TV Baftas BETTING: Best Entertainment Programme

Third time lucky for the show about wartime tea dances?

The Shows: Strictly Come Dancing (4/6), Britain's Got Talent (15/8), Have I Got News For You (6/1), Harry Hill's TV Burp (8/1)

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Time was when people only had one channel, and the choice of entertainment was to watch that, poke a discarded tyre in a wasteland with a stick, or practise kissing on a stray dog. How times have changed, and this year the most fun anyone had was watching Alesha Dixon defy her cheating husband by learning the Cha Cha Cha...

Strictly Come Dancing
The most swishy of the talent shows was a massive hit this year, thanks mainly to Alesha Dixon bringing a spot of hip urban girl band kudos to a show essentially about depressing tea dances during the Blitz. It lost out to big guns in 2005 (I'm a Celebrity) and 2006 (X Factor), but neither show stands in their way this time around. You go, girl!

Britain's Got Talent
Three of the last six winners have included Simon Cowell on sneering judgement duty (Pop Idol, 2002; X Factor, 2006; X Factor, 2007), so he will be hoping that this year is no exception. On the downside for Simon and his panel of showbiz friends, his total over-exposure (this, X Factor, American Idol) has made his television as exciting as a slow-motion handshake.

Have I Got News For You
The guffawing brainboxes on Have I Got News For You have been up for this award a whopping six times in the last ten years, and yet they have never won it. They probably think it's because they're far too intelligent for the rest of England - look at them, hunched in their lazyboys, brainlessly touching their eyeballs and staring at a strobing television. They could never understand the depth of satire on show.

Harry Hill's TV Burp
Harry Hill lost out for his Channel 4 programme in 1998 (in the Best Comedy category), and now his ITV show is a massive outsider. In his favour is that ITV have claimed six of the last ten in this category. But his show is probably a little bit too "niche" compared to the likes of Strictly Come Dancing and Britain's Got Talent. Heh heh, his collars are too big! Hilarious.