Graham Norton kicked off the TV Baftas last night - with a gag about Britain's Got Talent winners Spelbound.
He compared his own sunburnt appearance to the fake tan used by the daredevil gymnasts, saying: "I just spent a bit too much time in the sun yesterday. No, I'm not auditioning for Spelbound."
The Armstrong And Miller Show on BBC1 scooped one of the early awards of the evening, for Comedy Programme, beating The Kevin Bishop Show, That Mitchell And Webb Look and Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle.
E4 series Misfits, about five outsiders on community service, won the Drama Series gong, with the cast joking that "juvenile depraved filth had been crafted into such a great Bafta-winning show".
Ant and Dec finally scooped their first ever Bafta - with their sixth nomination - despite a 20-year career in television.
The duo beat Harry Hill, Stephen Fry and comedian Michael McIntyre to the Entertainment Performance gong for I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!.
Dec, 34, made light of how long it had taken to get an award, saying: "I really, really, really wasn't expecting that. That's a big shock."
He joked: "This is for series nine of Saturday Night Takeaway" before correcting himself with "I'm A Celebrity".
"I don't know what the hell we did wrong for the first eight series."
The pair presented mogul Simon Cowell with a Special Award later in the evening.
The Unloved - Samantha Morton's close-to-the-heart directorial debut about a care home - scooped the award for Single Drama.
Kate Ogborn, a producer of the Channel 4 drama, said: "Samantha would be so sad not to be here but she's filming in the States. I know she'd be really honoured. She's been thinking about this film since she was 16."
Mad Men, the advertising industry 1950s-set US drama broadcast on BBC4, scooped the International gong, beating the likes of Family Guy and True Blood.
Inside Nature's Giants - the Channel 4 documentary which showed the dissection of giant animals - won the Specialist Factual award.
Channel 4 Dispatches programme Terror In Mumbai won the Current Affairs award while ITV News At Ten took the News Coverage award for its coverage of the Haiti earthquake.
Ant and Dec, still "shellshocked" over their Bafta win, presented the Special Award to Mr Cowell for his outstanding contribution to the entertainment industry and for the development of new talent.
On The X Factor, Mr Cowell had brought Leona Lewis and Louis Walsh to attention and propelled some people who "shouldn't be on telly" to fame, they joked.
Receiving the award, Mr Cowell said: "This is a genuine honour. I wasn't expecting it. I have had a blast. I've been able to do things I never thought I'd be able to do and it's because I genuinely have the most talented people working with me on the show. "This actual award is genuinely more deserving to them than it is for me.
"I just want to say I appreciate your talent, because it makes me look good. I also want to thank the on-screen talent, the boys (Ant and Dec), Amanda (Holden), me ... it's true!"
Mr Cowell thanked the TV executive who gave him his "first opportunity" and said: "To put this into perspective, on a personal level one of my happiest memories as a kid was my dad coming back with a TV set and watching the one programme in colour."
Britain's Got Talent won its first ever Bafta - for Entertainment Programme - last night.