‘Het Lichaam van Coppens’ wins a second Gold Media Award

07/04/2016

For the second consecutive year, the VTM programme ‘‘Het Lichaam van Coppens’ (‘The Body of Coppens’) has won the Gold Media Award at the WorldMediaFestival in Hamburg. This programme with Staf and Matthias Coppens, produced by TvBastards, was nominated in de category of ‘Edutainment’.

Het Lichaam van Coppens (The Body of Coppens) is a television programme that has been broadcast since 2013 by VTM.  In the course of this programme, the Coppens brothers make their bodies available for experiments and tests in order to provide answers to questions from the viewers. In most cases, the experiments and tests are explained in detail by experts.

By winning this Gold Media Award, the programme is  automatically  shortlisted for the Grand Prix Award, being the chief award of the festival. The winner of this Grand Prix Award will be announced on 11 May. Last year this award was presented to the Belgian television programme ‘Wauters vs Waes’ by Eén and VTM.

The WorldMediaFestival is an international competition for modern media and one of the main events in this area. The festival in May includes numerous high-level events for media experts concerning the  different trends. Besides it allows them to watch the award-winning programmes and to meet the people who created them.