Gruen Sweat nominated for Rose d’Or Award

ABC1’s Gruen Sweat has been nominated for a Rose d’Or award, one of Europe’s more prestigious television awards.

Gruen has been nominated in the Entertainment category alongside The Dino Show from the Netherlands and Let’s Dance for Sport Relief from the UK. It is the only Australian show nominated this year.

Nominees come from as far afield as USA, Spain, Germany, Austria, Belgium, and the Netherlands. The UK leads the field with 10 nominations including 2012, the Olympics comedy accused of ripping off The Games from Australia.

Annika Nyberg Frankenhaeuser, Eurovision Media Director said: “The quality and number of entries received in 2013 is exceptional and the judges have chosen top-quality nominees. The Rose d’Or are the awards that programme-makers covet the most because they symbolize the pinnacle of success for entertainment programming.”

Previous Australian nominees at Rose D’or include John Safran’s Race Relations, The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce, The Librarians, The Chaser’s War on Everything, and actress Jacki Woodburne, while wins went to The Eternity Man and Go Back to Where You Came.

Nominees:

GAME SHOW
Oh Sit!
The Gurin Company, 405 Productions, Raquel Productions, Warner Horizon for The CW
USA

Joko against Klaas – The Duel around the World
Endemol Deutschland /Florida TV GmbH for ProSieben
Germany

Smart Face
Dori Media/Producciones Mandarina for Cuatro
Spain

REALITY AND FACTUAL ENTERTAINMENT
Derren Brown: Apocalypse Part 1
Objective Productions for Channel 4
UK

Make Bradford British
Love Productions for Channel 4
UK

Jobs without Frontiers
Sputnik Media for Eén
Belgium

SITCOM
Spy
Hat Trick Productions for British Sky Broadcasting
UK

The Thick of It
British Broadcasting Corporation
UK

Twenty Twelve
British Broadcasting Corporation
UK

COMEDY
Cardinal Burns
Left Bank Pictures for Channel 4
UK

The Revolution Will Be Televised
Hat Trick Productions for British Broadcasting Corporation
UK

What If?
Shelter for VMMa
Belgium

ENTERTAINMENT
The Dino Show
Men at Work TV Produkties for NTR
Netherlands

Let’s Dance for Sport Relief
Whizz Kid Entertainment for British Broadcasting Corporation
UK

Gruen Sweat
Zapruder’s Other Films/ABC for Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Australia

ARTS
Freddie Mercury: The Great Pretender
Eagle Rock Entertainment for British Broadcasting Corporation
UK

London: The Modern Babylon
BBC Films/BFI/Nitrate Film for British Broadcasting Corporation
UK

Just Ballet
Seven Film- und Postproduction GmbH for ZDF/3SAT
Austria

Winners will be announced in Brussels on 30th May at an event hosted by Dutch TV celebrity Lucille Werner in the presence of Princess Astrid and Prince Lorenz of Belgium.