The 2013 Peabody Awards, announced Wednesday included some of our favorite shows: “House of Cards,” “Breaking Bad,” “The Bridge,” the Danish series “Borgen,” “Broadchurch,” “Key & Peele,” “Orange is the New Black,” “Orphan Black” and “The Returned.” But it also included “Scandal.”
A number of documentaries also won. From PBS, they included the D.C. made “180 Days: A Year Inside an American High School,” “The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates Jr.,” “The Central Park Five,” “The Law in These Parts,” the “Frontline” report “League of Denial,” and three that appeared on “Independent Lens” — “How to Survive a Plague,” “The House I Live In” and “The Invisible War.”
From PBS’ “Great Performances,” its “Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy” was also a winner.
HBO documentary winners included “Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House,” “Six by Sondheim” and “Life According to Sam.” And the multi-part Turner Classic Movies series “The Story of Film: An Odyssey” was also a winner.
An animated series from Pakistan, “Burka Avenger,” was also a Peabody winner. Tom Brokaw got a special awards and Boston’s WBZ was honored for its coverage of the Boston Marathon bombings a year ago.
The 46 winners will be given in a New York ceremony May 19.