Sarah Millican in BAFTA nomination

Sarah Millican has been nominated for a BAFTA in the 2013 TV awards.

Millican, the best-selling female stand-up ever, is nominated for best individual in a comedy programme for The Sarah Millican Television Programme.

She’s up against Alan Carr (Alan Carr: Chatty Man), Ant and Dec (I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!) and ceremony host Graham Norton (The Graham Norton Show).

This morning Millican tweeted: “Thrilled to wake up to a BAFTA nomination.And in a category of entertainment Gods (@AlanCarr @grahnort @antanddec)*twirls around in nightie*”

A third series of the popular programme – which was commissioned before the second had even aired – will be filmed this summer at MediaCityUK in Manchester before she travels north for the 2013 Edinburgh Fringe.

Olympic comedy Twenty Twelve, meanwhile, has been nominated for three BAFTAs this year: best sitcom, best male performance (Hugh Bonneville) and best female (Olivia Colman and Jessica Hynes).

Also nominated for best female are Miranda Hart (Miranda) and Julie Davis (Hunderby).

Elsewhere, Steve Coogan received two nominations for Alan Partridge: Welcome To The Places Of My Life: best comedy programme and best male performance.

Coogan goes head to head with Bonneville (Twenty Twelve), Greg Davies (Cuckoo) and Peter Capaldi (The Thick Of It) in the male performance category.

The Thick Of It is up for best situation comedy too, competing against Episodes, Hunderby and – you guessed it – Twenty Twelve.