“Parks and Recreation” has been named as a winner at the 71st Annual Peabody Awards! The winners, chosen by the Peabody board as the best in electronic media for the year 2011, were named in a ceremony in the Peabody Gallery on the University of Georgia Campus.

Parks and Recreation (NBC)

Universal Television, Deedle-Dee Productions, Fremulon

This shrewd, good-natured comedy about parks department staff in Pawnee, Indiana, never condescends or caricatures. Instead it confronts the characters with problems from the trivial to the serious.