Legion, The Good Place, S-Town among the 60 nominees for this year's Peabody Awards
If nothing else, this year’s Peabody Awards are bringing attention to dicks, both literal and figurative. Among the 60 nominees announced today are Netflix’s penis-obsessed American Vandal and Vice News Tonight’s “Charlottesville: Race & Terror,” which deals with other types of dicks.
The 77th annual awards honor the best storytelling in “electronic media,” which includes everything from TV shows to podcasts to web videos to documentaries and more, all of which are separated into categories (children’s & youth programming, documentary, entertainment, news, public service, and radio/podcast). Sadly, that means American Vandal won’t go head-to-head with Vice News Tonight, but we had a good time with that, didn’t we?
Highlights and surprises on the entertainment side include Halt And Catch Fire, Legion, One Day At A Time, The Handmaid’s Tale, Star Trek: Discovery, The Good Place, and Insecure. In docs, Last Men In Aleppo and City Of Ghosts are notable inclusions, and of course there’s Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine too. On the podcast front, S-Town and Ear Hustle scored nominations, presumably because The Andy Daly Podcast Pilot Project didn’t fit the eligibility window. A full list of nominees is below.
Awards begin April 17, when documentary winners are announced. Entertainment and kids’ winners follow April 19, with news/radio/public service on April 24. Winners will be honored at a ceremony May 19 hosted by The Daily Show’s Hasan Minahj, whose stand-up special, Homecoming King, also earned a nomination in the entertainment category. The Peabodys will also announce its first ever Career Achievement Award on Thursday of this week.
77th Peabody Awards nominees:
CHILDREN’S & YOUTH PROGRAMMING
Andi Mack
A Series Of Unfortunate Events
DOCUMENTARY
Abacus: Small Enough To Jail
America ReFramed: Deej
Chasing Coral
City Of Ghosts
Heroin(e)
“I Have A Message For You”
Indivisible
Last Men In Aleppo
Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise
Motherland
Newtown
Planet Earth II
Strong Island
The Bad Kids
The Defiant Ones
The Islands And The Whales
Time: The Kalief Browder Story
Oklahoma City
ENTERTAINMENT
Alias Grace
American Vandal
Bala Loca
Better Call Saul
Halt And Catch Fire
Hasan Minhaj: Homecoming King
Insecure
Jazz Night In America
Last Week Tonight With John Oliver
Legion
One Day At A Time
Saturday Night Live: Political Satire 2017
Star Trek: Discovery
The Good Place
The Handmaid’s Tale
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
NEWS
“Big Buses, Bigger Problems: Taxpayers Taken for a Ride,” NBC5/KXAS-TV
“Charlottesville: Race & Terror,,” VICE Media
“Cracking the Code” & “ Medical Waste,” WVUE-TV
“Fall of ISIS in Iraq and Syria,” CNN
“Human Toll in Yemen,” BBC News
“Inside Putin’s Russia,” PBS NewsHour
“Leyla Santiago’s Hurricane Maria Coverage,” CNN
“My Reality: A Hidden America,” 20/20
“Plight of Rohingya Refugees,” BBC News
“Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel: The Strongman-Ramzan Kadyrov,” HBO Sports
“The Whistleblower,” 60 Minutes
“USA Gymnastics,” 60 Minutes
PUBLIC SERVICE
“The Cut: Exploring FGM” (Al Jazeera)
“Predator In My Phone” (R.AGE)
“Sex.Right.Now. with Cleo Stiller” (FUSION)
RADIO/PODCAST
Ear Hustle
Lost Mothers: Maternal Mortality In the U.S.
74 Seconds
S-Town
Seeing White
The Pope’s Long Con
The View From Room 205
Uncivil: The Raid