British Academy Television Award for Best Soap and Continuing Drama

British Academy Television Award for Best Soap and Continuing Drama
British Academy Television Award for Best Soap and Continuing Drama
Country	United Kingdom
Presented by	British Academy of Film and Television Arts
First award	1999
Currently held by	EastEnders (2025)
Website	http://www.bafta.org/

The British Academy Television Award for Best Soap and Continuing Drama is one of the major categories of the British Academy Television Awards (BAFTAs), the primary awards ceremony of the British television industry, presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. Eligible drama series must be transmitted for at least 20 episodes a year. Only one episode of no more than an hour may be entered, and the episode selected must not be a special, as it must be fully representative of the series.^[1] The award was first given in 1999, for soap operas transmitted in 1998. Its title was changed from Best Soap to Best Continuing Drama in 2003,^[2] and to Best Soap and Continuing Drama in 2012. As of 2025^[update], the award has been won by EastEnders ten times, Coronation Street seven times, Casualty six times, Emmerdale three times, and The Bill and Holby City once each.

CountryUnited Kingdom

Presented byBritish Academy of Film and Television Arts

First award1999

Currently held byEastEnders (2025)

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Year	Title	Recipient(s)	Production company	Broadcaster
1999 ^[3]	EastEnders	Matthew Robinson	BBC	BBC One
	Brookside	Phil Redmond	Mersey Television	Channel 4
	Hollyoaks	Phil Redmond, Jo Hallows	Mersey Television	Channel 4
	Coronation Street	Carolyn Reynolds, David Hanson	Granada Television	ITV1

Year	Title	Recipient(s)	Production company	Broadcaster
2000 ^[4]	EastEnders	Matthew Robinson	BBC	BBC One
	Coronation Street	Jane Macnaught	Granada Television	ITV1
	Emmerdale	Keith Richardson, Kieran Roberts, Chris Thompson	Yorkshire Television	ITV1
	Brookside	Phil Redmond, Paul Marquess	Mersey Television	Channel 4
2001 ^[5]	Emmerdale	Kieran Roberts, Oliver Horsbrugh, Karin Young	Yorkshire Television	ITV1
	EastEnders		BBC	BBC One
	Coronation Street		Granada Television	ITV1
	Hollyoaks	Phil Redmond, Jo Hallows	Mersey Television	Channel 4
2002 ^[6]	EastEnders		BBC	BBC One
	Coronation Street		Granada Television	ITV1
	Doctors		BBC	BBC One
	Hollyoaks	Phil Redmond, Jo Hallows	Mersey Television	Channel 4
2003 ^[7]	Coronation Street	Carolyn Reynolds, Kieran Roberts	Granada Television	ITV1
	Doctors		BBC	BBC One
	EastEnders		BBC	BBC One
	Hollyoaks	Phil Redmond, Jo Hallows	Mersey Television	Channel 4
2004 ^[8]	Coronation Street	Carolyn Reynolds, Kieran Roberts	Granada Television	ITV1
	Casualty	Mal Young, Mervyn Watson	BBC	BBC One
	Holby City	Mal Young, Kathleen Hutchison	BBC	BBC One
	The Bill	Paul Marquess, Donna Wiffen, Jake Riddell	Talkback Thames	ITV1
2005 ^[9]	Coronation Street	Tony Wood, Ian Bevitt, John Fay	Granada Television	ITV1
	Doctors		BBC	BBC One
	Holby City		BBC	BBC One
	The Bill	Paul Marquess, Claire Phillips, Donna Wiffen	Talkback Thames	ITV1
2006 ^[10]	EastEnders		BBC	BBC One
	Coronation Street	Tony Wood, Tracey Rooney, Daran Little	ITV Productions	ITV1
	Casualty		BBC	BBC One
	Holby City		BBC	BBC One
2007 ^[11]	Casualty		BBC	BBC One
	Coronation Street	Stephen Russell, Tim O'Mara, Steve Frost, Kieran Roberts	ITV Productions	ITV1
	EastEnders		BBC	BBC One
	Emmerdale	Keith Richardson, Kathleen Beedles, Lindsay Williams, Piotr Szkopiak	ITV Productions	ITV1
2008 ^[12]	Holby City		BBC	BBC One
	The Bill	Johnathan Young, Tim Key, Maxwell Young, Robert Del Maestro	Talkback Thames	ITV1
	Emmerdale	Keith Richardson, Kathleen Beedles, John Anderson, Tim Dynevor	ITV Productions	ITV1
	EastEnders		BBC	BBC One
2009 ^[13]	The Bill		Talkback Thames	ITV1
	Casualty		BBC	BBC One
	EastEnders		BBC	BBC One
	Emmerdale		ITV Studios	ITV1

Year	Title	Recipient(s)	Production company	Broadcaster
2010 ^[14]	EastEnders		BBC	BBC One
	Casualty		BBC	BBC One
	Coronation Street		ITV Studios	ITV1
	The Bill		Talkback Thames	ITV1
2011 ^[15]	EastEnders		BBC	BBC One
	Coronation Street		ITV Studios	ITV1
	Casualty		BBC	BBC One
	Waterloo Road	Sharon Hughff, Sharon Channer, Fraser MacDonald, Lis Steele	Shed Productions	BBC One
2012 ^[16]	Coronation Street		ITV Studios	ITV1
	EastEnders		BBC	BBC One
	Holby City		BBC	BBC One
	Shameless	Paul Abbott, George Faber, David Threlfall, Lawrence Till	Company Pictures	Channel 4
2013 ^[17]	EastEnders		BBC	BBC One
	Coronation Street		ITV Studios	ITV
	Emmerdale		ITV Studios	ITV
	Shameless		Company Pictures	Channel 4
2014 ^[18]	Coronation Street		ITV Studios	ITV
	Casualty		BBC	BBC One
	EastEnders		BBC
	Holby City		BBC
2015 ^[19]	Coronation Street		ITV Studios	ITV
	Casualty		BBC	BBC One
	EastEnders		BBC	BBC One
	Hollyoaks		Lime Pictures	Channel 4
2016 ^[20]	EastEnders		BBC	BBC One
	Coronation Street		ITV Studios	ITV
	Emmerdale		ITV Studios	ITV
	Holby City	Oliver Kent, Simon Harper, Kate Hall, Joe Ainsworth	BBC	BBC One
2017 ^[21]	Emmerdale		ITV Studios	ITV
	Casualty		BBC	BBC One
	EastEnders		BBC	BBC One
	Hollyoaks	Bryan Kirkwood, Emily Gascoyne, Vikki Tennant, Colette Chard	Lime Pictures	Channel 4
2018 ^[22]	Casualty		BBC	BBC One
	Coronation Street		ITV Studios	ITV
	Emmerdale		ITV Studios	ITV
	Hollyoaks	Bryan Kirkwood, Emily Gascoyne, Vikki Tennant, Colette Chard	Lime Pictures	Channel 4
2019 ^[23]	EastEnders		BBC	BBC One
	Coronation Street		ITV Studios	ITV
	Casualty		BBC	BBC One
	Hollyoaks	Bryan Kirkwood, Emily Gascoyne, Colette Chard, Kevin Rundle	Lime Pictures	Channel 4

Year	Title	Recipient(s)	Production company	Broadcaster
2020 ^[24]	Emmerdale		ITV Studios	ITV
	Casualty		BBC	BBC One
	Holby City		BBC	BBC One
	Coronation Street		ITV Studios	ITV
2021 ^[25]	Casualty	Simon Harper, Loretta Preece, Sarah Beeson, Jenny Thompson	BBC Studios	BBC One
	Coronation Street		ITV Studios	ITV
	EastEnders	Jon Sen, Kate Oates, Sharon Batten, Liza Mellody	BBC Studios	BBC One
	Hollyoaks	Bryan Kirkwood, Hannah Sowden, Josie Day, Gary Sewell, Colette Chard	Lime Pictures	Channel 4
2022 ^[26]	Coronation Street		ITV Studios	ITV
	Casualty	Deborah Sathe, Loretta Preece, Debbie Biggins, Jenny Thompson, Sarah Beeson	BBC Studios	BBC One
	Holby City		BBC Studios	BBC One
	Emmerdale		ITV Studios	ITV
2023 ^[27]^[28]	Casualty		BBC Studios	BBC One
	Emmerdale		ITV Studios	ITV
	EastEnders		BBC Studios	BBC One
2024 ^[29]	Casualty		BBC Studios	BBC One
	Emmerdale		ITV Studios	ITV1
	EastEnders		BBC Studios	BBC One
2025 ^[30]	EastEnders		BBC Studios	BBC One
	Casualty		BBC Studios	BBC One
	Coronation Street		ITV Studios	ITV1

Series	Last win	Last nomination
Casualty	2024	2024
Coronation Street	2022	2025
Doctors	N/a	2005
EastEnders	2019	2024
Emmerdale	2020	2024
Hollyoaks	N/a	2021
Waterloo Road	N/a	2011

British Academy Television Award for Best Soap and Continuing Drama

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