British Academy Television Award for Best Scripted Comedy

British Academy Television Award
Country	United Kingdom
Presented by	British Academy of Film and Television Arts
First awarded	1973
Currently held by	Sally4Ever (2019)
Website	http://www.bafta.org/

The British Academy Television Award for Best Scripted Comedy is awarded annually as part of the British Academy Television Awards. Until 2015, the category was named the British Academy Television Award for Best Situation Comedy.

It was first awarded from 1973-1980. It has been awarded every year since 2000.

From 1981-1999, sitcoms were included in the Best Comedy Programme or Series category.

1973-1980

• 1973 My Wife Next Door
  • Graeme Muir
• 1974 Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?
  • James Gilbert
• 1975 Porridge
  • Sydney Lotterby
• 1976 Fawlty Towers
  • John Howard Davies
• 1977 Porridge
  • Sydney Lotterby
• 1978 Rising Damp
  • Ronnie Baxter
• 1979 Going Straight
  • Sydney Lotterby
• 1980 Fawlty Towers
  • Douglas Argent, Bob Spiers

2000s

Year	Program	Recipients	Channel
2000	The Royle Family (series 2)		BBC One
	Dinnerladies (series 2)		BBC One
	Spaced (series 1)		Channel 4
	The Vicar of Dibley (1999 Seasonal Specials)		BBC One
2001	Black Books (series 1)		Channel 4
	Blackadder (Series Finale: Blackadder: Back & Forth)		BBC One Sky1
	One Foot in the Grave (series 6)		BBC One
	The Royle Family (series 3)		BBC One
2002	The Office (series 1)		BBC Two
	Gimme Gimme Gimme (series 3)		BBC One
	Happiness (series 1)	David Cummings, Declan Lowney, Rosemary McGowan, Paul Whitehouse	BBC Two
	Spaced (series 2)		Channel 4
2003	The Office (series 2)		BBC Two
	The Book Group (series 1)		Channel 4
	My Family (series 3)		BBC One
	Phoenix Nights (series 2)	Peter Kay, Henry Klejdys, Phil McIntyre	Channel 4
2004	The Office (The Office Christmas Specials)		BBC One
	Hardware (series 1)		ITV
	Marion and Geoff (series 2)		BBC Two
	Peep Show (series 1)		Channel 4
2005	Black Books (series 3)		Channel 4
	Green Wing (series 1)		Channel 4
	Nighty Night (series 2)		BBC Three
	The Vicar of Dibley (Christmas Specials: A Very Dibley Christmas)		BBC One
2006	The Thick of It (series 1 & 2)		BBC Four
	Extras (series 1)		BBC Two
	Peep Show (series 3)		Channel 4
	The Worst Week of My Life (series 2)		BBC One
2007	The Royle Family (Special: The Queen of Sheba)	Caroline Aherne, Craig Cash, John Rushton, Phil Mealey	BBC One
	Green Wing (series 2)		Channel 4
	The IT Crowd (series 1)		Channel 4
	Pulling (series 1)		BBC Three
2008	Peep Show (series 4)	Sam Bain, Jesse Armstrong, Robert Popper, Becky Martin	Channel 4
	Benidorm (series 1)		ITV
	The IT Crowd (series 2)		Channel 4
	The Thick of It (2007 Specials: The Rise of the Nutters & Spinners and Losers)		BBC Four
2009	The IT Crowd (series 3)	Graham Linehan, Richard Boden, Ash Atalla	Channel 4
	The Inbetweeners (series 1)		E4
	Outnumbered (series 2)		BBC One
	Peep Show) (series 5)		Channel 4

2010s

Year	Program	Recipients	Channel
2010	The Thick of It (series 3)	Armando Ianucci, Adam Tandy	BBC Two
	The Inbetweeners (series 2)	Damon Beesley, Iain Morris, Ben Palmer, Christopher Young	E4
	Miranda (series 1)		BBC One
	Peep Show (series 6)		Channel 4
2011	Rev. (series 1)		BBC Two
	Mrs. Brown's Boys (series 1)		BBC One
	Peep Show (series 7)	Phil Clarke, Becky Martin, Sam Bain, Jesse Armstrong	Channel 4
	The Trip (series 1)	Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, Michael Winterbottom	BBC Two
2012	Mrs. Brown's Boys (series 2)	Martin Delaney, Ben Kellett, Stephen McCrum, Brendan O'Carroll	BBC One
	Fresh Meat (series 1)	Jesse Armstrong, Sam Bain, Judy Counihan, Rhonda Smith	E4
	Friday Night Dinner (series 1)	Kenton Allen, Steve Bendelack, Caroline Leddy, Robert Popper	Channel 4
	Rev. (series 2)		BBC Two
2013	Twenty Twelve (series 2)	John Morton, Paul Schlesinger, Catherine Gosling Fuller, Jon Plowman	BBC Two
	Episodes (series 2)		BBC Two
	Hunderby (series 1)		Sky Atlantic
	The Thick of It (series 4)	Armando Ianucci, Adam Tandy	BBC Two
2014	Him & Her (series 4: The Wedding)	Kenton Allen, Stefan Golaszewski, Lyndsay Robinson, Richard Laxton	BBC Three
	Count Arthur Strong (series 1)		BBC Two
	The IT Crowd (Finale Special: The Internet is Coming)		Channel 4
	Toast of London (series 1)		Channel 4
2015	Detectorists (series 1)	Mackenzie Crook, Adam Tandy	BBC Four
	Harry & Paul (Special: Harry & Paul's Story of the Twos)		BBC Two
	Moone Boy (series 2)		Sky1
	The Wrong Mans (series 2)		BBC Two
2016	Peter Kay's Car Share (series 1)	Peter Kay, Gill Isles, Sian Gibson, Paul Coleman	BBC One
	Chewing Gum (series 1)		E4
	Peep Show (series 9)		Channel 4
	People Just Do Nothing (series 2)		BBC Three
2017	People Just Do Nothing (series 3)		BBC Three
	Camping (series 1)		Sky Atlantic
	Fleabag (series 1)		BBC Three
	Flowers (series 2)		Channel 4
2018	This Country (series 1)	Daisy May Cooper, Charlie Cooper, Tom George, Simon Mayhew-Archer	BBC Three
	Catastrophe (series 3)		Channel 4
	Chewing Gum (series 2)		E4
	Timewasters (series 1)		ITV2
2019	Sally4ever (series 1)		Sky Atlantic
	Derry Girls (series 1)		Channel 4
	Mum (series 2)		BBC Two
	Stath Lets Flats (series 1)		Channel 4

2020s

Year	Program	Recipients	Channel
2020	Catastrophe (series 4)		Channel 4
	Derry Girls (series 1)		Channel 4
	Fleabag (series 2)		BBC Three
	Stath Lets Flats (series 1)		Channel 4

Programmes with multiple wins and nominations

Multiple Awards

3 awards

• The Office (consecutive)

2 awards

• Black Books
• Fawlty Towers
• The Thick of It

Multiple Nominations

7 nominations

• Peep Show

4 nominations

• The IT Crowd
• The Thick of It

3 nominations

• The Office
• The Royle Family

2 nominations

• Black Books
• Catastrophe
• Chewing Gum
• Derry Girls
• Fleabag
• Green Wing
• Mrs. Brown's Boys
• People Just Do Nothing
• Rev.
• Spaced
• Strath Lets Flats
• The Inbetweeners
• The Vicar of Dibley