British Academy Television Award for Best Short Form
Annual UK television award
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The British Academy Television Award for Best Short Form Programme is one of the major categories of the British Academy Television Awards (BAFTAs), the primary awards ceremony of the British television industry.
CountryUnited Kingdom
Presented byBritish Academy of Film and Television Arts
First award2018
Currently held byHustle and Run (2026)
| British Academy Television Award | |
|---|---|
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Presented by | British Academy of Film and Television Arts |
| First award | 2018 |
| Currently held by | Hustle and Run (2026) |
| Website | http://www.bafta.org/ |
According to the BAFTA website, the category is for "single shorts, short form series and shorts from a strand of any genre that have been commissioned and transmitted on a broadcast channel and/or online platform."[1]
Winners and nominees
2010s
| Year | Title | Recipient(s) | Broadcaster |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Morgana Robinson's Summer | Sky Arts | |
| Britain's Forgotten Men | BBC Three | ||
| Eating with My Ex | |||
| Pls Like | |||
| 2019 [2] | Missed Call | Real Stories | |
| Bovril Pam (Snatches: Moments from 100 Years of Women's Lives) | BBC Four | ||
| The Mind of Herbert Clunkerdunk | Spencer Jones, Jon Riche, David Simpson | BBC iPlayer | |
| Wonderdate | Lydia Hampson, Tim Key, Jonathan van Tulleken | ||
2020s
| Year | Title | Recipient(s) | Broadcaster |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 [3] | Brain in Gear | Gbemisola Ikumelo, Fergal Costello, Inez Gordon | BBC iPlayer |
| Anywhere But Westminster | John Domokos, John Harris | The Guardian | |
| Soon Gone: A Windrush Chronicle | Roy Williams, Tinge Krishnan, Carol Harding | BBC Four | |
| Toni_With_An_I | Marco Alessi, Ksenia Harwood, Mary Antony | ||
| 2021 [4] | They Saw the Sun First | Stefan Hunt, Jess Lowe, Adam Gee | Red Bull TV |
| Criptales | Mat Fraser, Amit Sharma, Ewan Marshall, Jenny Sealey, Debbie Christie | BBC Four | |
| Disabled Not Defeated: The Rock Band with Learning Disabilities | Rosie Baldwin, Holly Stimson, Dan Knight | Noisey | |
| The Main Part | Rosie Westhoff, Jen Wakefield, Sara Huxley, Tom Payne, Jody Smith | BBC iPlayer | |
| 2022 [5] | Our Land | Alexandra Genova, Alfred Thirolle | Together TV |
| Hollyoaks Saved My Life (Hollyoaks IRL) | Rachel Hardy, Alan Toner, Graham Gallery | YouTube | |
| People You May Know | Juliet Riddell, James Graham, Tom Hannen, Franklin Dow | Financial Times | |
| Please Help | Lucy Pearman, Ben Mallaby, David Simpson | BBC Three | |
| 2023 [6][7] | How to Be a Person | Anna Hashmi, Sindha Agha, Samira Mian, Anne Perrie, Tobi Kyeremateng | E4 |
| Always, Asifa | Shiva Raichandani, Alex Balcombe | Together TV | |
| Biscuitland | Jess Thom, Matthew Pountney, Christine Robertson, Jon Rolph | All 4 | |
| Kingpin Cribs | Channel 4 | ||
| 2024 [8] | Mobility | Jack Carroll, Thomas Gregory, Akaash Meeda, David Simpson, Sam Ward | BBC Three |
| Where It Ends | Jack Robertson, Fergal Costello, Sam Ward, David Simpson | BBC Three | |
| The Sekwer: Three Twisted Year | BBC iPlayer | ||
| Stealing Ukraine's Children: Inside Russia's Camps | Vice News | ||
| 2025 [9] | Quiet Life | Ruth Pickett, Alex Bruce, Luke Rollason | BBC Three |
| Brown Brit | Jay Stephen, Ralph Briscoe | Channel 4 | |
| Peaked | John Addis, Ada Player, Bron Waugh | ||
| Spud | Siobhán McSweeney, Pippa Brown, Leah Draws | BBC Three | |
| 2026 [10] | Hustle and Run | Jonny Madderson, Jono Stevens, Sara Conlon | Channel 4 |
| Donkey | BBC Three | ||
| Rocket Fuel | Jordon Scott Kennedy, Leah Henry, Casey Shaw | BBC iPlayer | |
| Zoners | BBC Three | ||
- Note: The series that don't have recipients on the tables had Production team credited as recipients for the award or nomination.