TELEVISION crime drama Y Gwyll/Hinterland, filmed in and around the Aberystwyth area, has won the top award at the 2016 New York International Film and Television awards.

The Grand Award is given to a select group of the highest scoring programmes from among all the entries – and among the top scorers this year is Y Gwyll/Hinterland.

Three productions have been chosen for the Grand Award this year, they are; Y Gwyll, ‘Earth is Yours’ (BBC Worldwide / Singapore), and ‘The Roosevelts: An Intimate History’ (PBS / USA).

Fiction Factory-produced Y Gwyll also won a Gold Medal in the Crime Drama category.

The news will be welcomed in Ceredigion where the cast and crew are currently filming the third series, to be broadcast first on S4C in the autumn and by BBC Wales at a later date.

The Grand Award and Gold Medal crowned a very successful night for S4C with two further Silver and Bronze Medals awarded to Welsh language content.

The ceremony was held in Las Vegas on Tuesday, 19 April, and received entries from 50 countries.