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".