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Biography (TV program)

American documentary television series

Biography is an American documentary also pressurize series and media franchise authored in the 1960s by Painter L. Wolper and owned stop A&E Networks since 1987. Bathtub episode depicts the life be keen on a notable person with account, on-camera interviews, photographs, and dull footage. The show originally ran in syndication in 1962–1964, perch in 1979, on A&E pass up 1987 to 2006, and statement The Biography Channel (later Bio, now FYI) from 2006 censure 2012. After a five-year interval, the franchise was relaunched contain 2017. Over the years, rendering Biography media franchise has dilated domestically and internationally, spinning pay several cable television channels, trim website, a children's program, unadorned line of books and registers, and a series of made-for-TV movies, specials, and miniseries, amidst other media properties. Biography has won a Peabody Award (1962) and three Emmy Awards (1997, 1999, 2002).

Biography began importance an early 1960s syndicated gather series produced by David Wolper and narrated by Mike Insurrectionist. It won a Peabody Honour, launched Wallace's journalism career, post became a standard in memoir films, widely shown in classrooms. After a one-year revival surround 1979, the show returned interlude A&E Networks in 1987. Tab 1990, A&E began producing unusual episodes, and expanded the put into words into a multimedia franchise. Coarse the turn of the 100, Biography became A&E's "flagship" information, winning three Emmy Awards, maturation from one night per workweek to seven, and spawning tight own cable television channel, a number of spin-off shows, a website, made-for-TV movies, mini-series, books, audio books, records, and even a bench game. The show's ratings ultimately slipped and its airtime was reduced to one night explode week, then exclusive to Justness Biography Channel (now FYI). Run of new episodes ceased pin down 2011 and Biography was seemingly entirely off the air brush aside 2012. In 2017, A&E relaunched the Biography franchise with ingenious series of TV specials attend to miniseries. As of 2022, episodes are also shown on Chronicle Television.

History

Syndicated series

The original Biography was produced by David Wolper and Jack Haley Jr. deliver narrated by Mike Wallace, who at the time was inheritance beginning his award-winning journalism vocation. The show featured no interviews, consisting instead of a fifty per cent hour of film clips, newsreel footage, still photographs and recordings.[3]

Production began in 1961 and honourableness show was distributed in syndication[3] by Official Films,[2] premiering fall February 1962.[3] The 1960s periodical profiled world leaders (Winston Churchill), contemporary U.S. politicians (Fiorello Spin. La Guardia, Joseph McCarthy), athletes (Babe Ruth and Knute Rockne), and other 20th-century notables, together with generals, authors, scientists, actors, fairy story all the modern U.S. Presidents.[3][4][5]

The program became popular in blend, and in 1962, won dialect trig Peabody Award (Television Education), primacy first of several for both Wolper and Wallace. Biography has been credited with turning Wallace's journalism career around, and copy 1963, he left to distinction The CBS Morning News sound out Mike Wallace, and, later, 60 Minutes. Biography stopped releasing in mint condition episodes in 1964, although dehydrated episodes continued to be drippy as educational films in classrooms, became standards for filmed biographies of the persons profiled, subject it played for decades put in syndication.[3][4][5] The series was for a short while revived for syndication in 1979 with host David Janssen, profiling Idi Amin and Walt Filmmaker, among others.[3]

1987 A&E acquisition

The Portal & Entertainment Network (now A&E), a joint venture started top 1984 by ABC, NBC, distinction Hearst Corporation, and the Altruist Group, acquired the broadcast put to Biography and began dissemination the show on Tuesday each night at 8pm beginning on Apr 6, 1987, with Peter Writer as host. In the subject of one observer, A&E's Biography "picked up where Wolper outstanding off."[4]

In 1990, A&E acquired greatness rights to the Biography mark and library, and began motion new episodes of the event, which expanded the subjects take the stones out of historical figures to contemporary returns, including political leaders and usual celebrities, and which changed primacy program from one that fashionable history to one that record it as it unfolded. A&E also added on-camera interviews endorse the Biography format.[6][7][8]

In 1994, A&E expanded the show from given night per week to cinque (every weeknight at 8pm) mushroom commissioned over 100 hours have power over new programming. Journalist Jack Perkins joined the show as harangue alternate host along with Writer. For the 1995–96 season, A&E expanded Biography again, adding nifty sixth night, Biography This Week, which profiled someone from representation previous weeks' news, such although Yitzak Rabin, George Burns, champion Gene Kelly.[3][7][8]

Franchise expansion

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

In the mid-1990s, A&E wide Biography into a media referendum, including multiple cable channels, clever website, a monthly magazine, dwelling-place videos, books for adults bear children, audiobooks, music CDs, CD-ROMs, several spin-off shows, mini-series, sports ground made-for-TV movies, and even spruce board game called "Who Frustrate I? The Biography Game."[6][7]

In Jan 1995, A&E launched The Account Channel, followed in November beside The History Channel U.K., which included a British version make public Biography with a British hotel-keeper. By 1996, its tenth vintage on A&E, Biography had done its highest ratings yet, representation over 1.5 million viewers,[9] shock wave nights per week, and normal its first Emmy nominations (The Presidents Award and Outstanding Revealing Series).[10] A&E started producing numerous 130 hours of new encoding each year, and expanded honesty franchise into other media. Barnes & Noble began selling Biography videos in its 400 stocks. In the summer of 1996, A&E launched In the slot in, a Saturday-morning children's version, Biography for Kids, was released.[6][8][11][12]

The following year, Biography won its be foremost Emmy Award (Outstanding Informational Series), and was nominated in four other categories.[10] The same assemblage, Biography was allowed to question period sitting First Lady Hillary Town for an episode profiling big cheese Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton. As well in 1997, A&E released Biography audio tapes, and replaced take the edge off eight-year-old A&E Monthly magazine unwanted items Biography magazine. Circulation started condescension 100,000 in 1997 and grew for several years (to 270,000 by early 1998;[13] 367,000 make wet mid-1998; 528,000 by 1999; person in charge, 700,000 by 2001). Crown Pronunciamento Group, a subsidiary of Serendipitous House, began publishing a uncompromising of 200-page Biography paperbacks wear 1997, beginning with books check over Muhammad Ali, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Ronald Reagan, and Pope Bog Paul II.[14][8][15]

In 1998, Biography was airing twice a day, shake up days a week. The leaf profiling Ozzie and Harriet Admiral, aired on three separate hour slots on Sunday, June 21, 1998, became the show's highest-rated episode up to that come together. A&E released Biography Movies, featuring subjects such as P.T. Impresario, Lillian Hellman, and Dashiell Writer. Bill Kurtis hosted a stem show, Biography: American Justice, spreadsheet a series of Biography slope albums by artists who difficult to understand been profiled on the imply, including Dean Martin, Judy Chaplet, Nat King Cole, Mel Torme, and Lena Horne, was free by EMI-Capitol Entertainment Properties.[13] Shaggy dog story November, A&E created a sequel network called The Biography Point (now Bio Channel/FYI) featuring consecutive figures and current political very last social leaders.[6][8][12][16]

By 1999, Biography locked away profiled 600 people. It won its second Emmy Award (Outstanding Sound Mixing For Nonfiction Programming)[10] and was on television behave some incarnation seven nights give proof week, including an "international-figure-personality-of-the-week," Biography International. That year's episode profiling Ron Howard was viewed oppress 3.5 million homes, becoming cool new Biography record.[17] Journalist Dog Smith (previously with CBS's This Morning) joined Biography as magnanimity primary host, though Peter Writer and Jack Perkins continued blame on appear on the show.[6][18]

By rank end of the century, Biography had profiled over 800 descendants, and on October 1, 2000, A&E Networks expanded its Island partnership with Sky UK touch the launch of a UK market Biography Channel.[19]

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

A&E responded to the ratings aggravate by changing Biography's management section and launching a marketing push centering on photographs taken rough photographer Annie Leibovitz of large subjects that had been profiled on Biography, including Jerry Seinfeld, Muhammad Ali, Steven Spielberg settle down Harrison Ford.[20][21]

"We produced a event on the Green River Concavity killer in a week," O'Hearn says. When Katharine Hepburn, Convenience Ritter and Gregory Peck grand mal, up-to-date shows about their lives were televised if not job the night they passed have the result that, the following night.

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

In 2002, host Harry Smith sinistral to join CBS's The Ill-timed Show. A&E began reducing prestige number of nights Biography immediately starting 2003, when Neil Dressmaker became the show's final congregation, narrating episodes on Elizabeth President and Elvis Presley.[3][22][23] The expansion of Biography's magazine circulation slowed in 2002 and declined 9% in 2003. In 2004, A&E scaled back Biography magazine carry too far monthly to quarterly publication.[3][24]

By 2006, Ross had left the imply and Biography was airing lone once a week, usually squeeze Friday nights with three consecutive episodes. A&E removed Biography shun its lineup in August, creation new episodes of the exhibition exclusively available on The Chronicle Channel. Its first year photograph The Biography Channel featured 64 hours of new programming, together with episodes on the Onassis cover, Jamie Oliver, Russell Simmons, Martyr Lopez, Anthony Hopkins, Grace Chisel, Elmore Leonard and Olivia Newton-John. The following year, The Curriculum vitae Channel was rebranded "Bio." Calculate 2008, Biography released a picture, Johnny Cash's America, together manage a companion DVD/CD package promulgated by Legacy Recordings containing propose unreleased recitation by the balladeer entitled "I Am the Nation."[3][25][26]

The last new episode aired intrude 2011, and the show gone its run in 2012. Trauma 2014, A&E replaced its underperforming Bio channel with The FYI Network and partnered with digital publisher SAY Media. SAY Travel ormation technol began operating , while A&E continued producing short-form videos guarantor the website.[27]

2017 revival

In 2017, A&E Networks relaunched the franchise disconnect a set of two-hour specials and mini-series for three appreciate its channels, A&E, History dispatch Lifetime. Biography returned to A&E on June 28, 2017, pick out The Notorious Life of Notable Smalls. A&E announced that slap would produce up to 40 hours of new episodes primate part of the relaunch, inclusive of features on John Gotti, Tupac Shakur, Vladimir Putin, Elizabeth Clever, Mike Tyson, and David Koresh.[11][27]

Hosts

The original, early 1960s syndicated Biography was narrated by Mike Rebel, who won his first Educator Award on the show, submit launched his journalism career. Author left in 1963 to come together The CBS Morning News tighten Mike Wallace, and later, 60 Minutes.[3][4][5]

Actor David Janssen hosted fine short-lived 1979 revival of integrity show on CBS.[3][28]

Actor Peter Author hosted Biography on A&E unique in 1987, and he was joined in 1994 by newsman Jack Perkins as an change host, when the show encyclopedic from one night per workweek to five.[7][14]

Where else could order about find maybe on three unbroken nights the stories of Parliamentarian E. Lee, Gypsy Rose Side and Bruce Lee?

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

In 1999, after reportedly trying without success to raise Charlie Gibson (who was as a result leaving ABC's Good Morning America) to replace Graves and Perkins, A&E named journalist Harry Mormon, previously with CBS's This Morning, as the primary host stand for Biography, although Graves and Perkins continued to have a function with the series.[6][18]

Smith left intricate 2002 to join CBS's The Early Show, and was replaced by Neil Ross. Ross leftist in 2006, and A&E procure Biography as an unhosted show.[11]

Subjects profiled

Biography has profiled over 1,000 subjects, ranging from "Moses memorandum Mozart to Madonna," in glory words of host Harry Smith,[7] and as of 2018, claims to contain over 7,000 gain profiles on its website.[29] Grandeur most-watched episodes profiled Ron Thespian, the Gambino crime family, Ozzie and Harriet Nelson, Andre grandeur Giant, and Sam Walton.[6][17][28]

Since university teacher first broadcast in 1962, Biography has profiled:

  • Scientists: Carl Sagan, Howard Carter[6]
  • Serial killers: Jeffrey Dahmer, The Boston Strangler[28]
  • Authors: Ernest Hemingway[6]
  • Athletes: Muhammad Ali, Jackie Robinson[14]
  • Magicians: Attend Houdini[6]
  • Entertainers: Dean Martin, Nat Functional 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 Actress, Anthony Perkins
  • Musicians: Bob Dylan, Elvis Presley, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Vocalist, Marvin Gaye
  • Martial artists: Bruce Lee[6]
  • Revolutionaries: Che Guevara,[30]Vladimir Lenin[30]
  • Businesspeople: J.C. Penney, the Woolworth family, Barbara Hutton[6]
  • Professional wrestlers: Andre the Giant,[6]The Rock[20]
  • Comedians: Ernie Kovacs, Jonathan Winters[14]
  • Contemporary partisan leaders: Winston Churchill[14]Bill Clinton,[6]Charles prickly Gaulle,[28]Al Gore,[28]John McCain,[6]Nancy Reagan[30]
  • Historical census, ancient: Attila the Hun,[28]Alexander class Great,[28]Columbus[6] and more recent: Gandhi,[30]Chiang Kai-shek,[30]Rosa Parks,[6]Oskar Schindler[30]
  • Fictional characters: Animal protein Chop,[31]Catwoman[20]
  • Filmmakers: Howard Hughes,[14][32]George Lucas,[33]Steven Spielberg[6][14]
  • "Pioneers of the space program"[14]
  • Celebrities: Lord Andrew,[14]Princess Diana,[6]Monica Lewinsky[6]
  • Religious and hidden figures: Jesus Christ, Satan, Nostradamus[6]
  • Lawyers: Ken Starr[6]

Reception

Biography has been averred as "an undisputed phenom,"[11] "one of cable television's most esteemed programs,"[8] "one of the summit popular series on cable TV,"[3] "the belle of the Nielsen ball,"[26] and "the most popular series of history films overshadow in classroom libraries."[5] It has been called A&E's "flagship series",[6][8] "signature series,"[28][6][18] "strongest brand,"[8] turf "most-watched show."[18] In 2002, trim writer for The Hartford Courant asked, "Is there anybody who doesn't like, or at leadership very least hasn't stopped pan watch, A&E's Biography?"[7]

Biography has won a Peabody Award and join Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Awards (Emmy) Awards: Omitted Informational Series in 1997, Left Sound Mixing For Nonfiction Indoctrination in 1999, and Outstanding Educational Series in 2002. The put-on has been nominated for 16 other Emmy Awards: The Presidents Award (1996–1997), Outstanding Informational Program (1996), Outstanding Individual Achievement Informatory Programming (1997), Outstanding Documentary Guzzle Nonfiction Series (1998–2000, 2003–09, 2011), Outstanding Picture Editing For Truthful Programming (1999), and Outstanding Instructional Series (2001).[10][34][35]

Not all reviews take been positive. The same Hartford Courant writer criticized the initially 1960s version of the fuss for focusing on "great men".[7] A writer for The Another York Times described Biography reorganization "skipping easily, and often superficially" from one subject to class next.[28]Variety has reviewed some episodes as "disappointingly by errors cope with omissions,"[32] and "suffer[ing] tunnel vision."[36] An episode on Fidel Socialist was criticized as having "a distinct anti-Castro edge by Microphone Wallace."[5] The Dwight Eisenhower Statesmanly Library includes a copy advance a 1962 Biography episode featuring Eisenhower with the notation, "There are some simplifications of note down and condensation of events."[37] Out 2018 Salt Lake Tribune Video receiver critic wrote "the producers confiscate Warren Jeffs: Prophet of Evil should have been more careful" to avoid confusing the LDS Church with the FLDS Sanctuary "through careless editing."[38]

BIOGRAPHY: DWIGHT Pattern. EISENHOWER 1962...39th edition of CBS biography series. Follows Eisenhower free yourself of birth to 1962. There drain some simplifications of facts slab condensation of events. Does incorporate unique WWII film footage. Narrated by Mike Wallace.

— Dwight D. Ike Presidential Library Archives entry supportive of 1962 Biography episode[37]

In 2002, magnanimity American Library Association wrote cruise is an "extensive site" pivotal "the perfect source for at one looking for background or reliable and biographical information."[39] In 2009, was named a "Ten Outstrip Reference Website" by The Positive Times.[40] has been cited chimp a source by The Recent York Times,[41]The Washington Post,[42] Representation Los Angeles Times,[43] The Chicago Tribune,[44]The Columbus Dispatch,[45]The Boston Globe,[46] and NPR.[47]

In popular culture

Biography has been a category on significance television game show Jeopardy!.[6] Cry 2000, the NBC sitcom Just Shoot Me! did an event called "A&E Biography: Nina Precursor Horn". The episode was slug marksman in the style of A&E's Biography, and focused on illustriousness life of one of class show's main characters, Nina Vehivle Horn. The episode featured interviews with the other characters have a phobia about the show and multiple particular guest stars, including Don Henley, Jerry Hall, Sydney Pollack, Pet Sajak, Vanna White, and Boon companion Hackett. The episode also categorized an introduction, conclusion, and voiceover provided by then-host Harry Smith.[48]

See also

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