British comedy in 2003

• Coupling was Best TV Comedy at the British Comedy Awards. Winners
• Demetri Martin won the Edinburgh Comedy Award
• A little website called The British Sitcom Guide launches. It slowly grows and eventually becomes... this website!

Notable comedies debuting in 2003

All new TV comedy from 2003

1. 20 Things To Do Before You're Thirty
2. 30 Years Of Last Of The Summer Wine
3. 3 Non-Blondes
4. Absolutely Fabulous
5. Absolute Power
6. Ali G In Da USAiii
7. Alistair McGowan's Big Impression
8. All About Me
9. The All New Comedy Store
10. The All-New Harry Hill Show
11. Anglian Lives - Alan Partridge
12. At Home With The Braithwaites
13. Baddiel And Skinner Unplanned
14. Barbara
15. The Basil Brush Show
16. Bedsitcom
17. Bedtime
18. The Book Group
19. The Booze Cruise
20. Bo' Selecta!
21. Brain Candy
22. Bremner, Bird And Fortune
23. Bremner, Bird And Fortune: Between Iraq And A Hard Place
24. The British Comedy Awards
25. The Bronx Bunny Show
26. Busted: Christmas For Everyone
27. Chewin' The Fat
28. ChuckleVision
29. Cold Feet
30. Comedy Connections
31. Comedy From Merton To Enfield
32. Comic Relief
33. Creature Comforts
34. The Crouches
35. Dare To Believe
36. Dead Ringers
37. Doc Martin And The Legend Of The Cloutie
38. Dose
39. Doubletake
40. Early Doors
41. Ed Stone Is Dead
42. Eyes Down
43. Final Demand
44. Fortysomething
45. French And Saunders
46. Friday Night With Jonathan Ross
47. Gash
48. Grass
49. Grease Monkeys
50. Grumpy Old Men
51. Happiness
52. Hardware
53. Harry Hill's TV Burp
54. Have I Got News For You
55. Heroes Of Comedy
56. High Hopes
57. Imagine ... A Funny Business
58. Jim Davidson: Basra Bound
59. Jo Brand: Barely Live
60. Jonathan Creek
61. The Karen Dunbar Show
62. Kerching!
63. The Kumars At No. 42
64. The Last Detective
65. Last Of The Summer Wine
66. Lenny Henry In Pieces
67. Lenny Henry: This Is My Life
68. Life Beyond The Box
69. Little Britain
70. Live Floor Show
71. Lucky Jim
72. Manchild
73. Margery And Gladys
74. Marion And Geoff
75. The Mark Steel Lectures
76. The Mark Thomas Comedy Product
77. The Mighty Boosh
78. Monarch Of The Glen
79. Monkey Dust
80. Mr Bean
81. My Dad's The Prime Minister
82. My Family
83. My Hero
84. My New Best Friend
85. Naked
86. Never Mind The Buzzcocks
87. Noble And Silver: My Mouth Shalt Speak The Praise Of Thy Lord
88. The Office
89. Only An Excuse?
90. Only Fools And Horses
91. Overnite Express
92. Paul & Pauline Calf's Cheese & Ham Sandwich
93. Peep Show
94. The Pilot Show
95. Posh Nosh
96. QI
97. The Richard Taylor Interviews
98. Rich Hall's Fishing Show
99. Roger Roger
100. Room 101
101. Seriously Weird
102. Shoot The Writers!
103. The Sitcom Story
104. The Sitcom Trials
105. The Sketch Show
106. Smack The Pony
107. Sort-It-Out-Man
108. Spine Chillers
109. Star
110. The State We're In
111. Still Game
112. Swiss Toni
113. Teachers
114. Terri McIntyre
115. They Think It's All Over
116. Trevor's World Of Sport
117. Two Pints Of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps
118. Velvet Soup
119. William And Mary
120. The Young Visiters

All new radio comedy from 2003

1. 1834
2. 21 Years Of Just For Laughs
3. 4 At The Fringe
4. 4 At The Store
5. 4 In A Field
6. The 99p Challenge
7. Agatha Raisin
8. Alfie
9. Alison And Maud
10. Artists
11. Associated London Scripts
12. Boothby Graffoe In No Particular Order
13. The Change
14. Cheers, Deb
15. Comedians' Comedians
16. Comic Fringes
17. Concrete Cow
18. The Consultants
19. Creme De La Crime
20. Daunt And Dervish
21. Dead Ringers
22. Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me
23. Double Income, No Kids Yet
24. Double Trouble
25. Elephants To Catch Eels
26. Fighting Talk
27. Foley And McColl: The Interview
28. Getting Nowhere Fast
29. Gilbert Without Sullivan
30. Giles Wemmbley Hogg Goes Off
31. Great Lives - Tommy Cooper
32. The Griff Rhys Jones Show
33. Heresy
34. Hopes And Desires
35. The House Of Milton Jones
36. The Hudson And Pepperdine Show
37. I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue
38. In Conversation With
39. The In Crowd
40. I Think I've Got A Problem
41. It's Been A Bad Week
42. Jeremy Hardy Speaks To The Nation
43. Just A Minute
44. Just William - Live!
45. King Street Junior
46. Lloyd Cole Knew My Father
47. The News Quiz
48. No Commitments
49. The Now Show
50. Old Harry's Game
51. Palace Of Laughter
52. Paperback Hell
53. Parsons And Naylor's Pull-Out Sections
54. The Problem With Adam Bloom
55. Radio 9
56. Radio Fun
57. The Rapid Eye Movement
58. The Right Time
59. Rigor Mortis
60. Ring Around The Bath
61. Robin And Wendy's Wet Weekends
62. Ross Noble Goes Global
63. The Shuttleworths
64. The Six Mothers-In-Law Of Henry VIII
65. Smelling Of Roses
66. The Smith Lectures
67. Snap
68. Spanking New On 7
69. Spring Forward; Fall Back
70. Stanley Baxter And Friends
71. Stuck In The Middle
72. The Sunday Format
73. That Mitchell & Webb Sound
74. That Reminds Me
75. Trapped
76. Two Doors Down
77. We've Been Here Before
78. Where Did It All Go Wrong?
79. Whispers
80. A Whole 'Nother Story
81. Wild Things

British comedy films released in 2003

1. 9 Dead Gay Guys
2. The Actors
3. Blackball
4. Calendar Girls
5. Girl From Rio
6. Hello Friend
7. I'll Be There
8. Johnny English
9. Love Actually
10. Mrs Caldicot's Cabbage War
11. The One And Only
12. One For The Road
13. S Club: Seeing Double
14. Wilbur Wants To Kill Himself