Peabody Entertainment & Children’s Programming Winners Unveiled

The Peabody Board of Jurors has named the entertainment, children’s content and institutional award winners ahead of the 78th Annual Peabody Awards.

Among the nine entertainment winners are four drama titles, including two FX Networks series—Pose and The Americans. The former follows a rivalry between one established house and one upstart house in the ball scene in 1980s New York, as it tells the stories of trans and gay people of color at the time. The latter, also set in the 1980s, starred Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys as Soviet spies deep undercover as middle-class American parents in a suburb outside of Washington, D.C.

Killing Eve (BBC America), the cat-and-mouse spy thriller created by Phoebe Waller-Bridge and starring Sandra Oh and Jodie Comer, will also be honored. Rounding out the entertainment winners from the drama genre is The End of the Fucking World (Netflix), an unorthodox coming-of-age story involving a self-identified psychopath and his rebel high school classmate that is based on a graphic novel by Charles Forsman.

The Good Place (NBC), Michael Schur’s fantasy-comedy about the afterlife; and Barry (HBO), the dark comedy series starring Saturday Night Live alum Bill Hader and Henry Winkler, were recognized by the Peabody jurors, as was the stand-up special Hannah Gadsby: Nanette (Netflix). Factual programs Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj (Netflix) and Random Acts of Flyness (HBO) also will take home awards.

The Peabody Awards’ children’s programming honor will go to Steven Universe (Cartoon Network). The series from Rebecca Sugar is a fantasy epic and superhero saga in which the titular protagonist and his friends are protected from cosmic threats by “polymorphic sentient rocks” called the Chrystal Gems. The board of jurors also named Sesame Street the winner of an institutional award for the program’s 50 years of educating and entertaining children.

The 78th Annual Peabody Awards Ceremony, which will be hosted by journalist Ronan Farrow, will be held on Saturday, May 18, at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City.