The Peabody Awards is the oldest award winning body that honor in the best in electronic media. Peabody is now on its 69th year.
According to the Peabody web site, ‚ÄúThe Peabody Awards, the oldest honor in electronic media, do not recognize categories nor are there a set number of awards given each year. Today the Peabody recognizes distinguished achievement and meritorious public service by TV and radio stations, networks, cablecasters, Webcasters, producing organizations and individuals.”
This year, Peabody will be honoring 36 elite electronic media program all around the world. Here’s the complete list of 69th Peabody Awards recipients:
Modern Family (ABC)
Twentieth Century Fox Television in association with Levitan Lloyd Productions
This wily, witty comedy puts quirky, contemporary twists in family ties but maintains an old-fashioned heart.
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson: An Evening with Archbishop Desmond Tutu (CBS)
Worldwide Pants, Inc.
As this fascinating, often funny interview attests, the Scottish-born Ferguson has made late-night television safe again for ideas.
Noodle Road: Connecting Asia’s Kitchens (KBS1 TV)
Korean Broadcasting System
The who, where, what, why and how of Asia’s culinary staple, rolled into one visually delicious hour.
A Hidden America: Children of the Mountains (ABC)
ABC News
A powerful documentary shot in the hollows and house trailers of Appalachia reminds us that not all critical problems lie in “developing” nations.
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Archive for March, 2010
I-Witness of GMA-7 Won Peabody Awards
by admin, on Wed, Mar 31 2010 | No Comments
Kapuso Network has, once again, bring honor to our country as one of its leading program I-Witness bagged an awards at the 69th Peabody Awards.
“Ambulancia de Paa”, an I-Witness documentary that showed how a mountain community worked as a team to transport the seriously ill through rugged mountain trails, has just won the prestigious George Peabody Award.
According to the Peabody Awards Website, Ambulancia de Paa ‚Äúmemorably chronicled how residents of a poor, remote town can only get their sick and injured to medical care using the ‚Äòambulance on foot,‚Äô woven hammocks that they carry over dangerous terrain.”
Ambulancia de Paa (literally translated as Ambulance on Foot) was aired last March 2009, the documentary was hosted by Kara David and directed by Nowell Cuanang. Ambulancia de Paa was about the Mangyan community of Apnagan in upland Oriental Mindoro. David said there is still no health center in the barangay.
‚ÄúIt hasn‚Äôt sunk in,” said Kara David, who was informed by the GMA News desk Thursday morning. While happy, she also admitted to feelings of guilt about winning an award when ‚Äúthere has been little change” in the subject of her documentary.
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Ricky Martin Officially Admits He Is a Gay
by admin, on Tue, Mar 30 2010 | No Comments
Issues on Ricky Martin sexual preference has been a long standing rumor. But finally, the hunk Latino singer come out into open and admit that he is indeed a gay. On his website, Ricky Martin, publicly revealed his sexuality.
Here is Ricky’s full statement posted on his website:
A few months ago I decided to write my memoirs, a project I knew was going to bring me closer to an amazing turning point in my life. From the moment I wrote the first phrase I was sure the book was the tool that was going to help me free myself from things I was carrying within me for a long time. Things that were too heavy for me to keep inside. Writing this account of my life, I got very close to my truth. And thisis something worth celebrating.
For many years, there has been only one place where I am in touch with my emotions fearlessly and that’s the stage. Being on stage fills my soul in many ways, almost completely. It’s my vice. The music, the lights and the roar of the audience are elements that make me feel capable of anything. This rush of adrenaline is incredibly addictive. I don’t ever want to stop feeling these emotions. But it is serenity that brings me to where I’m at right now. An amazing emotional place of comprehension, reflection and enlightenment. At this moment I’m feeling the same freedom I usually feel only on stage, without a doubt, I need to share.
Many people told me: “Ricky it’s not important”, “it’s not worth it”, “all the years you’ve worked and everything you’ve built will collapse”, “many people in the world are not ready to accept your truth, your reality, your nature”. Because all this advice came from people who I love dearly, I decided to move on with my life not sharing with the world my entire truth. Allowing myself to be seduced by fear and insecurity became a self-fulfilling prophecy of sabotage. Today I take full responsibility for my decisions and my actions.
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Helen Henson is the New Bb. Pilipinas-Universe 2010
by admin, on Tue, Mar 30 2010 | 2 Comments
After the dethroning of 2010 Bb. Pilipinas-Universe winner Venus Raj Helen Nicolette Henson is now appointed as the Bb. Pilipinas-Universe 2010. Miss Henson will represent the Philippines at the 59th Miss Universe pageant happening in August.
Helen won as the 2nd Runner-up in the Bb. Pilipinas 2010. According to the rules of Bb. Pilipinas, when one titleholder gets dethroned the first runner-up will replace her. But the 1st runner-up, Dianne Necio, is only 17 years old. Dianne she is not qualified to join Miss Universe pageant since the pageant’s age limit is 18 to 26 years old. Hence, Helen, the second runner-up winner, will then fill the vacated position.
Miss Henson is a Broadcast Journalism graduate with a height of five feet and eight and a half inches tall. The 21-year old kapampangan beauty works as a part-time model, freelance host, and contributor to a travel magazine.
In Bb. Pilipinas pageant, Helen was won awards such as Miss Photogenic, Miss Philippine Air Lines and Miss Del Monte Fit ‘N Right and the 2nd Runner Up trophies.
There had been the same situation had occurred in 1999 when the 1st Runner Up winner Miriam Quiambao replaces Janelle Bautista after she was dethroned due to irregularities in her residency papers. In the 1999 Miss Universe pageant Mirim Quiambao won the 1st Runner Up title.
Cebu Dancing Inmates Is In Time Greatest Hits Once Again
by admin, on Mon, Mar 29 2010 | 1 Comment
The dancing inmates of the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC) has once again honored by Time Magazine. Their rendition of Thriller in Manila, makes it to the top 50 greatest YouTube hits according to Time, who put out the list in recognition of the “breeding ground for the Web’s wackiest and wildest viral videos” as it turns five this year.
“After Michael Jackson died in 2009, everyone had a “Thriller homage.” But the biggest and best was filmed while the King of Pop was still alive. In 2007, 1,500 inmates at a [Philippine] prison filmed a mass reenactment of Jackson’s most famous video, a routine viewed by more than 30 million people.”
Together with the Sex Bomb Dancers, the Cebu dancing inmates are also helping voters education campaign of GMA Network’s thru “Bilog na Hugis Itlog” music video.
They have also been featured in numerous documentaries including Pepe Diokno’s “Dancing for Discipline.”
Apart from catching the attention of filmmakers, the CPDRC dancing inmates were spotted by Travis Payne, Michael Jackson’s long-time choreographer, and their performance of “Thriller” got a few minutes in the DVD and Blu-Ray copies of the late King of Pop’s documentary, “This Is It.”
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