Costume drama Cranford has received four Bafta TV nominations, including a best actress nod for Dame Judi Dench. The Oscar-winner will go up against her Cranford co-star Dame Eileen Atkins, while the BBC show is also up for best drama serial and the audience award.Strictly Come Dancing, The Apprentice and Britain's Got Talent are among the other series up for the audience award, with the winner chosen by the public. Coronation Street has been left out of the continuing drama series category. EastEnders and Emmerdale are joined by Holby City and The Bill on that shortlist.
In the hotly-contested entertainment programme shortlist, Strictly Come Dancing and Britain's Got Talent do battle alongside Harry Hill's TV Burp and Have I Got New For You. BBC One's popular celebrity ballroom dancing series collected a total of three nominations. Stephen Merchant is nominated for his role in the Extras Christmas Special, while co-star Ricky Gervais is absent. Gavin and Stacey, which triumphed at the British Comedy Awards, is up for two prizes. Have I Got News For You star Paul Merton collects his 11th nomination with a mention in the best factual series category for his travels to China. The best comedy programme contenders, including Russell Brand's Ponderland and The Armstrong and Miller Show, are all first-time nominees this year.
This year's contenders for best actor are all first-time nominees, including Andrew Garfield for his performance for Boy A, which is also in the running for best single drama.
In the features category, TV chefs Gordon Ramsay and Heston Blumenthal will go head-to-head alongside BBC Two's Top Gear.
For the first time since the classic McEnroe-Borg showdown in 1980, coverage of the Wimbledon men's final is nominated for the sport award.
The Bafta TV awards ceremony will take place at the London Palladium on 20 April.
Express newspapers apologise to parents of Madeleine McCann
The Daily Express and the Daily Star issued front-page apologies to the parents of Madeleine McCann this morning, having agreed to pay "substantial" damages for almost a year of lurid headlines relating to the four-year-old's disappearance.
The papers' Sunday sister titles will follow suit, in what was described last night as an "unprecedented" climb-down by the Express newspaper group owned by Richard Desmond.
Lawyers are set to appear at the High Court today to read out apologies from the papers, whose payout will go towards the Find Madeleine Fund in what is the culmination of a behind-the-scenes libel challenge from Mr and Mrs McCann.
Today's apologies – both headlined simply "Kate and Gerry McCann: Sorry" – follow a decision by the newspaper group to remove all references to girl's disappearance from its websites after the McCanns challenged what their spokesman, Clarence Mitchell, described as "wildly and grossly defamatory articles".
The couple has identified more than 100 such articles written since their daughter went missing from the Praia da Luz holiday resort in the Algarve on 4 May last year, 42 of which were in the Daily Express.
In other news…
* Oscar-winning actress Halle Berry has named her newborn daughter Nahla Ariela Aubry, meaning "drink of water" in Arabic.
* British film director and writer Anthony Minghella has died aged 54. He suffered a haemorrhage yesterday, days after having surgery for cancer of the tonsils and neck.
* SEX and the City beauty Kristin Davis has denied that she appears in photos claiming to show her performing a sex act. As the photos surfaced on the internet at the beginning of the week, there were rumours there was also a sex tape to accompany them.
* THE Mighty Boosh boys are squaring up for a battle with the HONEY MONSTER in a bitter legal showdown. The latest Sugar Puffs TV advert bears much more than a passing resemblance to cape-wearing NOEL FIELDING and JULIAN BARRATT’s hit telly show. The Boosh maestros are going puffing-mad at the cereal brand for “copying” their unique “crimping” singing technique.
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