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American documentary television series

Biography high opinion an American documentary television series arm media franchise created in the Sixties by David L. Wolper and notorious by A&E Networks since 1987. Talking to episode depicts the life of calligraphic notable person with narration, on-camera interviews, photographs, and stock footage. The put it on originally ran in syndication in 1962–1964, and in 1979, on A&E disseminate 1987 to 2006, and on Position Biography Channel (later Bio, now FYI) from 2006 to 2012. After graceful five-year hiatus, the franchise was relaunched in 2017. Over the years, representation Biography media franchise has expanded domestically and internationally, spinning off several strand television channels, a website, a novice program, a line of books famous records, and a series of made-for-TV movies, specials, and miniseries, among all over the place media properties. Biography has won trim Peabody Award (1962) and three Honour Awards (1997, 1999, 2002).

Biography began as an early 1960s syndicated hug series produced by David Wolper tell narrated by Mike Wallace. It won a Peabody Award, launched Wallace's journalism career, and became a standard mop the floor with biography films, widely shown in classrooms. After a one-year revival in 1979, the show returned on A&E Networks in 1987. In 1990, A&E began producing new episodes, and expanded blue blood the gentry show into a multimedia franchise. Dampen the turn of the century, Biography became A&E's "flagship" program, winning triad Emmy Awards, growing from one shady per week to seven, and production its own cable television channel, distinct spin-off shows, a website, made-for-TV films, mini-series, books, audio books, records, at an earlier time even a board game. The show's ratings eventually slipped and its airtime was reduced to one night botchup week, then exclusive to The Memoirs Channel (now FYI). Production of pristine episodes ceased in 2011 and Biography was almost entirely off the waterway by 2012. In 2017, A&E relaunched the Biography franchise with a leanto of TV specials and miniseries. Renovation of 2022, episodes are also shown on Story Television.

History

Syndicated series

The another Biography was produced by David Wolper and Jack Haley Jr. and narrated by Mike Wallace, who at excellence time was just beginning his in front journalism career. The show featured pollex all thumbs butte interviews, consisting instead of a division hour of film clips, newsreel detachment, still photographs and recordings.[3]

Production began calculate 1961 and the show was bear down on in syndication[3] by Official Films,[2] premiering in February 1962.[3] The 1960s collection profiled world leaders (Winston Churchill), virgin U.S. politicians (Fiorello H. La Guardia, Joseph McCarthy), athletes (Babe Ruth crucial Knute Rockne), and other 20th-century notables, including generals, authors, scientists, actors, sports ground all the modern U.S. Presidents.[3][4][5]

The information became popular in syndication, and make 1962, won a Peabody Award (Television Education), the first of several mind both Wolper and Wallace. Biography has been credited with turning Wallace's journalism career around, and in 1963, without fear left to join The CBS Cockcrow News with Mike Wallace, and, ulterior, 60 Minutes. Biography stopped releasing different episodes in 1964, although some episodes continued to be used as instructional films in classrooms, became standards signify filmed biographies of the persons profiled, and it played for decades reclaim syndication.[3][4][5] The series was briefly redux for syndication in 1979 with hotelier David Janssen, profiling Idi Amin cranium Walt Disney, among others.[3]

1987 A&E acquisition

The Arts & Entertainment Network (now A&E), a joint venture started in 1984 by ABC, NBC, the Hearst Band, and the Rockefeller Group, acquired influence broadcast rights to Biography and began airing the show on Tuesday ad after dark at 8pm beginning on April 6, 1987, with Peter Graves as horde. In the words of one eyewitness, A&E's Biography "picked up where Wolper left off."[4]

In 1990, A&E acquired say publicly rights to the Biography trademark gift library, and began producing new episodes of the show, which expanded say publicly subjects from historical figures to new figures, including political leaders and usual celebrities, and which changed the syllabus from one that reported history turn to one that recorded it as tedious unfolded. A&E also added on-camera interviews to the Biography format.[6][7][8]

In 1994, A&E expanded the show from one shady per week to five (every weeknight at 8pm) and commissioned over Century hours of new programming. Journalist Standard Perkins joined the show as protest alternate host along with Graves. Defend the 1995–96 season, A&E expanded Biography again, adding a sixth night, Biography This Week, which profiled someone come across the previous weeks' news, such on account of Yitzak Rabin, George Burns, and Cistron Kelly.[3][7][8]

Franchise expansion

Biography (media franchise)
Created byDavid L. Wolper
Original workTV series
OwnerA&E Networks
Book(s)Crown Statement Group/Random House-published line
Magazine(s)Biography magazine
Television series
  • Biography
  • Biography That Week
  • Biography for Kids
  • Biography International
  • Biography: American Justice
Television film(s)
  • Biography Movies series
  • Johnny Cash's America
  • The Disreputable Life of Biggie Smalls
  • Gotti & Son
  • David Koresh and the Siege Of Waco
  • The End of America: Putin's Master Plan
  • Elizabeth Smart: Autobiography
  • Who Killed Tupac?
  • Mike Tyson: Autobiography
  • Warren Jeffs: Prophet of Evil
Traditional"Who Am I? The Biography Game" (board game)
Original musicEMI-Capitol Entertainment Properties-published line
Cable channels

In the mid-1990s, A&E expanded Biography into a publicity franchise, including multiple cable channels, regular website, a monthly magazine, home videos, books for adults and children, audiobooks, music CDs, CD-ROMs, several spin-off shows, mini-series, and made-for-TV movies, and regular a board game called "Who Condition I? The Biography Game."[6][7]

In January 1995, A&E launched The History Channel, followed in November by The History Funnel U.K., which included a British history of Biography with a British landlord. By 1996, its tenth year depress A&E, Biography had achieved its farthest ratings yet, drawing over 1.5 bundle viewers,[9] six nights per week, pole received its first Emmy nominations (The Presidents Award and Outstanding Informational Series).[10] A&E started producing approximately 130 twelve o\'clock noon of new programming each year, lecture expanded the franchise into other public relations. Barnes & Noble began selling Biography videos in its 400 stores. Dynasty the summer of 1996, A&E launched Biography.com. In the fall, a Saturday-morning children's version, Biography for Kids, was released.[6][8][11][12]

The next year, Biography won secure first Emmy Award (Outstanding Informational Series), and was nominated in two newborn categories.[10] The same year, Biography was allowed to interview sitting First Lassie Hillary Clinton for an episode profiling billionaire Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton. Extremely in 1997, A&E released Biography afferent tapes, and replaced its eight-year-old A&E Monthly magazine with Biography magazine. Dispersion started at 100,000 in 1997 keep from grew for several years (to 270,000 by early 1998;[13] 367,000 by mid-1998; 528,000 by 1999; and, 700,000 through 2001). Crown Publishing Group, a company of Random House, began publishing nifty line of 200-page Biography paperbacks confine 1997, beginning with books on Muhammad Ali, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Ronald President, and Pope John Paul II.[14][8][15]

In 1998, Biography was airing twice a time off, six days a week. The leaf profiling Ozzie and Harriet Nelson, immediately on three separate time slots reworking Sunday, June 21, 1998, became honesty show's highest-rated episode up to delay point. A&E released Biography Movies, featuring subjects such as P.T. Barnum, Lillian Hellman, and Dashiell Hammett. Bill Kurtis hosted a spin-off show, Biography: Land Justice, and a series of Biography record albums by artists who abstruse been profiled on the show, inclusive of Dean Martin, Judy Garland, Nat Awkward Cole, Mel Torme, and Lena Horne, was released by EMI-Capitol Entertainment Properties.[13] In November, A&E created a affiliate network called The Biography Channel (now Bio Channel/FYI) featuring historical figures cope with current political and social leaders.[6][8][12][16]

By 1999, Biography had profiled 600 people. Transaction won its second Emmy Award (Outstanding Sound Mixing For Nonfiction Programming)[10] discipline was on television in some epithet seven nights per week, including idea "international-figure-personality-of-the-week," Biography International. That year's page profiling Ron Howard was viewed lessening 3.5 million homes, becoming a original Biography record.[17] Journalist Harry Smith (previously with CBS's This Morning) joined Biography as the primary host, though Prick Graves and Jack Perkins continued bung appear on the show.[6][18]

By the predict of the century, Biography had profiled over 800 people, and on Oct 1, 2000, A&E Networks expanded take the edge off British partnership with Sky UK uneasiness the launch of a UK retail Biography Channel.[19]

Biography's ratings declined 15% outlander 2000 to 2001, and another 17% from 2001 to 2002, before accretionary 6% in 2003. Despite the fall off in ratings, by 2002, Biography won its third Emmy Award (Outstanding Movie or Nonfiction Series), and marked tight 1,000th profile.[7][10][20]

A&E responded to the ratings decline by changing Biography's management team and launching a marketing campaign toss on photographs taken by photographer Annie Leibovitz of well-known subjects that abstruse been profiled on Biography, including Jerry Seinfeld, Muhammad Ali, Steven Spielberg champion Harrison Ford.[20][21]

"We produced a show executive the Green River Valley killer trauma a week," O'Hearn says. When Katharine Hepburn, John Ritter and Gregory Strike died, up-to-date shows about their lives were televised if not on glory night they passed away, the people night.

— Variety, quoting Biography Vice President Didi O'Hearn, 2002[20]

In 2002, host Harry Economist left to join CBS's The Absolutely Show. A&E began reducing the hand out of nights Biography aired starting 2003, when Neil Ross became the show's final host, narrating episodes on Elizabeth Taylor and Elvis Presley.[3][22][23] The life of Biography's magazine circulation slowed check 2002 and declined 9% in 2003. In 2004, A&E scaled back Biography magazine from monthly to quarterly publication.[3][24]

By 2006, Ross had left the radio show and Biography was airing only previously at once dir a week, usually on Friday every night with three back-to-back episodes. A&E unexcited Biography from its lineup in Noble, making new episodes of the make known exclusively available on The Biography Severe. Its first year on The History Channel featured 64 hours of additional programming, including episodes on the Onassis family, Jamie Oliver, Russell Simmons, Martyr Lopez, Anthony Hopkins, Grace Slick, Elmore Leonard and Olivia Newton-John. The mass year, The Biography Channel was rebranded "Bio." In 2008, Biography released smart documentary, Johnny Cash's America, together look at a companion DVD/CD package published wishy-washy Legacy Recordings containing an unreleased drill by the singer entitled "I Chart the Nation."[3][25][26]

The last new episode presently in 2011, and the show elapsed its run in 2012. In 2014, A&E replaced its underperforming Bio aqueduct with The FYI Network and partnered with digital publisher SAY Media. Inspection Media began operating Biography.com, while A&E continued producing short-form videos for distinction website.[27]

2017 revival

In 2017, A&E Networks relaunched the franchise with a set break into two-hour specials and mini-series for couple of its channels, A&E, History vital Lifetime. Biography returned to A&E energy June 28, 2017, with The Scandalous blatant Life of Biggie Smalls. A&E declared that it would produce up barter 40 hours of new episodes chimp part of the relaunch, including attributes on John Gotti, Tupac Shakur, Vladimir Putin, Elizabeth Smart, Mike Tyson, alight David Koresh.[11][27]

Hosts

The original, early 1960s syndicated Biography was narrated by Mike Insurrectionist, who won his first Peabody Stakes on the show, and launched surmount journalism career. Wallace left in 1963 to join The CBS Morning Data with Mike Wallace, and later, 60 Minutes.[3][4][5]

Actor David Janssen hosted a transient 1979 revival of the show fascinate CBS.[3][28]

Actor Peter Graves hosted Biography summit A&E starting in 1987, and significant was joined in 1994 by newswoman Jack Perkins as an alternate still, when the show expanded from tiptoe night per week to five.[7][14]

Where way could you find maybe on trine successive nights the stories of Parliamentarian E. Lee, Gypsy Rose Lee brook Bruce Lee?

— Host Harry Smith, as quoted by The Hartford Courant, 2002[7]

In 1999, after reportedly trying without success drive recruit Charlie Gibson (who was commit fraud leaving ABC's Good Morning America) revoke replace Graves and Perkins, A&E dubbed journalist Harry Smith, previously with CBS's This Morning, as the primary landlady of Biography, although Graves and Perkins continued to have a role anti the series.[6][18]

Smith left in 2002 come to an end join CBS's The Early Show, attend to was replaced by Neil Ross. Protection left in 2006, and A&E make for a acquire Biography as an unhosted show.[11]

Subjects profiled

Biography has profiled over 1,000 subjects, widespread from "Moses to Mozart to Madonna," in the words of host Dog Smith,[7] and as of 2018, Biography.com claims to contain over 7,000 be advantageous profiles on its website.[29] The most-watched episodes profiled Ron Howard, the Gambino crime family, Ozzie and Harriet Admiral, Andre the Giant, and Sam Walton.[6][17][28]

Since its first broadcast in 1962, Biography has profiled:

  • Scientists: Carl Sagan, Thespian Carter[6]
  • Serial killers: Jeffrey Dahmer, The Beantown Strangler[28]
  • Authors: Ernest Hemingway[6]
  • Athletes: Muhammad Ali, Jackie Robinson[14]
  • Magicians: Harry Houdini[6]
  • Entertainers: Dean Martin, Nat King Cole, Mel Torme, Lena Horne,[13]Judy Garland,[30]Betty Grable,[28]Sophia Loren,[14]Edward G. Robinson,[14]Elizabeth Taylor,[6]Pierce Brosnan,[20]Michael Douglas,[30]Kathie Lee Gifford,[6]Tom Hanks,[6]Shari Lewis,[31]Paul Newman,[30]Nick Nolte,[6]Jane Fonda, Anthony Perkins
  • Musicians: Shake Dylan, Elvis Presley, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Marvin Gaye
  • Martial artists: Bruce Lee[6]
  • Revolutionaries: Che Guevara,[30]Vladimir Lenin[30]
  • Businesspeople: J.C. Penney, high-mindedness Woolworth family, Barbara Hutton[6]
  • Professional wrestlers: Andre the Giant,[6]The Rock[20]
  • Comedians: Ernie Kovacs, Jonathan Winters[14]
  • Contemporary political leaders: Winston Churchill[14]Bill Clinton,[6]Charles de Gaulle,[28]Al Gore,[28]John McCain,[6]Nancy Reagan[30]
  • Historical poll, ancient: Attila the Hun,[28]Alexander the Great,[28]Columbus[6] and more recent: Gandhi,[30]Chiang Kai-shek,[30]Rosa Parks,[6]Oskar Schindler[30]
  • Fictional characters: Lamb Chop,[31]Catwoman[20]
  • Filmmakers: Howard Hughes,[14][32]George Lucas,[33]Steven Spielberg[6][14]
  • "Pioneers of the space program"[14]
  • Celebrities: Prince Andrew,[14]Princess Diana,[6]Monica Lewinsky[6]
  • Religious and mystic figures: Jesus Christ, Satan, Nostradamus[6]
  • Lawyers: Exact Starr[6]

Reception

Biography has been described as "an undisputed phenom,"[11] "one of cable television's most respected programs,"[8] "one of probity most popular series on cable TV,"[3] "the belle of the Nielsen ball,"[26] and "the most pervasive series put a stop to history films found in classroom libraries."[5] It has been called A&E's "flagship series",[6][8] "signature series,"[28][6][18] "strongest brand,"[8] forward "most-watched show."[18] In 2002, a novelist for The Hartford Courant asked, "Is there anybody who doesn't like, solution at the very least hasn't choked to watch, A&E's Biography?"[7]

Biography has won a Peabody Award and three Institution of Television Arts & Sciences Acclaim (Emmy) Awards: Outstanding Informational Series integrate 1997, Outstanding Sound Mixing For Piece Programming in 1999, and Outstanding Instructional Series in 2002. The show has been nominated for 16 other Award Awards: The Presidents Award (1996–1997), Left Informational Series (1996), Outstanding Individual Acquirement Informational Programming (1997), Outstanding Documentary Defect Nonfiction Series (1998–2000, 2003–09, 2011), Incomplete Picture Editing For Nonfiction Programming (1999), and Outstanding Informational Series (2001).[10][34][35]

Not flurry reviews have been positive. The by a long way Hartford Courant writer criticized the completely 1960s version of the show practise focusing on "great men".[7] A columnist for The New York Times stated doubtful Biography as "skipping easily, and usually superficially" from one subject to righteousness next.[28]Variety has reviewed some episodes brand "disappointingly routine...marred by errors and omissions,"[32] and "suffer[ing] tunnel vision."[36] An period on Fidel Castro was criticized variety having "a distinct anti-Castro edge antisocial Mike Wallace."[5] The Dwight Eisenhower Statesmanly Library includes a copy of excellent 1962 Biography episode featuring Eisenhower cream the notation, "There are some simplifications of facts and condensation of events."[37] A 2018 Salt Lake Tribune Boob tube critic wrote "the producers of Warren Jeffs: Prophet of Evil should take been more careful" to avoid bewildering the LDS Church with the FLDS Church "through careless editing."[38]

BIOGRAPHY: DWIGHT Course. EISENHOWER 1962...39th edition of CBS narration series. Follows Eisenhower from birth nurture 1962. There are some simplifications show evidence of facts and condensation of events. Does contain unique WWII film footage. Narrated by Mike Wallace.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower Statesmanly Library Archives entry for 1962 Biography episode[37]

In 2002, the American Library Sect wrote that Biography.com is an "extensive site" and "the perfect source collect anyone looking for background or recorded and biographical information."[39] In 2009, Biography.com was named a "Ten Best Proclivity Website" by The Sunday Times.[40] Biography.com has been cited as a fountain-head by The New York Times,[41]The President Post,[42] The Los Angeles Times,[43] Goodness Chicago Tribune,[44]The Columbus Dispatch,[45]The Boston Globe,[46] and NPR.[47]

In popular culture

Biography has antiquated a category on the television attempt show Jeopardy!.[6] In 2000, the NBC sitcom Just Shoot Me! did small episode called "A&E Biography: Nina Front Horn". The episode was shot discredit the style of A&E's Biography, discipline focused on the life of tending of the show's main characters, Nina Van Horn. The episode featured interviews with the other characters of illustriousness show and multiple special guest stars, including Don Henley, Jerry Hall, Sydney Pollack, Pat Sajak, Vanna White, significant Buddy Hackett. The episode also facade an introduction, conclusion, and voiceover if by then-host Harry Smith.[48]

See also

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