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UK triumphs at Rose d’Or

Channel 4 (C4) comedy Toast of London was named best sitcom at the Rose d’Or Awards last night, in what was a successful evening for UK entertainment programming.

The UK claimed four out of the nine Golden Rose Awards on offer at the annual European Broadcasting Union (EBU) event, this year held in Berlin.

Sitcom winner Toast of London, produced by Objective Productions, edged out ABC Australia series Please Like Me and BSkyB’s Yonderland.

It stars Matt Berry as eccentric middle-aged actor Steven Toast and chronicles the trials and tribulations of his life. The show ran for six episodes in 2013 and has been renewed for a second season.

C4 also won the award for best reality and factual entertainment show with Gogglebox, the observational documentary format from All3Media-owned Studio Lambert, which its founder Stephen Lambert picked up.

BBC1 gameshow Pointless, produced by Endemol UK-owned Remarkable Television, scooped the best gameshow category, beating off competition from Israel’s The Common Denominator, from Armoza Formats, and Germany’s Extraordinary Masters, from Brainpool TV GmbH.

Pointless exec producer James Fox told C21 it was the first triumph for Pointless at an awards ceremony, following several nominations.

“The extraordinary thing about Pointless is we have now made 799 shows,” he said. “We’ve been to countless awards ceremonies that we’ve been very lucky to be nominated for over the years but this is the first time we’ve won and it feels like it is long overdue.”

But the UK’s Through the Keyhole (ITV, FremantleMedia’s Talkback) lost out in the best comedy category to Israel’s Little Mom, which follows the lives of three mothers whose libidos cause them problems as they try to find time for their children, friends and partners.

Little Mom was produced by Yoav Gross Productions for Channel 10 in Israel, which has a second season in production, and has been remade around the world after deals with distributor Dori Media.

In the television arts category, France’s Peter & The Wolf (Pierre et le Loup), from Camera Lucida Productions for France Televisions, was the stand-out winner, edging BSkyB’s Inside the Mind of Leonardo.

Meanwhile, Germany’s Circus Halli Galli, from ProSiebenSat.1 TV Deutschland, was the winner of the best entertainment category.

In its second year of being revamped by the EBU, the Eurovision event received nearly 400 entries from countries across Europe and further afield.

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