Hehe … here I am trying to come up with a nice “summary” entry for my TV section since I just added the section to my main menu, and I find out these have been announced – I’d usually be quicker off the mark but my RSS reading routine is horrendously out of whack, I will make sure I fix this over the next week. Anyway the old summary will have to wait ‘cos this is easier. Here’s my personal picks to win from this year’s nominees:

ACTOR: I haven’t seen any of these, but MICHAEL SHEEN has deserved yet lost at least 3 awards in the past few months so I’m going for him. I still have “Longford” recorded, though, so if I watch that any time soon maybe I’ll pick one of those two.

ACTRESS: Again I haven’t seen these, but of the choices, I’ll go for the “Longford” girl, SAMANTHA MORTON, and hopefully I’ll feel even more strongly about this when I get round to watching it.

ENTERTAINMENT PERFORMANCE: I usually go for Jonathan Ross, but I think STEPHEN FRY being nominated is something of a rarity, and I adore “QI”, so my vote goes there.

COMEDY PERFORMANCE: Either of the “Extras” boys winning would be a bit dull, though if it goes that way I’d prefer Stephen Merchant. Which leaves an even trickier decision – both Dawn French’s Geraldine Granger and LIZ SMITH’s Nana Norma have (allegedly – certainly in the case of Nana, unless there’s gonna be a flashback) graced our screens for the last time this year. I loved both of the finales to these shows, but “The Royle Family”’s certainly hit me the most emotionally and it was all about Nana, so I’m gonna go with that.

SINGLE DRAMA: Haven’t seen any, but LONGFORD certainly appealed to me the most as should already be apparent.

DRAMA SERIES: D’Oh! Again haven’t seen any of them. Anything but “Life on Mars” or “Shameless”, I don’t have a good reason for that just prejudice of some kind lol. I always meant to watch SUGAR RUSH.

DRAMA SERIAL: Guess what!? I haven’t seen any of them! Okay, I let PRIME SUSPECT run in the background ‘cos my parents were watching – and obviously that will win.

CONTINUING DRAMA: Usually, even though it’s my least favourite category, something, even one of the soaps, sticks out for me in this category, but really, it’s all been deadly dull even by my bystander standards this year. I’ll go for EASTENDERS if only ‘cos it has two cute little actresses in it lol.

FACTUAL SERIES: That Stephen Fry’s THE SECRET LIFE OF THE MANIC DEPRESSIVE is even nominated here is about the coolest thing so far this year. If it wins I’ll be ironically overjoyed.

SPECIALIST FACTUAL: Gotta be PLANET EARTH, surely? I still haven’t watched it but I plan to.

SINGLE DOCUMENTARY: Absolutely no idea. Obviously the 9/11 title sticks out as it always does in these categories

FEATURES: F-WORD!

SPORT: does not deserve an award.

NEWS COVERAGE: BBC. The lesser of many evils.

INTERACTIVITY: Is this a new category? Well THE SECRET POLICEMAN’S BALL did a nice video podcast which let me show people the wonderful “Torn” sequence, lol. I don’t know what the other nominees did.

INTERNATIONAL: HOUSE for me.

ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAMME: I think I missed the Derren Brown thing. I think I have to go with HOW DO YOU SOLVE A PROBLEM LIKE MARIA? on this one. I didn’t like the outcome, and it tired towards the end, but honestly, it was something pretty special to me.

SITUATION COMEDY: THE ROYLE FAMILY has to win.

COMEDY PROGRAMME: Catherine Tate and Little Britain were as hilarious as usual but really just same old same old. I loved the Little Miss Jocelyn episodes I saw. But THAT MITCHELL AND WEBB LOOK was one of the few things last year to near make me wet myself.

PIONEER AUDIENCE AWARD: Making the daft assumption that the Great British Public are smart enough to have developed a blind spot for Big Brother, we’re left with the same tough decision between The Vicar of Dibley and Royle Family “finales”. And again I wanna say how the Royle Family episode hit me way harder on an emotional level, it was way more special, and since I went with Liz Smith on the actress category, I’m thinking I should balance it out by going with the Vicar on this one. Putting all that aside, I really wanna say, I’d like to see The Royle Family continue, and I think it can without Nana, whereas I think The Vicar of Dibley really should be left as is. So since I’ve babbled about this far too much, my finger lands upon THE VICAR OF DIBLEY.

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