comedy

• WINNER - Kat Sadler, Such Brave Girls
• Adjani Salmon & Ali Hughes, Dreaming Whilst Black
• Tom Basden, Here We Go
• Jack Rooke, Big Boys

Writer – drama

• WINNER - Jack Thorne & Stephen Graham, Adolescence
• Adam Patterson & Declan Lawn, Blue Lights
• Catherine Moulton, Code of Silence
• Sally Wainwright, Riot Women

Judges’ award

WINNER - Stephen Graham, Hannah Walters and Matriarch Productions

Outstanding achievement award

WINNER - Sir Michael Palin

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