Baby Reindeer, Rivals and Slow Horses all win multiple gongs

The streamers had a strong showing at the Bafta TV Craft Awards, with Netflix’s Baby Reindeer, Disney+’s Rivals and Apple TV+’s Slow Horses winning two gongs apiece.

The ceremony, which took place at The Brewery in London and is a precursor to the main awards next month, celebrated the achievements of behind-the-scenes television talent.

Baby Reindeer writer and star Richard Gadd won the prize for writer – drama category, while the Netflix hit also landed a gong for Weronika Tofilska for director – fiction.

Baby Reindeer has led this year’s nominations across Craft and the Television awards with eight nods in total.

Elsewhere, Jill Sweeney, Abi Brotherton, Natalie Allan, Tifanny Pierre, Franziska Roesslhuber and Martine Watkins won the make-up and hair category for their work on Disney+ UK original Rivals, while Dominic Hyman won for production design on the Happy Prince-produced series.

Apple TV+’s Slow Horses was honoured in the sound – fiction category for the work by Andrew Sissons, Martin Jensen, Joe Beal, Alex Ellerington, Duncan Price and Abbie Shaw, while Robert Frost was awarded the fiction editing gong for the See-Saw Films returner.

Lucia Keskin writer and star of BBC3 comedy Things You Should Have Done won the emerging talent prize for fiction and director of photography Jaber Badwan won the factual equivalent for his work on Channel 4’s Dispatches episode Kill Zone: Inside Gaza.

Other first-time winners included Noor Khaleghi in original music – factual for Rage Against the Regime: Iran (BBC), Sarah Keeling for editing – factual for Life and Death in Gaza (BBC Storyville) and Tim Phillips and PJ Harvey for Apple TV+’s Bad Sisters in original music – fiction.

Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton scooped the comedy writer Bafta for their work on recently-ended BBC2 smash Inside No.9, having previously won the prize in 2018.

The corporation was also successful in the director – multi-camera category, with Janet Fraser Crook securing the Bafta for the BBC’s coverage of Glastonbury 2024.

Anita Dobson presented the Television Craft special Award to EastEnders, announced prior to the ceremony.

Kate Oates, head of drama production at BBC Studios and exec producer Ben Wadey were presented with the award, with EastEnders having just celebrated 40 years on screen. The gong honoured the show’s long-term commitment to nurturing new talent through the production process.

This year’s Bafta Television Craft Awards were hosted by Stacey Dooley.

The full winners list can be found here.

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