Culture and Living
| Iceland Monitor
| Mon 5 Oct 2015
| 10.09 GMT
Iceland’s LazyTown nominated for Emmy
Will LazyTown win the Emmy? Photo: Heiddi
Icelandic educational children’s programme LazyTown has been nominated for an International Emmy Award in the ‘Kids: Preschool’ category.
Created by Icelander Magnús Scheving, the educational musical programme – known as ‘Latibær’ is Icelandic – is up against competition from other series from Brasil, Japan and the United Kingdom.
The award ceremony will take place on 5 April 2016.
LazyTown has gained tremendous popularity throughout the world and has been shown in over 170 countries in some thirty languages.
