Peabody Entertainment Winners Include The Honorable Woman, Fargo

ATHENS: Many of the entertainment winners for this year's Peabody Awards are productions led by strong, multidimensional female characters, including The Honorable Woman, which stars Maggie Gyllenhaal.

SundanceTV's The Honorable Woman is a thriller from BBC Worldwide, Drama Republic, Eight Rooks Productions and Sundance Channel. Other entertainment programs selected for the 74th annual Peabody Awards include The Americans, an FX period drama made by Fox Television Studios and FX Productions; Channel 4's Black Mirror, a dramatic anthology from Zeppotron/Channel 4; Fargo, an FX series made by MGM and FX Productions; and Inside Amy Schumer, a Comedy Central show from Jax Media.

Additional winners include The CW's Jane the Virgin, a telenovela-based series from Eye Productions, CBS Television Studios, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Electus, RCTV and Poppy Productions; The Knick, a Cinemax period drama produced by Cinemax Entertainment in association with Ambeg Productions, Anonymous Contend and Extension 765; HBO's satirical news program Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, made by HBO Entertainment in association with Sixteen String Jack Productions and Avalon Television; and Rectify, a SundanceTV drama from Gran Via Productions and Zip Works.

The Peabody Awards' news and radio winners will be announced on April 20 on the Peabody website, where the recipients for documentary, public service, education and children's programming will be unveiled on April 23. The individual and institutional Peabodys have been respectively awarded to Sir David Attenborough, the famed British naturalist, and Afropop Worldwide, a long-running public-radio series focused on the diasporic music of Africa.

These and other winners will be presented with their awards on May 31 at the first-ever nighttime red-carpet Peabody ceremony, which will be hosted by Portlandia's Fred Armisen and held at Cipriani Wall Street in New York. Pivot TV will use the ceremony as part of a 90-minute Peabody special that is slated for broadcast on June 21.