Year |
Title |
Recipient(s) |
Broadcaster |
1992 |
Prime Suspect |
Lynda La Plante, Don Leaver, Christopher Menaul |
ITV |
Clarissa |
Kevin Loader, Robert Bierman, Janet Barron, David Nokes |
BBC |
Coronation Street |
Mervyn Watson |
ITV |
GBH |
David Jones, Alan Bleasdale, Robert Young |
Channel 4 |
1993 |
Anglo-Saxon Attitudes |
Andrew Brown, Diarmuid Lawrence, Andrew Davies |
ITV |
The Camomile Lawn |
Sophie Balhetchet, Glenn Wilhide, Peter Hall, Ken Taylor |
Channel 4 |
Prime Suspect 2 |
Paul Marcus, John Strickland, Allan Cubitt |
ITV |
Goodbye Cruel World |
David Snodin, Adrian Shergold, Tony Marchant |
BBC Two |
1994 |
Prime Suspect 3 |
Paul Marcus, David Drury, Lynda La Plante |
ITV |
Body and Soul |
Jacky Stoller, Moira Armstrong, Paul Hines, Jill Hyem |
ITV |
The Buddha of Suburbia |
Kevin Loader, Roger Michell, Hanif Kureishi |
BBC Two |
Mr Wroe's Virgins |
John Chapman, Danny Boyle, Jane Rogers |
BBC |
1995 |
Takin' Over the Asylum |
Chris Parr, David Blair, Donna Franceschild |
BBC Two |
Coronation Street |
Sue Pritchard |
ITV |
Family |
Andrew Eaton, Michael Winterbottom, Roddy Doyle |
BBC One |
Middlemarch |
Louis Marks, Anthony Page, Andrew Davies |
BBC Two |
1996 |
The Politician's Wife |
Jenny Edwards, Jeanna Polley, Neal Weisman, Graham Theakston, Paula Milne |
Channel 4 |
Band of Gold |
Tony Dennis, Richard Standeven, Kay Mellor |
ITV |
The Hanging Gale |
Jonathan Cavendish, Diarmuid Lawrence, Allan Cubitt |
BBC One |
Pride and Prejudice |
Sue Birtwistle, Simon Langton, Andrew Davies |
1997 |
Our Friends in the North |
Charles Pattinson, Pedr James, Simon Cellan Jones, Stuart Urban, Peter Flannery |
BBC Two |
The Crow Road |
Bradley Adams, Gavin Millar, Bryan Elsley |
BBC Scotland |
The Fragile Heart |
Brian Eastman, Patrick Lau, Paula Milne |
Channel 4 |
Gulliver's Travels |
Duncan Kenworthy, Charles Sturridge, Simon Moore |
1998 |
Holding On |
David Snodin, Adrian Shergold, Tony Marchant |
BBC Two |
This Life |
Jane Fallon |
BBC Two |
The Lakes |
Charles Pattinson, David Blair, Jimmy McGovern |
BBC One |
The Woman in White |
Gareth Neame, Tim Fywell, David Pirie |
1999 |
Our Mutual Friend |
Catherine Wearing, Julian Farino, Sandy Welch |
BBC Two |
Amongst Women |
Jonathan Curling, Colin Tucker, Tom Cairns, Adrian Hodges |
BBC |
A Respectable Trade |
Ruth Baumgarten, Suri Krishnamma, Philippa Gregory |
Vanity Fair |
Gillian McNeill, Marc Munden, Andrew Davies |
Year |
Title |
Recipient(s) |
Broadcaster |
2000 |
Warriors |
Nigel Stafford-Clark, Peter Kosminsky, Leigh Jackson |
BBC One |
Births, Marriages and Deaths |
Greg Brenman, Adrian Shergold, Tony Grounds |
BBC Two |
Kid in the Corner |
Kate Anthony, Billie Eltringham, Tony Marchant |
Channel 4 |
Wives and Daughters |
Sue Birtwistle, Nicholas Renton, Andrew Davies |
BBC One |
2001 |
Longitude |
Charles Sturridge, Selwyn Roberts |
Channel 4 |
Nature Boy |
Catherine Wearing, Joe Wright, Bryan Elsley |
BBC Two |
Never Never |
Lynn Horsford, Julian Jarrold, Tony Marchant |
Channel 4 |
This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper |
Mike Dormer, David Richards, Neil McKay |
ITV |
2002 |
The Way We Live Now |
Nigel Stafford-Clark, David Yates, Andrew Davies |
BBC One |
Perfect Strangers |
John Chapman, Stephen Poliakoff |
BBC Two |
Bob and Rose |
Anne Harrison-Baxter, Julian Farino, Joe Wright, Russell T Davies |
ITV |
The Russian Bride |
Eileen Quinn, Nicholas Renton, Guy Hibbert |
2003 |
Shackleton |
Selwyn Roberts, Charles Sturridge |
Channel 4 |
Auf Wiedersehen, Pet |
Paul Seed, Dick Clement, Ian La Frenais, Joy Spink |
BBC One |
Dr Zhivago |
Ann Pivcevic, Giacamo Campiotti, Andrew Davies |
ITV |
Murder |
Rebecca DeSouza, Beeban Kidron, Abi Morgan |
BBC Two |
2004 |
Charles II: The Power and the Passion |
Kate Harwood, Adrian Hodges, Joe Wright |
BBC One |
Prime Suspect |
David Boulter, Peter Berry, Tom Hooper |
ITV |
The Second Coming |
Ann Harrison-Baxter, Adrian Shergold, Russell T Davies |
State of Play |
David Yates, Hilary Bevan Jones, Paul Abbott |
BBC One |
2005 |
Sex Traffic |
Derek Wax, David Yates, Abi Morgan |
Channel 4 |
Blackpool |
Kate Lewis, Julie-Anne Robinson, Peter Bowker |
BBC One |
The Long Firm |
Liza Marshall, Billie Eltringham, Joe Penhall |
BBC Two |
Outlaws |
BBC Three |
2006 |
Bleak House |
Nigel Stafford-Clark, Justin Chadwick, Susanna White, Andrew Davies |
BBC One |
Funland |
Sanne Wohlenberg, Jeremy Dyson, Simon Ashdown, Kenton Allen |
BBC Three |
Fingersmith |
Sally Head, Georgina Lowe, Aisling Walsh, Peter Ransley |
BBC One |
To the Ends of the Earth |
Lynn Horsford, David Attwood, Tony Basgallop, Leigh Jackson |
BBC Two |
2007 |
See No Evil: The Moors Murders |
Lisa Gilchrist, Neil McKay, Jeff Pope, Chris Menaul |
ITV |
Low Winter Sun |
Greg Brenman, Adrian Shergold, Simon Donald, Rhonda Smith |
Channel 4 |
The Virgin Queen |
Coky Giedroyc, Paula Milne, Paul Rutman |
BBC One |
Prime Suspect: The Final Act |
Andrew Benson, Philip Martin, Frank Deasy, Andy Harries |
ITV |
2008 |
Britz |
Peter Kosminsky, David Aukin, Hal Vogel, Steve Clark-Hall |
Channel 4 |
Cranford |
Sue Birtwistle, Simon Curtis, Heidi Thomas |
BBC One |
Five Days |
Paul Rutman, Otto Bathurst, Simon Curtis, Gwyneth Hughes |
Murphy's Law |
Greg Brenman, Stephen Smallwood, Russell Lewis, Colm McCarthy |
2009 |
Criminal Justice |
Pier Wilkie, Otto Bathurst, Peter Moffat |
BBC One |
Dead Set |
Charlie Brooker, Annabel Jones, Yann Demange |
Channel 4 |
The Devil's Whore |
Peter Flannery, Martine Brant, Marc Munden, Jake Lushington |
Channel 4 |
House of Saddam |
Steven Lightfoot, Alex Holmes, Stephen Butchard |
BBC Two |
Year |
Title |
Recipient(s) |
Broadcaster |
2012 |
This Is England '88 |
Mark Herbert, Shane Meadows, Jack Thorne, Rebekah Wray-Rogers |
Channel 4 |
Appropriate Adult |
Lisa Gilchrist, Julian Jarrold, Neil McKay, Jeff Pope |
ITV |
The Crimson Petal and the White |
Lucinda Coxon, Steve Lightfoot, Marc Munden, David M Thompson |
BBC Two |
Top Boy |
Ronan Bennett, Yann Demange, Alasdair Flind, Charles Steel |
Channel 4 |
2013 |
Room at the Top |
Aisling Walsh, Amanda Coe, Paul Frift, Kate Triggs |
BBC Four |
Accused |
Sita Williams, Roxy Spencer, Jimmy McGovern, Ashley Pearce |
BBC One |
Mrs Biggs |
Jeff Pope, Kwadjo Dajan, Paul Whittington |
ITV |
Parade’s End |
Selwyn Roberts, Tom Stoppard, Susanna White, David Parfitt |
BBC Two |
2014 |
In the Flesh |
Hilary Martin, Ann Harrison-Baxter, Dominic Mitchell, Jonny Campbell |
BBC Three |
The Fall |
Allan Cubitt, Jakob Verbruggen, Julian Stevens, Gub Neal |
BBC Two |
Southcliffe |
Tony Grisoni, Sean Durkin, Peter Carlton, Derrin Schlesinger |
Channel 4 |
The Great Train Robbery |
BBC One |
2015 |
The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies |
Gareth Neame, Peter Morgan, Roger Michell, Kevin Loader |
ITV |
Our World War |
BBC Three |
Cilla |
Jeff Pope, Paul Whittington, Kwadjo Dajan, Robert Willis |
ITV |
Prey |
Chris Lunt, Nicola Shindler, Tom Sherry, Nick Murphy |
2016 |
This Is England '90 |
Shane Meadows, Mark Herbert, Jack Thorne, Rebekah Wray-Rogers |
Channel 4 |
Doctor Foster |
Mike Bartlett, Tom Vaughan, Roanna Benn, Jude Liknaitzky |
BBC One |
The Enfield Haunting |
Kristoffer Nyholm, Joshua St Johnston, Adrian Sturges, Jamie Campbell |
Sky Living |
London Spy |
Juliette Howell, Tom Rob Smith, Guy Heeley, Jakob Verbruggen |
BBC Two |
2017 |
National Treasure |
George Ormond, Marc Munden, Jack Thorne, John Chapman |
Channel 4 |
The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses |
Dominic Cooke, Rupert Ryle-Hodges, Pippa Harris, Sam Mendes |
BBC Two |
The Witness for the Prosecution |
BBC One |
The Secret |
Mark Redhead, Nick Murphy, Jonathan Curling, Stuart Urban |
ITV |
2018 |
Three Girls |
Nicole Taylor, Philippa Lowthorpe, Susan Hogg, Simon Lewis |
BBC One |
Howards End |
Kenneth Lonergan, Hettie Macdonald, Laura Hastings-Smith, Sophie Gardiner |
BBC One |
The Moorside |
Neil McKay, Paul Whittington, Ken Horn, Jeff Pope |
The State |
Peter Kosminsky, Steve Clark-Hall, Liza Marshall, Kris Thykier |
Channel 4 |
2019
[2] |
Patrick Melrose |
Michael Jackson, Rachael Horovitz, Edward Berger, David Nicholls |
Sky Atlantic |
A Very English Scandal |
Russell T. Davies, Stephen Frears, Dominic Treadwell-Collins, Dan Winch |
BBC One |
Mrs Wilson |
Ruth Kenley-Letts, Richard Laxton, Anna Symon, Ruth Wilson |
Kiri |
Jack Thorne, George Ormond, Toby Bentley, Euros Lyn |
Channel 4 |
Year |
Title |
Recipient(s) |
Broadcaster |
2020
[3] |
Chernobyl |
Sky Atlantic |
A Confession |
Jeff Pope, Paul Andrew Williams, Tom Dunbar, Johnny Capps |
ITV |
The Victim |
Rob Williams, Niall MacCormick, Sarah Brown, Jenny Frayn |
BBC One |
The Virtues |
Shane Meadows, Jack Thorne, Mark Herbert, Nickie Sault |
Channel 4 |
2021
[4] |
I May Destroy You |
BBC One |
Adult Material |
Lucy Kirkwood, Dawn Shadforth, Sara Hamill, Patrick Spence |
Channel 4 |
Small Axe |
Steve McQueen, Tracey Scoffield, David Tanner, Michael Elliott, Anita Overland |
BBC One |
Normal People |
Lenny Abrahamson, Sally Rooney, Ed Guiney, Andrew Lowe, Emma Norton, Catherine Magee |
BBC Three |
2022
[5] |
Time |
BBC One |
It's a Sin |
Russell T Davies, Nicola Shindler, Peter Hoar, Phil Collinson |
Channel 4 |
Landscapers |
Will Sharpe, Ed Sinclair, Katie Carpenter, Olivia Colman, Jane Featherstone, Chris Fry |
Sky Atlantic |
Stephen |
Mark Redhead, Madonna Baptiste, Alrick Riley, Frank Cottrell Boyce, Joe Cottrell Boyce, Jessica Sharkey |
ITV |
2023
[6][7] |
Mood |
Nicôle Lecky, Margery Bone, Lisa Walters, Dawn Shadforth, Stroma Cairns |
BBC Three |
A Spy Among Friends |
Alexander Cary, Nick Murphy, Chrissy Skinns, Patrick Spence, Damian Lewis |
ITVX |
This Is Going to Hurt |
Adam Kay, Jane Featherstone, Naomi de Pear, James Farrell, Holly Pullinger, Lucy Forbes |
BBC One |
The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe |
David Nath, Richard Laxton, Chris Lang, Alison Sterling |
ITV |