The Royal Television Society announced the winners of the RTS Programme Awards 2026 in partnership with Cast and Crew. Comedian and presenter Tom Allen hosted the ceremony at the JW Marriott Grosvenor House Hotel.
The Awards celebrate the best of UK television across all genres, with attendees including Erin Doherty, Dylan Llewellyn, Steve Coogan, Mawaan Rizwan, Stephen Graham, Katherine Parkinson, Lucy Punch, Davina McCall, Gabby Logan, Alison Steadman, Jack Thorne and Malachi Kirby.
Across 29 categories the BBC led with 16 awards including Entertainment and Reality for The Celebrity Traitors and Drama Series for Blue Lights. Bobby Schofield and Anna Friel won Leading Actor Male and Supporting Actor Female, while Hamza Yassin won Presenter and Gabby Logan won Sports Presenter for Women’s Rugby World Cup 2025.
Netflix followed with five wins, four for Adolescence including Limited Series and Single Drama and Writer Drama. Owen Cooper won Breakthrough Award and Supporting Actor Male. Erin Doherty presented the Judges Award to Stephen Graham, Hannah Walters and Matriarch Productions for championing under represented voices and authentic storytelling.
In comedy, Last One Laughing won Comedy Entertainment while Steve Coogan won Comedy Performance Male. Big Boys won Comedy Drama and Things You Should Have Done won Scripted Comedy for a second year.
Other winners included Crongton Children’s Programme The Assembly Formatted Popular Factual Bibaa and Nicole Murder in the Park Documentary Series Flight 149 Hostage of War History Underdogs Science and The Natural World Grenfell Uncovered Single Documentary and EastEnders Soap and Continuing Drama. The 2025 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix won Sports Programme.
The RTS presented Sir Michael Palin with the Outstanding Achievement Award recognising a career spanning seven decades across comedy acting writing and travel television.
