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The 61st annual Peabody Awards
announced recently saw HBO and Nickelodeon reap a rich harvest
of awards.
The awards will be given away on 20 May by the University
of Georgia's Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass
Communication.
HBO has received multiple awards for original programmes
like Band of Brothers, the 10-part World War II miniseries
created by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks, and Wit,
with Emma Thompson as an English teacher dying of cancer.
HBO films Conspiracy and Boycott have also
bagged awards.
Nickelodeon has scored with its shows Little Bill
and Blue's Clues, the latter an animated series for
pre-schoolers. CNN and Channel 4 International received
an award for two documentaries, Beneath the Veil
and Unholy War, produced by Saira Shah. These works
chronicle the terror and violence in the lives of Afghan
women. America: A Tribute to Heroes, which aired
on Star World shortly after 11 September has also bagged
a Peabody. The show was produced by Joel Gallen and simulcast
by more than thirty broadcast and cable networks.
A Peabody has also gone to the ABC movie Anne Frank.
The films stars Ben Kinglsey and goes beyond previous accounts
of the familiar tragic story. The Showtime network was cited
for Things Behind the Sun, a harrowing depiction
of rape and its lingering personal effects.
Peabody winners include several
international productions. WTO Challenge, produced
by Television Broadcast Limited in Hong Kong examines the
personal, social and economic implications of China's growing
involvement in world affairs.
Awards were also presented to National Public Radio for
its more than 180 hours of programming related to September
11.
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