Candice Bergen Accepting the 2005 Peabody Award for “Boston Legal”
Boston Legal is the quintessential David E. Kelley series-as topical as Picket Fences, as concerned with ethics as The Practice, as unabashedly goofy as Ally McBeal. Kelley, co-executive producers Bill D’Elia, Janet Leahy, and Scott Kaufer and their team use the cases of Crane, Poole & Schmidt, a blue-chip corporate law firm, to address issues ranging from the death penalty to the predatory practices of credit-card companies; from global warming to polygamy; from plastic surgery to the war in Iraq. And unlike other prime-time entertainment series that carefully balance their debates so as not to polarize or offend, Boston Legal actually takes stands, most often via the unorthodox courtroom summations of attorney Alan Shore (James Spader).
Read full winner’s citation here: http://www.peabodyawards.com/award-profile/boston-legal
