Dark Oracle and The Newsroom both scored at this year's International Emmys - walking away from the Nov. 21 awards in New York with top honors for children's and comedy programming, respectively.

Dark Oracle - a copro by Shaftesbury Films and Cookie Jar Entertainment - beat out kids contenders from the Netherlands, the U.K. and France for its second gold statue of the month. The YTV series also won a Gemini for best original music on Nov. 18.

"We are honored to receive this prestigious award," said Shaftesbury principal Christina Jennings, in a statement, after the Emmy win. "Everyone involved with Dark Oracle is very passionate about their work and it comes through."

A second season of the series, about a mysterious comic book, is now shooting.

Meanwhile, the final run of The Newsroom - by Ken Finkleman's 100 Percent Film & Television for CBC - beat out two comedies from Germany (Berlin, Berlin and Ohne Worte) and BBC's Little Britain. Finkleman also won a Gemini, for best comedy writing.

CBC also shares credit for the arts program winner, Holocaust - A Musical Memorial from Auschwitz, which it coproduced with the BBC, Germany's ZDF and others. Holocaust reflects on the use of music by the Nazis as a psychological weapon.

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