Apple TV+ scores 13 BAFTA Television Award nominations for celebrated hit series and specials “Slow Horses,” “Silo,” “Shrinking,” “Bad Sisters,” “Masters of the Air,” “Earthsounds” and “The Velveteen Rabbit”

Today, Apple TV+ landed 13 nominations for the 2025 BAFTA Television Awards across seven programs: “Slow Horses,” “Silo,” “Shrinking,” “Bad Sisters,” “Masters of the Air,” “Earthsounds” and “The Velveteen Rabbit.” Apple’s hit espionage drama “Slow Horses” earns six nominations total, including Leading Actor Gary Oldman, and Supporting Actors Jonathan Pryce and Christopher Chung, while “Shrinking” co-creator and executive producer Brett Goldstein earns a nomination for Writer: Comedy.

As one of this year’s most-nominated programs, “Slow Horses” is also recognized with BAFTA TV Award nominations for Editing: Fiction; Original Music: Fiction; and Sound: Fiction, alongside nominations for global hit series and specials including Special, Visual & Graphic Effects for world-building drama “Silo”; Original Music: Fiction for dark comedy “Bad Sisters”; Production Design and Special, Visual & Graphic Effects for World War II drama “Masters of the Air”; Sound: Factual for nature docuseries “Earthsounds”; and, Children’s Craft Team for family special “The Velveteen Rabbit.”

These nominations mark the latest recognition from the BAFTA Television Awards for Apple TV+, following four wins in 2024, including Editing: Fiction and Sound: Fiction for “Slow Horses,” and Production Design and Original Music for “Silo.” In 2023, “Bad Sisters” landed the Drama Series award alongside a Supporting Actress win for series star Anne-Marie Duff and Titles & Graphic Identity by Peter Anderson Studio. Celebrated limited series “The Essex Serpent” also landed Costume Design for first-time BAFTA winner Jane Petrie in 2023. In 2022, “9/11: Inside the President’s War Room” won Editing: Factual and “1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything” earned Sound: Factual.

The BAFTA Television Awards recognize the best British programs, performances and productions each year. The winners will be revealed in two ceremonies, including at the BAFTA Television Craft Awards on Sunday, April 27 and the BAFTA Television Awards on Sunday, May 11.

Apple TV+ earned 13 BAFTA Television Award nominations in total, including:

“Slow Horses”

• Leading Actor — Gary Oldman
• Supporting Actor — Jonathan Pryce
• Supporting Actor — Christopher Chung
• Editing: Fiction — Robert Frost
• Original Music: Fiction — Daniel Pemberton, Toy Drum
• Sound: Fiction — Andrew Sissons, Martin Jensen, Joe Beal, Alex Ellerington, Duncan Price, Abbie Shaw

“Shrinking”

• Writer: Comedy — Brett Goldstein

“Silo”

• Special, Visual & Graphic Effects — Daniel Rauchwerger, Raphael Hamm, Stefano Pepin, Richard Stanbury, Ian Fellows, Paul Bongiovanni

“Bad Sisters”

• Original Music: Fiction — Tim Phillips, PJ Harvey

“Masters of the Air”

• Production Design — Chris Seagers
• Special, Visual & Graphic Effects — Neil Corbould, Caimin Bourne, Stuart Heath, Glen Winchester

“Earthsounds”

• Sound: Factual

“The Velveteen Rabbit”

• Children’s Craft Team — Tom Bidwell, Jennifer Perrott, Rick Thiele, Sarah Brewerton, Anna Rackard, James Mather

“Slow Horses”

This darkly funny espionage drama follows a team of British intelligence agents who serve in a dumping ground department of MI5 due to their career-ending mistakes. Led by their brilliant but irascible leader, the notorious Jackson Lamb (Academy Award winner Gary Oldman), they navigate the espionage world’s smoke and mirrors to defend England from sinister forces.

“Shrinking”

“Shrinking” follows a grieving therapist who starts to break the rules and tell his clients exactly what he thinks. Ignoring his training and ethics, he finds himself making huge, tumultuous changes to people’s lives … including his own.

“Silo”

“Silo” is the story of the last ten thousand people on earth, their mile-deep home protecting them from the toxic and deadly world outside. However, no one knows when or why the silo was built and any who try to find out face fatal consequences. Rebecca Ferguson stars as Juliette, an engineer, who seeks answers about a loved one’s murder and tumbles onto a mystery that goes far deeper than she could have ever imagined, leading her to discover that if the lies don’t kill you, the truth will.

“Bad Sisters”

“Bad Sisters” season two returns to follow the lives of the Garvey sisters played by Sharon Horgan as Eva, Anne-Marie Duff as Grace, Eva Birthistle as Ursula, Sarah Greene as Bibi and Eve Hewson as Becka. Two years after the “accidental death” of Grace’s abusive husband, the close-knit Garvey sisters may have moved on, but when past truths resurface, the ladies are thrust back into the spotlight, suspicions are at an all-time high, lies are told, secrets revealed and the sisters are forced to work out who they can trust.

“Masters of the Air”

Based on Donald L. Miller’s book of the same name, and scripted by John Orloff, “Masters of the Air” follows the men of the 100th Bomb Group (the “Bloody Hundredth”) as they conduct perilous bombing raids over Nazi Germany and grapple with the frigid conditions, lack of oxygen and sheer terror of combat conducted at 25,000 feet in the air. Portraying the psychological and emotional price paid by these young men as they helped destroy the horror of Hitler’s Third Reich, is at the heart of “Masters of the Air.” Some were shot down and captured; some were wounded or killed. And some were lucky enough to make it home. Regardless of individual fate, a toll was exacted on them all.

“Earthsounds”

Immersive audio reveals the unexpected, unfamiliar and untold ways in which animals communicate around the world. Narrated by Tom Hiddleston.

“The Velveteen Rabbit”

Based on the treasured, classic children’s book by Margery Williams, “The Velveteen Rabbit” celebrates the magic of unconditional love. When 7-year-old William receives a new favorite toy for Christmas, he discovers a lifelong friend and unlocks a world of magic.

All programs are now streaming globally on Apple TV+.

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