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The Peabody Awards Also Recog- This Year, Denver’S KMGH-TV Won Services TW MAIN 05-18-09 A 11 TVWEEK 5/14/2009 6:31 PM Page 1 LOOK WHO’S TALKING TELEVISIONWEEK May 18, 2009 11 TVWEEK’S ANNUAL LOWDOWN ON SUNDAY MORNING NEWSMAKERS ... PAGE 20 INSIDE SPECIAL SECTION ‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’ (Nickelodeon) Page 12 ‘Black Magic’ (ESPN) Page 12 Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony (NBC Olympics) Page 12 NewsproTHE STATE OF TV NEWS ‘Breaking Bad’ (AMC) Page 13 ’Entourage’ (HBO) Page 13 ’The Gates’ (HBO) Page 14 ’Hear and Now’ THE (HBO) Page 14 ‘Hopkins’ (ABC News) Page 14 ‘John Adams’ (HBO) Page 14 ’Lost’ (ABC) Page 15 ’Nanking’ (HBO) Page 16 PEABODY Presidential Primary Coverage (CNN) Page 16 ‘Richard Engel Reports: Tip of the Spear’ (“NBC Nightly News”) Page 17 PrestigiousAWARDS Honors Laud Cross-Section of ‘SNL’ Political Satire TV Fare, From ‘Lost’ to Olympics to ‘SNL’ (NBC) Page 17 By Allison J.Waldman films were awarded Peabodys: “Hear and Special to TelevisionWeek Now,” about a 60-something couple, deaf ’60 Minutes: Lifeline’ The George Foster Peabody Award is since birth, who underwent cochlear (CBS News) Page 17 68TH ANNUAL considered by many to be the most implant surgeries; “The Gates,” which prestigious honor in electronic media, focused on the artists Christo and Turner Classic Movies PEABODY akin to the Pulitzer Prize for print jour- Jeanne-Claude and their 24-year odyssey (Turner Broadcasting) Page 17 AWARDS nalism. For 2008, the Peabody judges of bureaucratic hoop-jumping to create Local Station Winners Where: Waldorf-Astoria have honored a wide variety of enter- their living art; and “Nanking,” which (KLAS-TV, Las Vegas; KMGH-TV, Denver; Hotel, New York tainment, news and information media. brought to light the history of a small Among this round of Peabody hon- group of Westerners who saved thou- WWL-TV, New Orleans) Page 18 When: May 18, 2009 orees, HBO won five awards, including sands of Chinese people during the 1937 Additional winner profiles can be Who: NBC’s Brian Williams one each for comedy series “Entourage” “Rape of Nanking” by Japanese invaders. found online at TVWeek.com. to host ceremony. and miniseries “John Adams,” based on CNN, PBS and the network news For a complete list of winners go to David McCullough’s bestselling biogra- divisions were honored by the Peabodys peabodys.uga.edu phy of America’s second president, pro- for their work in 2008 as well. ABC News duced by Tom Hanks’ Playtone Films. won for the medical drama “Hopkins,” In addition, three HBO documentary Continued on Page 18 TW MAIN 05-18-09 A 12 TVWEEK 5/14/2009 3:52 PM Page 1 12 May 18, 2009 TELEVISIONWEEK NEWSPRO Nickelodeon ‘AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER’ By Allison J.Waldman Special to TelevisionWeek Nickelodeon was recognized with a Peabody Award for the anime-influ- enced children’s show “Avatar: The Last Air Bender.” “We were totally surprised,” said Michael Dante DiMartino, who co- created the series with Bryan Koniet- zko. “I never imagined ‘Avatar’ would receive such a high honor, and I’m HISTORIC Earl “the very proud of all the talented, hard- Pearl” Monroe, top right working people who came together to with the Winston-Salem make a show of very high quality.” State team, co-produced The series follows the adventures ESPN “Black Magic.” Right, the of protagonist Aang and his friends, Norfolk State Spartans who must save the world by defeating play Virginia Union. the Fire Lord and ending the destruc- ‘BLACK tive war with the Fire Nation. Mr. Konietzko said he is really looking forward to going to New York for the Peabody presentation with his MAGIC’ partner. However, there is a catch: By Elizabeth Jensen “Nickelodeon was very generous in Special to TelevisionWeek BALANCE Nickelodeon’s getting us out there to receive the In the process of researching a “Avatar: The Last Airbender” award, but we were told that only one lengthy history of basketball for gives—and earns—respect. of us is allowed to speak. … I guess the characters and their problems, ESPN, filmmaker (“Crazy Love”) and South Carolina for a decade, Mr. we’ll flip a coin or play some ping- relationships and goals have real sig- former PR man Dan Klores found Klores said he had always found his- pong to decide.” nificance. The reason so many fans on a daily basis.” himself becoming more interested in torically black colleges and universi- However they decide, they’ll do it are so passionate about the show is Nickelodeon’s viewers have the sports history of historically black ties fascinating, “because it was such respectfully and with honor, because that they see parts of their personali- embraced the “Avatar” adventures colleges and universities. an indication of separation.” that’s the essence of “Avatar.” ties in the characters and are able to and made the show a hit for Nick. When both sides decided not to go The film, which ESPN ran without “A big part of the Avatar world and relate to them. “Luckily for us, it seems like kids of forward with the basketball project, commercial interruption (“I can’t bear the characters who inhabit it has to “Also, the biggest theme in ‘Avatar’ varying ages, all over the world, have he said, they struck a deal instead for it; that break-up is horrible,” Mr. do with respect,” said Mr. DiMartino. is that of finding balance, both really found the universe to be a com- the four-hour “Black Magic,” which Klores said), traced the history of He thinks that was one reason the between nations and within oneself,” pelling one,” said Mr. Konietzko. the Peabody judges called an “unusu- African American basketball players Peabody committee honored the Mr. DiMartino added. “This is a uni- “Mike and I are deeply touched by all ally penetrating sports documentary.” and their coaches at the schools dur- series. “We don’t just think of the versal struggle that every nation and of the energy that fans put into A student of American history and ing the civil rights era, chronicling show as your typical cartoon. To us, every person in the world deals with expressing their love for the show.” ■ avid basketball player who lived in both the injustices committed in a segregated system and the schools’ contributions to the civil rights move- ment. NBC Olympics “These schools in the system are a critical component to our history, but they also represent something that the majority of people have no idea BEIJING OLYMPICS about whatsoever, not really: The schools, the African American family and the pursuits of education,” he OPENING CEREMONY said. “The film is about exclusion and By Hillary Atkin therefore invention.” Special to TelevisionWeek or and imagination Since making the film, Mr. Klores On Aug. 8, 2008, an estimated 2 that really resonat- has been fighting, with others, to get billion people worldwide watched ed on American tel- the Basketball Hall of Fame to open the televised spectacle of the evision,” said exec- its doors to players from the histori- Opening Ceremony for the Beijing utive producer Dick cally black schools, and, he said, “I Summer Olympics at the Chinese Ebersol. His vast think we will be successful.” stadium known as the Bird’s Nest. experience includes He and others also have lobbied The kickoff of the Summer Games having worked on Congress, so far with less success, to of the XXIX Olympiad was de- the 1968 and 1972 reopen an investigation into the 1968 signed by creative director Zhang Games while at Orangeburg massacre at South Car- Yimou, an acclaimed filmmaker. ABC Sports, and STUNNING Chinese film olina State University, in which three Bucky Gunts directed the event for executive produc- director Zhang Yimou staged young people were killed and 27 TV, anchored by NBC Sports and ing every Olympics since Barce- the Opening Ceremony of the injured when police fired on a group Olympics host Bob Costas and lona in 1992 in for NBC Sports. Beijing Olympics. protesting the segregation of a local “Today” co-host Matt Lauer. “Zhang Yimou decided more bowling alley. The little-known shoot- The critically acclaimed event, than a year before to let the prin- ours and wrote us ing was examined in “Black Magic.” which featured a cast of 15,000 cel- cipals of TV inside the tent, and a beautiful note The biggest impact of the film, Mr. ebrating the rich history of cen- met with Bucky Gunts and pro- saying how great it Klores said, was the rekindling of turies of Chinese culture, has added ducer David Neal 16 months had been to watch decades-old friendships. It brought a Peabody Award to its many acco- before,” Mr. Ebersol said. “They and see his vision him together with legendary coach lades. It incorporated a theatrical had models, and did walk- so totally cap- Ben Jobe, who, he said, “largely synchronized drum piece and other throughs. He was very open about tured,” Mr. Eber- because of the film” is now, well into stunning performances, fireworks, it and did the same for several sol added. “Word his 70s, a scout for the New York lights, colors, music and the Parade international broadcasters. But got out on the Knicks; there he works for President of Nations, and climaxed with the that night when it was over, he street in China Donnie Walsh, also featured in the dramatic lighting of the Olympic saw the [television] production that everyone documentary. cauldron. mounted in China, and he was wanted to see the American ver- nearly 50 years of televised Olympics, “It brought Donnie, myself and “Unquestionably, the Beijing heartsick. The feed in Europe he sion.
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