As are Aisling Bea’s This Way Up, Mae Martin’s Feel Good and mroe

Famalam and a raft of British sitcoms have been shortlisted for this year’s prestigious Rose D’Or international TV award.

The BBC Three sketch show led by black talent is the only UK programme nominated in the best comedy category, where it face competition from Japanese, American, Belgian, Mexican and Dutch shows.

However the comedy-drama and sitcom category is dominated by British entries.

Aisling Bea’s This Way Up, Mae Martin’s Feel Good, the Sky comedy-thriller Two Weeks To Live and Netflix hit Sex Education have all been shortlisted. 

The other nominated shows in this section are Russia’s 257 Reasons To Live, about a cancer patient who goes into remission and decides to live out her bucket list, and Parliament, a French series about the goings-on at the European Parliament. 

Radio 4 current affairs spoof Agendum, written by Jason Hazeley and Joel Morris and starring Carrie Quinlan, has been shortlisted in the audio category.

Winners will be announced at a streamed ceremony hosted by Nish Kumar on December 9.

Mark Rowland, chair of the 2020 judges, said: ‘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 achievements’

Aside from Famalam, the other comedy nominees are Japan’s Secret Gameshow, Woke from the US, Did You Get The Message from Belgium, R from Mexico and Toren C from the Netherlands.

Published: 12 Nov 2020