“Glee.”

“The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency.”

“Modern Family.”

“In Treatment.”

Aside from being among the most entertaining shows on television, the above programs have something else in common: They’re all Peabody Award winners.

The list of 36 Peabody recipients represent the best in electronic media for 2009, including primetime series; made-for-TV scripted dramas; documentaries; news reports submitted from local television stations as well as from the major networks; radio dramas, news coverage and documentaries; and websites.

Joining the aforementioned TV shows are a number of documentaries, including HBO’s “Thrilla in Manila,” which looks at the Muhammad Ali-Joe Frazier fights in the early 1970s from Frazier’s point of view, and an “American Masters” special on director choreographer Jerome Robbins titled, “Jerome Robbins – Something to Dance About. ”

“The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson” also won a Peabody for its episode that featured a conversation with Desmond Tutu.

Two “60 Minutes” reports from Steve Kroft, “The Cost of Dying” and “Sabotaging the System,” and a special report from ABC News anchor Diane Sawyer on life in Appalachia that aired on “20/20.“  Sawyer also happens to be hosting this year’s ceremony, which will be held on May 17 at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in Manhattan.

Keep reading for full list of winners. For the list with accompanying citations, click here.

Modern Family (ABC)

Twentieth Century Fox Television in association with Levitan Lloyd Productions

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson: An Evening with Archbishop Desmond Tutu (CBS)

Worldwide Pants, Inc.

Noodle Road: Connecting Asia’s Kitchens (KBS1 TV)

Korean Broadcasting System

A Hidden America: Children of the Mountains (ABC)

ABC News

SesameStreet.org

Sesame Workshop

BBC World News America: Unique Broadcast, Unique Perspective (BBC America)

BBC World News America, BBC America

The Cost of Dying (CBS)

CBS News 60 Minutes

Independent Lens: Between the Folds (PBS)

Green Fuse Films, ITVS

Glee (FOX)

Twentieth Century Fox Television

The OxyContin Express (Current TV)

Vanguard on Current TV

npr.org

National Public Radio

Diane Rehm Personal Award

The Day that Lehman Died (BBC World Service)

A Goldhawk Essential Production/BBC World Service Production

In Treatment (HBO)

Leverage, Closest to the Hole Productions and Sheleg in association with HBO Entertainment

Inventing LA: The Chandlers and Their Times (PBS)

Peter Jones Productions

No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency (HBO)

Mirage Enterprises and Cinechicks in association with The Weinstein Company, BBC and HBO Entertainment

Sabotaging the System (CBS)

CBS News 60 Minutes

Brick City (Sundance Channel)

Sundance Channel, Brick City TV LLC

Thrilla in Manila (HBO)

Darlow Smithson Production, HBO Sports, HBO Documentary Films

FRONTLINE: The Madoff Affair (PBS)

FRONTLINE, RAINmedia

I-Witness: Ambulansiyang de Paa  (GMA Network)

GMA Network, Inc., Philippines

Independent Lens: The Order of Myths (PBS)

Folly River, Inc., Netpoint Productions, Lucky Hat Entertainment, ITVS

Hard Times (OPB Radio)

Oregon Public Broadcasting

Iran & the West

Brook Lapping Productions for the BBC in association with National Geographic Channel, France 3, NHK, VPRO, SVT, RTBF, VRT, NRK, SRC/CBC, DRTV SBS, YLE, TVP and Press TV

Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson: Covering Afghanistan (NPR)

National Public Radio

The Great Textbook War (West Virginia Public Broadcasting)

Terry Kay Productions

Mind the Gap: Why Good Schools Are Failing Black Students (KLCC Radio)

Nancy Solomon

Endgame (PBS)

Daybreak/Channel 4/Target Entertainment, Presented on PBS/MASTERPIECE by WGBH Boston

Sichuan Earthquake: One Year On (Now-Broadband TV News Channel)

Now-TV News, Hong Kong

BART Shooting (KTVU-TV)

KTVU, Oakland, Calif.
American Masters: Jerome Robbins – Something to Dance About (PBS)

Thirteen/WNET

Chronicle: Paul’s Gift (WYFF-TV)

WYFF 4, Greenville, S.C.

Under Fire: Discrimination and Corruption in the Texas National Guard (KHOU-TV)

KHOU-TV, Houston, Tex., Belo, Inc.

Derrion Albert Beating (WFLD-TV)

FOX Chicago News: WFLD-TV and myfoxchicago.com

Where Giving Life Is a Death Sentence (BBC America)

BBC World News America, BBC America, BBC World News

Up in Smoke (KCET-TV)

KCET, Los Angeles

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