The Simpsons won a Peabody Award in 1996 for its first eight seasons, and this weekend’s upcoming 26th season premiere inspired this interview. Professor Jonathan Gray’s 2006 book Watching with “The Simpsons”: Television,

Edith Ann’s Christmas (Just Say Noël) has not become evergreen TV like A Charlie Brown Christmas, which has been popping up in prime time once or more every Yuletide since 1965. The 1996

In the realm of broadcasting, crime has always paid. Radio in the 1940s was roiling with private eye, cop and mystery shows. I Love a Mystery. Crime Club.

Entertainment has a way of nudging social change along, and comedy is a particularly powerful tool in this regard, as Jordan Peele pointed out at this year’s Peabody Award ceremony. Sometimes comedy does

Burka Avenger recently won a Peabody Award for an animated series which, while ostensibly created for children, contains messages of hope and empowerment for individuals of all ages. We wanted to shine a

Though the Peabody Awards were conceived to encourage broadcasters to do more public service and high-minded shows, Peabody judges soon enough acknowledged that laughs mattered, too. After all, there was a world war

The University of Georgia has approved three new members of the George Foster Peabody Awards Board. Joining other distinguished experts who select electronic media’s most coveted prize are Martha Nelson of New York,

31 recipients of the 56th Annual Peabody Awards were presented with awards on May 12, 1997 at the Waldorf=Astoria Hotel in New York City. The winners were chosen by the Peabody board as

In the realm of broadcasting, crime has always paid. Radio in the 1940s was awash in private eye, cop and mystery show, among them I Love a Mystery, Crime Club, Sam

There was a recurring gag in the old Rocky and Bullwinkle TV series that you may recall. Everybody’s favorite screw-loose moose would appear in magician’s garb and say, “Hey, Rock, watch me pull

Obituaries for Sam Simon, who died this week at age 59, are citing him foremost as co-creator of The Simpsons. That’s a bit of a misnomer. It doesn’t do Simon’s contribution full credit.

What’s left to be said about The Simpsons as it begins its 27th season on Fox on Sunday, September 27? Well, we could talk about its literary kinship to the works of William

Peabody recognizes socially conscious storytelling Each year, Peabody Awards recognize stories notable for their excellence as well as their resonance—whether it’s a warning to heed, injustice to address,

No prize for electronic media in the world is more coveted or respected than the George Foster Peabody Award, but it wouldn’t matter half as much if not for the independence it enjoys

By the time Les Brown published his first Encyclopedia of Television in 1978, he was already worthy of an entry of his own. Brown, who died Nov. 4 at the

In hindsight, you can see it coming a mile away. The opening tease of Sunday’s episode of CBS’s Peabody-winning drama The Good Wife focused primarily on Josh Charles’ character, litigator Will Gardner, not

If you remember the ’60s, you probably weren’t there. It’s an oft-quoted line, usually good for a laugh, that has been attributed to comedian-actor Robin Williams. But in reality (What

​CBS This Morning ran a short feature piece on the history of the Peabodys. Then this year’s emcee Ira Glass (host of This American Life) and Peabody Board Member Charlayne Hunter-Gault highlighted some

The floodgates are about to open. The deadline for entering calendar-year 2013 programs in the Peabody Awards competition is Wednesday, January 15, and if history is any indicator, 80 percent of the 1,000

Saturday Night Live, which won Peabody Awards in 1990 and 2008, has been at the center of public conversation about diversity. But the recent hiring of three African American women—Sasheer Zamata as a

On Hill Street Blues, Sgt. Phil Esterhaus’ roll-call watchwords —“Hey, let’s be careful out there” – became a catch phrase for the nation. Luckily for viewers, the show’s creators paid no attention whatsoever