Awards for Friday Night Dinner and Black Mirror

Channel 4’s Friday Night Dinner has been named best sitcom at the Rose d’Or international TV festival, beating Ricky Gervais’s Life’s Too Short.

Britain also won the comedy prize, courtesy of Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror.

The first episode of the Channel 4 satire, The National Anthem, beat entries from Belgium and Israel for its plot imagining that the Prime Minister had to commit beastiality to secure the release of a kidnapped princess.

Other UK winners included the BBC’s Horrible Histories, which won best children’s show, and Channel 4’s The Million Pound Drop Live, which claimed the gameshow award.

A Channel 4 spokesman said of its triple success: ‘These awards make Channel 4 the awards' most successful broadcaster globally. Take that, RCTI of Indonesia! In your face, Bhutan Broadcasting Service! We rock!’

Published: 10 May 2012