Peabody Awards: ‘Stranger Things’, ‘Succession’, ‘Fleabag’ Among Nominees; PBS Tops Networks

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The Peabody Awards on Wednesday unveiled nominations repping the most compelling and empowering stories released in broadcasting and digital media during 2019. PBS tops the nominees list with 11 noms including several the Documentaries category via its POV series.

Other nominees include HBO’s Emmy winners Succession and Chernobyl, Netflix’s Stranger Things and When They See Us, Amazon’s Fleabag, Hulu’s Ramy, Lifetime’s Surviving R. Kelly and Apple’s Dickinson. Also in the mix is Ronan Farrow’s podcast based on his book Catch and Kill.

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The news comes after the Peabodys in March were forced to cancel its in-person awards ceremony, which had been scheduled for June 18 at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Los Angeles. It put a halt to plans to hold the ceremony in Southern California for the first time.

The group, based at the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia, voted on today’s noms selected from 1,300 entries in TV, radio/podcasts and the web in entertainment, news, documentary, children’s and public service programming. No date has been set for winners to be announced.

Here’s the list of nominees:

CHILDREN’S & YOUTH

“Molly of Denali” WGBH Educational Foundation, Atomic Cartoons (PBS Kids)

“Treasure Island 2020” Gen-Z Media (BYUradio)

DOCUMENTARIES

“16 Shots” SHOWTIME Documentary Films in association with Topic, Impact Partners, and Chicago Media Project (SHOWTIME)

“American Factory” Higher Ground Productions and Participant Media for Netflix (Netflix)

“Apollo 11” CNN Films (CNN)

“For Sama” FRONTLINE, Channel 4 News, ITN Productions, Channel 4 (PBS)

“Independent Lens: HALE COUNTY THIS MORNING, THIS EVENING” A production of Idiom Film, LLC and Louverture Films, in association with Field of Vision (PBS)

“Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (if you’re a girl)” Grain Media for A&E IndieFilms Network (A&E)

“Leaving Neverland” Amos Pictures and HBO Documentary in association with Channel Four (HBO)

“One Child Nation” Next Generation in co-production with ITVS, WDR/ARTE, Motto Pictures and Pumpernickel Films in association with Chicago Media Project and Chicken & Egg Pictures (Prime Video)

“POV: América” Lifelike Docs, American Documentary | POV (PBS)

“POV: Inventing Tomorrow” Fishbowl Films, Motto Pictures, 19340 Productions, Shark Island Institute, HHMI Tangled Bank Studios, IQ190 Productions, American Documentary | POV (PBS)

“POV: Midnight Traveler” Old Chilly Pictures LLC, American Documentary | POV, Independent Television Service (PBS)

“POV: Roll Red Roll” Sunset Park Pictures, Artemis Rising, Fork Films, Doc Society, Multitude Films, American Documentary | POV (PBS)

“POV: The Distant Barking of Dogs” Final Cut for Real, Mouka Filmi, STORY, Bayerischer Rundfunk, ARTE, American Documentary | POV (PBS)

“POV: The Silence of Others” Semilla Verde Productions, Lucernam Films, American Documentary | POV, Independent Television Service, Latino Public Broadcasting, El Deseo (PBS)

“Sea of Shadows” Terra Mater Factual Studios in association with Appian Way, Malaika Pictures, The Wild Lens Collective for National Geographic Documentary Films (National Geographic)

“Surviving R. Kelly” Bunim/Murray Productions and Kreativ Inc. for Lifetime (Lifetime)

“The Edge of Democracy” A Busca Vida Filmes Production in association with Violet Films for Netflix (Netflix)

“True Justice: Bryan Stevenson’s Fight for Equality” HBO Documentary Films and Kunhardt Films (HBO)

Warrior Women” Co-production of Castle King, LLC and ITVS in association with Vision Maker Media (WORLD Channel)

“Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics And Men” SHOWTIME Documentary Films presents A Mass Appeal Production in association with Endeavor Content (SHOWTIME)

ENTERTAINMENT

“Chernobyl” HBO Miniseries and SKY in association with Sister Pictures, The Mighty Mint, and Word Games (HBO)

“David Makes Man” Page Fright and Outlier Productions in association with Warner Horizon Scripted Television (OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network)

“Dickinson” Apple / wiip / Anonymous Content / Tuning Fork Productions / Sugar 23 Productions (Apple TV+)

“Fleabag” All3Media International Limited and Amazon Studios (Prime Video)

“Float” Pixar Animation Studios (Disney+)

“Good Omens” BBC Worldwide Limited and Amazon Studios (Prime Video)

“Our Boys” HBO in association with Keshet Media Group and MoviePlus Productions (HBO)

“Ramy” Hulu, A24 Television (Hulu)

“Stranger Things” Monkey Massacre Productions & 21 Laps Entertainment (Netflix)

“Succession” HBO Entertainment in association with Project Zeus, Hyperobject Industries, and Gary Sanchez Productions (HBO)

“Unbelievable” Timberman-Beverly Productions, Sage Lane Productions, Escapist Fare, Katie Couric Media, and CBS Television Studios for Netflix (Netflix)

“Watchmen” HBO in association with White Rabbit, Paramount, Warner Bros. Television and DC (HBO)

“When They See Us” Participant Media, Tribeca Productions, Harpo Films, Array Filmworks for Netflix (Netflix)

NEWS

“A Different Kind of Force: Policing Mental Illness” (NBC News)

“American Betrayal” NBC News, Engel Unit (NBC/MSNBC)

“Capitol Hill Controversy” NewsChannel 5 Investigates (WTVF-TV)

“Coal’s Deadly Dust” FRONTLINE, NPR (PBS)

“Flint’s Deadly Water” FRONTLINE with Five O’Clock Films (PBS/WGBH)

“Police. Arrest” PCCW NowTV (Now News)

“Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel: Raced to Death—The Plight of the American Thoroughbred” Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel (HBO)

“The Hidden Workforce: Undocumented in America” (CNN)

“The Invisibles” NBC5/KXAS-TV & Telemundo 39 (NBC5/KXAS-TV)

“Unwarranted” (WBBM-TV)

PODCAST/RADIO

“70 Million” Lantigua Williams & Co.

“Dolly Parton’s America” Osm Audio and WNYC Studios (WNYC)

“Finding Fred” Co-produced by iHeartMedia and Fatherly in partnership with Transmitter Media (iHeartMedia)

“Gangster Capitalism: The College Admissions Scandal” C13Originals, a division of Cadence 13 (C13Originals)

“Gospel Roots of Rock and Soul” (WXPN)

“Have You Heard George’s Podcast?” BBC Sounds/George the Poet Ltd. (BBC Sounds)

“Headlong: Running From COPS” Pineapple Street Studios, Topic Studios (Stitcher)

“In The Dark: The Path Home” American Public Media (APM Reports)

“Silencing Science” Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX (Public radio, Reveal)

“Stonewall OutLoud” (NPR)

“The Catch and Kill Podcast with Ronan Farrow” Pineapple Street Studios (a division of Radio.com), Glass Cannon Inc. (Pineapple Street Studios)

“The Refuge” Auricle Productions, Montana Public Radio, Pulitzer Center (Montana Public Radio)

PUBLIC SERVICE

“Border Hustle” The Texas Tribune and TIME

“Detained” The Marshall Project in partnership with The Guardian

“Long Island Divided” Newsday

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