A Rose d’Or Prediction

Alright, this actually came out a few days ago but the full list of Rose d’Or nominations is up and the category we’re most interested in is the Game Show one, obviously.

• Baking in the Dark – DR (Denmark)
• Pick Me! – ITV (UK)
• The Getaway Car – BBC (UK)

Pick Me and The Getaway Car are known quantities, Baking in the Dark (Ultras Sortes Kageshow – Big Cake Show) is a Danish show where pairs try and bake a cake in the dark. Here’s an episode of it here.

This year apparently the people who make the shows will get a say in who wins which may skew the results slightly differently. Previous winners suggest that the judges look for originality and a strong idea before commercial considerations. With this in mind, I’m going to predict the winner.

I rate The Getaway Car‘s chances at around 5% and my main reason for this is that Wild Things won last year with a show that’s similarly physical and similarly has the backseat driver element, but Wild Things is much funnier and more creative, I can’t see it going to a similar sort of thing twice in a row.

Baking In The Dark is the slightly unknown quantity, I put its chances at 35%. It’s a funny idea but really it’s quite derivative – any cooking show combined with Total Blackout. It would be the first time a non-English show has won the category since 2010.

So by process of elimination I give Pick Me! a 60% chance of winning. It was an original idea, It was fairly funny, being a flop non-commercial success domestically doesn’t seem to put the judges off.

I’d be thrilled for Possessed if they won it but I can’t say I’d be pulling for it enthusiastically, it seems somewhat unbelievable that of all the shows that put themselves forward these were the top three, but the correct show out of the nominations tends to win in this category, unlike other awards in the past I don’t care to name.