Winners from nine countries have scooped up the dozen prizes awarded at the 50th Rose d’Or Global Television Festival in Lucerne.
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“La Bohème at the Tower Block Switzerland”, a Swiss television production, won in the variety and live event category. It featured the Puccini opera classic staged in the city of Bern.
Britain claimed two Golden Roses: one for The Inbetweeners, a sitcom about awkward youths, and another for Blood, Sweat and Takeaways – a reality show looking into the Indonesian tuna business.
Benidorm Bastards, a Belgian comedy about senior citizens, was named best of 2010, while Desert Tears, a German documentary on genital mutilation, won the festival’s new social award.
To commemorate the festival’s 50th anniversary, Golden Jubilee Awards were presented to British soap opera Coronation Street and British talent judge Simon Cowell for their contributions to entertainment television.
This year’s festival, which concluded with an award ceremony at Lucerne’s Culture and Convention Centre (KKL), was a record-breaker with 515 programmes from 40 countries in competition.
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A live combination broadcast from the Zurich Opera House of Mozart’s The Magic Flute won the prize in the field of performing arts. Swiss television had aired the production on its main channel and a behind the scenes look on another. The Netherlands claimed the prize for top reality show. Britain netted awards for top…
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Rather than in a theatre, Swiss television staged the opera in a high-rise block of apartments, an idea which provoked surprise and positive reactions. Around 400 people participated in the opera with some 30 extras drafted in from the Gäbelbach suburb of Bern. The Bern Symphony Orchestra, with 67 musicians, was situated about 800m away…
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Yet in the age of mobile phone video cameras and YouTube, the industry is having a serious think about the future of the small screen. “Gone are the days when some fusty old guy in a capital decided that everyone would watch a particular programme,” said festival forum speaker David Liddiment, creative director of All3Media…
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This is good news for the event, which has been trying to regain momentum since moving from French-speaking Montreux in 2004. The next big challenge is to break into the United States market. The five-day festival aims to attract “the best of the year’s new entertainment and television programming” and gives out awards in eight…
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Every summer fans at the Locarno Film Festival have to contend with sudden changes of the weather while watching films on the giant screen in the Piazza Grande. The international festival is one of the oldest of its kind. (pictures: Martial Trezzini, Keystone)
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