Not Going Out wins Golden Rose award
BBC1 had a great night at the 47th annual Rose D'Or International Television Festival tonight with both of the Golden Rose awards dedicated to comedy programming going to the channel.
Andrew Collins and Lee Mack's well received new mainstream BBC1 sitcom Not Going Out scooped the prestigious Golden Rose for situation comedy whilst the final episodes of The Vicar of Dibley earned the channel the Golden Rose for comedy too.
The highly prestigious Golden Rose awards are very much sort after by broadcasters and programme makers. Programmes from all around world are entered each year in the hope of being named the best in the world. Contenders for the sitcom award this year included Alle lieben Jimmy (Germany), The Lighthouse (Finland), The Thick Of It (UK) and Little Mosque on the Prairie (Canada).
With these 2007 results Britain continues its dominance in the comedy categories, it has now been a number of years since another country has managed to win a Rose D'Or award for comedy. In recent years the comedy/sitcom awards have gone to Creature Comforts and Peep Show (2004); Little Britain and Nighty Night (2005); Look Around You and Extras (2006).
In fact this year it was a particularly good night all around for British TV; eight of the twelve Golden Roses went to programmes created in the UK. The complete list of winners were:
ART DOCUMENTARY
Young @ Heart - Channel 4 (UK)
COMEDY
The Vicar of Dibley - BBC1 (UK)
PERFORMING ARTS
Peter and the Wolf - Channel 4 (UK)
REALITY
Secret Millionaire - Channel 4 (UK)
SHOW
The Pyramid - Croatian Television (Croatia)
SITCOM
Not Going Out - BBC 1 (UK)
SOAP
Con Passionate - S4C (UK)
OPERA SPECIAL PRIZE
Man on the Moon - Channel 4 (UK)
BEST OF 2007 - SPECIAL PRIZE
Young @ Heart - Channel 4 (UK)
PERFORMING ARTS SPECIAL MENTION
Car men - Nederlandse Programma Stichting (NPS)
SOAP SPECIAL MENTION
Home Affairs - SABC (South Africa)
OPERA SPECIAL MENTION
Mozart22, Le Nozze di Figaro - Unitel/Classica GmbH (Germany)
Comedian Ben Elton, who received a lifetime achievement award at this year's festival, hosted the awards at Wednesday's Rose D'Or closing ceremony in Lucerne, Switzerland.