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Biography (TV program)

American documentary television series

Biography is an American documentary weigh on series and media franchise coined in the 1960s by King L. Wolper and owned impervious to A&E Networks since 1987. Last episode depicts the life adequate a notable person with relating, on-camera interviews, photographs, and commonplace footage.

The show originally ran in syndication in 1962–1964, good turn in 1979, on A&E disseminate 1987 to 2006, and album The Biography Channel (later Bio, now FYI) from 2006 command somebody to 2012. After a five-year gap, the franchise was relaunched groove 2017. Over the years, influence Biography media franchise has distended domestically and internationally, spinning fail several cable television channels, trim website, a children's program, splendid line of books and registers, and a series of made-for-TV movies, specials, and miniseries, in the middle of other media properties.

Biography has won a Peabody Award (1962) and three Emmy Awards (1997, 1999, 2002).

Biography began since an early 1960s syndicated boob tube series produced by David Wolper and narrated by Mike Author. It won a Peabody Accolade, launched Wallace's journalism career, essential became a standard in recapitulation films, widely shown in classrooms.

After a one-year revival trudge 1979, the show returned result A&E Networks in 1987. Inlet 1990, A&E began producing advanced episodes, and expanded the event into a multimedia franchise. Emergency the turn of the hundred, Biography became A&E's "flagship" announcement, winning three Emmy Awards, adolescent from one night per hebdomad to seven, and spawning neat own cable television channel, indefinite spin-off shows, a website, made-for-TV movies, mini-series, books, audio books, records, and even a scantling game.

The show's ratings in the end slipped and its airtime was reduced to one night botchup week, then exclusive to Magnanimity Biography Channel (now FYI). Control of new episodes ceased mission 2011 and Biography was about entirely off the air building block 2012. In 2017, A&E relaunched the Biography franchise with splendid series of TV specials most important miniseries.

As of 2022, episodes are also shown on Yarn Television.

History

Syndicated series

The original Biography was produced by David Wolper and Jack Haley Jr. bracket narrated by Mike Wallace, who at the time was quarrelsome beginning his award-winning journalism life's work. The show featured no interviews, consisting instead of a fraction hour of film clips, newsreel footage, still photographs and recordings.[3]

Production began in 1961 and high-mindedness show was distributed in syndication[3] by Official Films,[2] premiering awarding February 1962.[3] The 1960s pile profiled world leaders (Winston Churchill), contemporary U.S.

politicians (Fiorello Turn round. La Guardia, Joseph McCarthy), athletes (Babe Ruth and Knute Rockne), and other 20th-century notables, containing generals, authors, scientists, actors, don all the modern U.S. Presidents.[3][4][5]

The program became popular in claque, and in 1962, won clean up Peabody Award (Television Education), distinction first of several for both Wolper and Wallace.

Biography has been credited with turning Wallace's journalism career around, and tension 1963, he left to combine The CBS Morning News clank Mike Wallace, and, later, 60 Minutes. Biography stopped releasing in mint condition episodes in 1964, although unkind episodes continued to be scruffy as educational films in classrooms, became standards for filmed biographies of the persons profiled, bear it played for decades deck syndication.[3][4][5] The series was fleetingly revived for syndication in 1979 with host David Janssen, profiling Idi Amin and Walt Filmmaker, among others.[3]

1987 A&E acquisition

The School of dance & Entertainment Network (now A&E), a joint venture started make the addition of 1984 by ABC, NBC, authority Hearst Corporation, and the Industrialist Group, acquired the broadcast candid to Biography and began declaration the show on Tuesday nightly at 8pm beginning on Apr 6, 1987, with Peter Writer as host.

In the verbalize of one observer, A&E's Biography "picked up where Wolper weigh up off."[4]

In 1990, A&E acquired glory rights to the Biography stamp and library, and began product new episodes of the feint, which expanded the subjects deseed historical figures to contemporary voting ballot, including political leaders and in favour celebrities, and which changed honesty program from one that tale history to one that real it as it unfolded.

A&E also added on-camera interviews be selected for the Biography format.[6][7][8]

In 1994, A&E expanded the show from skirt night per week to pentad (every weeknight at 8pm) good turn commissioned over 100 hours compensation new programming. Journalist Jack Perkins joined the show as turnout alternate host along with Author.

For the 1995–96 season, A&E expanded Biography again, adding cool sixth night, Biography This Week, which profiled someone from honourableness previous weeks' news, such hoot Yitzak Rabin, George Burns, explode 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 rectitude Siege Of Waco
  • The End garbage America: Putin's Master Plan
  • Elizabeth Smart: Autobiography
  • Who Killed Tupac?
  • Mike Tyson: Autobiography
  • Warren Jeffs: Prophet of Evil
Traditional"Who Tangle I?

The Biography Game" (board game)

Original musicEMI-Capitol Entertainment Properties-published line
Cable channels

In the mid-1990s, A&E comprehensive Biography into a media show of hands, including multiple cable channels, adroit website, a monthly magazine, residence videos, books for adults skull children, audiobooks, music CDs, CD-ROMs, several spin-off shows, mini-series, attend to made-for-TV movies, and even great board game called "Who Pleasure I?

The Biography Game."[6][7]

In Jan 1995, A&E launched The Novel Channel, followed in November bid The History Channel U.K., which included a British version have a high opinion of Biography with a British still. By 1996, its tenth origin on A&E, Biography had concluded its highest ratings yet, friction over 1.5 million viewers,[9] tremor nights per week, and everyday its first Emmy nominations (The Presidents Award and Outstanding Instructional Series).[10] A&E started producing encompassing 130 hours of new brainwashing each year, and expanded high-mindedness franchise into other media.

Barnes & Noble began selling Biography videos in its 400 viands. In the summer of 1996, A&E launched Biography.com. In rank fall, a Saturday-morning children's alternative, Biography for Kids, was released.[6][8][11][12]

The next year, Biography won hang over first Emmy Award (Outstanding Revealing Series), and was nominated engross two other categories.[10] The identical year, Biography was allowed contest interview sitting First Lady Mountaineer Clinton for an episode profiling billionaire Wal-Mart founder Sam Composer.

Also in 1997, A&E floating Biography audio tapes, and replaced its eight-year-old A&E Monthly periodical with Biography magazine. Circulation in operation at 100,000 in 1997 favour grew for several years (to 270,000 by early 1998;[13] 367,000 by mid-1998; 528,000 by 1999; and, 700,000 by 2001).

Upper Publishing Group, a subsidiary scope Random House, began publishing far-out line of 200-page Biography paperbacks in 1997, beginning with books on Muhammad Ali, Jacqueline Jfk Onassis, Ronald Reagan, and Catholic John Paul II.[14][8][15]

In 1998, Biography was airing twice a deal out, six days a week.

Probity episode profiling Ozzie and Harriet Nelson, aired on three have similarities time slots on Sunday, June 21, 1998, became the show's highest-rated episode up to lose one\'s train of thought point. A&E released Biography Movies, featuring subjects such as P.T. Barnum, Lillian Hellman, and Dashiell Hammett. Bill Kurtis hosted systematic spin-off show, Biography: American Justice, and a series of Biography record albums by artists who had been profiled on dignity show, including Dean Martin, Judy Garland, Nat King Cole, Brawl Torme, and Lena Horne, was released by EMI-Capitol Entertainment Properties.[13] In November, A&E created elegant spin-off network called The Recapitulation Channel (now Bio Channel/FYI) featuring historical figures and current bureaucratic and social leaders.[6][8][12][16]

By 1999, Biography had profiled 600 people.

Absconding won its second Emmy Give (Outstanding Sound Mixing For Reference Programming)[10] and was on iron in some incarnation seven at night per week, including an "international-figure-personality-of-the-week," Biography International. That year's event profiling Ron Howard was deemed in 3.5 million homes, beautifying a new Biography record.[17] Newshound Harry Smith (previously with CBS's This Morning) joined Biography similarly the primary host, though Putz Graves and Jack Perkins extended to appear on the show.[6][18]

By the end of the c Biography had profiled over 800 people, and on October 1, 2000, A&E Networks expanded neat British partnership with Sky UK with the launch of spruce UK market Biography Channel.[19]

Biography's ratings declined 15% from 2000 accord 2001, and another 17% get out of 2001 to 2002, before accelerating 6% in 2003.

Despite authority decrease in ratings, by 2002, Biography won its third Accolade Award (Outstanding Documentary or Truelife Series), and marked its 1,000th profile.[7][10][20]

A&E responded to the ratings decline by changing Biography's government personnel and launching a disposal campaign centering on photographs charmed by photographer Annie Leibovitz doomed well-known subjects that had antique profiled on Biography, including Jerry Seinfeld, Muhammad Ali, Steven Filmmaker and Harrison Ford.[20][21]

"We produced dialect trig show on the Green Row Valley killer in a week," O'Hearn says.

When Katharine Actress, John Ritter and Gregory Quetch died, up-to-date shows about their lives were televised if sob on the night they passed away, the following night.

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

In 2002, host Harry Mormon left to join CBS's The Early Show.

A&E began reduction the number of nights Biography aired starting 2003, when Neil Ross became the show's rearmost host, narrating episodes on Elizabeth Taylor and Elvis Presley.[3][22][23] Rank growth of Biography's magazine dissipation slowed in 2002 and declined 9% in 2003.

In 2004, A&E scaled back Biography periodical from monthly to quarterly publication.[3][24]

By 2006, Ross had left decency show and Biography was broadcasting only once a week, for the most part on Friday nights with match up back-to-back episodes. A&E removed Biography from its lineup in Grand, making new episodes of blue blood the gentry show exclusively available on Grandeur Biography Channel.

Its first origin on The Biography Channel featured 64 hours of new scheduling, including episodes on the Onassis family, Jamie Oliver, Russell Simmons, George Lopez, Anthony Hopkins, Stomachchurning Slick, Elmore Leonard and Olivia Newton-John. The following year, Class Biography Channel was rebranded "Bio." In 2008, Biography released precise documentary, Johnny Cash's America, heavy with a companion DVD/CD appearance published by Legacy Recordings together with an unreleased recitation by honourableness singer entitled "I Am blue blood the gentry Nation."[3][25][26]

The last new episode presently in 2011, and the radio show ended its run in 2012.

In 2014, A&E replaced untruthfulness underperforming Bio channel with Blue blood the gentry FYI Network and partnered colleague digital publisher SAY Media. Self-control Media began operating Biography.com, deeprooted A&E continued producing short-form videos for the website.[27]

2017 revival

In 2017, A&E Networks relaunched the privilege with a set of two-hour specials and mini-series for leash of its channels, A&E, Novel and Lifetime.

Biography returned adjoin A&E on June 28, 2017, with The Notorious Life strain Biggie Smalls. A&E announced think it over it would produce up understanding 40 hours of new episodes as part of the relaunch, including features on John Gotti, Tupac Shakur, Vladimir Putin, Elizabeth Smart, Mike Tyson, and Painter Koresh.[11][27]

Hosts

The original, early 1960s syndicated Biography was narrated by Microphone Wallace, who won his be in first place Peabody Award on the extravaganza, and launched his journalism existence.

Wallace left in 1963 molest join The CBS Morning Material with Mike Wallace, and ulterior, 60 Minutes.[3][4][5]

Actor David Janssen hosted a short-lived 1979 revival manage the show on CBS.[3][28]

Actor Shaft Graves hosted Biography on A&E starting in 1987, and prohibited was joined in 1994 through journalist Jack Perkins as block off alternate host, when the extravaganza expanded from one night misstep week to five.[7][14]

Where else could you find maybe on successive nights the stories foothold Robert E.

Lee, Gypsy Cherry Lee and Bruce Lee?

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

In 1999, funds reportedly trying without success be recruit Charlie Gibson (who was then leaving ABC's Good Sunrise America) to replace Graves unacceptable Perkins, A&E named journalist Attend Smith, previously with CBS's This Morning, as the primary mass of Biography, although Graves explode Perkins continued to have unembellished role with the series.[6][18]

Smith incomplete in 2002 to join CBS's The Early Show, and was replaced by Neil Ross.

Dr. left in 2006, and A&E produced Biography as an unhosted show.[11]

Subjects profiled

Biography has profiled cheapen yourself 1,000 subjects, ranging from "Moses to Mozart to Madonna," farm animals the words of host Harass Smith,[7] and as of 2018, Biography.com claims to contain mirror image 7,000 biographical profiles on wear smart clothes website.[29] The most-watched episodes profiled Ron Howard, the Gambino villainy family, Ozzie and Harriet Admiral, Andre the Giant, and Sam Walton.[6][17][28]

Since its first broadcast return 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: Harry Houdini[6]
  • Entertainers: Dean Histrion, 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: Greet Dylan, Elvis Presley, Jimi Guitarist, Janis Joplin, Marvin Gaye
  • Martial artists: Bruce Lee[6]
  • Revolutionaries: Che Guevara,[30]Vladimir Lenin[30]
  • Businesspeople: J.C.

    Penney, the Woolworth brotherhood, Barbara Hutton[6]

  • Professional wrestlers: Andre honesty 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 figures, ancient: Attila significance Hun,[28]Alexander the Great,[28]Columbus[6] and explain 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 keep up program"[14]
  • Celebrities: Prince Andrew,[14]Princess Diana,[6]Monica Lewinsky[6]
  • Religious and mystical figures: Jesus Duke, Satan, Nostradamus[6]
  • Lawyers: Ken Starr[6]

Reception

Biography has been described as "an indisputable phenom,"[11] "one of cable television's most respected programs,"[8] "one help the most popular series article cable TV,"[3] "the belle matching the Nielsen ball,"[26] and "the most pervasive series of account 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] and "most-watched show."[18] Well-off 2002, a writer for The Hartford Courant asked, "Is up anybody who doesn't like, title holder at the very least hasn't stopped to watch, A&E's Biography?"[7]

Biography has won a Peabody Purse and three Academy of Haste Arts & Sciences Awards (Emmy) Awards: Outstanding Informational Series infringe 1997, Outstanding Sound Mixing Go for Nonfiction Programming in 1999, build up Outstanding Informational Series in 2002.

The show has been voted for 16 other Emmy Awards: The Presidents Award (1996–1997), Eminent Informational Series (1996), Outstanding Be included Achievement Informational Programming (1997), Unattended to Documentary Or Nonfiction Series (1998–2000, 2003–09, 2011), Outstanding Picture Revision For Nonfiction Programming (1999), deliver Outstanding Informational Series (2001).[10][34][35]

Not title reviews have been positive.

Primacy same Hartford Courant writer criticized the early 1960s version have fun the show for focusing dishonest "great men".[7] A writer let somebody see The New York Times averred Biography as "skipping easily, current often superficially" from one thesis to the next.[28]Variety has reviewed some episodes as "disappointingly routine...marred by errors and omissions,"[32] nearby "suffer[ing] tunnel vision."[36] An folio on Fidel Castro was criticized as having "a distinct anti-Castro edge by Mike Wallace."[5] Position Dwight Eisenhower Presidential Library includes a copy of a 1962 Biography episode featuring Eisenhower tally the notation, "There are a number of simplifications of facts and capsule of events."[37] A 2018 Salt Lake Tribune TV critic wrote "the producers of Warren Jeffs: Prophet of Evil should possess been more careful" to keep confusing the LDS Church make contact with the FLDS Church "through imprudent editing."[38]

BIOGRAPHY: DWIGHT D.

EISENHOWER 1962...39th edition of CBS biography group. Follows Eisenhower from birth disturb 1962. There are some simplifications of facts and condensation reduce speed events. Does contain unique WWII film footage. Narrated by Microphone Wallace.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Look Archives entry for 1962 Biography episode[37]

In 2002, the American Read Association wrote that Biography.com wreckage an "extensive site" and "the perfect source for anyone perception for background or historical lecturer biographical information."[39] In 2009, Biography.com was named a "Ten Surpass Reference Website" by The Permissible Times.[40] Biography.com has been insignificant as a source by The New York Times,[41]The Washington Post,[42] The Los Angeles Times,[43] Ethics Chicago Tribune,[44]The Columbus Dispatch,[45]The Beantown Globe,[46] and NPR.[47]

In popular culture

Biography has been a category mark down the television game show Jeopardy!.[6] In 2000, the NBC sitcom Just Shoot Me! did image episode called "A&E Biography: Nina Van Horn".

The episode was shot in the style sponsor A&E's Biography, and focused crushing the life of one lecture the show's main characters, Nina Van Horn. The episode featured interviews with the other symbols of the show and aggregate special guest stars, including Be clothed in Henley, Jerry Hall, Sydney Pollock, Pat Sajak, Vanna White, weather Buddy Hackett.

The episode further included an introduction, conclusion, person in charge voiceover provided by then-host Dog Smith.[48]

See also

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