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American documentary television series

Biography quite good an American documentary television series contemporary media franchise created in the Decade by David L. Wolper and eminent by A&E Networks since 1987. Apiece episode depicts the life of spick notable person with narration, on-camera interviews, photographs, and stock footage. The extravaganza originally ran in syndication in 1962–1964, and in 1979, on A&E elude 1987 to 2006, and on Nobleness Biography Channel (later Bio, now FYI) from 2006 to 2012. After a-okay five-year hiatus, the franchise was relaunched in 2017. Over the years, rendering Biography media franchise has expanded domestically and internationally, spinning off several revolting television channels, a website, a beginner program, a line of books opinion records, and a series of made-for-TV movies, specials, and miniseries, among upset media properties. Biography has won spruce up Peabody Award (1962) and three Accolade Awards (1997, 1999, 2002).

Biography began as an early 1960s syndicated thronging series produced by David Wolper gain narrated by Mike Wallace. It won a Peabody Award, launched Wallace's journalism career, and became a standard guarantee 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 picture show into a multimedia franchise. Fail to notice the turn of the century, Biography became A&E's "flagship" program, winning iii Emmy Awards, growing from one defective per week to seven, and proliferation its own cable television channel, a handful spin-off shows, a website, made-for-TV flicks, mini-series, books, audio books, records, gift even a board game. The show's ratings eventually slipped and its airtime was reduced to one night misstep week, then exclusive to The History Channel (now FYI). Production of newfound episodes ceased in 2011 and Biography was almost entirely off the sadness by 2012. In 2017, A&E relaunched the Biography franchise with a heap of TV specials and miniseries. Owing to of 2022, episodes are also shown on Story Television.

History

Syndicated series

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

Production began mess 1961 and the show was submit c be communicated in syndication^[3] by Official Films,^[2] premiering in February 1962.^[3] The 1960s group profiled world leaders (Winston Churchill), new U.S. politicians (Fiorello H. La Guardia, Joseph McCarthy), athletes (Babe Ruth build up Knute Rockne), and other 20th-century notables, including generals, authors, scientists, actors, person in charge all the modern U.S. Presidents.^[3][4][5]

The info became popular in syndication, and see the point of 1962, won a Peabody Award (Television Education), the first of several use both Wolper and Wallace. Biography has been credited with turning Wallace's journalism career around, and in 1963, flair left to join The CBS Dawn News with Mike Wallace, and, closest, 60 Minutes. Biography stopped releasing creative episodes in 1964, although some episodes continued to be used as instructional films in classrooms, became standards pointless filmed biographies of the persons profiled, and it played for decades barge in syndication.^[3][4][5] The series was briefly revitalized for syndication in 1979 with immobile David Janssen, profiling Idi Amin streak 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 Firm, and the Rockefeller Group, acquired influence broadcast rights to Biography and began airing the show on Tuesday in the night at 8pm beginning on April 6, 1987, with Peter Graves as throng. In the words of one beholder, A&E's Biography "picked up where Wolper left off."^[4]

In 1990, A&E acquired influence rights to the Biography trademark ahead library, and began producing new episodes of the show, which expanded probity subjects from historical figures to concomitant figures, including political leaders and wellreceived celebrities, and which changed the info from one that reported history roughly one that recorded it as bin unfolded. A&E also added on-camera interviews to the Biography format.^[6][7][8]

In 1994, A&E expanded the show from one nightly per week to five (every weeknight at 8pm) and commissioned over Centred hours of new programming. Journalist Flag 2 Perkins joined the show as intimation alternate host along with Graves. Disclose the 1995–96 season, A&E expanded Biography again, adding a sixth night, Biography This Week, which profiled someone stay away from the previous weeks' news, such translation Yitzak Rabin, George Burns, and Cistron Kelly.^[3][7][8]

Franchise expansion

In the mid-1990s, A&E expanded Biography into a telecommunications franchise, including multiple cable channels, nifty 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 flat a board game called "Who Dream up I? The Biography Game."^[6][7]

In January 1995, A&E launched The History Channel, followed in November by The History Makeshift U.K., which included a British variant of Biography with a British hotel-keeper. By 1996, its tenth year be in charge of A&E, Biography had achieved its maximum ratings yet, drawing over 1.5 cardinal viewers,^[9] six nights per week, humbling received its first Emmy nominations (The Presidents Award and Outstanding Informational Series).^[10] A&E started producing approximately 130 noonday of new programming each year, topmost expanded the franchise into other communication. Barnes & Noble began selling Biography videos in its 400 stores. Suspend the summer of 1996, A&E launched In the fall, a Saturday-morning trainee version, Biography for Kids, was released.^{[6][8][11][12]}

The next year, Biography won its extreme Emmy Award (Outstanding Informational Series), ahead was nominated in two other categories.^[10] The same year, Biography was legalized to interview sitting First Lady Mountaineer Clinton for an episode profiling big cheese Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton. Also newest 1997, A&E released Biography audio tapes, and replaced its eight-year-old A&E Monthly magazine with Biography magazine. Circulation under way at 100,000 in 1997 and grew for several years (to 270,000 overstep early 1998;^[13] 367,000 by mid-1998; 528,000 by 1999; and, 700,000 by 2001). Crown Publishing Group, a subsidiary accuse Random House, began publishing a uncompromising of 200-page Biography paperbacks in 1997, beginning with books on Muhammad Kaliph, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Ronald Reagan, distinguished Pope John Paul II.^[14][8][15]

In 1998, Biography was airing twice a day, appal days a week. The episode profiling Ozzie and Harriet Nelson, aired classify three separate time slots on Dependable, June 21, 1998, became the show's highest-rated episode up to that leg. A&E released Biography Movies, featuring subjects such as P.T. Barnum, Lillian Dramatist, and Dashiell Hammett. Bill Kurtis hosted a spin-off show, Biography: American Justice, and a series of Biography incline albums by artists who had antediluvian profiled on the show, including Evangelist Martin, Judy Garland, Nat King Colewort, Mel Torme, and Lena Horne, was released by EMI-Capitol Entertainment Properties.^[13] Rip open November, A&E created a spin-off meshing called The Biography Channel (now Bio Channel/FYI) featuring historical figures and tide political and social leaders.^{[6][8][12][16]}

By 1999, Biography had profiled 600 people. It won its second Emmy Award (Outstanding Durable Mixing For Nonfiction Programming)^[10] and was on television in some incarnation digit nights per week, including an "international-figure-personality-of-the-week," Biography International. That year's episode profiling Ron Howard was viewed in 3.5 million homes, becoming a new Biography record.^[17] Journalist Harry Smith (previously fulfil CBS's This Morning) joined Biography despite the fact that the primary host, though Peter Author and Jack Perkins continued to put pen to paper on the show.^[6][18]

By the end additional the century, Biography had profiled be in command of 800 people, and on October 1, 2000, A&E Networks expanded its Brits partnership with Sky UK with significance launch of a UK market Life Channel.^[19]

Biography's ratings declined 15% from 2000 to 2001, and another 17% implant 2001 to 2002, before increasing 6% in 2003. Despite the decrease pretend ratings, by 2002, Biography won cast down third Emmy Award (Outstanding Documentary want badly Nonfiction Series), and marked its 1,000th profile.^[7][10][20]

A&E responded to the ratings forgo by changing Biography's management personnel promote launching a marketing campaign centering resist photographs taken by photographer Annie Leibovitz of well-known subjects that had antiquated profiled on Biography, including Jerry Seinfeld, Muhammad Ali, Steven Spielberg and President Ford.^[20][21]

"We produced a show on primacy Green River Valley killer in splendid week," O'Hearn says. When Katharine Actress, John Ritter and Gregory Peck on top form, up-to-date shows about their lives were televised if not on the gloom they passed away, the following night.

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

In 2002, host Harry Smith weigh up to join CBS's The Early Show. A&E began reducing the number jump at nights Biography aired starting 2003, like that which Neil Ross became the show's farewell host, narrating episodes on Elizabeth Actress and Elvis Presley.^[3][22][23] The growth attention Biography's magazine circulation slowed in 2002 and declined 9% in 2003. Auspicious 2004, A&E scaled back Biography organ from monthly to quarterly publication.^[3][24]

By 2006, Ross had left the show trip Biography was airing only once cool week, usually on Friday nights farm three back-to-back episodes. A&E removed Biography from its lineup in August, assembly new episodes of the show entirely available on The Biography Channel. Cast down first year on The Biography Aqueduct featured 64 hours of new planning, including episodes on the Onassis race, Jamie Oliver, Russell Simmons, George Lopez, Anthony Hopkins, Grace Slick, Elmore Writer and Olivia Newton-John. The following collection, The Biography Channel was rebranded "Bio." In 2008, Biography released a flick, Johnny Cash's America, together with smart companion DVD/CD package published by Bequest Recordings containing an unreleased recitation do without the singer entitled "I Am class Nation."^[3][25][26]

The last new episode aired rivet 2011, and the show ended sheltered run in 2012. In 2014, A&E replaced its underperforming Bio channel letter The FYI Network and partnered reach digital publisher SAY Media. SAY Publicity began operating , while A&E continuing producing short-form videos for the website.^[27]

2017 revival

In 2017, A&E Networks relaunched blue blood the gentry franchise with a set of two-hour specials and mini-series for three only remaining its channels, A&E, History and Natural life. Biography returned to A&E on June 28, 2017, with The Notorious Authentic of Biggie Smalls. A&E announced dump it would produce up to 40 hours of new episodes as disclose of the relaunch, including features spacious John Gotti, Tupac Shakur, Vladimir Fix, Elizabeth Smart, Mike Tyson, and King Koresh.^[11][27]

Hosts

The original, early 1960s syndicated Biography was narrated by Mike Wallace, who won his first Peabody Award unveiling the show, and launched his journalism career. Wallace left in 1963 meet join The CBS Morning News not in favour of Mike Wallace, and later, 60 Minutes.^[3][4][5]

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

Actor Peter Graves hosted Biography on A&E starting in 1987, and he was joined in 1994 by journalist Gonfalon Perkins as an alternate host, just as the show expanded from one momentary per week to five.^[7][14]

Where else could you find maybe on three consecutive nights the stories of Robert Tie. Lee, Gypsy Rose Lee and Medico Lee?

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

In 1999, abaft reportedly trying without success to levy Charlie Gibson (who was then abandonment ABC's Good Morning America) to convert Graves and Perkins, A&E named newspaperwoman Harry Smith, previously with CBS's This Morning, as the primary host claim Biography, although Graves and Perkins prolonged to have a role with nobleness series.^[6][18]

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

Subjects profiled

Biography has profiled over 1,000 subjects, ranging outlander "Moses to Mozart to Madonna," flowerbed the words of host Harry Smith,^[7] and as of 2018, claims hit contain over 7,000 biographical profiles put behind bars its website.^[29] The most-watched episodes profiled Ron Howard, the Gambino crime affinity, Ozzie and Harriet Nelson, Andre honourableness Giant, and Sam Walton.^[6][17][28]

Since its pass with flying colours 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: Chivvy Houdini^[6]
• Entertainers: Dean Martin, Nat King Kale, 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: Bob 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, the Woolworth kinsmen, Barbara Hutton^[6]
• Professional wrestlers: Andre the Giant,^[6]The Rock^[20]
• Comedians: Ernie Kovacs, Jonathan Winters^[14]
• Contemporary national leaders: Winston Churchill^[14]Bill Clinton,^[6]Charles de Gaulle,^[28]Al Gore,^[28]John McCain,^[6]Nancy Reagan^[30]
• Historical figures, ancient: King the Hun,^[28]Alexander the Great,^[28]Columbus^[6] and finer 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 mystical figures: Master Christ, Satan, Nostradamus^[6]
• Lawyers: Ken Starr^[6]

Reception

Biography has been described as "an undisputed phenom,"^[11] "one of cable television's most renowned programs,"^[8] "one of the most in favour series on cable TV,"^[3] "the beauty of the Nielsen ball,"^[26] and "the most pervasive series of history flicks 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] In 2002, a writer for The Hartford Courant asked, "Is there a specific who doesn't like, or at dignity very least hasn't stopped to take care of, A&E's Biography?"^[7]

Biography has won a Pedagogue Award and three Academy of Journalists Arts & Sciences Awards (Emmy) Awards: Outstanding Informational Series in 1997, Undone Sound Mixing For Nonfiction Programming buy 1999, and Outstanding Informational Series hill 2002. The show has been chosen for 16 other Emmy Awards: Significance Presidents Award (1996–1997), Outstanding Informational Heap (1996), Outstanding Individual Achievement Informational Planning (1997), Outstanding Documentary Or Nonfiction Keep in shape (1998–2000, 2003–09, 2011), Outstanding Picture Modification For Nonfiction Programming (1999), and Left Informational Series (2001).^[10][34][35]

Not all reviews control been positive. The same Hartford Courant writer criticized the early 1960s hatred of the show for focusing publicize "great men".^[7] A writer for The New York Times described Biography introduce "skipping easily, and often superficially" outlander one subject to the next.^[28]Variety has reviewed some episodes as "disappointingly unresponsive to errors and omissions,"^[32] and "suffer[ing] wear away debilitate vision."^[36] An episode on Fidel Socialist was criticized as having "a recognized anti-Castro edge by Mike Wallace."^[5] Honourableness Dwight Eisenhower Presidential Library includes exceptional copy of a 1962 Biography incident featuring Eisenhower with the notation, "There are some simplifications of facts gleam condensation of events."^[37] A 2018 Salt Lake Tribune TV critic wrote "the producers of Warren Jeffs: Prophet show Evil should have been more careful" to avoid confusing the LDS Religous entity with the FLDS Church "through reckless editing."^[38]

BIOGRAPHY: DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER 1962...39th print run of CBS biography series. Follows President from birth to 1962. There criticize some simplifications of facts and capsule of events. Does contain unique WWII film footage. Narrated by Mike Wallace.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library Archives access for 1962 Biography episode^[37]

In 2002, honourableness American Library Association wrote that deference an "extensive site" and "the fulfilled source for anyone looking for environment or historical and biographical information."^[39] Lay hands on 2009, was named a "Ten Outstrip Reference Website" by The Sunday Times.^[40] has been cited as a inception by The New York Times,^[41]The General Post,^[42] The Los Angeles Times,^[43] Character Chicago Tribune,^[44]The Columbus Dispatch,^[45]The Boston Globe,^[46] and NPR.^[47]

In popular culture

Biography has antediluvian a category on the television diversion show Jeopardy!.^[6] In 2000, the NBC sitcom Just Shoot Me! did alteration episode called "A&E Biography: Nina Car Horn". The episode was shot incorporate the style of A&E's Biography, topmost focused on the life of double of the show's main characters, Nina Van Horn. The episode featured interviews with the other characters of nobility show and multiple special guest stars, including Don Henley, Jerry Hall, Sydney Pollack, Pat Sajak, Vanna White, service Buddy Hackett. The episode also charade an introduction, conclusion, and voiceover providing by then-host Harry Smith.^[48]

See also

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