Winners announced

Comedians Adam Kay, Jack Rooke and Michael Spicer all took home gongs at the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain awards tonight.

Kay won the best long-form drama award for This is Going to Hurt, the BBC medical comedy-drama based on his memoirs by the same name, starring Ben Whishaw as Kay.

Sitcom writing legend Maurice Gran presented Jack Rooke with the award for best TV situation comedy for his semi-autobiographical Channel 4 comedy Big Boys

The show, starring Dylan Llewellyn, Jon Pointing, is about two mismatched boys who strike up an unlikely friendship when they're thrown together at university.

Spicer won the best online comedy accolade for The Room Next Door –  specifically his take on Boris Johnson's resignation speech. The award was presented to him by improviser and actress Josie Lawrence.

Spicer turned awards presenter to give David Quantick his WGGB award for best radio comedy for Whatever Happened to Baby Jane Austen. Today it was announced that the show, starring Jennifer Saunders and Dawn French as warring showbiz sisters, had been

Best children’s TV episode went to comedy writers and perfromes  Rhys Thomas and Lucy Montgomery for the Dosh episode of Dodger.

WGGB Chair Lisa Holdsworth said ‘Congratulations to all the winners of the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain Awards 2023. It’s been a wonderful night. It’s always an honour and a pleasure to be in a room full of writers and to celebrate their work across all the mediums, for all audiences.

'Thank you to all the winners and nominees for your stories and your hard work. And please know that your union will always be there to support and celebrate you.’

Published: 16 Jan 2023