Amandaland has won Scripted Comedy at the BAFTA Television Awards 2026, giving BBC One’s Motherland spin-off a major win just days after its second series arrived. The sitcom beat Big Boys, How Are You? It’s Alan (Partridge) and Things You Should Have Done to take the award.
Created by Holly Walsh, Amandaland follows Amanda, played by Lucy Punch, after her divorce forces her to swap Chiswick status for life in South Harlesden, or “SoHa”. The spin-off sees Amanda rebuilding her world while raising teenagers Georgie and Manus, maintaining her social image and keeping her “Senuous” brand alive. The series also stars Joanna Lumley as Amanda’s mother Felicity and Philippa Dunne as Anne.
The win comes in the same week that Amandaland returned for series two, which began airing on BBC One on 6 May. The new series picks up with Amanda still in SoHa, a little more settled but, as Lucy Punch has put it, still doing everything she can to “elevate” her social standing and circumstances, and “just as delusional about herself as ever”. Her personal brand, parenting pressures and “co-lab” role at Kitchen’s Bathrooms and Kitchens continue to collide in suitably ridiculous fashion.
For CultureCues, this feels like a very Amanda kind of victory: gloriously self-important, very deserved and exactly the kind of thing she would somehow claim was part of the plan all along.
Amandaland is available now on BBC iPlayer.
Nikki Murray is a UK-based writer, screenwriter and founder & editor of CultureCues, covering film, television, music and pop culture. Her work focuses on storytelling and the moments shaping modern entertainment.