Teh International Emmy Awards for 2025 were handed out on Monday night in a ceremony in New York City, and it was another big night for British television, with the U.K. picking up seven awards, including best drama, best comedy, best actress and best TV movie/mini series.
Elsewhere, at the 53rd edition of the awards, Spain won two awards and Japan, Germany, Australia, Qatar, Canada, Denmark and Türkiye won one each.
The best drama prize went to ITV Studios’ Disney+ 1980s-set dramedy Rivals that is based on Jilly Cooper’s raunchy books.The series stars David Tennant, Aidan Turner, Katherine Parkinson, Victoria smurfit, Alex hassell, Nafessa Williams, Bella Maclean, Emily Atack and Danny Dyer.
Best comedy was taken by the BBC comedy Ludwig that stars David Mitchell playing a puzzle master whose identical twin brother,a police detective,goes missing,and so he pretends to be his brother to solve the case. Ludwig also stars Anna Maxwell Martin, who took the International Emmy for her performance in a different show, the harrowing ITV limited series Until I Kill You. In the latter drama, a true crime production based on the book Living with a serial Killer by Delia Balmer, Martin plays a woman who is subjected to horrific abuse by her partner and how the system fails to protect her.
The U.K. picked up prizes for best kids live-action show (Fallen) and best TV movie/mini series (Lost Boys and Fairies). Fallen, a Silver Reel/Night Train Media production by Brazil’s Globoplay, is a romantic fantasy drama adaptation of Lauren kate’s 2009 novel. Lost Boys and Fairies is a three-part BBC drama set in the Welsh capital Cardiff and tells the story of a gay couple going through the adoption process.
Also from the U.K., Channel 4’s Dispatches: Kill Zone: Inside Gaza won the Emmy for current affairs. The doc took a “raw and harrowing look at how the lives of Palestinians have been uprooted and destroyed,” following the Israeli military’s assault on Gaza,” as seen and told through the eyes of children,journalists and doctors.”
Gaza was also the subject of the best news Emmy winner, Al Jazeera’s Gaza, Search for Life. The qatari production follows “the daily life of those who live in Gaza during the first two weeks of the war on Gaza” and “documents thei
International Format Awards 2024: Winners Announced
The International Format Awards 2024 have revealed their winners across several categories, recognizing excellence in global television programming. Here’s a breakdown of the winning formats:
TV Movie/mini-Series
* WINNER: Lost Boys and Fairies, Duck Soup Films (United Kingdom)
* Amar Singh Chamkila Window Seat Films / Netflix (India)
* Herrhausen: The Banker and the bomb Sperl Film (Germany)
* Win or Die [Victory or Death] Amazon MGM Studios / Parox S.A. (Chile)
Telenovela
* WINNER: Genius [The Good & The Bad] Ay Yapım (Türkiye)
* You Mania [Crazy About You] TV Globo (Brazil)
* Return to Las Sabinas [Return to Las Sabinas] Diagonal TV / Disney+ (Spain)
* Wild Valley Studio canal (Spain)
Documentary
* WINNER: hell Jumper Expectation Entertainment for the BBC (United Kingdom)
* King of kings: Chasing Edward Jones Abelart Productions (France)
* The pleasure is mine [It’s My Pleasure] Amana Cine (Brazil)
* School Ties IdeaCandy (South Africa)
Non-Scripted Entertainment
* WINNER: Shaolin Heroes Metronome Productions / banijay / TV 2 Danmark (Denmark)
* Big Brother: Canada – Season 12,Insight Productions (Canada)
* Love Is Blind: Habibi Imagic / Netflix (United Arab Emirates)
* Who is the Mask? – Season 6 [The Masked Singer] TelevisaUnivisión / Endemol Shine Boomdog (Mexico)
Sports Documentary
* WINNER: It’s all Over: The Kiss That Changed the Spanish Football Netflix/You First Originals (Spain)
* Argentina ’78 Disney+ Original Productions / Pampa Films (Argentina)
* Chasing the Sun 2 T+W (South Africa)
* Sven Whisper / Up & Away Film Entertainment / Prime Video (United Kingdom)
Arts Programming
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International Emmy Awards 2024: Winners Announced
The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced the winners of the 52nd International Emmy Awards on November 20,2024,recognizing excellence in television programming globally.Here’s a breakdown of the key winners in several categories:
Drama Series
The award for Best Drama Series went to Haiti, a production by Sky news (United Kingdom).
Documentary
Syria – The Truth Coming Out, produced by TV4 (Sweden), was recognized as the best Documentary.
Kids: Animation
Bluey, created by Ludo Studio (Australia), took home the award for Best Animation.Other nominees included Lamps – Season 4 (Warner Bros. Discovery, Vaibhav Studio, Robot Playground Media, Lil Critter Workshop, The Monk Studios, Tribe Audio, The Tuning Folk, Inspidea, Shapeshifter Studio, Singapore), lupi e Baduki (Flamma / Elo / Bird, Brazil), and Moomin Valley – Season 4 (Gutsy Animations / YLE / SkyOne, Finland).
Kids: Factual & Entertainment
The winner in the kids: Factual & Entertainment category was In Fritzi’s footsteps – What was it like in the GDR? [On Fritzi’s Traces – What was it like in the GDR?] by Balance Film GmbH / MDR / WDR (Germany). Other nominees were Come on, the podium is ours (Globo / Sentimental Filmes, Brazil), Kids Like Us (Echo Velvet, United Kingdom), and Playroom Live (Eclipse Television Productions, South Africa).
Kids: Live-Action
Fallen,a production by globoplay / Night Train Media / Silver Reel / Hero Squared / Umedia (United Kingdom),won the award for Best Live-Action program. Also nominated were Luz (Floresta (Sony), Brazil), Prefects (Peripheral Vision International, Kenya), and Shut UP (Alfredfilm / Feelgood SFT / Snowreel / Rabbit Films, Norway).
Short-Form Series
The Mediator [The Mediator], produced by KOTV (Canada), was awarded the title of Best Short-Form Series. The other nominees were Beyond Dancing (radio Television Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, china), My Dead Mom (LoCo Motion Pictures, Canada), and Everything is Transformed – Season 4 [Change is Everything] (Warner Bros.Discovery / Buffalo Producciones, Argentina).
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