When the first round of voting started on Tuesday (2 March) a number of programmes that should have been nominated were absent from the lists sent to Academy members.
The Bafta Television Awards, which take place at the London Palladium in June, is one of the biggest events of the TV calender and much of C4's hopes of winning were with the missed shows: ‘Alan Carr: Chatty Man', ‘Chris Moyles' Quiz Night' and Derren Brown's ‘The Events'.
Academy members were sent a list of the nominations and then instructed to vote online to choose the programmes which will go through to the jury that makes the final decision.
Rather than restart the process, Bafta contacted the 300 members who had already voted before the mistake was spotted to ask them if they would like to change their decision before the ballot is closed on Tuesday (9 March).
Bafta said that the proportion of its members who had voted before the mistake only amounted to 7% of the total and each has been contacted individually.
In a statement, Bafta said: "Upon the first round of voting for the Television awards opening to the membership on 2 March, a number of omissions were spotted. The lists were immediately investigated, a human error discovered and amendments made online that afternoon."
It added: "Bafta is satisfied that the entries originally omitted have been presented fairly to every voter in this first round and that neither the integrity of the voting process, nor the chances of any entrant, have been effected in any way as a result of this error"
A spokesman for Channel 4 said: "Channel 4 is satisfied that Bafta has taken the necessary steps to highlight the error to their members and rectify the problem."
The big winner at this year's sibling Bafta Film Awards, which took place in February, was the war drama The Hurt Locker.
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