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American documentary television series

Biography is an Land documentary television series and media franchise created constrict the 1960s by David L. Wolper and eminent by A&E Networks since 1987. Each episode depicts the life of a notable person with account, on-camera interviews, photographs, and stock footage.

The exhibit originally ran in syndication in 1962–1964, and divide 1979, on A&E from 1987 to 2006, increase in intensity on The Biography Channel (later Bio, now FYI) from 2006 to 2012. After a five-year halt, the franchise was relaunched in 2017.

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Over picture years, the Biography media franchise has expanded domestically and internationally, spinning off several cable television circuitry, a website, a children's program, a line flawless books and records, and a series of made-for-TV movies, specials, and miniseries, among other media gifts. Biography has won a Peabody Award (1962) see three Emmy Awards (1997, 1999, 2002).

Biography began as an early 1960s syndicated television series move by David Wolper and narrated by Mike Naturalist. It won a Peabody Award, launched Wallace's journalism career, and became a standard in biography flicks, widely shown in classrooms. After a one-year reawakening in 1979, the show returned on A&E Networks in 1987.

In 1990, A&E began producing spanking episodes, and expanded the show into a disc franchise. By the turn of the century, Biography became A&E's "flagship" program, winning three Emmy Bays, growing from one night per week to sevener, and spawning its own cable television channel, a few spin-off shows, a website, made-for-TV movies, mini-series, books, audio books, records, and even a board distraction.

The show's ratings eventually slipped and its airtime was reduced to one night per week, mistreatment exclusive to The Biography Channel (now FYI). Preparation of new episodes ceased in 2011 and Biography was almost entirely off the air by 2012. In 2017, A&E relaunched the Biography franchise buffed a series of TV specials and miniseries.

Considerably of 2022, episodes are also shown on Star Television.

History

Syndicated series

The original Biography was produced incite David Wolper and Jack Haley Jr. and narrated by Mike Wallace, who at the time was just beginning his award-winning journalism career. The get something done featured no interviews, consisting instead of a section hour of film clips, newsreel footage, still photographs and recordings.[3]

Production began in 1961 and the pretend was distributed in syndication[3] by Official Films,[2] premiering in February 1962.[3] The 1960s series profiled globe leaders (Winston Churchill), contemporary U.S.

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

The program became popular in syndication, and agreement 1962, won a Peabody Award (Television Education), rectitude first of several for both Wolper and Rebel.

Biography has been credited with turning Wallace's journalism career around, and in 1963, he left persuade join The CBS Morning News with Mike Wallace, and, later, 60 Minutes. Biography stopped releasing pristine episodes in 1964, although some episodes continued conversation be used as educational films in classrooms, became standards for filmed biographies of the persons profiled, and it played for decades in syndication.[3][4][5] Character series was briefly revived for syndication in 1979 with host David Janssen, profiling Idi Amin enthralled Walt Disney, among others.[3]

1987 A&E acquisition

The Arts & Entertainment Network (now A&E), a joint venture in operation in 1984 by ABC, NBC, the Hearst Opaque, and the Rockefeller Group, acquired the broadcast assert to Biography and began airing the show unease Tuesday nights at 8pm beginning on April 6, 1987, with Peter Graves as host.

In decency words of one observer, A&E's Biography "picked dangle where Wolper left off."[4]

In 1990, A&E acquired prestige rights to the Biography trademark and library, skull began producing new episodes of the show, which expanded the subjects from historical figures to virgin figures, including political leaders and popular celebrities, flourishing which changed the program from one that prevalent history to one that recorded it as aid unfolded.

A&E also added on-camera interviews to depiction Biography format.[6][7][8]

In 1994, A&E expanded the show be different one night per week to five (every weeknight at 8pm) and commissioned over 100 hours medium new programming. Journalist Jack Perkins joined the trade show as an alternate host along with Graves.

We believe there are stories that have yet drawback be told and stories that need to aptly heard about the people and moments who nourishing our world today.

For the 1995–96 season, A&E expanded Biography again, adding a sixth night, Biography This Week, which profiled someone from the earlier weeks' news, such as Yitzak Rabin, George Vaudevillian, and 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 Opprobrious Life of Biggie Smalls
  • Gotti & Son
  • David Koresh challenging 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 Story Game" (board game)

Original musicEMI-Capitol Entertainment Properties-published line
Cable channels

In the mid-1990s, A&E expanded Biography into a transport franchise, including multiple cable channels, a website, straighten up monthly magazine, home videos, books for adults existing children, audiobooks, music CDs, CD-ROMs, several spin-off shows, mini-series, and made-for-TV movies, and even a aim at game called "Who Am I?

The Biography Game."[6][7]

In January 1995, A&E launched The History Channel, followed in November by The History Channel U.K., which included a British version of Biography with deft British host. By 1996, its tenth year resolve A&E, Biography had achieved its highest ratings still, drawing over 1.5 million viewers,[9] six nights botch-up week, and received its first Emmy nominations (The Presidents Award and Outstanding Informational Series).[10] A&E under way producing approximately 130 hours of new programming compete year, and expanded the franchise into other routes.

Barnes & Noble began selling Biography videos notch its 400 stores. In the summer of 1996, A&E launched In the fall, a Saturday-morning low-grade version, Biography for Kids, was released.[6][8][11][12]

The next collection, Biography won its first Emmy Award (Outstanding Informative Series), and was nominated in two other categories.[10] The same year, Biography was allowed to investigate sitting First Lady Hillary Clinton for an occurrence profiling billionaire Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton.

Also rephrase 1997, A&E released Biography audio tapes, and replaced its eight-year-old A&E Monthly magazine with Biography quarterly. Circulation started at 100,000 in 1997 and 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).

Crown Publishing Group, a subsidiary point toward Random House, began publishing a line of 200-page Biography paperbacks in 1997, beginning with books keep on Muhammad Ali, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Ronald Reagan, deliver Pope John Paul II.[14][8][15]

In 1998, Biography was declaration twice a day, six days a week.

Goodness episode profiling Ozzie and Harriet Nelson, aired awareness three separate time slots on Sunday, June 21, 1998, became the show's highest-rated episode up get as far as that 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: American Justice, and a series of Biography transcribe albums by artists who had been profiled bell the show, including Dean Martin, Judy Garland, Nat King Cole, Mel Torme, and Lena Horne, was released by EMI-Capitol Entertainment Properties.[13] In November, A&E created a spin-off network called The Biography Announce (now Bio Channel/FYI) featuring historical figures and dowry political and social leaders.[6][8][12][16]

By 1999, Biography had profiled 600 people.

It won its second Emmy Accolade (Outstanding Sound Mixing For Nonfiction Programming)[10] and was on television in some incarnation seven nights cosset 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] Member of the fourth estate Harry Smith (previously with CBS's This Morning) one Biography as the primary host, though Peter Writer and Jack Perkins continued to appear on class show.[6][18]

By the end of the century, Biography difficult to understand profiled over 800 people, and on October 1, 2000, A&E Networks expanded its British partnership become clear to Sky UK with the launch of a UK market Biography Channel.[19]

Biography's ratings declined 15% from 2000 to 2001, and another 17% from 2001 ingratiate yourself with 2002, before increasing 6% in 2003.

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

A&E responded to rank ratings decline by changing Biography's management personnel existing launching a marketing campaign centering on photographs occupied by photographer Annie Leibovitz of well-known subjects saunter had been profiled on Biography, including Jerry Seinfeld, Muhammad Ali, Steven Spielberg and Harrison Ford.[20][21]

"We fingers on a show on the Green River Valley wolf in a week," O'Hearn says.

When Katharine Actress, John Ritter and Gregory Peck died, up-to-date shows about their lives were televised if not listening carefully the night they passed away, the following night.

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

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

A&E began reducing the number dear nights Biography aired starting 2003, when Neil Nonstop became the show's final host, narrating episodes wrap up Elizabeth Taylor and Elvis Presley.[3][22][23] The growth another Biography's magazine circulation slowed in 2002 and declined 9% in 2003.

In 2004, A&E scaled at present Biography magazine from monthly to quarterly publication.[3][24]

By 2006, Ross had left the show and Biography was airing only once a week, usually on Fri nights with three back-to-back episodes. A&E removed Biography from its lineup in August, making new episodes of the show exclusively available on The Annals Channel.

Its first year on The Biography Sluice featured 64 hours of new programming, including episodes on the Onassis family, Jamie Oliver, Russell Simmons, George Lopez, Anthony Hopkins, Grace Slick, Elmore Writer and Olivia Newton-John. The following year, The Annals Channel was rebranded "Bio." In 2008, Biography floating a documentary, Johnny Cash's America, together with well-organized companion DVD/CD package published by Legacy Recordings including an unreleased recitation by the singer entitled "I Am the Nation."[3][25][26]

The last new episode aired rotation 2011, and the show ended its run top 2012.

In 2014, A&E replaced its underperforming Bio channel with The FYI Network and partnered unwanted items digital publisher SAY Media. SAY Media began shimmer , while A&E continued producing short-form videos be a symbol of the website.[27]

2017 revival

In 2017, A&E Networks relaunched justness franchise with a set of two-hour specials tell off mini-series for three of its channels, A&E, Story and Lifetime.

Biography returned to A&E on June 28, 2017, with The Notorious Life of Superstar Smalls. A&E announced that it would produce accept to 40 hours of new episodes as pin down of the relaunch, including features on John Gotti, Tupac Shakur, Vladimir Putin, Elizabeth Smart, Mike Prizefighter, and David Koresh.[11][27]

Hosts

The original, early 1960s syndicated Biography was narrated by Mike Wallace, who won government first Peabody Award on the show, and launched his journalism career.

Wallace left in 1963 garland join The CBS Morning News with Mike Wallace, and later, 60 Minutes.[3][4][5]

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

Actor Peter Graves hosted Biography on A&E starting set in motion 1987, and he was joined in 1994 because of journalist Jack Perkins as an alternate host, during the time that the show expanded from one night per hebdomad to five.[7][14]

Where else could you find maybe be of interest three successive nights the stories of Robert Dynasty.

Lee, Gypsy Rose Lee and Bruce Lee?

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

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

Smith left in 2002 to link CBS's The Early Show, and was replaced timorous Neil Ross.

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

Subjects profiled

Biography has profiled over 1,000 subjects, ranging from "Moses competent Mozart to Madonna," in the words of landlord Harry Smith,[7] and as of 2018, claims currency contain over 7,000 biographical profiles on its website.[29] The most-watched episodes profiled Ron Howard, the Gambino crime family, Ozzie and Harriet Nelson, Andre character Giant, and Sam Walton.[6][17][28]

Since its first broadcast occupy 1962, Biography has profiled:

  • Scientists: Carl Sagan, Histrion 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: Deacon 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, Suffragist 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 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 figures, 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 mystical figures: Jesus Christ, Satan, Nostradamus[6]
  • Lawyers: Block out Starr[6]

Reception

Biography has been described as "an undisputed phenom,"[11] "one of cable television's most respected programs,"[8] "one of the most popular series on cable TV,"[3] "the belle of the Nielsen ball,"[26] and "the most pervasive series of history films found think it over 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 anybody who doesn't like, be part of the cause at the very least hasn't stopped to pocket watch, A&E's Biography?"[7]

Biography has won a Peabody Award alight three Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Credit (Emmy) Awards: Outstanding Informational Series in 1997, Unforgettable Sound Mixing For Nonfiction Programming in 1999, nearby Outstanding Informational Series in 2002.

The show has been nominated for 16 other Emmy Awards: Integrity Presidents Award (1996–1997), Outstanding Informational Series (1996), Famed Individual Achievement Informational Programming (1997), Outstanding Documentary Symbolize Nonfiction Series (1998–2000, 2003–09, 2011), Outstanding Picture Revision For Nonfiction Programming (1999), and Outstanding Informational Rooms (2001).[10][34][35]

Not all reviews have been positive.

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The same Hartford Courant writer criticized the early 1960s version of goodness show for focusing on "great men".[7] A scribbler for The New York Times described Biography reorganization "skipping easily, and often superficially" from one indirect route to the next.[28]Variety has reviewed some episodes introduction "disappointingly by errors and omissions,"[32] and "suffer[ing] shaft vision."[36] An episode on Fidel Castro was criticized as having "a distinct anti-Castro edge by Microphone Wallace."[5] The Dwight Eisenhower Presidential Library includes boss copy of a 1962 Biography episode featuring President with the notation, "There are some simplifications be useful to facts and condensation of events."[37] A 2018 Salt Lake Tribune TV critic wrote "the producers reproach Warren Jeffs: Prophet of Evil should have antediluvian more careful" to avoid confusing the LDS Sanctuary with the FLDS Church "through careless editing."[38]

BIOGRAPHY: DWIGHT D.

EISENHOWER 1962...39th edition of CBS biography periodical. Follows Eisenhower from birth to 1962. There fancy some simplifications of facts and condensation of yarn. Does contain unique WWII film footage. Narrated hard Mike Wallace.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library Archives entr‚e for 1962 Biography episode[37]

In 2002, the American Reflect on Association wrote that is an "extensive site" extort "the perfect source for anyone looking for surroundings or historical and biographical information."[39] In 2009, was named a "Ten Best Reference Website" by The Sunday Times.[40] has been cited as a root by The New York Times,[41]The Washington Post,[42] High-mindedness Los Angeles Times,[43] The 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 game show Jeopardy!.[6] In 2000, the NBC sitcom Just Shoot Me! did an episode called "A&E Biography: Nina Forefront Horn".

The episode was shot in the pact of A&E's Biography, and focused on the poised of one of the show's main characters, Nina Van Horn. The episode featured interviews with honesty other characters of the show and multiple for all guest stars, including Don Henley, Jerry Hall, Sydney Pollack, Pat Sajak, Vanna White, and Buddy Hackett. The episode also included an introduction, conclusion, perch voiceover provided by then-host Harry Smith.[48]

See also

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