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It was a night that saw a few surprises - including the Northern Irish police drama Blue Lights picking up the Bafta for best drama series, writes our culture reporter Helen Bushby.

But overall, the top awards for Britain's biggest night in television seemed to be equally split between some of the year's most popular shows - Mr Loverman, Baby Reindeer and Mr Bates vs the Post Office to name a few.

We're going to be ending our live coverage of this year's awards show, but you can breakdown all the results of the TV Baftas with our wrap of the winners and losers and see how the stars dazzled on the red carpet on a sweltering London night in our photo gallery.

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Reporting from the Royal Festival Hall

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Speaking to me backstage after her best actress win for her role in Industry, Marisa says she was “incredibly overwhelmed” and felt “grateful”.

She says she and the cast and crew had put their “hearts and souls” into the making of Industry, a series about young bankers making their way in the glamorous, and often cutthroat world of finance.

“We really just tried to find the humanity in these characters, and what it is that drives them,” she says.

She adds she'll be celebrating by going to find the people who wrote the show “and give them a big hug and say thank you”.

“They’re all here and I don’t think any of them were expecting it,” she says.

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In case you missed, here's a lightning round look at the night's biggest winners at the 2025 Bafta TV awards:

Performances:

• Leading actor - Lennie James (Mr Loverman)
• Leading actress - Marisa Abela (Industry)
• Supporting actress - Jessica Gunning (Baby Reindeer)
• Supporting actor - Ariyon Bakare (Mr Loverman)
• Male performance in a comedy - Danny Dyer (Mr Bigstuff)
• Female performance in a comedy - Ruth Jones (Gavin and Stacey: The Finale)

Series:

• Drama series - Blue Lights
• Limited drama series - Mr Bates Vs The Post Office
• Scripted comedy - Alma’s Not Normal
• Soap - EastEnders
• Reality - The Jury: Murder Trial

Joe McFadden
Live reporter

While the nominees celebrate their wins and commiserate their losses at the afterparty, it's now time for us to take stock of who tonight's big winner was.

BBC One drama Mr Loverman was the only show to receive two awards - both in the male acting categories.

Lennie James took home the leading actor prize while Ariyon Bakare nabbed the supporting gong.

The drama, adapted from Bernardine Evaristo's 2014 novel of the same name, explores the life of Britain's older Caribbean community through the perspective of a closeted gay Antiguan-Londoner.

Mr Loverman beat more popular dramas including Netflix's zeitgeist-capturing miniseries Baby Reindeer and ITV's agenda-setting drama Mr Bates Vs The Post Office.

Both took home one award each, with Jessica Gunning receiving the supporting actress award and Mr Bates winning in the limited drama category.

However, when awards from the Bafta TV Craft Awards - which were held two weeks ago - are taken into account, Baby Reindeer inches ahead with its two wins for best writer (drama) and best director in fiction.

Host Alan Cumming closes out the award ceremony, saying: "Well, that brings us to the end of the 2025 Bafta Television Awards with P&O Cruises.

"I'll see some of you at the after show party. But stay alert - there will be three Traitors hosts walking the room on the prowl for fresh meat."

He thanks all of the winners and the nominees before bidding his final goodbye for the evening.

We'll be around for a little while yet, so stick with us.

Helen Bushby
Culture reporter

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Marisa Abela beat some stellar competition, saying: "I really wasn't expecting that at all - this is insane."

The British actress plays an ambitious investment banker in the BBC Two/HBO drama series Industry, which explores the world of finance, including high pressure, glamour and backstabbing.

Collecting her award, she says she landed the role in her final year of drama school.

Thanking the crew for allowing her to "take the character where I wanted to", she pays tribute to her mother, Caroline Gruber, who was an actress at the National Theatre. "I'm completely inspired and amazed by you," she adds.

The nominees are:

• Anna Maxwell Martin - Until I Kill You (ITV1)
• Billie Piper - Scoop (Netflix)
• Lola Petticrew - Say Nothing (Disney+)
• Marisa Abela - Industry (BBC One)
• Monica Dolan - Mr Bates vs The Post Office (ITV1)
• Sharon D Clarke - Mr Loverman (BBC One)

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The Mr Loverman star is greeted to the stage by a round of applause.

"I haven't prepared anything," he says. "I didn't think this was coming my way."

He thanks the BBC, the show's producers and writers - with a special shoutout to Bernardine Evaristo.

James also pays a special thanks to his wife and kids. He nearly walks off before stopping himself to add: "Oh! Thank you to our crew!"

We're at the penultimate award now. Here's the nominees:

• David Tennant - Rivals (Disney+)
• Gary Oldman - Slow Horses (Apple TV+)
• Lennie James - Mr Loverman (BBC One)
• Martin Freeman - The Responder (BBC One)
• Richard Gadd - Baby Reindeer (Netflix)
• Toby Jones - Mr Bates vs The Post Office (ITV1)

Helen Bushby
Culture reporter

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Belfast-based BBC One police drama Blue Lights has won the tough best drama category - beating BBC One's Sherwood, Netflix's Supacell and BBC One's Wolf Hall: The Mirror And The Light.

Blue Lights, which wins for its second series, follows a batch of newly-qualified officers navigating policing in a post-conflict Northern Ireland.

Co-created and written by Declan Lawn and Adam Patterson, its stars include Sian Brooke, Martin McCann, Katherine Devlin and Nathan Braniff.

"Belfast, this one's for you," says one of the winners on stage.

You can read more about the series here.

We're getting to the most prestigious awards now. The nominations for the best drama series are:

• Blue Lights - BBC One
• Sherwood - BBC One
• Supacell - Netflix
• Wolf Hall: The Mirror And The Light - BBC One

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Comedian Joe Lycett takes home the best entertainment performance Bafta for his Channel 4 show Late Night Lycett.

Lycett isn't here to accept the prize so presenter Greg Davies jokes he will be keeping the gong.

The brummy comedian beat the likes of Traitors host Claudia Winkelman alongside previous winners - including ITV's Ant & Dec and Graham Norton.

• Anthony McPartlin, Declan Donnelly - Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway - (ITV1)

• Claudia Winkleman - The Traitors (BBC One)

• Graham Norton - The Graham Norton Show (BBC One)

• Joe Lycett - Late Night Lycett (Channel 4)

• Romesh Ranganathan, Rob Beckett - Rob & Romesh Vs... (Sky Max)

• Stacey Solomon - Sort Your Life Out (BBC One)

Helen Bushby
Culture reporter

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Host Alan Cumming said he "demanded" that he be the person to present the award to Kirsty Wark, who he called "our Caledonian queen".

"Kirsty is a legend in many fields," he says, citing her political interviews, her cultural coverage and in Scotland, for "being a legend".

Tributes were paid by names including Jennifer Saunders, Fiona Bruce and Mishal Husain.

Wark gets a standing ovation.

"There is nothing like the thrill of the hive mind... it takes a village to raise a programme," she says, in a nod to everyone who has worked alongside her.

She also praises "the number of women" now in senior roles, along with the women she values most, calling them "the coven... you know who you are".

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Rob Rinder and Rylan Clark are taking home the factual entertainment prize for their show Rob and Rylan's Grand Tour.

The programme has the two hosts touring Italy, following in the footsteps of Lord Bryon to mark the 200th anniversary of his death.

Rylan thanks the BBC and the show's producers while also praising the support given to their TV show about "two gay guys, going through a divorce" - quickly adding "but not to each other".

Rinder also thanks their mothers for giving them both "unconditional love".

The nominees are:

• In Vogue: The 90s - Disney+
• Race Across The World - BBC One
• Rob And Rylan's Grand Tour - BBC Two
• Sort Your Life Out - BBC One

Helen Bushby
Culture reporter

Alan Cumming said it was now time to "remember those friends, colleagues and inspirations we have lost over the last year".

Violinist Esther Abrami played a beautiful performance from her album Apple Tree, composed by Rachel Portman.

Numerous big names were listed, including Michael Mosley and Timothy West.

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Chris McCausland and Dianne Buswell's waltz to You'll Never Walk Alone wins Strictly Come Dancing the award for most memorable moment on TV.

The prize is the night's only Bafta voted for by the general public.

Dianne Buswell jokes that McCausland's absence is "what happens when he insists on driving himself to these kind of events."

"And yes, he did tell me to say that," she adds.

"In one minute and 30 seconds of a dance, I feel like this told such a story. A story of hope, determination, resilience and vulnerability."

She says the moment meant so much to both of them and they're "thrilled" to accept it.

After a breath-taking performance by Jessie J, back to the ceremony. Up next is most memorable moment on television, voted for by the public. The nominees are:

• Bridgerton - "THE" carriage scene where Colin admits his true feelings for Penelope (Netflix)
• Gavin & Stacey: The Finale - Smithy's Wedding: Mick Stands Up (BBC One)
• Mr Bates Vs The Post Office - Jo Hamilton phones the Horizon helpline (ITV1)
• Rivals - Rupert Campbell-Black and Sarah Stratton are caught in a game of naked tennis (Disney+)
• Strictly Come Dancing - Chris McCausland and Dianne Buswell Waltz to You'll Never Walk Alone (BBC One)
• The Traitors - "Paul isn't my son… but Ross is!" (BBC One)