Emmy Season is underway and that means The Peabody Awards are right around the corner. Now in its 83rd year, the Peabody Awards will return to an in-person ceremony for the first time since 2019 and finally make its long-awaited move to Los Angeles. This morning, the organization announced the nominees for the Documentary and News Categories with “We Need To Talk About Cosby” among the honorees.

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Other nominees include “Luci & Desi,” “Mariupol: The People’s Story,” “60 Minutes” and multiple projects from “VICE News” and “Frontline.”

The nominees in the Entertainment, Arts, Children’s/Youth, Podcast/Radio, Interactive & Immersive, and Public Service – will be announced on Thursday.

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Despite critical acclaim and overwhelming evidence, W. Kamau Bell knows what is coming. His four-part docu-series, “We Need To Talk About Cosby,” not only chronicles the influential African-American comedian’s rise in the entertainment industry but his subsequent crimes of rape and sexual harassment against women throughout his career. But, for many, those criminal charges are simply conspiratorial accusations against a revered member of the Black community. Bill Cosby has become, and likely always will be, a polarizing figure.

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Even the title of W. Kamau Bell’s “We Need to Talk About Cosby” is loaded – because when we talk about Bill Cosby, we’re not just talking about Bill Cosby. We’re talking about rape culture, we’re talking about race, we’re talking about representation, we’re talking about celebrity, we’re talking about power… we’re talking about subjects that are larger than one entertainer, even one of the most successful and wealthy entertainers of the 20th century.

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Can you separate the art from the artist? That’s a question that is presented to so many film and TV fans nowadays, as we begin to learn a lot of the terrible actions that many celebrities have been getting away with behind the scenes for years. And perhaps no one is more shocking, in that regard, than Bill Cosby, who is the subject of the new docuseries, “We Need to Talk About Cosby.”

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As seen in the trailer for the new series from director W.

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The #MeToo movement has made it increasingly difficult to talk about separating the art from the artist. Can you do it? Is it worth trying? And are there varying degrees of misconduct that make it easier for you to support one disgraced artist from another? This is part of the discussion presented in the new Showtime docuseries, “We Need to Talk About Cosby.”

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Created by stand-up comedian W.

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The unveiling of the 2022 Sundance Film Festival line-up was decidedly unique. For the first time in recent memory, acquisition films are dominating the proceedings. Sure, there are a few A24 and Amazon Studios films here and there, but for the most part, the mini-majors decided to pass on a hybrid in-person and virtual festival (for a variety of reasons). In many ways, that may benefit festival-goers who are in for more “unseen” surprises than usual.

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