Nominations
- Best Actor
- Stephen Dillane — The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall (Channel 4)
- Jason Isaacs — The Curse of Steptoe (BBC Four)
- Ken Stott — Hancock and Joan (BBC Four)
- Ben Whishaw — Criminal Justice (BBC One)
- Best Actress
- June Brown — EastEnders (BBC One)
- Anna Maxwell Martin — Poppy Shakespeare (Channel 4)
- Maxine Peake — Hancock and Joan (BBC One)
- Andrea Riseborough — Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley (BBC Four)
- Best Entertainment performance
- Stephen Fry — QI (BBC One/Two)
- Harry Hill — Harry Hill's TV Burp (ITV)
- Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly — I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! (ITV)
- Jonathan Ross — Friday Night with Jonathan Ross (BBC One)
- Best comedy performance
- Rob Brydon — Gavin and Stacey (BBC Three)
- Sharon Horgan — Pulling (BBC Three)
- David Mitchell — Peep Show (Channel 4)
- Claire Skinner — Outnumbered (BBC One)
- Best single drama
- Einstein and Eddington (BBC Two)
- Hancock and Joan (BBC Four)
- The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall (Channel 4)
- White Girl (BBC Two)
- Best drama serial
- Criminal Justice (BBC One)
- Dead Set (Channel 4)
- The Devil's Whore (Channel 4)
- House of Saddam (BBC Two)
- Best drama series
- Doctor Who (BBC One)
- Shameless (Channel 4)
- Spooks (BBC One)
- Wallander (BBC One)
- Best continuing drama
- The Bill (ITV)
- Casualty (BBC One)
- EastEnders (BBC One)
- Emmerdale (ITV)
- Best factual series
- Amazon with Bruce Parry (BBC Two)
- Blood, Sweat and T-shirts (BBC Three)
- The Family (Channel 4)
- Ross Kemp in Afghanistan (Sky One)
- Best entertainment programme
- The Friday/Sunday Night Project (Channel 4)
- Harry Hill's TV Burp (ITV)
- QI (BBC One/Two)
- The X Factor (ITV)
- Best situation comedy
- The Inbetweeners (Channel 4)
- The IT Crowd (Channel 4)
- Outnumbered (BBC One)
- Peep Show (Channel 4)
- Best comedy programme
- Harry and Paul (BBC One)
- The Peter Serafinowicz Show (BBC Two)
- Star Stories (Channel 4)
- That Mitchell and Webb Look (BBC Two)
- Best single documentary
- A Boy Called Alex (Channel 4)
- Chosen (Channel 4)
- The Fallen (BBC Two)
- Thriller in Manila (More4)
- Best feature
- The Apprentice (BBC One)
- Celebrity Masterchef (BBC One)
- The Choir: Boys Don't Sing (BBC Two)
- Top Gear (BBC Two)
- Best international show
- The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (Comedy Central/More4)
- Dexter (Showtime/ITV)
- Mad Men (AMC/BBC Four)
- The Wire (HBO/FX)
- Best specialist factual
- Life in Cold Blood (BBC One)
- Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery (BBC Four)
- Lost Land of the Jaguar (BBC One)
- Stephen Fry and the Gutenberg Press: The Machine That Made Us (BBC Four)
- Best current affairs
- Dispatches — Mum Loves Drugs, Not Me (Channel 4)
- Dispatches — Saving Africa's Witch Children (Channel 4)
- Panorama — Omagh: What the Police Were Never Told (BBC One)
- Ross Kemp: A Kenya Special (Sky One)
- Best news coverage
- Channel 4 News (ITN for Channel 4)
- News at Ten — 2008 Sichuan earthquake (ITN for ITV)
- Sky News — Canoe Man (Sky News)
- Sky News — 2008 Mumbai attacks (Sky News)
- Best sport
- Cheltenham Gold Cup — Denman vs Kauto Star (Channel 4)
- ITV F1 — 2008 Brazilian Grand Prix (ITV)
- 2008 Summer Olympic Games — (BBC One)
- Wimbledon — The Men's Final (BBC One)
- Best interactivity
- Embarrassing Bodies Online (Channel 4)
- Bryony Makes a Zombie Movie (BBC Three)
- Merlin (BBC One)
- 2008 Summer Olympic Games (BBC One)
- Phillips Audience Award
- Skins (E4)
- The Apprentice (BBC One)
- Coronation Street (ITV)
- Outnumbered (BBC One)
- Wallander (BBC One)
- The X Factor (ITV)
- BAFTA Fellowship
- Dawn French & Jennifer Saunders
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