Rose d'Or Winners 2013 Announced

Rose d'Or Winners 2013 Announced

BRUSSELS, May 30, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --



Returning to EUROVISION, the Rose d'Or awards were given out tonight at an evening
celebration dinner at the Square in Brussels. The awards were presented in six categories
for the best and most creative entertainment television programmes from around the world.
More than 300 entries from over thirty countries were submitted this year to participate
in this prestigious competition.



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The evening was hosted by popular Dutch TV personality and humanitarian Lucille
Werner, with honoured guests Princess Astrid and Prince Lorenz of Belgium in attendance at
the ceremony. The awards left Switzerland for the first time in 52 years, being held as
the final event of the 2013 Media Summit. The winners in the six competition categories
are:



Comedy



What If?



Shelter for VMMa, Belgium



Sitcom



Spy



Hat Trick Productions for British Sky Broadcasting, United Kingdom



Game Show



Oh Sit!



The Gurin Company/405 Productions/Raquel Productions/Warner Horizon for the CW, United
States



Arts



Freddie Mercury: The Great Pretender



Eagle Rock Entertainment for British Broadcasting Corporation, United Kingdom



Reality and Factual Entertainment



Make Bradford British



Love Productions for Channel 4, United Kingdom



Entertainment



Gruen Sweat



Zapruder's Other Films/ABC for Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Australia



The nominated programmes were announced in April 2013, after the first round of
judging, during which a shortlist of the three best programmes in each of the six
categories were selected. The six Heads of Jury, who formed the Final Jury, determined the
best in each category earlier this week.



Note to editors:



More information on the winners and the nominees, as well as photos of the event are
available at: http://www.rosedor.com



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ABOUT ROSE D'OR



The Rose d'Or is one of the world's most important international entertainment
television festivals founded in 1961 in Montreux, Switzerland. Today television
professionals, producers, managers of private and public television stations and
production company heads from about 40 countries participate annually. Since its
inception, the Rose d'Or has been an important networking platform and a marketplace for
innovation and ideas. The highlight of the Rose d'Or is the glittering Awards Night, in
which the Golden Roses for best television entertainment programmes and formats are
presented. With these coveted awards, the Rose d'Or Festival recognises originality,
quality and creativity; and sets the standard for entertainment television.



Rose d'Or website - http://www.rosedor.com



Rose d'Or facebook page - http://www.facebook.com/theRosedOrFestival



Rose d'Or Twitter account - www.twitter.com/therosedor [http://twitter.com/therosedor
]



Rose d'Or flickr account - http://www.flickr.com/photos/rosedor




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