TV BAFTAs 2025: Mr Bates vs The Post Office team's powerful message as show wins big

One of the bosses of Mr Bates vs The Post Office delivered a powerful message while accepting the Best Limited Drama at the 2025 TV BAFTAs. The drama aired last year and drew critical and fan acclaim for spotlighting the injustice of the British Post Office scandal.

The drama showed how hundreds of subpostmasters were wrongly prosecuted for theft, false accounting or fraud due to the faulty Horizon computer system. The drama was led by who played real life former subpostmaster Alan Bates who doggedly pursued justice.

After winning the Best Limited Drama award, show producer Patrick Spence said: "We've shown we cannot abide liars and bullies. And we'd like to put on record that being trusted by the sub post-masters to tell their story has been the greatest privilege of our lives."

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The show proved to a truly powerful piece of drama as it finally led to the government to take action to help those that had been let down. Tragically, the progress was much too late for some subpostmasters who took their own lives after being wrongly accused of theft.

won over the drama , the show Lost Boys and Fairies, and the Netflix rom-com drama One Day.

One of the first winners of the night was who scooped the Best Supporting Actress award for her role as Martha in the hit Netflix show, Baby Reindeer.

She told the audience: “Hello, cheeky chops, gosh, thank you Bafta, wow... I sometimes do this kind of cheesy thing where I look back on the younger me and moments in my life, and I imagine the kind of then me, seeing me now, and think, ‘little did we know’.”

Thanking show creator Richard, she gushed "[You have] changed my life" and added: “I’m so proud to be part of this show.”

The Bafta TV Awards show began in Traitors style with Alan Cumming wearing the well-known dark cloak in the Scottish Highlands castle.

Cumming, who described himself as the “devilishly handsome” host of the US Traitors, was summoned to the Traitor turret and asked to host the Bafta TV Awards this year.

The host wore a dark Traitor cloak donned with an embellished letter C on the front, despite joking that he would “not wear one of those drab cloaks”.

The Scottish actor said that accepting the role of host would be “the 12th biggest honour of my life”. He was required to take on the “Bafta’s oath” in which he was asked whether he would “swear that should someone’s speech go on for too long you will be willing to cut them off regardless of status?” to which he quickly quipped “I do”.

He was then asked: “Do you swear that none of your outfits will suffer a wardrobe with malfunction?”

“I do. I did the best of my ability. But you know, whatever pops out, pops out,” Cumming replied.

He also swore that he would not swear on-stage, but did not promise if he would avoid foul language off-stage. “On stage, I will have the vocabulary of a nun. Offstage that’d be more like a trucker,” he joked.

The Bafta TV Awards 2025 are being held at the Royal Festival Hall in London.

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