Cable Shows Net Peabodys
‘Project Runway’ First Reality Show To Receive Honor
By Kent Gibbons -- Multichannel News, 4/2/2008 5:22:00 AM MT
Cable programs as diverse as Sundance Channel’s documentary series Nimrod Nation, Showtime’s serial-killer drama Dexter and Bravo’s reality show Project Runway have won Peabody Awards.
A complete list of the 35 winners can be found here.
The awards – from the University of Georgia's Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication—also went to Discovery Channel’s HDTV series Planet Earth, Comedy Central’s satirical revue The Colbert Report and AMC drama Mad Men, as well as to more traditional journalistic ventures, such as “White Horse,” a piece on BBC America’s BBC World News America about the changes China’s economic revolution have forced onto a rustic village.
CNN captured a Peabody for God’s Warriors, a six-hour exploration of how fundamentalist religious beliefs clash with modern secular society. HBO’s To Die in Jerusalem, another winner, was about two mothers, one whose daughter was a suicide bomber, the other her victim. HBO last year won four Peabody awards.
mtvU was awarded a Peabody for “Half of Us,” a multi-platform campaign targeting depression among college students.
Showtime dramas have now won successive Peabodys, after Brotherhood won one last year.
Project Runway, in which designers compete to win backing for a new clothing line, was said to be the first reality show to win a Peabody.
The awards will be handed out June 16 at a ceremony hosted by Brian Williams, at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York.
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