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, 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	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'''

2010s

Best Drama Serial
'''Best Mini-Series'''

2020s

;Best Limited Drama

Year	Title	Recipient	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 Long Shadow	George Kay, Lewis Arnold, Matt Sandford, Sarah Lewis, Sacha Szwarc, Willow Grylls	ITV1
2025	Mr Bates vs The Post Office	Patrick Spence, James Strong, Gwyneth Hughes, Chris Clough, Natasha Bondy, Joe Williams	ITV1
2025	Baby Reindeer	Richard Gadd, Weronika Tofilska, Petra Fried, Matt Jarvis, Ed Macdonald, Matthew Mulot	Netflix
2025	One Day	Nicole Taylor, Molly Manners, Roanna Benn, Jude Liknaitzky, David Nicholls, Nige Watson	Netflix
2025	Lost Boys and Fairies	Rebekah Wray-Rogers, Jessica Brown Meek, Libby Durdy, Daf James, James Kent, Adam Knopf	BBC One

Note: The series that don't have recipients on the tables had Production team credited as recipients for the award or nomination.