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

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