Famalam nominated in 2020 Rose d'Or Awards
- BBC Three sketch show Famalam is nominated in the international Rose d'Or Awards 2020
- Sex Education, Two Weeks To Live, Feel Good, This Way Up feature in the comedy drama category
- Radio 4's Agendum is also nominated. Nish Kumar will reveal the results on 9th December
The nominations for the Rose d'Or Awards, the prestigious international broadcasting awards, have been announced. A number of British comedies feature in the shortlists.
Comedy
BBC Three sketch show Famalam is up against Japan's Secret Gameshow, Woke (USA), Belgium's Did You Get The Message, R from Mexico and Netherlands format Toren C.
Comedy Drama and Sitcom
Four British comedies feature in this category:
Plus, 257 Reasons To Live from Russia and France's Parliament.
Studio Entertainment
Sky panel show There's Something About Movies faces off against Mute It (Japan), The Wonderbox (France), The Way Out (Belgium), Beat The Channel (Germany) and Lego Masters USA.
Audio Entertainment
Agendum, the Radio 4 current affairs parody format written by Jason Hazeley and Joel Morris and starring Carrie Quinlan, is nominated in this category.
It's shortlisted alongside Peter 2.0: The Making of a Cyborg (UK), The Nobody Zone (Ireland), Treasure Island: The hunt for the Falcon Blanco (Ireland), Tunnel 29 (UK) and Nut Jobs: Cracking California's Strangest $10 million Heist (Australia).
The full list of nominations across all categories can be seen on rosedor.com
This year the results will be presented in a virtual ceremony, hosted by Nish Kumar. The ceremony will stream online on Wednesday 9th December.
Mark Rowland, chair of the 2020 judges, says: "At a time when the medium of television has never played a more central role in our lives - and when producing programmes has never been more challenging - we've seen an amazing breadth of subjects and creative treatments. With production standards higher than ever, across the globe. Congratulations to all the nominees on an amazing achievement."