The Writers' Guild Awards have announced the shortlists for the 2016 prizes.
Best Long Form TV Drama
- Banished by Jimmy McGovern
- Not Safe for Work by DC Moore
- Wolf Hall by Peter Straughan
Best Short Form TV Drama
- Code of a Killer by Michael Crompton
- The Casual Vacancy by Sarah Phelps
- The Gamechangers by James Wood
Best Long Running TV Series
- Holby City, Series 17, Episode 50 “At First I was Afraid” by Julia Gilbert
- River City by Louise Ironside
- Emmerdale, Episode 7188/89 by Maxine Alderton
Best TV Situation Comedy
- Veep Season Four by Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche, Simon Blackwell, Sean Gray, Ian Martin, Jesse Armstrong, William Smith, Roger Drew
- Catastrophe by Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney
- W1A by John Morton
Best Children’s TV Episode
- The Dumping Ground, Series 3, Episode 10 “Dragon Slayer” by Julie Dixon
- Eve, Finale Episode: “Control, Alter, Delete” by Emma Reeves
- Katie Morag And The Worst Day Ever by Sergio Casci
Best Radio Drama
- Fragments by Laura Lomas
- Orpheus & Eurydice by Linda Marshall Griffiths
- Quill by Tony Jones
Best Radio Comedy
- White Rolls The Dice by Deborah Frances
- Ed Reardon’s Week by Andrew Nickolds and Christopher Douglas
- Boswell’s Lives by Jon Canter
Best Writing in a Video Game
- Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture by Dan Pinchbeck
- Her Story by Sam Barlow
- Sunless Sea by Alexis Kennedy, Richard Cobbett, Amal El-Mohtar, Chris Gardiner, Meg Jayanth and Emily Short
Best Screenplay
- Wild by Nick Hornby
- Paddington by Paul King
- Ex Machina by Alex Garland
Best First Screenplay
- ’71 by Gregory Burke
- The Falling by Carol Morley
- X + Y by James Graham
Best Play
- Jefferson’s Garden by Timberlake Wertenbaker
- Liberian Girl by Diana Nneka Atuona
- Temple by Steve Waters
Best Play for Young Audiences
- Bird by Laura Lomas
- Muddy Choir by Jesse Briton
- Three Wise Monkeys by Mike Kenny