The Scifi Channel garnered it’s first ever Peabody Award today and the winner was their highly successful series ‘Battlestar Galactica, which is now entering it’s 3rd season.
The winners of the 65th Annual Peabody Awards were announced today by the University of Georgia`s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. The winners, chosen by the Peabody board as the best in electronic media for 2005, were named in a ceremony in the Peabody Gallery on the University of Georgia Campus. “Battlestar Galactica,” a drama series about a war-ravaged, homeless civilization attempting to begin anew, gave The SCI FI Channel its first Peabody victory.
The Scifi Channel’s Battlestar Galactica is an updated, revamped and definitely grittier version of the original series that ran on ABC in the 1970’s. The series has been hugely successful for the Scifi Channel since it first aired in 2005 as a mini series. The series stars Edward James Olmos. Jamie Bamber and Katie Sackoff. It also features actor Richard Hatch, who played Captain Apollo in the original series and who now plays semi regular cast member Tom Zarek, a former political prisoner.
Battlestar Galactica is set to move to primetime television this fall and on April 26, 2006, The Scifi Channel announced they are launching a spinoff series, Battlestar Caprica. Caprica will be a prequel to the events that lead up to and are now playing out on Battle Star Galactica.
For more information on Battlestar Galactica go to http://www.scifi.com/battlestar/
The awards will be presented June 5 at a luncheon at the Waldorf=Astoria Hotel in New York City. Jon Stewart, anchor of Comedy Central`s two-time Peabody Award winner, “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,” will be the master of ceremonies.
To learn more about The Peabody Awards, go to http://www.peabody.uga.edu/
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