30 Rock, Dexter, and The Colbert Report, Peabody Winners All
Who needs an Emmy when you can have a Peabody Award? Although the first award gets tons more coverage and fanfare in the general entertainment industry and among the general public, it’s the second honor that seems to generate the most respect and admiration among TV-industry insiders.
That fact might have something to do with the roster of past Peabody winners, which consistently includes the best, boldest, brightest, and bravest contenders possible. The annual Emmy extravaganza can’t hold a candle to that reputation in an era where its voters consistently overlook potential nominees that seem like a shoo-in to people who know TV.
On April 2, the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, the entity that bestows the international Peabody Awards, announced the 67th annual group of winners. The lucky recipients for 2007 included several familiar shows from the field of comedy, namely the NBC sitcom 30 Rock, the Showtime dark dramedy Dexter, and the Comedy Central political-minded cable-news satire The Colbert Report. Nice, huh?
The Peabody Awards committee says the following about each of the shows:
30 Rock
Tina Fey’s creation is not only a great workplace comedy in the tradition of “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” complete with fresh, indelible secondary characters, but also a sly, gleeful satire of corporate media, especially the network that airs it.
The Colbert Report
Let none dare call it “truthiness.” Colbert, in his weeknight Comedy Central send-up of politics and all that is bombastic and self-serving in cable-news bloviasion [sic], has come into his own as one of electronic media’s sharpest satirists.
Dexter
With a premise that questions our fondness for avenging heroes — a serial killer who channels his dark urges into police forensics and the killing of other sociopaths — this Showtime series is a masterful psychological thriller and a complex and ambiguous meditation on morality.
Other notable honorees are AMC’s highly praised first original series Mad Men and the phenomenal Discovery Channel 11-part nature special Planet Earth.
Congratulations to all of the very deserving winners. It’s great to see awards done right for once.
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