Baby Reindeer wins drama category at Rose d’Ors as Netflix takes trio of prizes
This year’s Rose d’Or winners assemble on stage
CONTENT LONDON: Netflix’s controversial UK series Baby Reindeer was named best drama at the annual Rose d’Or Awards, which took place here at Kings Place this evening.
The Clerkenwell Films series, created by Richard Gadd and telling the story of his battle with a serial stalker, beat off very strong competition, including from ITV series Mr Bates vs The Post Office, which spurred government action to clear and compensate victims of the UK’s sub-postmaster scandal.
Baby Reindeer’s triumph was one of three wins for Netflix shows. Actor Ambika Mod won the individual Emerging Talent prize for her outstanding performance in the streamer’s David Nicholls adaptation One Day, while Squid Game: The Challenge took the Competition Reality award.
L-R: Baby Reindeer exec producers Ed Macdonald, Petra Fried and Matt Jarvis
Meanwhile, Gary Oldman won Performance of the Year for his display in Apple TV+ hit Slow Horses, while legendary Italian entertainment star Rosario Fiorello was this year’s Lifetime Achievement winner.
Elsewhere, Belgium continued to punch above its weight, with shows from the country winning in a trio of categories. VRT’s Dertigers 2, from Warner Bros International Television Production Belgium, won the Soap or Telenovela prize; fellow VRT series Niks Te Zien (Nothing to See), from Primitives, took the Factual Entertainment award; and podcast Batavia, from Het Geluidshuis and the Flemish Audiovisual Fund, became the first non-English-language project to win in Audio.
In addition, Norway’s NRK secured something of a coup, taking the Comedy Drama and Sitcom prize for Dates in Real Life ahead of other heavy hitters like Netflix shows Kaos and The Gentlemen, while Channel 4’s Taskmaster won Comedy Entertainment and the BBC’s reboot of Gladiators took Studio Entertainment.
Sophie Duker
“The Rose d’Or Awards are the gold standard of entertainment – you lot must be shitting yourselves,” said comedian Sophie Duker, who hosted the ceremony. “But how do you make great TV shows when there is so much chaos in the business, with 16 generations of iPhones and so many streamers: Disney+, Hulu, Pornhub, Amazon, Netflix, Pornhub…
“And attention spans are in the gutter. Every time I click my fingers, a TV executive is diagnosed with ADHD – by another TV exec with ADHD! They say TV formats are all too samey these days, with no new ideas; it’s all sequels, prequels, reboots – and I know, I’ve pitched some of them. And artificial intelligence is coming to eliminate our jobs. But we’ve been here before with Ask Jeeves, Clippy and the Magic 8 Ball – they’re the OGs of AI!”
The full list of winners is as follows:
Audio
Batavia
Het Geluidshuis/Humo/AD/VAF/Belgium
Multiplatform
Democracy 2024
Financial Times/UK
Children and Youth
Bluey
Ludo Studios/BBC Studios Kids & Family/Australian Broadcasting Corporation/ABC/ABC iview/Disney Branded Television/Disney+/Disney Channel/Disney Junior/Australia
Arts
Ryuichi Sakamoto: Last Days
NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation)/NHK Enterprises/NHK GTV/Japan
Documentary
Otto Baxter: Not A F***ing Horror Story
Story Films/Archface Films/NBCUniversal Global Distribution/Sky Documentaries/UK
News and Current Affairs
Ukraine’s War: The Other Side
Sean Langan/Tiger Nest Film Production/Journeyman Pictures/ITV1/UK
Factual Entertainment
Niks Te Zien (Nothing to See)
Roses Are Blue/Primitives/VRT1/Belgium
Studio Entertainment
Gladiators
Hungry Bear Media/MGM Alternative UK/Amazon MGM Studios/BBC One/UK
Comedy Entertainment
Taskmaster
Avalon Television/Avalon Distribution/Channel 4/UK
Competition Reality
Squid Game: The Challenge
Studio Lambert/The Garden/Netflix/UK
Soap or Telenovela
Dertigers 2
Warner Bros International Television Production Belgium/VRT1/VRT MAX/Belgium
Comedy Drama and Sitcom
Dates in Real Life
Maipo/Dynamic Television/NRK/Norway
Drama
Baby Reindeer
A Netflix Series/A Clerkenwell Films Production/Netflix/UK
Emerging Talent
Ambika Mod, One Day (Netflix)
Performance
Gary Oldman, Slow Horses (Apple TV+)
Lifetime Achievement
Rosario Fiorello
