GENEVA, April 26, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --

The nominees for the 2013 Rose d'Or were announced today by EUROVISION, organizers of the prestigious international entertainment programme awards.

The winners will be decided at the 52^nd Rose d'Or Awards, which will be held in Brussels on 30 May 2013. The Rose d'Or Awards define the gold standard of excellence and achievement in entertainment programming.

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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."

This year Rose d'Or Awards will be given in the following categories: Game Show, Reality & Factual Entertainment, Sitcom, Comedy, Entertainment, and Arts. Nominees come from as far afield as Australia, USA, Spain, Germany, Austria, Belgium, and the Netherlands. The UK leads the field with 10 programmes submitted to the final round of judging.

The winners will be announced at an evening celebration, hosted by Dutch TV celebrity Lucille Werner in the presence of Princess Astrid and Prince Lorenz of Belgium.

You can register for the Rose d'Or on http://www.rosedor.com which also gives you automatic access to the Media Summit Focus Day. The Media Summit is an event for programme-makers and content producers to learn from world-changing innovators and visionaries.

LIST OF NOMINEES

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

    Joko against Klaas - The   Endemol Deutschland /Florida TV  Germany
    Duel around the World      GmbH for ProSieben
                               Dori Media/Producciones
    Smart Face                 Mandarina for Cuatro             Spain

    REALITY AND FACTUAL
    ENTERTAINMENT

    Derren Brown: Apocalypse   Objective Productions for Channel 4
    Part 1                                                         UK
    Make Bradford British      Love Productions for Channel 4      UK
    Jobs without Frontiers     Sputnik Media for Eén               Belgium

    SITCOM
                         Hat Trick Productions for British Sky
    Spy                  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     Hat Trick Productions for
    Televised                  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 Eagle Rock Entertainment for
    Pretender                  British Broadcasting Corporation UK

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

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

For further information on the nominees, please visit our web-site: http://www.eurovision.com

About EUROVISION

EUROVISION, operated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), is the industry's premier distributor and producer of top quality live sport and news, as well as entertainment, culture and music content.

The EUROVISION satellite and fibre network is the largest and most reliable in the world directly plugged in to public service media everywhere.

EUROVISIONS's staff of experienced media professionals acquire and manage media rights on behalf of EBU Members, and provide network, transmission and events services to the broadcasting industry.

http://www.eurovision.com and http://www.ebu.ch @EBU_Eurovision #ebu #eurovision

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Séghira Egli-Farhi
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Michelle Roverelli
Head of Communications
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SOURCE EUROVISION