The British television industry gathered Sunday night for the 2026 BAFTA TV Awards at the Royal Festival Hall in London.

The ceremony featured two competitive categories dedicated to children’s programming: one for scripted content and the other for factual content. 

The scripted prize went to Crongton (10 x 25 minutes), a live-action teen dramedy on BBC iPlayer dealing with the lives of youngsters raised in a vibrant housing estate. Based on the books by Alex Wheatle, the series explores themes like peer pressure, gang culture, class and community. The show is produced by New Pictures and All3Media International and it’s been picked up by buyers including ABC Australia, Amazon in the US and various IFE platforms including Virgin.

The non-scripted honor went to Fresh Start Media and Sky News’ World.War.Me (Sky Kids Investigates). The documentary special (22 minutes) sheds light on children whose lives have been affected by armed conflict and is presented by 16-year-old refugee Bana Alabed, who won the 2025 International Children’s Peace Prize.

World.War.Me (Sky Kids Investigates)

This main BAFTA TV ceremony follows a couple of weeks after the TV Craft Awards ceremony—which took place on April 26 and saw the Children’s Craft win go to the team behind Sky Kids’ The Very Small Creatures (Lucy Izzard, Andrew Mitchell, Fernando Lechuga, Jean-Marc Petsas, Owen Peters and Bronwen Slater).

These children’s categories were folded into the main BAFTA awards ceremony last year after the standalone British Academy Children’s Awards program was shuttered in 2022.

The limited series Adolescence also broke the record for most BAFTA TV wins in a single year with four awards. Although it’s not a program for kids, the show’s message about toxic masculinity among children has been influential in inspiring studios to portray positive examples of masculinity for boys.