2026 Nominees

What It Feels Like For A Girl

Hera Pictures, BBC, ITV Studios

UK

- Limited Series

We have been blown away by the reception to What It Feels Like for a Girl. Created by Paris Lees and inspired by her memoir, the series has received 100% on Rotten Tomatoes and has been hailed as “a queer masterpiece” (Digital Spy), “fearless TV” (The Guardian), “one of the most pivotal LGBTQ+ dramas of the decade” (Time Out) and even “the rare type of show that will save lives” (Radio Times). Following Byron, a teenager desperate to break free from their suffocating small town in the early 2000s, the series marks a major landmark - the first time a trans writer has been able to tell her own story on British TV. The result is a grounded, joyful, defiantly working-class world portrayed with rare authenticity and cinematic scale. At its centre is Ellis Howard, delivering a breakout performance that is raw, funny and utterly devastating. Fearless, provocative and deeply human, What It Feels Like for a Girl leaves a lasting mark on the cultural landscape.