Some genre heavyweights have gotten yet another prestigious award: both Avatar: The Last Airbender and Lost received Peabody Awards, an award given to “the best in electronic media” from the University of Georgia.
If you’re shrugging your shoulders at this, this actually puts the two shows up with some pop culture behemoths, including the Daily Show (which has won two, if I recall my thesis research correctly), Saturday Night Live, and 60 Minutes. That said, YouTube also won an award this year, which is about as lame as Time having the Person of the Year be a mirrored cover. Hey, I still put the honor on my resume — it looks classy.
April 1st, 2009 at 5:53 pm
You won a Peabody award?
for which genre?
April 2nd, 2009 at 1:36 pm
Two of the very best things TV’s had to offer in recent years, maybe two of the best EVER. Lost has certainly helped change the face of TV in a number of ways, and Avatar was as good as animated storytelling got. Too bad it ended far too soon, and too bad Lost has only one more season to go.
Speaking of, whatever happened to the Lost recaps on Newsarama? It happened for the first few weeks this season, then it stopped. This was hardly my first stop for Lost information, but still.