This results of this year's Writers' Guild Awards have just been announced. In the Best Sitcom Category Him and Her by Stefan Golaszewski beat House of Fools by Vic Reeves & Bob Mortimer and Up the Women, by Jessica Hynes.

The Brig Society by Marcus Brigstocke with Jeremy Salsby, Toby Davies, Nick Doody, Dan Tetsell & Steve Punt won Best Radio Comedy, up against Helen Keen’s It is Rocket Science by Helen Keen & Miriam Underhill and John Finnemore’s Souvenir Programme by John Finnemore.

Comedian Sandi Toksvig presented the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain annual Awards at RIBA in London and presenters of individual awards included writer Caitlin Moran and comedian Nick Revell. 

FULL RESULTS

Best Long Form TV Drama

Winner: Happy Valley by Sally Wainwright

Shortlisted: Line of Duty by Jed Mercurio, Peaky Blinders by Steven Knight

Best Short Form TV Drama

Winner: Marvellous by Peter Bowker

Shortlisted: The Great Train Robbery by Chris Chibnall, Turks & Caicos by David Hare

Best Long Running TV Series

Winner: Holby City, “Self Control” by Rebecca Wojciechowski

Shortlisted: Doctors, “Silver on the Hearth” by Toby Walton, Doctors, “Boiling Point” by Dale Overton

Best TV Situation Comedy

Winner: Him and Her by Stefan Golaszewski

Shortlisted: Up the Women by Jessica Hynes, House of Fools by Vic Reeves & Bob Mortimer

Best Children’s TV Episode

Winner: Bing: “Bye Bye” by Denise Cassar & the Bing Writing Team

Shortlisted: Wizards Versus Aliens, “The Thirteenth Floor Part 2” by Phil Ford, Strange Hill High, “MCDXX Men” by Mark Oswin & James Griffiths

Best Radio Drama

Winner: A Night Visitor by Stephanie Jacob

Shortlisted: Magpie by Lee Mattinson, Dangerous Visions, “The Bee Maker” by Anita Sullivan

Best Radio Comedy

Winner: The Brig Society by Marcus Brigstocke with Jeremy Salsby, Toby Davies, Nick Doody, Dan Tetsell & Steve Punt

Shortlisted: Helen Keen’s It is Rocket Science by Helen Keen & Miriam Underhill, John Finnemore’s Souvenir Programme by John Finnemore

Best First Novel

Winner: The Shock of the Fall by Nathan Filer

Shortlisted: A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing by Eimear McBride, Barbarians by Tim Glencross

Best Writing in a Video Game

Winner: 80 Days by Meg Jayanth

Shortlisted: A Machine for Pigs by Dan Pinchbeck, Schrödinger’s Cat and the Raiders of the Lost Quark by Kevin Beimers

Best First Screenplay

Winner: Starred Up by Jonathan Asser

Shortlisted: Pride by Stephen Beresford, The Selfish Giant by Clio Barnard

Best Screenplay

Winner: Metro Manila by Sean Ellis & Frank E Flowers

Shortlisted: Filth by Jon S Baird, Philomena by Jeff Pope & Steve Coogan

Best Play

Winner: James I by Rona Munro

Shortlisted: Visitors by Barney Norris, Dr Scroggy’s War by Howard Brenton

Best Play for Young Audiences

Winner: Girls Like That by Evan Placey

Shortlisted: Minotaur by Kevin Dyer, The Boy Who Cried Wolf by Mike Kenny

Outstanding Contribution to Writing

Kay Mellor