Writers' Guild Awards 2020 shortlist
- Danny Brocklehurst, Lisa McGee and Rufus Jones are nominated in the Writers' Guild awards
- Tom Neenan, Brenda Gilhooly, Caroline Moran and James J Moran are shortlisted in the radio category
- The writers of online comedies Down From London, Paper Trail and Side Effects of the Pill are selected too
The Writers' Guild of Great Britain (WGGB) has revealed the shortlists for its 2020 awards.
The comedy-related nominations are:
Best TV Situation Comedy
Danny Brocklehurst for Brassic
Rufus Jones for Home
Best Radio Comedy
Brenda Gilhooly for Madam Mayor
Caroline Moran and James J Moran for Prepper
Best Online Comedy
Graham Dickson and Liz Kingsman for Down From London:
Ben Rufus Green for Paper Trail:
Hannah George and Tasha Dhanraj for Side Effects of the Pill:
Elsewhere in the nominations:
Ciaran Murtagh and Andrew Barnett Jones are nominated in the Best Children's TV Episode category for the Melted episode of Danger Mouse
Jeff Pope is nominated for Best Screenplay for his Stan & Ollie script.
Jessica Hynes appears in the Best First Screenplay list, for The Fight.
The full list of nominations for all 15 categories can be seen on writersguild.org.uk
WGGB President Sandi Toksvig says: "In such tumultuous times, when truth becomes ever stranger than fiction, we rely on writers to reflect, to inform, to distract, to entertain and to make meaning of it all. And what a lot of talent in this year's Writers' Guild Awards shortlist - from page, stage, screen and across the airwaves."
The results will be announced at a ceremony hosted by Katy Brand at the Royal College of Physicians in central London on Monday 13th January 2020.