Jonathan Ross has missed out at the TV Baftas, but Sir David Attenborough won an award for the first time in 10 years.
The controversial chat show host was shortlisted in the entertainment performance category - which was won by Harry Hill for his TV Burp for the second year in a row.
Ross, 48, was nominated for his Friday night show despite being taken off the air for 12 weeks last year for his part in the Andrew Sachs obscene phone calls scandal.
The Bafta jury instead went for 44-year-old Hill's weekly madcap recap of TV highlights and lowlights.
Hill's show won two awards last year, and as he accepted the award, he said: "I never thought I would win three Baftas for a clips show."
Beating Ross gave him no extra satisfaction. Hill said he had no objection to Ross's nomination.
"I'm a huge fan of his show so I don't have any Schadenfreude about that," he said. "Somebody has got to be in the running and he has got a very popular entertainment show."
The X Factor won the entertainment programme Bafta, beating Hill's show, QI and the Friday and Sunday Night Projects. X Factor compere Dermot O'Leary paid tribute to judge Cheryl Cole, saying she had made an "immeasurable" contribution to the show.
Sir David walked off with the 'specialist factual Bafta' for Life in Cold Blood - the eighth time he and his wildlife programmes have been honoured at the awards.
The 82-year-old naturalist's first Bafta came in 1961, although this latest award is his first since Wildlife Special: Tiger won in 1999.
