It's probably an absolute nightmare being the people in charge of a major television event or awards ceremony. You've got the whole community, nation or planet watching every move, waiting for something to go wrong.
Sadly, that's what happened with the BBC just before the 2018 British Academy Television Awards was about to get underway.
On BBC One, the screen was awkwardly locked on the Guide section showing what was going to be on on Monday.
While I'm sure plenty of people were interested in knowing that EastEnders, Panorama, Peter Kay's Car Share and Mrs Brown's Boys was going to be on the telly, the majority of us wanted to watch Sue Perkins host the BAFTAs.
Alas, people had to sit through at least half a minute of the malfunction and the poor bloke doing the voiceover had to keep every calm.
He said: "This is BBC One. We're hoping to go to the British Academy Television Awards in juat a few moments. We're having a few small technical difficulties. Stay with us and we'll start that in just a few moments."
Then there were several deafening seconds of absolute silence, followed by: "Please do bear with us our technical problems continue. We are hoping to join the British Academy Television Awards in just a few moments. Please bear with us."
Thankfully, the people at the BBC got the issue fixed and audiences around the UK were treated with TV's night of nights.
The first award of the night deservedly went to Peaky Blinders for Best Drama Programme.
It was the third BAFTA for the show created by Steven Knight, with Otto Bathurst winning it for Best Director in Fiction and George Steel earning the gong for Best Photography and Lighting at the BAFTA Television Craft Awards.
Other shows to earn BAFTAS included The Handmaid's Tale (International), Murder In Successville (Best Comedy Entertainment Programme), Love Island (Reality and Constructed Factual) Vanessa Kirby for her role of Princess Margaret in The Crown (Best Supporting Actress) and Ambulance (Best Factual Series).
Britain's Got Talent picked up the gong for Best Entertainment Programme - which isn't hard to see why considering every episode made us laugh, cry, spit our tea out in amazement and hide behind our hands.
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The whale dying scene from Blue Planet II also picked up the gong for the Must See Moment and beat the likes of Game of Thrones, Line of Duty and Doctor Who.
Thankfully there were no more technical difficulties to plague the rest of the programme and everything largely went smoothly.
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