BULLDOGS AWARDS 2008
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COMEDY
Gavin and Stacey

Winner

Gavin and Stacey

May, BBC3, (Baby Cow)

This big breakout sitcom hit for BBC3 is turning into the comedy hit of the year with the show, and star James Corden, recently picking up a couple of Baftas to sit alongside the Southbank Show award and British Comedy Awards it has already garnered. The show also looks set to follow another BBC comedy hit, The Office, to the US as the NBC network has already picked up the rights to the scripts for a remake in America. Corden also writes the show along with another of its stars, Welsh actress Ruth Jones. The series centres on the romance and impending marriage of Stacey from Barry in Wales and Gavin from Essex and their massively unsuited friends and families. The show has already hit the screens this  year for its second run picking up an impressive 1.7m viewers on BBC3. It also stars Mathew Horne and Joanna Page, Rob Brydon and Alison Steadman. Lindsay Hughes and Henry Normal were executive producers.

RUNNERS UP
Harry Hills TV Burp

2nd

Harry Hill’s TV Burp

January, ITV1, (Avalon)

Comedian Harry Hill continues with his sideways take on the week’s TV and still manages to find new ways to poke fun at the absurdities of television, particularly the soaps. TV faces queue up to appear on the show and have Harry take the mick out of them. Richard Allen-Turner and Jon Thoday executive produce the show that is written by Harry Hill along with Brenda Gilhooly, Paul Hawksbee, Dan Maier and David Quantick.

The Mighty Boosh

3rd

The Mighty Boosh

November, BBC3, (Baby Cow)

The third series of Baby Cow’s surreal comedy The Mighty Boosh saw the main protagonists Vince Noir (Noel Fielding) and Howard Moon (Julian Barratt) working in the mystical Naboo's second hand shop in Dalston and raising the weird bar to ever greater heights. The third series also witnessed the world’s first four-way crimp. It was directed by Paul King and produced by Spencer Millman. Simon Wilson was the BBC’s executive producer.