TV Baftas 2009.

:: Actor: Stephen Dillane - The Shooting Of Thomas Hurndall
:: Actress: Anna Maxwell Martin - Poppy Shakespeare
:: Entertainment performance: Harry Hill - Harry Hill's TV Burp
:: Comedy performance: David Mitchell - Peep Show
:: Single drama: White Girl
:: Drama series: Wallander
:: Drama serial: Criminal Justice
:: Continuing drama: The Bill
:: International: Mad Men
:: Factual series: Amazon with Bruce Parry
:: Specialist factual: Life In Cold Blood
:: Single documentary: Chosen (True Stories)
:: Features: The Choir: Boys Don't Sing
:: Current affairs:Saving Africa's Witch Children (Dispatches)
:: News coverage: News At Ten - Chinese Earthquake
:: Sport: ITV1 - F1: Brazilian Grand Prix 2008
:: Interactivity: Embarrassing Bodies Online
:: Entertainment programme: X Factor
:: Comedy programme: Harry And Paul
:: Situation comedy: The IT Crowd
:: Philips Audience Award: Skins
:: Special Award: Jane Tranter
:: Academy Fellowship: Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders

Overall I'm semi satisfied. Stephen Fry didn't win anything sadly and was beaten by shagging tortoises (Life in Cold Blood) and the X Factor, ugh! That wasn't even the vote open to the public. They kept showing clips of that Alexandra Burke winning and she blubbed like some sort of madwoman. I'll always consider her evil for butchering Hallelujah anyway.

Go Mad Men! And The IT Crowd! And David Mitchell! They played Sex on Fire when he won. The producer likes him as much as I do. I wish Mitchell and Webb had beaten Harry and Paul so they could have been on stage together. The Outnumbered kids gave Harry and Paul the stink eye! There were some excellent nominees this year including The Inbetweeners which is receiving much more attention in it's second series.

The drama categories I really can't fault. Wallander was excellent (and it also meant you got to see Branagh a lot who brought John Sessions as his plus one which made me literally dqueal with delight.) I've also decided to marry Dawn French. She received the Fellowship award along with Saunders and Richard Curtis and Helen Mirren introducing them. Curtis said something about how they were loved by women young and old everywhere and I couldn't agree more. I love them both more than I should love a female comedy double act. Graeme Norton was a good, funny host but typically for an awards ceremony crowd, he didn't get the laughs he deserved. Neither did Michael McIntyre who was hysterical as usual. I'll try and dig up some pics when they go online.