The annual Danish television awards or TV Prisen will be held on August 14 in Copenhagen as part of the Copenhagen TV Festival. Three out of five shows running for Best Danish TV dramas are produced by DR Fiction: The Legacy (Arvingerne) Season 2, the Christmas calendar series Time Travel (Tidsrejsen) and the character-driven series Broke (Bankerot).

The other shows running for Best TV Drama of the year are 1864 and Seaside Resort (Badehotellet) Season 2.

In the category Best Documentary of the year are The Circus Dynasty (Cirkusdynastiet), The Newsroom: Off the Record (Ekstra Bladet-uden for citat), Me & My Dad (Mig og min far-hvem fanden gider klappe), Snowden’s Great Escape (Snowdens store flugt), Anklaget i New York-pædagogstud , Malthe Thomsen and The Inoculated Girls (De vaccinerede piger).
TV Prisen candidates are selected by the 1,600 members of the Danish TV Academy.

The Copenhagen TV Festival (August 13-14, 2015) attracting each year the who’s who of Danish TV and media industries, has invited several keynote speakers such as Homeland co-creator and exec producer Howard Gordon, as well as Marc Smerling and Zac Stuart-Pontier, producers with Andrew Jarecki of the high profile HBO documentary series The Jinx. 

For more information check: www.phtvfestival.dk/