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"It&amp;#039;s that time of year when TV stars dig out their best suits and practice their best &amp;#039;loser&amp;#039;s smile face&amp;#039; - the TV BAFTAs are back. Graham Norton is our host for the evening, and stars from Last Tango In Halifax, Game of Thrones, Homeland and The Thick of It are among the talent competing for the main gongs.   Join us live from 8pm on Digital Spy when we&amp;#039;ll be live blogging the TV BAFTAs.  22:03Well, that&amp;#039;s just about it! Aside from quite an underwhelming performance from Graham Norton and a dodgy Tetris-esque stage, that was a throughly enjoyable evening if I may say so. Thanks for joining Digital Spy, and don&amp;#039;t forget to write below who you think deserved to win and who was robbed. Goodnight, all! 22:02And so to the annual tack-on bit at the end where some of the more boring credible people and programmes you&amp;#039;ve never heard of get their 3.5 seconds of airtime, as we whizz through awards like &amp;#039;Factual Series&amp;#039; and &amp;#039;Current Affairs&amp;#039;. Their mums must be SO disappointed.  21:58What a splendid (I think that&amp;#039;s the only apt word) way to end the evening. Congrats, Michael... 21:51A somewhat unnecessary shot of Andrew Castle there, I think we can all agree. 21:50Lovely tribute to Palin. And Terry Jones seems more emotional about the whole thing than the man himself... 21:47Blimey, Terry Jones is prised and persuaded out of hiding to present 2013&amp;#039;s BAFTA Fellowship to fellow ex-Python Michael Palin. 21:45She is as totally lovely as she seems, and she&amp;#039;s such a worthy winner. Although the amount of top telly she&amp;#039;s done over the past year, the nominees for &amp;#039;Leading Actress&amp;#039; could well have been Sheridan Smith, Sheridan Smith, Sheridan Smith and Sheridan Smith.  21:44Sheridan Smith totally drops the F-word! Boom, well done, lass! 21:44Rebecca Hall, Sheridan Smith, Anne Reid and Sienna Miller are up for &amp;#039;Leading Actress&amp;#039;. Even the smallest clip of Cumberbatch VT in Parade&amp;#039;s End sends the girls wild. Control yourselves, please! 21:42Graham says it&amp;#039;s the penultimate award. What he actually means is that it&amp;#039;s the penultimate award that BAFTA consider worthy of transmission. 21:40Crikey! In the biggest &amp;quot;eh?&amp;quot; of the evening, A&amp;amp;D miss out to Alan Carr, who also beats Graham Norton and Sarah Millican to the gong. He&amp;#039;s such a top bloke, though, I think it is very well deserved! Do you agree? 21:37Now it&amp;#039;s time for &amp;#039;Entertainment Performance&amp;#039;. Are we all in agreement that Ant &amp;amp; Dec are walking away with this one? 21:35Ben Whishaw, Toby Jones, Sean Bean (who actually looks better as a woman than as Sean Bean) and Derek Jacobi, who we can&amp;#039;t think will be winning many BAFTAs for Vicious, are nominated. Ben Whishaw - looking miiiighty fine - takes the award. Huzzah. He should probably have thanked Shakey in his speech for writing the show...  21:32&amp;#039;Leading Actor&amp;#039; is up next. Are you keeping up? Even you at the back? Good good. 21:32As BBC1 edges ever closer to 10pm, I can&amp;#039;t help but feel these awards are being edited and cut even closer together. Blink and you&amp;#039;ll miss &amp;#039;em. 21:30But the BAFTA goes to... All in the Best Possible Taste with Grayson Perry! I was a fan of it, so glad it won. And we get to see Grayson looking glam, so that&amp;#039;s a bonus. 21:29Crikey, I didn&amp;#039;t realise Sanjeev was bringing back The Kumars at No. 42. How very early noughties. But he&amp;#039;s here to present &amp;#039;Specialist Factual&amp;#039;, with All in the Best Possible Taste with Grayson Perry, The Secret History of Our Streets, The Plot to Bring Down Britain&amp;#039;s Planes and The Plane Crash nominated. What a cheery bunch!  21:26It&amp;#039;s the Radio Times Audience Award, with Call the Midwife, Game of Thrones, The Great British Bake Off, Homeland, *takes a breath* The Olympics and Strictly Come Dancing all nominated. The magazine&amp;#039;s columnist Sarah Millican is presenting the award, although I&amp;#039;m sure that&amp;#039;s just a coincidence. 21:20&amp;#039;Comedy Programme&amp;#039; sees Places of My Life, Mr Stink, Cardinal Burns and The Revolution Will be Televised - which takes the award! On a personal level, Places of My Life and Cardinal Burns are both a smidge better, although The Revolution was actually pretty decent. What do you make of the win? 21:18Right, if Matt Smith is leaving in the near future, I&amp;#039;d like to say now that Prof Brian Cox should be the 12th Doctor. So there. 21:16Ah, here&amp;#039;s The Smith and Jenna-Louise Coleman (now Jenna Coleman? Or something?). Although for about 20 seconds, was all the hype worth it? You decide... 21:13Doctor Who hasn&amp;#039;t actually been nominated in any categories tonight (boo!), but we do get a small morsel of Who action with this &amp;#039;special sketch&amp;#039;... Although so far it&amp;#039;s just a compilation. 21:12&amp;#039;Male Performance in a Comedy Programme&amp;#039; sees Steve Coogan, Greg Davies, Hugh Bonneville and Peter Capaldi. Amazingly, Steve Coogan trumps them all to take the BAFTA for Alan Partridge. Places of My Life was brilliant, but maybe not his best work... 21:11Romola Garai totally steals the show so far tonight with a joke about her vagina. It raises the biggest laugh, showing everyone loves a bit of smut.  21:09Gawd, how are we doing? Halfway through now... Remember not to drink too much. That&amp;#039;s not a message of responsible drinking, it&amp;#039;s more to do with the fact that this is a two-hour job with no ad breaks. 21:08And the BAFTA goes to... EastEnders! Could be down to Shane Richie&amp;#039;s acting. Although it&amp;#039;s more likely to be because their actors aren&amp;#039;t being investigated by Operation Yewtree... 21:06Now it&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Soap and Continuing Drama&amp;#039;. Shameless, Emmerdale, EastEnders and Coronation Street are vying for the gong. Er, who can we expect to be representing the latter tonight? Michael Le Vell, maybe? Or William Roache? Ahem, maybe not\u2026  21:04Is Olivia doing a Comedy Performance now? Was that all part of being given the award? Brilliant! 21:03And the BAFTA goes to... Olivia Colman. We can see a pattern here! She looks completely shellshocked as she goes up to the stage again. Seeing as she was seated about two rows from the front, she should have probably guessed she was going to win big tonight... 21:01If you put a safe bet on Brucie doing a weird tap/shuffle while walking onto the stage, then you&amp;#039;re quids in. 20:59Phew, we were wondering where Mezza Bezza was then. Lovely to see her and Hollywood reunited. Ahh.  20:58Hooray for Bake Off! Paul O&amp;#039;Grady is always good for a laugh, though, so a shame we don&amp;#039;t get to hear his speech. 20:57Wipe away a tear, and now it&amp;#039;s time for the &amp;#039;Features&amp;#039; BAFTA... The Great British Bake Off, Grand Designs, Bank of Dave and Paul O&amp;#039;Grady - For the Love of Dogs are nommed. 20:54Nowt funny to say here, just a moment to remember the likes of Richard Griffiths, Bill Tarmey, Geoffrey Hughes, Clive Dunn, Gerry Anderson et al. 20:51You&amp;#039;ve got to love a bit of Balding. What a ledge. 20:48Here&amp;#039;s the first of tonight&amp;#039;s Special Award things. Although after that Graham Norton Show clip, can we not give Miriam Margolyes a Special Award for being Miriam Margolyes?  20:47Lord Sugar clearly hates losing. Especially to this bunch. Can&amp;#039;t blame him really... 20:43Nominees are I&amp;#039;m a Celeb, Young Apprentice, Made in Chelsea and The Audience - the latter of which felt like an episode of Charlie Brooker&amp;#039;s Black Mirror that fell by the wayside. 20:42It&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Reality and Constructed Factual&amp;#039; up next. Let&amp;#039;s all breathe a collected sigh of relief that there&amp;#039;s not a whiff of TOWIE about. You&amp;#039;d definitely smell the fake tan through the TV if it had been, anyway. 20:41Good old Graham Norton beats Dynamo: Magician Impossible, A League of Their Own and Have I Got News for You to &amp;#039;Entertainment Programme&amp;#039;. Not hard to see why - personally speaking, it trumps Jo-Ro and Alan Carr in the evening chatshow slot. 20:39Although that award comes later! Now it&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Entertainment Programme&amp;#039;, not &amp;#039;Entertainment Performance&amp;#039;. Geez. There are about 27 of these gold heads to give away tonight, it&amp;#039;s hard to keep up... 20:37Graham has to do the whole Dermot O&amp;#039;Leary/NTA thing where he will (probably) inevitably lose to Ant &amp;amp; Dec while hosting the shindig. *bitchslap*... 20:35Thoroughly lovely and potty in equal measure, Olivia&amp;#039;s close to tears as she takes to the stage and delivers a breathy, Kate Winslet-style acceptance speech. Bless. 20:33Oop, here&amp;#039;s Olivia Colman again as she wins for &amp;#039;Supporting Actress&amp;#039; for her turn in Accused, which was flipping good. Also up for the award was Anastasia Hille, Imelda Staunton and Sarah Lancashire, but Olivia is corking, so again, right choice, I reckon. 20:31Who knew an acceptance speech for a comedy could be so lacking in laughs? Anyway, let&amp;#039;s just all be grateful that Mrs Brown&amp;#039;s Boys a) wasn&amp;#039;t nominated this year and b) didn&amp;#039;t win. Again.  20:30Is it fair to say Ant &amp;amp; Dec are national institutions? I reckon so. Anyway, they&amp;#039;ve introduced &amp;#039;Situation Comedy&amp;#039; (or &amp;#039;Sitcom&amp;#039; as all normal people say), with Episodes, Hunderby, The Thick of It and Twenty Twelve nominated. Twenty Twelve take the accolade, so we get to see Olivia Colman&amp;#039;s smiley face again. Meanwhile, Armando Iannucci looks a bit peeved with a shunny head-turn to camera. 20:25&amp;#039;Supporting Actor&amp;#039; is the next award. We really are rattling through. The nominees are Stephen Graham, Peter Capaldi, Harry Lloyd and Simon Russell Beale - who takes the BAFTA! I have to say at this point that Stephen and Peter were my winners there... What do you make of the winners so far tonight? 20:23Besides, who needs glitzy frocks, celebrities and Mary Berry when you&amp;#039;re in PJs, and have a Chicago Town for one and a bottle of \u00A33.99 plonk...? 20:22Ah, shucks. The winners so far are already a little bit all over Twitter, but I can assure you we&amp;#039;re spoiler-free here at the DS live BAFTA blog! And that&amp;#039;s not just because we&amp;#039;re sat at home due to our invite being, er, lost in the post\u2026 20:21Anyway, the &amp;#039;Sport and Live Event&amp;#039; award goes to The Paralympics. Again, very well-deserved! 20:20You&amp;#039;ve got to love televised awards. Where else would you get such strange pairings of presenters? 20:17Anne Reid, doing a great impression of David Walliams&amp;#039;s mum, says she&amp;#039;s pleased the BBC have decided to do a love story aimed at those over 35. Well deserved, I say!  20:16Up first is the award for &amp;#039;Drama Series&amp;#039;, introduced by Damian Lewis. Last Tango in Halifax takes the award, ahead of Ripper Street, Scott &amp;amp; Bailey and Silk. 20:12Bear in mind 2012&amp;#039;s BAFTA Fellowship went to Rolf Harris. Ahem. 20:10The line about cracking on before any nominees are detained seems less of a gag and more of a statement... 20:07Seven minutes in, and already roughly thirty shots of Olivia Colman. She&amp;#039;s bound to win at least one BAFTA, right? 20:06Here&amp;#039;s Graham Norton in a bow tie. There&amp;#039;s something you don&amp;#039;t see every day. Anyway, he&amp;#039;s doing a slightly watered-down comic turn as host, which so far is going down as well as Seth MacFarlane. 20:04The BAFTAs are thought of as the UK&amp;#039;s Oscars. Although the Oscars aren&amp;#039;t usually held in a freezing cold and p***ing rain with Hugo from Made in Chelsea gurning. 20:03Is that bouncer/doorman saying no to the Daleks going to be given a gong for &amp;#039;Most Awkward Performance&amp;#039;? 20:01The actual BAFTAs got underway about an hour ago, but frustratingly the Beeb have again decided that they haven&amp;#039;t got the wotsits big enough to go for a full-blown live transmission. Which is a shame all round, I say. But never mind, we&amp;#039;re here now... 19:59Good evening lovely Digital Spy readers, and welcome to our BAFTA TV Awards 2013 live blog! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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