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Stars gear up for Bafta ceremony Victoria Wood scoops Bafta double
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Victoria Wood and Jim Broadbent are among the stars expected to attend the British Academy Television Awards ceremony in central London. Victoria Wood, Ricky Gervais and The X Factor have been crowned winners of some of the top prizes at this year's Bafta TV Awards in London.
Wood gained a record 12th nomination for her role in drama Housewife, 49. Broadbent is up for best actor, along with his Longford co-star Andy Serkis. Wood's performance in ITV wartime drama Housewife, 49 picked up two awards - best actress and best single drama.
Writer Richard Curtis, who created the BBC comedy The Vicar Of Dibley, will receive the Academy Fellowship award. She now has a total of seven Baftas - as has Gervais, who beat his Extras co-star Stephen Merchant to the trophy for best comedy performance.
The ceremony will be broadcast on BBC One at 2000 BST on Sunday. And The X Factor won best entertainment programme for the second year in a row.
'Humour and imagination' There were some surprises at the ceremony at the London Palladium, including Casualty's victory in the best continuing drama category.
"Richard Curtis is a hero for many people in the UK television and film sectors," said Bafta TV committee chair Peter Salmon. The BBC One hospital drama beat soaps Emmerdale, EastEnders and Coronation Street.
Life on Mars lost out on the drama series award to Jimmy McGovern's powerful The Street, starring Timothy Spall and Jim Broadbent.
Broadbent also beat Life on Mars star John Simm to the award for best actor.
MAIN BAFTA TV WINNERS Best actor - Jim Broadbent, LongfordBest actress - Victoria Wood, Housewife, 49Best entertainment performance - Jonathan RossBest entertainment programme - The X FactorBest comedy performance - Ricky GervaisBest continuing drama - Casualty Full list of winners Broadbent won for his role in Longford, about Lord Longford's campaign to have Moors murderer Myra Hindley released from prison.
He triumphed over his co-star Andy Serkis - who played Ian Brady in the film - as well as Michael Sheen, who portrayed the late Kenneth Williams in Fantabulosa!
Samantha Morton, who portrayed Hindley in Longford, was up for best actress, as were Anne-Marie Duff for The Virgin Queen and Ruth Wilson for Jane Eyre.
But they could not beat Victoria Wood, who adapted and starred in the acclaimed drama about the diaries of a frustrated Cumbrian housewife.
Accepting the awards, she said: "I didn't bring any jokes because I wasn't expecting to get either of them."
Joan Rivers enlivened proceedings when she let off a tongue-in-cheek tirade at the nominees for best comedy performance as she presented the award.
The winner, Ricky Gervais, did not turn up because he is filming in the US - leading Rivers to call his losing co-star Stephen Merchant to accept it on his behalf.
"He could have mentioned this before," Merchant said. "Talk about rubbing salt into the wound.
Barbara Windsor arrived with her husband Scott Mitchell "I'm sure he would like me to say I've been robbed, and I would agree. And it's not like he hasn't got enough already."
Jonathan Ross was another absentee despite winning best entertainment performance.
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross triumphed over Ant & Dec for Saturday Night Takeaway, Stephen Fry for QI and Paul Merton for Have I Got News For You?
Elsewhere, Dame Helen Mirren's final Prime Suspect was nominated for best drama serial - but was beaten by another fictionalisation of the Moors murders, ITV's See No Evil.
The Royle Family's one-off return was named best situation comedy, beating Green Wing, The IT Crowd and Pulling.
The trophy for comedy programme or series went to That Mitchell and Webb Look, which was up against The Catherine Tate Show, Little Britain Abroad and Little Miss Jocelyn.
Graham Norton hosted the ceremony at the London PalladiumIn other categories, Sky One's Ross Kemp on Gangs was named best factual series and BBC Two's The Choir beat The Apprentice, Dragon's Den and The F Word to the features award.
Only one award was voted for by the public - the audience award - which provided Life on Mars with its only win of the night.
The Vicar of Dibley and Notting Hill writer Richard Curtis received the Academy Fellowship award.
"Richard Curtis is a hero for many people in the UK television and film sectors," Bafta TV committee chair Peter Salmon said.
"He combines humanity and hard work, humour and imagination to create some of the best-loved brands and programmes of modern times."He combines humanity and hard work, humour and imagination to create some of the best-loved brands and programmes of modern times.
"He more than deserves the highest accolade the Academy can give.""He more than deserves the highest accolade the Academy can give."
In the best actor category, Broadbent and Serkis are joined by Life on Mars star John Simm and Michael Sheen, nominated for his portrayal of Kenneth Williams in BBC Four's Fantabulosa!
Merchant and Gervais will compete for best comedy performance
Best actress nominee Wood shares billing with Longford's Samantha Morton, Anne-Marie Duff in The Virgin Queen and Ruth Wilson in Jane Eyre.
Extras stars Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant go head to head in the best comedy performance category, alongside Dawn French and The Royle Family star Liz Smith.
Housewife, 49, goes up against Channel 4's Longford, The Road To Guantanamo and Fantabulosa! in the best single drama category.
Ant & Dec, Stephen Fry, Paul Merton and Jonathan Ross all have nominations for best entertainment performance.
ITV talent show The X Factor is back in the entertainment category alongside Dancing on Ice, How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria? and Derren Brown: The Heist.
Life on Mars, Sugar Rush, Shameless and The Street vie for best drama series.
And, after an absence of six years, Emmerdale returns to the continuing drama category, competing against EastEnders, Coronation Street and medical series Casualty.