Doctor Who, Louie, Girls, Lorne Michaels win Peabody Awards "Doctor Who" is celebrating 50 years on the air this year, new episodes begin airing Saturday and to top it all off, the good Doctor has just received a Peabody Award for 50 years of "evolving with technology and the times like nothing else in the known television universe." The awards, announced Wednesday by the University of Georgia Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, are selected by a board of judges to highlight the best in electronic media. The honorees were announced at a ceremony on the University of Georgia campus, but the awards won't be handed out until a luncheon event in New York City on May 20. The Institutional Peabody to "Doctor Who" was just one of 39 honorees named this year. Other series include "Girls," "Louie," "Southland" and "Switched at Birth." "Saturday Night Live" creator and executive producer Lorne Michaels was given a rare Individual Peabody. In addition to "Girls," HBO received several Peabodys for the 2008 election movie "Game Change," the documentary film "The Loving Story" and the newsmagazine series "Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel." ABC's coverage of Superstorm Sandy, "60 Minutes'" reports on a failed cancer treatment by a Duke University doctor and a Congolese orchestra and CNN's coverage of the unrest inside Syria were among the many news reports that were also honored. The full list of honorees and the judges' comments follows: "Under Fire: Journalists in Combat" (Documentary Channel HD) JUF Pictures Inc., Documentary Channel, Canada A fascinating exploration of the mentality of war-zone reporters and the toll their dangerous, chosen work can have on them. Why Poverty? Steps International Eight films, each distinctive in tone and style, give us parallax views of poverty today and through the ages. "MLK: The Assassination Tapes" (Smithsonian Channel) 1895 Films for Smithsonian Channel Painstakingly configured from rare footage collected at the University of Memphis in 1968, the documentary relives the events leading up to the murder of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and its aftermath. "Reel Time: Salat" (Bone Dry) (GMA News TV) GMA Network Inc.