DS at the Baftas
British TV's biggest night of the year finally arrived last weekend as the stars came out in force for the BAFTAs. I was there too.

Having donned my tux, I arrived in style - straight down the Bakerloo line - and made my way down the red carpet with my date for the evening, DS soaps editor Kris Green. Ignoring the screams from the paparazzi and calls for autographs from the assembled throng, I had a brief pit stop with the DS camera crew (didn't they do well?) then made a slow walk into the auditorium behind a severely crippled Ruby Wax.

The ceremony itself passed by fairly reasonably, and largely without incident - although with some surprises (Casualty taking best soap and Ross Kemp On Gangs winning best factal stand out) and a hilarious foul-mouthed tirade from award presenter Joan Rivers that almost certainly didn't make the final edit.

The Pioneer Audience Award - which, lest we forget, was voted for by you - went to Life On Mars, and I couldn't have been happier, following its snubs in the panel-chosen categories. Later I was told that it won by a very significant margin, and that it was down in large part to readers of Tube Talk and the DS forums! Hurrah! Don't we have great taste?

On to the extravagant after-party at the Natural History Museum. Thanks to someone not telling me that the glasses and glasses of Ribena I was consuming were actually red wine, things got hazy quite quickly, but I did make a few noteworthy observations:
* Margaret off of The Apprentice spent a good long time chatting on to Moira Stewart
* On the other side of the room, Pam St. Clement had a little boogie, a sight that has successfully burned an indelible image in my retina
* A certain ex-EastEnders star is quite a rude person - even when confronted with a perfectly affable soaps editor
* Graham Norton is surprisingly uncamp on-demand
* The two new X Factor judges have been decided upon for quite some time - but won't be confirmed until the first day of auditions next month

More from the ceremony in Kris Green's Soap Scoop.

Prison Break bonus
Next up, a Prison Break exclusive. Last week we got some time with Robert Knepper, aka everyone's favourite homicidal maniac, Theodore 'T-Bag' Bagwell. Click here to read what he had to tell us about the show and, if you've already seen the season two ender or just fancy being spoiled, hit play in the window below to see what Robert has to say about season three. (Incidentally, that sprightly young thing doing the interview is our entertainment reporter Nick Levine. Everybody say hello to Nick, now.)



The week's headlines
UK buyers were out in Los Angeles this week for the LA Screenings - their chance to view next season's new fare - but after last year's "feeding frenzy", the wallets were buried much deeper in their pockets. That didn't stop Five making the first swoop, however, picking up a new David Duchovny sitcom, Californication. The BBC also did some nice business, forking out an estimated £9 million for the exclusive UK rights to Heroes season two (good news for BBC Three, not so good for Sci Fi). Back here, Life On Mars star John Simm signed up for a curious new one-off drama being filmed over the next five years (I can relate: that's almost as long as it takes me to write this column). Meanwhile, plans were unveiled for an ambitious new series about humanity's plans to colonise another planet.

Bonus Clickables
> Tube Talk MySpace - bonus Doctor Who hint!
> Premiere List page
> Interview with Lost star Marsha Thomason (that girl Naomi who parachuted onto the island)

A longer intro than usual, eh? Hmm, I must just be chatty this week. Good job, because your questions begin in earnest - all on the next page...