No Emmy? No problem for “Heated Rivalry,” which isn’t eligible for the Primetime Emmys this year but is still cleaning up with programming awards. The Canadian show — which hails from Canada’s Crave streamer and airs on HBO Max in the U.S. — just picked up a Peabody Award, a week after it was also selected for the Television Academy Honors.
The show joins Emmy winners “The Pitt,” “Adolescence” and more as among the 34 winners chosen by the Peabody Awards jury to win this year’s prizes. That includes programs selected in the fields of entertainment, documentary, news, podcast/radio, arts, children’s and youth, immersive and interactive media, and public service programming.
According to Peabody, the 34 winners were chosen out of nominees — which originally came from a list of more than 1,000 entries in all categories. The final winners were chosen by unanimous vote from 28 jurors.
HBO Max won six total Peabodys, the most of any outlet, followed by Netflix, Disney+, Apple TV, PBS and Al Jazeera English, which each received two. (Hulu also received two — but one through Onyx Collective and the other through FX.)
“The winners of the 86th annual Peabody Awards reflect Peabody’s mission to honor storytelling that has the potential to change culture, whether it’s examining the destructive tactics of ICE, viewing terminal illness through a deeply personal lens, or resisting attempts to stifle free speech,” said Jeffrey Jones, executive director of Peabody. “We look forward to recognizing and celebrating these winners.”
The 86th annual Peabody Awards winners will be recognized with a ceremony at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel on May 31. Liz Kelly and ROK Productions will produce. Peabody noted that this year’s event will be structured differently than in years past, “moving away from a traditional awards show structure and toward a more unified celebration of the winners. Honorees will be grouped around shared thematic categories, creating a narrative arc that carries through the evening.”
As previously announced, Amy Poehler will be honored with the Peabody career achievement award, Sterlin Harjo will be given the Peabody trailblazer award, James L. Brooks will be honored with the Peabody industry icon award and PBS Kids will be recognized with the Peabody institutional award.
Here are this year’s winners — as entertainment leads the pack with 11 wins, then documentary with ten (including two under the arts banner) and five for news, four for interactive/immersive programming and three for podcasts/radio. Children’s/youth received one win this year.
(See the nominations and full details for arts, children’s/youth, entertainment and interactive & immersive categories here, and documentary, news, public service and radio/podcast categories here.)
ENTERTAINMENT
“Adolescence” (Netflix)
Warp Films, Matriarch Productions and Plan B for Netflix
“Andor” (Disney+)
Lucasfilm Ltd.
“Common Side Effects” (Adult Swim)
Green Street Pictures, Bandera Entertainment, and Williams Street
“Dying for Sex” (FX / Hulu)
20th Television
“Forever” (Netflix)
A Netflix Series
“Heated Rivalry” (HBO Max)
Accent Aigu Entertainment in association with Bell Media’s Crave
“Jimmy Kimmel Live!” (ABC)
20th Television in association with Kimmelot
“Mussolini: Son of the Century” (MUBI)
Sky Studios and Lorenzo Mieli for The Apartment, a Fremantle group company, in coproduction
with Pathé, in association with Small Forward Productions, in collaboration
with Fremantle, CINECITTAv S.p.A. and Sky
“The Pitt” (HBO Max)
HBO Max in association with John Wells Productions, R. Scott Gemmill Productions, and
Warner Bros. Television
“Pluribus” (Apple TV)
Sony Pictures Television in association with Apple
“The Rehearsal” (HBO Max)
HBO in association with Blow Out Productions
ARTS
“Fela Kuti: Fear No Man”
Audible, Higher Ground, Western Sound and Talkhouse
“Sly Lives! (a.k.a. The Burden of Black Genius)” (Hulu, Onyx Collective)
MRC, Network Entertainment Inc., Two One Five Entertainment
DOCUMENTARIES
“The Alabama Solution” (HBO Max)
HBO Documentary Films; Hit The Ground Running
“Come See Me in the Good Light” (Apple TV)
Apple / Tripod Media / Amplify Pictures / Treat Media / Something Fierce Productions
“Mr. Nobody Against Putin” (BBC Four)
Made in Copenhagen in co-production with Pink
“No Other Land”
Antipode Films
“Pee-wee as Himself” (HBO Max)
HBO Documentary Films presents an Elara & First Love Films Production
“Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk” (Kino Film Collection)
Rêves d’Eau Productions
“Southpaw—The Life and Legacy of Jim Abbott” (ESPN)
ESPN
“Thoughts & Prayers” (HBO Max)
HBO Documentary Films presents a Tony Tina Production
CHILDREN’S / YOUTH
“Marvel’s Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur” (Disney+)
Flying Bark Productions, Disney Television Animation, Disney Branded Television
NEWS
“Fault Lines: ‘Kids Under Fire’ and ‘The Disappearance of Dr. Abu SaAiya’” (Al Jazeera
English)
Al Jazeera English
“Immigration Crackdown” (PBS News Hour)
PBS News Hour
“Los Angeles Burning” (ABC News and KABC, Los Angeles)
ABC News and KABC-TV, Los Angeles
“Restrained” (ABC / KMBC 9)
KMBC 9
“The Rise and Fall of Terrorgram” (PBS)
Frontline (PBS), ProPublica
PODCAST AND RADIO
“Divine Intervention”
Wonder Media Network and iHeartMedia
“Scam Inc”
The Economist
“When We All Get to Heaven”
Eureka Street Productions
INTERACTIVE & IMMERSIVE
“Cleared by Fire”
The New Yorker
“ICE Sweeps Georgia”
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
“Investigating War Crimes in Gaza”
Al Jazeera English
“South of Midnight”
Compulsion Games
