# British Academy Television Award for Best Mini-Series

The British Academy Television Award for Best Mini-Series is one of the major categories of the British Academy Television Awards (BAFTAs), the primary awards ceremony of the British television industry. The category is described by the BAFTA website as being for "a drama series, between two and 19 episodes, that tells a complete story and is not intended to return".
The category has been awarded since 2012, prior to that a similar category was awarded named Best Drama Serial, which was presented with the Best Drama Series category under the name Best Drama Series or Serial from 1970 to 1991 and as a separate category from 1992 to 2011. In 2024, the category was merged with the Best Single Drama award into one category titled Best Limited Drama.

## Winners and nominees
### 1990s

Best Drama Serial
| Year | Title | Recipient(s) | Broadcaster |
| 1992 | Prime Suspect | Lynda La Plante, Don Leaver, Christopher Menaul | ITV |
| 1992 | Clarissa | Kevin Loader, Robert Bierman, Janet Barron, David Nokes | BBC |
| 1992 | Coronation Street | Mervyn Watson | ITV |
| 1992 | GBH | David Jones, Alan Bleasdale, Robert Young | Channel 4 |
| 1993 | Anglo-Saxon Attitudes | Andrew Brown, Diarmuid Lawrence, Andrew Davies | ITV |
| 1993 | The Camomile Lawn | Sophie Balhetchet, Glenn Wilhide, Peter Hall, Ken Taylor | Channel 4 |
| 1993 | Prime Suspect 2 | Paul Marcus, John Strickland, Allan Cubitt | ITV |
| 1993 | Goodbye Cruel World | David Snodin, Adrian Shergold, Tony Marchant | BBC Two |
| 1994 | Prime Suspect 3 | Paul Marcus, David Drury, Lynda La Plante | ITV |
| 1994 | Body and Soul | Jacky Stoller, Moira Armstrong, Paul Hines, Jill Hyem | ITV |
| 1994 | The Buddha of Suburbia | Kevin Loader, Roger Michell, Hanif Kureishi | BBC Two |
| 1994 | Mr Wroe's Virgins | John Chapman, Danny Boyle, Jane Rogers | BBC |
| 1995 | Takin' Over the Asylum | Chris Parr, David Blair, Donna Franceschild | BBC Two |
| 1995 | Coronation Street | Sue Pritchard | ITV |
| 1995 | Family | Andrew Eaton, Michael Winterbottom, Roddy Doyle | BBC One |
| 1995 | Middlemarch | Louis Marks, Anthony Page, Andrew Davies | BBC Two |
| 1996 | The Politician's Wife | Jenny Edwards, Jeanna Polley, Neal Weisman, Graham Theakston, Paula Milne | Channel 4 |
| 1996 | Band of Gold | Tony Dennis, Richard Standeven, Kay Mellor | ITV |
| 1996 | The Hanging Gale | Jonathan Cavendish, Diarmuid Lawrence, Allan Cubitt | BBC One |
| 1996 | Pride and Prejudice | Sue Birtwistle, Simon Langton, Andrew Davies | BBC One |
| 1997 | Our Friends in the North | Charles Pattinson, Pedr James, Simon Cellan Jones, Stuart Urban, Peter Flannery | BBC Two |
| 1997 | The Crow Road | Bradley Adams, Gavin Millar, Bryan Elsley | BBC Scotland |
| 1997 | The Fragile Heart | Brian Eastman, Patrick Lau, Paula Milne | Channel 4 |
| 1997 | Gulliver's Travels | Duncan Kenworthy, Charles Sturridge, Simon Moore | Channel 4 |
| 1998 | Holding On | David Snodin, Adrian Shergold, Tony Marchant | BBC Two |
| 1998 | This Life | Jane Fallon | BBC Two |
| 1998 | The Lakes | Charles Pattinson, David Blair, Jimmy McGovern | BBC One |
| 1998 | The Woman in White | Gareth Neame, Tim Fywell, David Pirie | BBC One |
| 1999 | Our Mutual Friend | Catherine Wearing, Julian Farino, Sandy Welch | BBC Two |
| 1999 | Amongst Women | Jonathan Curling, Colin Tucker, Tom Cairns, Adrian Hodges | BBC |
| 1999 | A Respectable Trade | Ruth Baumgarten, Suri Krishnamma, Philippa Gregory | BBC |
| 1999 | Vanity Fair | Gillian McNeill, Marc Munden, Andrew Davies | BBC |

### 2000s

Best Drama Serial
| Year | Title | Recipient(s) | Broadcaster |
| 2000 | Warriors | Nigel Stafford-Clark, Peter Kosminsky, Leigh Jackson | BBC One |
| 2000 | Births, Marriages and Deaths | Greg Brenman, Adrian Shergold, Tony Grounds | BBC Two |
| 2000 | Kid in the Corner | Kate Anthony, Billie Eltringham, Tony Marchant | Channel 4 |
| 2000 | Wives and Daughters | Sue Birtwistle, Nicholas Renton, Andrew Davies | BBC One |
| 2001 | Longitude | Charles Sturridge, Selwyn Roberts | Channel 4 |
| 2001 | Nature Boy | Catherine Wearing, Joe Wright, Bryan Elsley | BBC Two |
| 2001 | Never Never | Lynn Horsford, Julian Jarrold, Tony Marchant | Channel 4 |
| 2001 | This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper | Mike Dormer, David Richards, Neil McKay | ITV |
| 2002 | The Way We Live Now | Nigel Stafford-Clark, David Yates, Andrew Davies | BBC One |
| 2002 | Perfect Strangers | John Chapman, Stephen Poliakoff | BBC Two |
| 2002 | Bob and Rose | Anne Harrison-Baxter, Julian Farino, Joe Wright, Russell T Davies | ITV |
| 2002 | The Russian Bride | Eileen Quinn, Nicholas Renton, Guy Hibbert | ITV |
| 2003 | Shackleton | Selwyn Roberts, Charles Sturridge | Channel 4 |
| 2003 | Auf Wiedersehen, Pet | Paul Seed, Dick Clement, Ian La Frenais, Joy Spink | BBC One |
| 2003 | Dr Zhivago | Ann Pivcevic, Giacamo Campiotti, Andrew Davies | ITV |
| 2003 | Murder | Rebecca DeSouza, Beeban Kidron, Abi Morgan | BBC Two |
| 2004 | Charles II: The Power and the Passion | Kate Harwood, Adrian Hodges, Joe Wright | BBC One |
| 2004 | Prime Suspect | David Boulter, Peter Berry, Tom Hooper | ITV |
| 2004 | The Second Coming | Ann Harrison-Baxter, Adrian Shergold, Russell T Davies | ITV |
| 2004 | State of Play | David Yates, Hilary Bevan Jones, Paul Abbott | BBC One |
| 2005 | Sex Traffic | Derek Wax, David Yates, Abi Morgan | Channel 4 |
| 2005 | Blackpool | Kate Lewis, Julie-Anne Robinson, Peter Bowker | BBC One |
| 2005 | The Long Firm | Liza Marshall, Billie Eltringham, Joe Penhall | BBC Two |
| 2005 | Outlaws | Outlaws | BBC Three |
| 2006 | Bleak House | Nigel Stafford-Clark, Justin Chadwick, Susanna White, Andrew Davies | BBC One |
| 2006 | Funland | Sanne Wohlenberg, Jeremy Dyson, Simon Ashdown, Kenton Allen | BBC Three |
| 2006 | Fingersmith | Sally Head, Georgina Lowe, Aisling Walsh, Peter Ransley | BBC One |
| 2006 | To the Ends of the Earth | Lynn Horsford, David Attwood, Tony Basgallop, Leigh Jackson | BBC Two |
| 2007 | See No Evil: The Moors Murders | Lisa Gilchrist, Neil McKay, Jeff Pope, Chris Menaul | ITV |
| 2007 | Low Winter Sun | Greg Brenman, Adrian Shergold, Simon Donald, Rhonda Smith | Channel 4 |
| 2007 | The Virgin Queen | Coky Giedroyc, Paula Milne, Paul Rutman | BBC One |
| 2007 | Prime Suspect: The Final Act | Andrew Benson, Philip Martin, Frank Deasy, Andy Harries | ITV |
| 2008 | Britz | Peter Kosminsky, David Aukin, Hal Vogel, Steve Clark-Hall | Channel 4 |
| 2008 | Cranford | Sue Birtwistle, Simon Curtis, Heidi Thomas | BBC One |
| 2008 | Five Days | Paul Rutman, Otto Bathurst, Simon Curtis, Gwyneth Hughes | BBC One |
| 2008 | Murphy's Law | Greg Brenman, Stephen Smallwood, Russell Lewis, Colm McCarthy | BBC One |
| 2009 | Criminal Justice | Pier Wilkie, Otto Bathurst, Peter Moffat | BBC One |
| 2009 | Dead Set | Charlie Brooker, Annabel Jones, Yann Demange | Channel 4 |
| 2009 | The Devil's Whore | Peter Flannery, Martine Brant, Marc Munden, Jake Lushington | Channel 4 |
| 2009 | House of Saddam | Steven Lightfoot, Alex Holmes, Stephen Butchard | BBC Two |

### 2010s

Best Drama Serial
| Year | Title | Recipient(s) | Broadcaster |
| 2010 | Occupation | Peter Bowker, Derek Wax, Nick Murphy, Laurie Borg | BBC One |
| 2010 | Red Riding | Red Riding | Channel 4 |
| 2010 | Small Island | Paula Milne, Alison Owen, Vicky Licorish, John Alexander | BBC One |
| 2010 | Unforgiven | Sally Wainwright, Nicola Schindler, Karen Lewis, David Lewis | ITV |
| 2011 | Any Human Heart | Lynn Horsford, Lee Morris, Sally Woodward Gentle, Michael Samuels | Channel 4 |
| 2011 | Mad Dogs | Cris Cole, Andy Harries, Suzanne Mackie, Adrian Shergold | Sky1 |
| 2011 | The Sinking of the Laconia | Alan Bleasdale, Jonathan Young, Uwe Janson, Hilary Norrish | BBC Two |
| 2011 | The Promise | Peter Kosminsky, David Aukin, Hal Vogel | Channel 4 |
Best Mini-Series
| Year | Title | Recipient(s) | Broadcaster |
| 2012 | This Is England '88 | Mark Herbert, Shane Meadows, Jack Thorne, Rebekah Wray-Rogers | Channel 4 |
| 2012 | Appropriate Adult | Lisa Gilchrist, Julian Jarrold, Neil McKay, Jeff Pope | ITV |
| 2012 | The Crimson Petal and the White | Lucinda Coxon, Steve Lightfoot, Marc Munden, David M Thompson | BBC Two |
| 2012 | Top Boy | Ronan Bennett, Yann Demange, Alasdair Flind, Charles Steel | Channel 4 |
| 2013 | Room at the Top | Aisling Walsh, Amanda Coe, Paul Frift, Kate Triggs | BBC Four |
| 2013 | Accused | Sita Williams, Roxy Spencer, Jimmy McGovern, Ashley Pearce | BBC One |
| 2013 | Mrs Biggs | Jeff Pope, Kwadjo Dajan, Paul Whittington | ITV |
| 2013 | Parade’s End | Selwyn Roberts, Tom Stoppard, Susanna White, David Parfitt | BBC Two |
| 2014 | In the Flesh | Hilary Martin, Ann Harrison-Baxter, Dominic Mitchell, Jonny Campbell | BBC Three |
| 2014 | The Fall | Allan Cubitt, Jakob Verbruggen, Julian Stevens, Gub Neal | BBC Two |
| 2014 | Southcliffe | Tony Grisoni, Sean Durkin, Peter Carlton, Derrin Schlesinger | Channel 4 |
| 2014 | The Great Train Robbery | The Great Train Robbery | BBC One |
| 2015 | The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies | Gareth Neame, Peter Morgan, Roger Michell, Kevin Loader | ITV |
| 2015 | Our World War | Our World War | BBC Three |
| 2015 | Cilla | Jeff Pope, Paul Whittington, Kwadjo Dajan, Robert Willis | ITV |
| 2015 | Prey | Chris Lunt, Nicola Shindler, Tom Sherry, Nick Murphy | ITV |
| 2016 | This Is England '90 | Shane Meadows, Mark Herbert, Jack Thorne, Rebekah Wray-Rogers | Channel 4 |
| 2016 | Doctor Foster | Mike Bartlett, Tom Vaughan, Roanna Benn, Jude Liknaitzky | BBC One |
| 2016 | The Enfield Haunting | Kristoffer Nyholm, Joshua St Johnston, Adrian Sturges, Jamie Campbell | Sky Living |
| 2016 | London Spy | Juliette Howell, Tom Rob Smith, Guy Heeley, Jakob Verbruggen | BBC Two |
| 2017 | National Treasure | George Ormond, Marc Munden, Jack Thorne, John Chapman | Channel 4 |
| 2017 | The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses | Dominic Cooke, Rupert Ryle-Hodges, Pippa Harris, Sam Mendes | BBC Two |
| 2017 | The Witness for the Prosecution | The Witness for the Prosecution | BBC One |
| 2017 | The Secret | Mark Redhead, Nick Murphy, Jonathan Curling, Stuart Urban | ITV |
| 2018 | Three Girls | Nicole Taylor, Philippa Lowthorpe, Susan Hogg, Simon Lewis | BBC One |
| 2018 | Howards End | Kenneth Lonergan, Hettie Macdonald, Laura Hastings-Smith, Sophie Gardiner | BBC One |
| 2018 | The Moorside | Neil McKay, Paul Whittington, Ken Horn, Jeff Pope | BBC One |
| 2018 | The State | Peter Kosminsky, Steve Clark-Hall, Liza Marshall, Kris Thykier | Channel 4 |
| 2019 | Patrick Melrose | Michael Jackson, Rachael Horovitz, Edward Berger, David Nicholls | Sky Atlantic |
| 2019 | A Very English Scandal | Russell T. Davies, Stephen Frears, Dominic Treadwell-Collins, Dan Winch | BBC One |
| 2019 | Mrs Wilson | Ruth Kenley-Letts, Richard Laxton, Anna Symon, Ruth Wilson | BBC One |
| 2019 | Kiri | Jack Thorne, George Ormond, Toby Bentley, Euros Lyn | Channel 4 |

### 2020s

| Year | Title | Recipient(s) | Broadcaster |
| 2020 | Chernobyl | Chernobyl | Sky Atlantic |
| 2020 | A Confession | Jeff Pope, Paul Andrew Williams, Tom Dunbar, Johnny Capps | ITV |
| 2020 | The Victim | Rob Williams, Niall MacCormick, Sarah Brown, Jenny Frayn | BBC One |
| 2020 | The Virtues | Shane Meadows, Jack Thorne, Mark Herbert, Nickie Sault | Channel 4 |
| 2021 | I May Destroy You | I May Destroy You | BBC One |
| 2021 | Adult Material | Lucy Kirkwood, Dawn Shadforth, Sara Hamill, Patrick Spence | Channel 4 |
| 2021 | Small Axe | Steve McQueen, Tracey Scoffield, David Tanner, Michael Elliott, Anita Overland | BBC One |
| 2021 | Normal People | Lenny Abrahamson, Sally Rooney, Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe, Emma Norton, Catherine Magee | BBC Three |
| 2022 | Time | Time | BBC One |
| 2022 | It's a Sin | Russell T Davies, Nicola Shindler, Peter Hoar, Phil Collinson | Channel 4 |
| 2022 | Landscapers | Will Sharpe, Ed Sinclair, Katie Carpenter, Olivia Colman, Jane Featherstone, Chris Fry | Sky Atlantic |
| 2022 | Stephen | Mark Redhead, Madonna Baptiste, Alrick Riley, Frank Cottrell Boyce, Joe Cottrell Boyce, Jessica Sharkey | ITV |
| 2023 | Mood | Nicôle Lecky, Margery Bone, Lisa Walters, Dawn Shadforth, Stroma Cairns | BBC Three |
| 2023 | A Spy Among Friends | Alexander Cary, Nick Murphy, Chrissy Skinns, Patrick Spence, Damian Lewis | ITVX |
| 2023 | This Is Going to Hurt | Adam Kay, Jane Featherstone, Naomi de Pear, James Farrell, Holly Pullinger, Lucy Forbes | BBC One |
| 2023 | The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe | David Nath, Richard Laxton, Chris Lang, Alison Sterling | ITV |

#### Best Limited Drama

| Year | Title | Recipient(s) | Broadcaster |
| 2024 | The Sixth Commandment | Derek Wax, Brian Woods, Sarah Phelps, Saul Dibb, Frances du Pille | BBC One |
| 2024 | Best Interests | Toby Bentley, Jenny Frayn, Sophie Gardiner, Michael Keillor, Jack Thorne | BBC One |
| 2024 | Black Mirror: "Demon 79" | Charlie Brooker, Richard Webb, Jessica Rhoades, Bisha K. Ali, Annabel Jones, Toby Haynes | Netflix |
| 2024 | The Last Shadow | George Kay, Lewis Arnold, Matt Sandford, Sarah Lewis, Sacha Szwarc, Willow Grylls | ITV1 |
* Note: The series that don't have recipients on the tables had Production team credited as recipients for the award or nomination.