Last year, Appropriate Adult and Sherlock were the big hitters with the BAFTA TV award nominations but this year’s nominations have come quickly as they were revealed earlier today.

Leading the categories this time around is the BBC and HBO-produced drama The Girl which holds its own with eight nominations including acting nods for Sienna Miller, Toby Jones and Imelda Staunton as well as Best Single Drama. It focuses on the real-life relationship between British film director Alfred Hitchcock (Jones) and actress Tippi Hedren (Miller).

Second in line is the period drama Parade’s End with seven nominations including Best Mini-Series and Best Leading Actress for Rebecca Hall though her co-star Benedict Cumberbatch was snubbed in the Best Leading Actor category.

One programme I will be rooting for is Jimmy McGovern’s Accused which has come third in the nominations list with six mentions including Best Leading Actor for Sean Bean in his role as a transvestite as well as Supporting Actor/Actress nods for Stephen Graham and Olivia Colman.

Colman herself is one of two performers nominated twice this year with her other nomination being in Best Female Comedy Performance for Twenty Twelve. Her co-stars from that show, Hugh Bonneville and Jessica Hynes, are also recognised. The other double-nodded actor is Peter Capaldi who is not only mentioned in Best Supporting Actor for The Hour but is also nominated in Best Male Comedy Performance for his swansong role as foul-mouthed politician Malcolm Tucker in The Thick of It.

The Hour and Last Tango in Halifax are also amongst the other dominant dramas competing in various categories. Standout acting nominations also include Ben Whishaw (Richard II), Derek Jacobi (Last Tango), Sheridan Smith (Mrs Biggs), Miranda Hart (Miranda) and Steve Coogan (Welcome to the Places of my Life).

Again, Coronation Street is the soap to root for as the Manchester-based serial goes up against Eastenders, Emmerdale and Shameless in the Best Soap and Continuing Drama category.

Other noteworthy awards include Best Entertainment Performance which is competed by the likes of Alan Carr, Ant and Dec and Graham Norton while popular shows like I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here, Made in Chelsea, The Young Apprentice, The Graham Norton Show, Strictly Come Dancing, Homeland and Game of Thrones are in contention in other categories.

Finally there is dominance in the Sport field as the coverage of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games garners nominations for the Opening Ceremony and Super Saturday as well as Channel 4’s coverage of the Paralympic Games and the BBC’s coverage of the Wimbledon men’s final between Andy Murray and Roger Federer.

Leading Actress
Anne Reid – Last Tango in Halifax
Rebecca Hall – Parade’s End
Sheridan Smith – Mrs Biggs
Sienna Miller – The Girl

Supporting Actor
Peter Capaldi – The Hour
Stephen Graham – Accused (‘Tracie’s Story’)
Harry Lloyd – The Fear
Simon Russell Beale – Henry IV, Part 2 (The Hollow Crown)

Supporting Actress
Anastasia Hille – The Fear
Imelda Staunton – The Girl
Olivia Colman – Accused (‘Mo’s Story’)
Sarah Lancashire – Last Tango in Halifax

Entertainment Performance
Alan Carr – Alan Carr: Chatty Man
Ant and Dec – I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!
Graham Norton – The Graham Norton Show
Sarah Millican – The Sarah Millican Show

Female Performance In A Comedy Programme
Jessica Hynes – Twenty Twelve
Julia Davis – Hunderby
Miranda Hart – Miranda
Olivia Colman – Twenty Twelve

Male Performance In A Comedy Programme
Greg Davies – Cuckoo
Hugh Bonneville – Twenty Twelve
Peter Capaldi – The Thick of It
Steve Coogan – Welcome to the Places of My Life

Single Drama
Everyday
The Girl
Murder
Richard II (The Hollow Crown)

Mini-Series
Accused
Mrs Biggs
Parade’s End
Room at the Top

Drama Series
Last Tango in Halifax
Ripper Street
Scott and Bailey
Silk

Soap & Continuing Drama
Coronation Street
EastEnders
Emmerdale
Shameless

International
The Bridge
Game of Thrones
Girls
Homeland

Factual Series
24 Hours in A&E
Great Ormond Street
Make Bradford British
Our War

Specialist Factual (Huw Wheldon Award)
All in the Best Possible Taste with Grayson Perry
The Plane Crash
The Plot to Bring Down Britain’s Planes
The Secret History of Our Streets

Single Documentary (Robert Flaherty Award)
7/7: One Day in London
Baka: A Cry from the Rainforest
Lucian Freud: Painted Life
Nina Conti – A Ventriloquist’s Story: Her Master’s Voice

Features
Bank of Dave
Grand Designs
The Great British Bake Off
Paul O’Grady: For the Love of Dogs

Reality and Constructed Factual
The Audience
I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!
Made in Chelsea
The Young Apprentice

Current Affairs
Britain’s Hidden Housing Crisis (Panorama Special)
The Other Side of Jimmy Savile (Exposure)
The Shame of the Catholic Church (This World)
What Killed Arafat? (Al Jazeera Investigates)

News Coverage
BBC News at Ten: Syria
Channel 4 News: Battle for Homs
ITV/Granada Reports: Hillsborough – The Truth at Last

Sport & Live Event
The London 2012 Olympics: ‘Super Saturday’
The London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony: ‘Isle of Wonder’
The London 2012 Paralympic Games
Wimbledon 2012 – Men’s Final

Entertainment Programme (Lew Grade Award)
Dynamo: Magician Impossible
The Graham Norton Show
Have I Got News For You
A League of Their Own

Comedy Programme
Cardinal Burns
Mr Stink
The Revolution Will Be Televised
Welcome to the Places of My Life

Situation Comedy
Episodes
Hunderby
The Thick of It
Twenty Twelve

Radio Times Audience Award (Voted for by members of the public)
Call the Midwife
Game of Thrones
The Great British Bake Off
Homeland
The London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony
Strictly Come Dancing