Nominees Announced for Monte-Carlo TV Festival

MONACO: There are 81 programs that are competing for a Golden Nymph award as part of the 53rd edition of The Festival de Television de Monte-Carlo this year.

In the television film category are Tom, Dick & Harriet, from Entertainment One; Occam’s Razor, from Czech Television; State Conspiracy, from France Televisions; The Jewish Cardinal, from France’s Scarlett Production; Der Fall Jakob Von Metzler, from ZDF German Television; Aglaja, from Hungary’s M-RTL ZRT; Autumn at the Popular House, from Japan’s Kansai Telecasting Corp.; and Complicit, from the U.K.’s Many Rivers Films. Up from best mini-series are Burning Bush, from HBO Europe; The Wood Baroness, from Ziegler Film of Germany; World Without End, from Tandem Communications; Altri Tempi, from Italy’s 11 Marzo Film; Made in Japan, from NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation); Letter to Eva, from Spain’s TVE; Broadchurch, from Kudos in the U.K.; Dancing on the Edge, from ITV Studios Global Entertainment; and Hatfields and McCoys, from Sony Pictures Television.

The contenders for best comedy series are 30 Rock and Modern Family, from the U.S.; Red Dwarf X and Fresh Meat, from the U.K.; France’s Don’t Do This, Don’t Do That and Lazy Company; You Can’t Take the Church Out of the Village, from Germany; Australia’s Lowdown and Belgium’s Crimi Clowns. The drama nominees include Breaking Bad, Capadocia and Homeland, from the U.S., up against the U.K.’s Doctor Who and Downton Abbey. There’s also the dramas The Blue Rose, First Love, Love/Hate, The Killing III, Government III, Bomb Girls and Missing Persons Unit up for the Golden Nymph.

The International TV Audience Awards for drama go to CSI: Miami, House and The Mentalist, all hailing from the U.S. The International TV Audience Awards from comedy go to Two and a Half Men and The Big Bang Theory from the U.S. and the U.K.’s Mr Bean. For the soap/telenovela category, it is La Casa de al Lado, The Bold and Beautiful and Eva Luna.

This year’s Prize of Prince Rainier III goes to 99 Reasons Why the World Should Not End, from Germany’s Engelfilm; On the Trails of the Glaciers: Mission to Caucasus, from Italy’s SD Cinematografica; and Newsdesk: Global Warming Strikes Back, from South Korea’s MBC.