Britain's Best Sitcom

Britain's Best Sitcom
Genre	Documentary
Written by	Robin Ince Steve Punt Lloyd Stanton Johnny Vaughan et al.
Directed by	Andy Devonshire Becky Martin
Presented by	See list of episodes
Country of origin	England
Original language(s)	English
No. of series	1
No. of episodes	12 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Robin Ashbrook Ricky Kelehar et al.
Producer(s)	Gerard Barry Stephen Franklin Alex Hardcastle Garry John Hughes Verity Maidlow Matt O'Casey Elaine Shepherd Mark Turnbull Norman Hull et al.
Running time	60 minutes (180-min. premiere; 90-min. finale)
Production company(s)	BBC
Release
Original network	BBC Two
Original release	10 January (2004-01-10) – 27 March 2004 (2004-03-27)

Britain's Best Sitcom was a BBC media campaign in which television viewers were asked to decide the best British situation comedy. Viewers could vote via telephone, SMS, or BBC Online. This first round of voting was conducted in 2003, after which the BBC published a list of the top 100 selections. From this list, they produced a 12-episode television series broadcast by BBC Two from January through March 2004.

The series was a retrospective that examined the history and qualities of the contending programmes. In the premiere episode, Jonathan Ross summarised the progress of the poll, and presented video clips from the 50 sitcoms that received the most votes. Each of the next ten weekly episodes, one hour in length, focused on one sitcom. In each episode, a different celebrity presenter advocated for a sitcom, delivering 20 reasons why it deserved viewers' votes. The show's writers and actors, as well as celebrity viewers, shared their own perspectives and memories. In the 90-minute series finale, transmitted live, Jonathan Ross announced the top sitcom to be Only Fools and Horses.

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