The BBC's coverage of the London Olympics has notched up a hat-trick of nominations at the Bafta TV awards - one fewer than the sitcom which spoofed the games, Twenty Twelve.
Danny Boyle's acclaimed Olympics opening ceremony and the BBC's coverage of "super Saturday" – when Jessica Ennis, Mo Farah and Greg Rutherford all won gold for Great Britain – are both nominated in the sport and live event category.
The opening ceremony is also nominated for the Radio Times audience award, voted for by members of the public.
Twenty Twelve is nominated for best comedy programme along with acting nods for three of its stars - Olivia Colman, Jessica Hynes and Hugh Bonneville.
Last summer's sporting spectacle also provided Channel 4 with a nomination for its Paralympics coverage in the sport and live event category.
ITV documentary The Other Side of Jimmy Savile is the frontrunner in the current affairs category.
The show, presented by former detective Mark Williams-Thomas, sparked a major police investigation and plunged the BBC into a crisis that lead to the departure of director general George Entwistle after just 54 days in the job.
There were four nominations each for BBC1 dramas Accused and Last Tango in Halifax, with another four for BBC2's film about Alfred Hitchcock, The Girl, with nominations for its stars Sienna Miller and Toby Jones.
Peter Capaldi was nominated twice, for his roles in The Thick of It and another BBC2 show, The Hour. Olivia Colman also had two nominations, for Twenty Twelve and Accused.
Sheridan Smith received her first Bafta nomination from her role as Mrs Biggs, in the ITV drama of the same name.
Rebecca Hall is nominated for her role in BBC2's Parade's End, which is also up for best mini-series, but there is no nomination for her co-star, Benedict Cumberbatch.
Last Tango in Halifax stars Derek Jacobi and Anne Reid are both nominated for leading actor awards.
Competing against Twenty Twelve for the best sitcom prize will be The Thick of It, Episodes, and Sky Atlantic's Hunderby.
There are a total of eight nominations for programmes on Sky, its most to date, with Steve Coogan nominated for best male performance in a comedy programme for the return of Alan Partridge in Sky Atlantic's Welcome to the Places of My Life.
Sky's fantasy epic Game of Thrones is in the running for best international show, along with The Bridge, Girls and espionage thriller Homeland.
BBC2 had the most nominations, with 26, followed by BBC1 (22), Channel 4's 16, ITV (10) and three each for BBC3 and BBC4. There were six for Sky Atlantic, two for E4 and nods for Sky 1, Al Jazeera and Watch.
The event, formally known as the Arqiva British Academy Television awards, take place on Sunday 12 May at London's Royal Festival Hall and will be hosted by Graham Norton.
Bafta TV nominations - in full
Leading actor
Ben Whishaw - Richard II (The Hollow Crown)
Derek Jacobi - Last Tango in Halifax
Sean Bean - Accused (Tracie's Story)
Toby Jones- The Girl
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 programme
Alan Carr for Alan Carr: Chatty Man
Ant and Dec for I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!
Graham Norton for The Graham Norton Show
Sarah Millican for The Sarah Millican Show
Female performance in a comedy programme
Jessica Hynes for Twenty Twelve
Julia Davis for Hunderby
Miranda Hart for Miranda
Olivia Colman for Twenty Twelve
Male performance in a comedy programme
Greg Davies for Cuckoo
Hugh Bonneville for Twenty Twelve
Peter Capaldi for The Thick of It
Steve Coogan for Welcome To the Places of My Life
Single drama
Everyday
The Girl
Murder
Richard II (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 and 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
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
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
Hillsborough - The Truth at Last (Granada Reports)
Sport and 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
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
