"Girls," "Louie" among prestigious Peabody Awards winners

PanARMENIAN.Net - HBO's "Girls", FX's "Louie", late-night mastermind Lorne Michaels and an ABC News series on Robin Roberts' health struggle are among the winners of this year's Peabody Awards honoring the best in electronic media, TheWrap said.

The prestigious prizes, handed out each year by the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, went to 39 recipients in all.

They include “Girls,” Lena Dunham’s HBO series about young women in New York; "Louie," Louis C.K.'s surreal look at the life of a comedian; the BBC2 documentary “Putin, Russia and the West,” about the Russian leader; Univision's “Rapido y Furioso (Fast and Furious),” about the U.S. government's gun-tracking debacle; HBO's “Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel”; and ABC News' “Robin’s Journey,” chronicling her fight with a blood disease. ABC News also won for its Superstorm Sandy coverage.

Michaels was a rare individual winner. He was recognized as "the patron saint of satirical television comedy" because of his decades leading "Saturday Night Live."

Other winners included HBO's "Game Change," about the 2008 election; TNT's "Southland," about Los Angeles cops, and Michael Apted's "Up" series, which revisits a group of British citizens every seven years. The latest film, "56 Up," was released in U.S. theaters in January.