BAFTA holds the Television Awards with P&O Cruises on Sunday 9 May 2027 at the Royal Festival Hall, with the Craft Awards a fortnight earlier.
BAFTA holds its Television Awards with P&O Cruises at the Royal Festival Hall on the South Bank on Sunday 9 May 2027. The Television Craft Awards fall a fortnight earlier, on Sunday 25 April.
The first British television awards were given in 1955, in six categories. The body that gave them took the name British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1976, when the film academy and the television producers’ guild merged their names.
The Television Awards are voted by the people who make British television, rather than by critics or broadcasters.
Editing, photography, sound, production design and costume are honoured at the craft ceremony. That keeps the main evening to a manageable length and gives the people behind the camera a night of their own.
Nominations for both ceremonies are announced on Monday 22 March. The Royal Festival Hall has held every BAFTA ceremony since the Academy moved them to the Southbank Centre. The television night and the film night share its address three months apart.