This year's Bafta TV awards have taken place, and Armando Iannucci's 'The Thick Of It' has taken three awards.

The show's Peter Capaldi took Best Male Comedy Performance for his role as the foul-mouthed spin doctor Malcolm Tucker, while Rebecca Front, who plays MP Nicola Murray, was awarded the Best Female Comedy Performance gong, and the programme was also named Best Sitcom. Accepting the latter award, Iannucci thanked Lib Dem Nick Clegg, for allying with the Tories and therefore "completely destroying our plans for the next series".

Other winners on the night included Kenneth Branagh and Julie Walters, who took the Best Actor and Best Actress awards, and Matthew McFadyen and Rebecca Hall, who triumphed in the supporting actor categories. Ant and Dec beat off competition in the Best Entertainment Performance category from Stephen Fry ('QI'), Harry Hill ('TV Burp'), and Michael McIntyre (with his 'Comedy Roadshow') to take their first ever Bafta for 'I'm A Celebrity'.

'Britain's Got Talent' took the Best Entertainment Programme award, 'The Armstrong and Miller Show' picked up the 'Best Comedy Programme' gong (controversial to my mind, given that Mitchell and Webb and Stewart Lee were also nominated and A&M's current TV venture is decidedly mediocre, but what do I know?) and 'EastEnders' won in the soap, aka 'Continuing Drama' category.

Elsewhere, ITV's 'News at Ten' was rewarded for their coverage of the Haiti earthquake, the Best Current Affairs award went to Dispatches' 'Terror In Mumbai', and the documentary gong was given to BBC1 programme 'Wounded'. A Bafta Fellowship was bestowed on Melvyn Bragg, and a Special Award was given to Simon Cowell, for his services to popular TV crap. Oh, sorry, no. For "reinventing Saturday night entertainment".

The nominations for this year's TV Baftas have been announced, and amongst those to get a nod is John Hurt, who has been singled out for reprising the role of Quentin Crisp in 2009 made-for-TV film 'An Englishman in New York'. The actor, who won a Bafta when he first played Crisp, in 1976's 'The Naked Civil Servant', will go up against Kenneth Branagh, Brendon Gleeson and David Oyelowo.

Other nominees include Julie Walters, Harry Hill, David Mitchell, Miranda Hart and Sophie Okonedo, all of whom are nominated twice each. Walters gets two mentions in the Best Actress category, for her appearances in 'Mo', and 'A Short Stay In Switzerland'. Hill, who has won Best Entertainment Performance for the last two years for 'TV Burp' has been nominated again in the same category, this year up against Michael McIntyre for his 'Comedy Roadshow', Stephen Fry for 'QI', and Ant and Dec for 'I'm A Celebrity'.

Armando Iannucci's 'The Thick Of It' has garnered three nominations. Rebecca Front is nominated in the Best Female Comedy Performance category for her role as MP Nicola Murray, Peter Capaldi is up for Best Male Comedy Performance for his turn as Malcolm Tucker, and the show is also up for the sitcom gong.

The winners will be announced on 6 Jun.

Bafta has said that a blunder in the first round of voting for this year's TV awards was the result of human error. The mistake meant that a number of eligible TV programmes were left off lists opened to the academy's members on Tuesday for the initial ballot to decide nominees. The organisation have not confirmed which shows they were, but reports claim that Derren Brown's 'The Events' and 'Alan Carr - Chatty Man' were amongst them.

A spokeswoman for Bafta said: "Bafta operates an online voting system across all its awards. Upon the first round of voting for the television awards opening to the membership on Tuesday, a number of omissions were spotted. The lists were immediately investigated, a human error discovered and amendments made online that afternoon".

She added that only seven percent of members had voted before the mistake was noticed, and that they had been asked to resubmit their votes. "By doing so Bafta is satisfied that the entries originally omitted have been presented fairly to every voter in this first round" the spokeswoman continued. "Neither the integrity of the voting process, nor the chances of any entrant, have been affected in any way as a result of this error".