Rose d'Or Nominees Unveiled

GENEVA, April 26, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --

The nominees for the 2013 Rose d'Or were announced today by EUROVISION, organizers of the prestigious international entertainment programme awards.

The winners will be decided at the 52nd Rose d'Or Awards, which will be held in Brussels on 30 May 2013. The Rose d'Or Awards define the gold standard of excellence and achievement in entertainment programming.

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Annika Nyberg Frankenhaeuser, EUROVISION Media Director said: "The quality and number of entries received in 2013 is exceptional and the judges have chosen top-quality nominees. The Rose d'Or are the awards that programme-makers covet the most because they symbolize the pinnacle of success for entertainment programming."

This year Rose d'Or Awards will be given in the following categories: Game Show, Reality & Factual Entertainment, Sitcom, Comedy, Entertainment, and Arts. Nominees come from as far afield as Australia, USA, Spain, Germany, Austria, Belgium, and the Netherlands. The UK leads the field with 10 programmes submitted to the final round of judging.

The winners will be announced at an evening celebration, hosted by Dutch TV celebrity Lucille Werner in the presence of Princess Astrid and Prince Lorenz of Belgium.

You can register for the Rose d'Or on http://www.rosedor.com which also gives you automatic access to the Media Summit Focus Day. The Media Summit is an event for programme-makers and content producers to learn from world-changing innovators and visionaries.

LIST OF NOMINEES

        
        GAME SHOW
                                   The Gurin Company, 405
                                   Productions, Raquel Productions,
        Oh Sit!                    Warner Horizon for The CW        USA
        Joko against Klaas - The   Endemol Deutschland /Florida TV  Germany
        Duel around the World      GmbH for ProSieben
                                   Dori Media/Producciones
        Smart Face                 Mandarina for Cuatro             Spain

        
        REALITY AND FACTUAL
        ENTERTAINMENT
        Derren Brown: Apocalypse   Objective Productions for Channel 4
        Part 1                                                         UK
        Make Bradford British      Love Productions for Channel 4      UK
        Jobs without Frontiers     Sputnik Media for Eén               Belgium

        
        SITCOM
                             Hat Trick Productions for British Sky
        Spy                  Broadcasting                              UK
        The Thick of It      British Broadcasting Corporation          UK
        Twenty Twelve        British Broadcasting Corporation          UK

        
        COMEDY
        Cardinal Burns             Left Bank Pictures for Channel 4 UK
        The Revolution Will Be     Hat Trick Productions for
        Televised                  British Broadcasting Corporation UK
        What If?                   Shelter for VMMa                 Belgium

        
        ENTERTAINMENT
        The Dino Show              Men at Work TV Produkties for NTR   Netherlands
        Let's Dance for Sport
        Relief                     Whizz Kid Entertainment for British
                                   Broadcasting Corporation            UK
        Gruen Sweat                Zapruder's Other Films/ABC for
                                   Australian Broadcasting Corporation Australia

        
        ARTS
        Freddie Mercury: The Great Eagle Rock Entertainment for
        Pretender                  British Broadcasting Corporation UK
        London: The Modern Babylon BBC Films/BFI/Nitrate Film for
                                   British Broadcasting Corporation UK
        Just Ballet                Seven Film- und Postproduction   Austria
                                   GmbH for ZDF/3SAT

For further information on the nominees, please visit our web-site: http://www.eurovision.com

About EUROVISION

EUROVISION, operated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), is the industry's premier distributor and producer of top quality live sport and news, as well as entertainment, culture and music content.

The EUROVISION satellite and fibre network is the largest and most reliable in the world directly plugged in to public service media everywhere.

EUROVISIONS's staff of experienced media professionals acquire and manage media rights on behalf of EBU Members, and provide network, transmission and events services to the broadcasting industry.

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