Awards and Reception
Black Books won the BAFTA for Best Situation Comedy in 2001 and 2005, and won a Bronze Rose at the Festival Rose d'Or of Montreux in 2001. As well as nominations for British Comedy Awards and the Irish Film and Television Awards.
According to Allan Brown, writing for The Times in August 2005, the show was "killed off after three hugely popular series".
In Channel 4's "The World's Greatest Comedy Characters" poll, Bernard was voted 19th. The show ranked 58th out of 100 in the BBC's Britain's Best Sitcom poll in 2004.
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