The BAFTA Awards for Television nominees are announced. This post is mostly about Benedict Cumberbatch.

Ah yes, the BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) Awards for Television are coming up. For those of us who are complete and total anglophiles, the list of nominees dropped today, much to my delight and suspicion. Why suspicion? Well, since 2005, I’ve a vested interest in the classier cousin of our Emmy.

You see, Benedict Cumberbatch was nominated for a BAFTA for  Hawking in 2005. And lost. Try and imagine senior-in-high-school me flipping tables and ripping pages out of library books in my rage. I didn’t actually do any of that, but I seriously considered it. Surely, I thought to myself, they won’t make that mistake again. His next nomination was for  Small Island, for Best Supporting Actor. And he lost.  His next was for Sherlock.  And he lost. His next was for film, for Best Supporting Actor in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.  And he lost. If he loses this time, you’ll probably end up seeing my lovely face on TV. On the 11 o’clock news. When I’m in a bell tower surrounded by a lot of guns and ammo.

For the list of nominations, hit the jump!

LEADING ACTOR

Benedict Cumberbatch –  Sherlock   <— I DON’T CARE WHAT THE ROLE IS GIVE THIS MAN A FUCKING BAFTA EVEN IF IT’S FOR NEWS COVERAGE JESUS FUCKING CHRIST.

Dominic West –  Appropriate Adult

John Simm –  Exile

Joseph Gilgun –  This is England ’88

LEADING ACTRESS

Emily Watson –  Appropriate Adult

Nadine Marshall –  Random

Romola Garai –  The Crimson Petal and the White

Vicky McClure –  This is England ’88

SUPPORTING ACTOR

Andrew Scott –  Sherlock

Joseph Mawle –  Birdsong

Martin Freeman –  Sherlock

Stephen Rea –  The Shadow Line

SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Anna Chancellor –  The Hour

Maggie Smith –  Downton Abbey

Miranda Hart –  Call the Midwife

Monica Dolan –  Appropriate Adult

ENTERTAINMENT PERFORMANCE (Host)

Alan Carr –  Alan Carr Chatty Man

Dara O’ Briain –  Mock The Week

Graham Norton –  The Graham Norton Show

Harry Hill –  Harry Hill’s TV Burp

FEMALE PERFORMANCE IN A COMEDY PROGRAMME

Jennifer Saunders –  Absolutely Fabulous

Olivia Colman –  Twenty Twelve

Ruth Jones –  Stella

Tamsin Greig –  Friday Night Dinner

MALE PERFORMANCE IN A COMEDY PROGRAMME

Brendan O’Carroll –  Mrs Brown’s Boys

Darren Boyd –  Spy

Hugh Bonneville –  Twenty Twelve

Tom Hollander –  Rev.

SINGLE DRAMA

Holy Flying Circus

Page Eight

Random

Stolen

MINI-SERIES

Appropriate Adult

The Crimson Petal and the White

This is England ‘88

Top Boy

DRAMA SERIES

The Fades

Misfits

Scott and Bailey

Spooks

The rest of the nominations can be found on the BAFTA site here.