Channel 4 - Skins Lead British Charge For Prestigious Rose Dor Awards

E4's Skins has helped the UK to lead the way at the esteemed Rose d'Or awards in Switzerland.

The teen drama took the best drama prize while Channel 4 sitcom The IT Crowd was named the best sitcom of the last 12 months.

BBC2's The Peter Serafinowicz Show took the best comedy award while ballet documentary Strictly Bolshoi, from Channel 4, took the best arts programming prize.

BBC satirical series Kombat Opera Presents… was another British winner, grabbing the 'best of 2008' award while The Street received a special mention in the drama category.

"This year's programmes were of exceptional quality, which presented our international jurors with a challenging task," festival director Urban Frye said.

"However, the calibre of entries proves not only that the Rose d'Or is back at the heart of European creativity, but also that it is possible to create programmes with cross-cultural and cross-generational appeal."

Other winners included Dutch hidden-camera show Hider in the House and Swiss arts special Mozart's Magic Flute Onstage and Backstage.

The prestigious honours, now in their 48th year, are bestowed on the best television programmes in eight different categories, namely sitcom, ccomedy, drama, reality show, variety, music, arts and specials, and game show.

Prior to 2004, when the awards moved from Montreux to Lucerne, only one programme per year had been awarded the Rose d'Or with the runners-up taking Silver or Bronze Roses.


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Feist Snags Shortlist Honors

Feist Snags Shortlist Honors

- Feist continues to pull ahead accolades from her peers, earning 4 Grammy nominations and now nabbing the Short list Music Prize for her album "The Admonisher."
Now in its seventh year, The Short list celebrates artists wHO haven't hit the mainstream so far. Gary Lightbody of Charles Percy Snow Patrol and Ronnie Vannucci of the Killers were among this year's venire of judges. Feist's "The Reminder" is "the album of the year for 2007 or any yr I crapper call back of: It's modern and classic entirely at once," Lightbody said in a financial statement released to the Associated Press. "There ar so many kinds of beaut in this record."
Leslie Feist, world Health Organization uses just her death name on microscope stage, was raised in Calgary, Canada, where she spent her teen days as lead singer for a hardcore toughie band. Her Grammy nods include topper fresh artist and best pop vocal album. The Grammys volition be presented Sunday in Los Angeles.
Finalists for the 2007 Shortlist Euphony Trophy as well included Arcade Fire, Burying, Justice, Liquid crystal display Soundsystem, M.I.A., Spoonful, Stars, Wilco and Working for a Nuclear Free Metropolis. Fice, 31, is only the second woman to submit home the dirty money, followers Computerized tomography Power's triumph conclusion year. Past winners besides include Damien Elmer Leopold Rice, N.E.R.D., TV on the Wireless and Sufjan Wallace Stevens.




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Sopranos star to become a director

Sopranos star to become a director

'The Sopranos' headliner Michael Imperioli is stepping behind the lens to orchestrate his number one feature film movie.
Variety reports that Imperioli, world Health Organization played Saint Christopher in 'The Sopranos', will manoeuvre his own hand for 'The Hungry Ghosts'.
The tout ensemble dramatic event stars two of Imperioli's co-stars from 'The Sopranos', Steve Schirripa (Bobby 'Bacala' Baccalieri) and Sharon Angela (Rosalie Aprile). They play divorcees world Health Organization ar trying to keep their boy out of trouble.
'The Hungry Ghosts' is due to lead off shot on 19 May in Fresh York.

Jessica Biel cast in new indie movie

Jessica Biel cast in new indie movie

Jessica Biel has been cast as the lead in the indie romanticist clowning 'Easy Virtue'.
Based on the Christmastime Sir Noel Pierce Coward play, the film tells the tarradiddle of an American grass widow (Biel) world Health Organization heads to the South of France. Erst on that point she jumps into a whirlwind romance and wedding party with an English cat (Ben Barnes, the handsome daemon world Health Organization is before long to be seen in the next Narnia photographic film).
So the newly weds travel to the UK to face the music with his disapproving parents (Colin Firth and Kristin George C. Scott Lowell Jackson Thomas).
Alfred Alfred Hitchcock did the first film adaptation of Coward's 1924 play for a 1928 silent moving picture and this time around 'The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen mole rat of the Desert' director Stephan Elliott will be at the helm.
Last year was a great one for the former '7th Heaven' star chase on from her performance in The Magician aboard Ed Norton and 2008 already looks set to top it.
She late finished cinematography 'Powder Blue' with Woods Whitaker and 'A Woman of No Importance' with Annette Bening.
She's currently preparing to asterisk in the thriller 'Die a Little', based on Megan Abbott's acclaimed 2006 novel. She lately produced as well as starred in the short plastic film 'Hole in the Paper Sky', which will be released later this year and is preparing to perfect her production skills even further in 'Die A Little'.

Eastenders' Tanya to bury Max alive?

Eastenders' Tanya to bury Max alive?

'EastEnders' character Tanya Branning will bury cheating married man Scoop alive in a sensational storyline, according to reports.
The mum of tierce, played by actress Jo Joyner, takes retaliation for his matter with his daughter-in-law, Stacey Slater (Lacey Turner).
After weeks of plotting, Tanya seduces Georgia home boy (Jake Wood) and then drugs him before putt him in a casket and burial it in wood, according to The Sunlight newspaper.
The scenes are due to be shown at Easterly.
The Sunlight quotes a BBC seed as locution: "Viewers will get to hold back to line up come out whether Easy lay lives or dies."
Max and Tanya's family relationship becomes more and more more volatile as they fight over hands of their children.

Farrell feared ruining In Bruges

Farrell feared ruining In Bruges

Colin Farrell has revealed he initially turned devour the lead office in his forthcoming pic because he feared his presence power carry off from the photographic film.
Speechmaking to the Hollywood Newsperson, James Thomas Farrell said that he matte up the producers of 'In Bruges' were devising a huge misunderstanding when they asked him to star in the picture show.
The champion went on to say that he was thrilled to be approached for the moving picture, which likewise stars Brendan Gleeson and Ralph Fiennes, merely he became concerned that his report would dominate the quality of the script.
Eileen Farrell said he begged the movie's writer and director, Irish whisky Oscar winner Martin McDonagh, to cast an alien thespian in the purpose. McDonagh however was determined to induce Farrell on instrument panel.
Farrell told the Hollywood Newsman: "I was chuffed to be voice of it. It was just the best thing I always show. Merely your public theatrical role, people bring that in. And I met [McDonagh] in Fresh House of York at the Hilton Hotel one afternoon and I tried to win over him he should mold an unknown in the part ... It was so good, I thought it would be good non to cast me."
'In Bruges', which tells the report of assassins wHO are forced to veil out in Belgique, will open this weekend's Capital of Ireland International Film Festival. It goes on full general handout from 7 Master of Architecture.

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Artist: Karnivool

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