But British comedies miss out

British comedies have missed out at this year’s prestigious Rose D’Or international TV awards.

Seth Rogen’s Apple TV series The Studio won the best comedy drama or sitcom category, with judges describing it as ‘a brilliant contemporary satire of art versus business versus ambition versus humanity turned up to 11 – so accurate and hilarious you can only watch through your fingers’.

It meant that  Jack Rooke’s Big Boys and Rosie Jones’s Pushers  missed out in the category, where they were nominated alongside New Zealand musical comedy Happiness, Amazon’s big-budget anti-superhero series The Boys and Sweden’s Cold War satire Whisky On The Rocks.

Japan won the comedy entertainment prize for Ants, praised as ’an original idea with broad family appeal – and very funny!’ It is a physical comedy series in which contestants have to work together like a real ant colony to haul oversized food items across epic obstacle courses, 

Last One Laughing UK, Mitchell & Webb Are Not Helping and Rob Vs Romesh had all been nominated in the category alongsid  Australian topical panel show Have You Been Paying Attention? and Belgian’s Ultimate Celebrity Car Park Showdown

Dara O Briain hosted the ceremony in London last night.

Published: 2 Dec 2025