Industry

The best in TV and online entertainment from around the world has been honoured at the 57th Rose d’Or Awards in Berlin last Thursday night. Programmes from Belgium, Italy, Sweden, the UK and the US were awarded trophies in 10 categories. Among the winners were Netflix's royal saga ‘The Crown’ (Left Bank Pictures/Sony Pictures Television for Netflix, USA) which won Best Drama and Italy’s ‘Roberto Bolle - Dance with Me’ (RaiUno & Ballandi Multimedia for Rai, Italy) starring the eponymous dancer which took home the prize for Best Entertainment. Belgium triumphed in two categories for Reality and Factual (Down the Road - Roses Are Blue for VRT, Belgium) and Game Show (Sorry About That - Warner Bros. International Television Production Belgium for VRT, Belgium). The UK picked up five of the 10 awards in the Sitcom (Detectorists - Acorn Media Enterprises/Channel X North/Treasure Trove Productions/Lola Entertainment for Acorn TV and BBC, USA & UK), Arts (Betroffenheit - 3 minutes West for BBC, United Kingdom), Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality (Damming The Nile - BBC, United Kingdom), Children and Youth (The Highway Rat - Magic Light Pictures for BBC, United Kingdom) and Limited Series and TV Movie (A Very English Scandal - Blueprint Television Ltd for BBC, United Kingdom) categories. Sweden’s ‘Grotesco's Seven Masterpieces’ (The Refugee Crisis: a musical – FLX for SVT, Sweden) won in the Comedy category. Joanna Lumley received the Lifetime Achievement Award for her outstanding contribution to the entertainment industry. German satirist and TV host Jan Böhmermann was also present to collect his Entertainer of the Year Award. Nearly 500 programmes from around 300 broadcasters and production companies were submitted for this year’s Rose d’Or Awards. Juries made up of industry professionals from 15 different countries shortlisted four nominees and then selected winners in each of the 10 categories competing for a Rose d’Or.