Summary

  • Wolf Hall, Car Share and This is England 90 win two awards each

  • Main acting honours go to Suranne Jones and Mark Rylance

  • Wolf Hall director gets standing ovation for his defence of the BBC

Live Reporting

Steven McIntosh and Keily Smith

  1. Maisie Williams: Not a fan of Game of Thrones spoilers

    Maisie WilliamsPA

    Maisie Williams is probably best known for playing Arya Stark in Game of Thrones but tonight she's representing Cyberbully, which is up for best single drama. 

    But of course, she didn't mind being quizzed on GoT, particularly last week's episode in which a major character was revealed to be alive. 

    She said it was important to be able to keep a secret about major plots:

    I think people love to hear spoilers and they want to hear them, but I can’t tell people things about the show as entertaining as the show can. I’m a firm believer in not spoiling things for other people.

  2. Nadiya Hussain: I was naive when I entered Bake Off

    Nadiya Hussain and Mary BerryPA

    Great British Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain has just been speaking to Lizo Mzimba about entering the show, which is nominated for best feature and the Radio Times audience award.

    She said:

    I was really naive when I entered. I'd watched the show up until that point, and it only dawned on me after it finished that it was going to be on TV and everyone was going to see all my dopey-ness! It's been a good year for me to be on.

  3. Hiddleston happy to be part of Baftas

    Tom HiddlestonPA

    Tom Hiddleston will surely be nominated next year for The Night Manager, but today he's happy just to be presenting.

    I’m thrilled to be presenting. I’m just here as an extra, as a spare wheel. I’m presenting best leading actress and there are some phenomenal performances in there.

    He agreed we are in a golden age of television at the moment.

    There’s so much great work going on, there’s great work that’s not nominated because there is that much going on. The Brits are making great stuff on film and television.

  4. Uh-oh... Idris Elba has lost his voice

    Idris ElbaPA

    Idris Elba says if he wins an award tonight he'll struggle with his acceptance speech because he's lost his voice. (He does sound very husky)

    He did just have enough of it left though to speak to Lizo Mzimba about his nomination for Luther:

    It's my first nomination for Bafta and it's amazing. It's a good feeling and it's a great British show. We worked really hard at it so it's nice to get that kind of acknowledgement. We all know how hard it is to put stuff on TV and get it made - from conception to completion, so when your peers recognise that hard work it's a really special feeling. Everyone knows the sort of graft we've taken to get there.

    Idris Elba

  5. Dermot, Fearne and Rochelle walk the red carpet:

    There are so many stars and so many jaw-dropping outfits we can hardly keep up - but here's another batch for you, starting with TV presenter and former Saturday Rochelle Humes:

    Rochelle HumesPA

    Presenter Dermot O'Leary:

    Dermot O'LearyPA

    Call The Midwife's Helen George:

    Helen GeorgePA

    Singer Katherine Jenkins:

    Katherine JenkinsPA

    And Fearne Cotton with husband Jesse Wood:

    Fearne CottonPA

  6. Strictly up for the win

    Craig Revel Horwood

    Strictly Come Dancing is up for best entertainment show, with judge Craig Revel Horwood hoping to shimmy on stage to collect an award.

    He said:

    It would be fantastic [to win], not only for the dance world, but the BBC and Strictly as a whole. It deserves an accolade of some sort. We have a great time on the show, it's like a family. I'm so lucky I got the job in the first place, and to be kept on!

  7. Ant and Dec here for the bubbly

    Ant and DecITV

    No stranger to winning awards, Ant and Dec are in the running twice this year for long-running shows Britain's Got Talent and I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here. 

    To still be nominated for a Bafta after all these years is a testament to the teams. And if we get nominated we’ll always turn up for a glass of champers."

    Ant McPartlin

    If you find a job that you love you never have to work a day in your life, so we're lucky that we love what we do. We've got the best job in the world."

    Declan Donnelly

  8. Amanda Holden and Caroline Flack hit the red carpet:

    Here are some more red carpet photos as the stars arrive at London's Royal Festival Hall.

    Science presenter Liz Bonin from the BBC's Bang Goes The Theory:

    Liz BonninPA

    Britain's Got Talent judge Amanda Holden (who needed a little help with her dress):

    Amanda HoldenPA

    TOWIE's Mark Wright and former Coronation Street actress Michelle Keegan:

    Mark Wright and Michelle KeeganPA

    And presenter Caroline Flack:

    Caroline FlackPA

  9. Tambor's in town

    Jeffrey Tambor is in the UK to represent his show Transparent, in which he plays a trans woman.

    The ground-breaking show on Amazon Prime has been a success around the world and been at the forefront of the push for LGBT rights. 

    Speaking about the show's success, Tambor said: 

    It's huge, its wonderful, people in the hotel were saying wonderful things about the show. I'm honoured. I knew it was a wonderful opportunity. It's not just about the trans community, it's about family, I'm a lucky guy.

  10. Charlie Brooker's Election Wipe 'therapeutic'

    Charlie Brooker

    Charlie Brooker, nominated for Election Wipe, has been talking to the BBC about how challenging he found the show, where he had to condense all of the real-life drama of the general election into a single programme:

    It was tricky to boil it all down to an hour, because it went out the night before the election so we had to be completely impartial, and we had to make sure we were being equally horrible to everyone! It was quite therapeutic.

  11. Suranne Jones 'thrilled and proud' to be nominated

    Suranne JonesPA

    Suranne Jones, nominated for best actress, has been speaking to Lizo Mzimba about the stigma attached to starting out in a soap opera. 

    She used to play Karen in Coronation Street but is nominated tonight for Doctor Foster:

    I've been acting for a long time, I came from a soap opera and sometimes there's a snobbery around people that come from soap operas but I've learned my craft and to be here at the age of 37 I feel incredibly thrilled and proud to be nominated.

    She also spoke about the improvement in the number of available parts for women:

    I think it's got a lot better, when we started Scott & Bailey five years ago there were fewer roles, but now there are a lot of strong female parts.

  12. More red carpet photos

    The stars are arriving thick and fast now so a good time to bring you some more photos from the red carpet.

    Here's Strictly Come Dancing presenters Claudia Winkleman and Tess Daly:

    Claudia Winkleman and Tess DalyPA

    Former Strictly contestant and Coronation Street actress Georgia May Foote:

    Georgia May FootePA

    Actor and comedian Rob Brydon:

    Rob BrydonPA

    Downton Abbey's Hugh Bonneville:

    Hugh BonnevillePA

  13. Graham Norton arrives, looking swish

    Tonight's host, Graham Norton, has arrived on the red carpet, and he looks very dapper indeed:

    Graham NortonPA

  14. Lenny Henry 'incredibly honoured' by special Bafta award

    Lenny HenryPA

    Lenny Henry's been speaking to Lizo Mzimba on the red carpet ahead of tonight's ceremony, where he will receive the Alan Clarke award for outstanding contribution to TV:

    I've been in the business for 42 years, I never thought I'd be here receiving this award. There was a whole flash-in-the-pan thing going on with me when I first started. So this is an incredible honour and my family are proud so I'm chuffed to be here and receiving that.

    He also discussed his work campaigning for more diversity in the television industry. He now hopes a commitment to diversity will be included in the BBC's new white paper, which will be published this week:

    I've always talked about diversity in the industry but two years ago I made a speech at Bafta and it seemed to have a big effect, so now we want diversity to be mentioned in the charter, and for the playing field to be level. There's already a coalition of the willing, people want it to happen, so that's good

    Earlier this month, Sir Lenny Henry spoke to the BBC about his new blues album and what needs to change in the entertainment industry to make it more diverse.

  15. Red carpet arrivals

    We promised you red carpet photos, and we're an entertainment team of our word.

    Here's Laura Whitmore:

    Laura WhitmorePA

    Anne Morrison, Chair of BAFTA 

    Anne CassidyPA

    Krishnan Guru-Murthy of Channel 4 News:

    Krishnan Guru-MurthyPA

    Alexandra Roach:

    Alexandra RoachPA

  16. Grilling the stars

    Entertainment reporter Colin Paterson is hosting a Facebook Live event, in which he is putting your questions to the stars. 

    So far he's grilled Mary Berry and Nadiya Hussein on their favourite sandwich fillings. 

    Check it out here. 

  17. Berry praises Bake Off team

    Nadiya Hussein and Mary BerryPA

    Mary Berry is attending the event on behalf of the The Great British Bake Off team, who are in the running for best entertainment show and the audience award.

    She was also keen to sing the praise of last year's winner Nadya Hussein, who is also at the awards, saying she's "just wonderful".

    Well it great fun to do we have wonderful crop of amateur bakers. I enjoy it more each year and we’re on to seven now. It’s a national event and we are doing what we are doing again this year, maybe with a few more basic bakes. We’ve just got a wonderful team.

    Mary Berry

  18. Kunal Nayyar 'brought the nice weather'

    APKunal Nayyar

    The Big Bang Theory's Kunal Nayyar has just dropped by to speak to our entertainment correspondent Lizo Mzimba on the red carpet. 

    Nayyar revealed he begins rehearsals tomorrow for The Spoils, the play written by The Social Network's Jesse Eisenberg, which opens in London's West End next month

    He said:

    We got in late last night from LA so my body clock is still adjusting, and I clearly brought the weather with me!

    England has given birth to some of the greatest actors of our generation and we always look up to how the actors are trained over here, so I feel really lucky to be here to be honest.

  19. Ruth Madley on the red carpet

    Ruth Madeley

    Ruth Madeley, star of Don't Take My Baby, has just been on the red carpet.

    She's nominated for best actress alongside Sheridan Smith (for The C-Word), Suranne Jones (Doctor Foster) and Claire Foy (Wolf Hall)

    She says being nominated took her totally by surprise: 

    I'm so excited, I keep feeling like someone's going to come along and say 'Oh no we didn't mean you!' When I heard I was nominated I thought they were kidding, I had no expectation whatsoever. To even be on the same list as Sheridan, Claire and Suranne is surreal.

    Ruth Madeley

  20. Elle King performs on Bafta red carpet

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    As Jane Austen once wrote: "It is a truth, universally acknowledged, that Ex's and Oh's by Elle King is one of the best songs of 2016.*

    That may be why the Bafta team have booked her to keep everyone entertained as they arrive on the red carpet.

    She's performing some tracks live on the South Bank right now, have a look see:

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