- For all the Claudia Winkleman fans, she's in there.
Olivia Colman
Age: 40. Award-winning star of Twenty Twelve and Broadchurch. Equally adept in comedy or drama.
Mary Berry
Age: 79. The Great British Bake Off turned this septuagenarian into television royalty.
Clare Balding
Age: 43. Intitially a face of horse racing, she's now a versatile presenter on both TV and radio.
Julie Walters
Age: 64. From Acorn Antiques to Mo, she's stuck with TV alongside film success. Now a BAFTA fellow; currently filming c4's Indian Summers.
Victoria Wood
Age: 61. From As Seen on TV to Housewife, 49, the multi-talented actress/writer/director returns soon with musical drama Tubby and Enid.
Dawn French
Age: 56. French and Saunders, The Vicar of Dibley, The Wrong Mansβ¦constantly working, constantly popular.
Sheridan Smith
Age: 33. The current go-to girl, picking up awards on stage and screen. And busy: The 7.39, The Widower and the forthcoming Cilla have all been on TV this year.
Mary Beard
Age: 59. Cambridge classics professor who came to wider attention after presenting Pompeii and Meet the Romans and dealing creatively with internet trolls.
Sarah Lancashire
Age: 49. She'll always be grateful for the start on Coronation Street, but is now impressing audiences in Happy Valley and Last Tango in Halifax.
Joanna Lumley
Age: 68. In The New Avengers, Absolutely Fabulous and Sensitive Skin this actress and campaigner has always been a scene stealer.
Claudia Winkleman
Age: 42. Film 2014, The Great British Sewing Bee and Strictly Come Dancing have made her a household name.
Sarah Millican
Age: 39. Stand-up whose DVD has the highest sales for a female comedian β and Radio Times columnist!
Kirstie Allsopp
Age: 42. With Location, Location, Location she found homes for people. Now queen of craft.
Miranda Hart
Age: 41. The lead in her own eponymous comedy show and cherished in Call the Midwife.
Anne Reid
Age: 79. A star whose appeal has spanned 50 years.
Kirsty Wark
Age: 59. Journalist best known for fronting Newsnight and its sister programme The Review Show.
OFF-SCREEN
Heidi Thomas
Age: 52. Award-winning writer breathing new life into old stories. Currently heading to Broadway with a new version of Gigi.
Abi Morgan
Age: 45. Bafta and Emmy-winning writer of Sex Traffic and political thriller The Hour.
Beryl Vertue
Prolific TV producer, from Steptoe and Son to Men Behaving Badly. Chairman of Hartswood films.
Sue Vertue
Age: 53. Producer, formerly at Tiger Aspect (Mr Bean, The Vicar of Dibley), now working with her mum Beryl at Hartswood Films.
Jay Hunt
Age: 47. Chief creative officer at Channel 4, commissioning everything from Educating Yorkshire to Gogglebox.
Sally Wainwright
Age: 50. Writer with the golden touch, from At Home with the Braithwaites to Happy Valley.
Nicola Shindler
Age: 45. Founder of Manchester-based award-winning Red Production Company.
Elisabeth Murdoch
Age: 46. Founder and chairwoman of Shine, purveyors of popular factual shows, including tasty hits like Masterchef.
Pippa Harris
Age: 46. Co-founder of Neal Street Productions, working across film, theatre and TV.
Charlotte Moore
Age: 46. Controller of BBC1. Former commissioning editor of documentaries at the BBC.
Helen Boaden
Age: 58. The former controller of Radio 4 was until recently the BBC's director of news. Now director of BBC Radio.
Anne Mensah
Age: 42. Sky's head of drama has the biggest budget in TV, and access to some of the biggest stars and writers.
Hilary Bevan Jones
Age: 61. Producer with a strong track record. Up next: Roald Dahl's Esio Trot, with Judi Dench and Dustin Hoffman.
Kim Shillinglaw
Age: 45. The recently appointed controller of BBC2 has already made it plain she wants to see more women on screen.