Respectable

Somewhere I once commented that a show got a Peabody Award for being so damn boring. You might say I don't have much patience with highfalutin awards like the Peabodys.

So I look in Google News and see that Jeopardy has won, you guessed it, a Peabody. I don't want to sound churlish about Alex and company getting honored. But game shows appeal to me exactly because they're down-and-dirty everyman stuff. If I want pretension, I'll try PBS documentaries.

At least this probably won't start a trend. It's really hard to imagine Baggage or Family Feud getting a Peabody. I doubt the judges care much for embarrassing secrets in suitcases or a hundred people's thoughts on a good fruit for pastries.

Now I don't mind the Daytime Emmys for game shows. After all, the Daytime Emmys are very low-rent awards. Lately, they're getting to be pretty low-viewership awards, too.