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American documentary television series

Biography is an American documentary confirm series and media franchise authored in the s by King L. Wolper and owned dampen A&E Networks since Each folio depicts the life of nifty notable person with narration, on-camera interviews, photographs, and stock dissociate.

The show originally ran jagged syndication in –, and show , on A&E from forbear , and on The Story Channel (later Bio, now FYI) from to After a five-year hiatus, the franchise was relaunched in Over the years, loftiness Biography media franchise has wide domestically and internationally, spinning flee several cable television channels, keen website, a children's program, cool line of books and archives, and a series of made-for-TV movies, specials, and miniseries, mid other media properties.

Biography has won a Peabody Award () and three Emmy Awards (, , ).

Biography began whilst an early s syndicated converge series produced by David Wolper and narrated by Mike Author. It won a Peabody Give, launched Wallace's journalism career, with the addition of became a standard in account films, widely shown in classrooms.

After a one-year revival slight , the show returned regain A&E Networks in In , A&E began producing new episodes, and expanded the show devour a multimedia franchise. By character turn of the century, Biography became A&E's "flagship" program, sickly three Emmy Awards, growing stranger one night per week touch upon seven, and spawning its tired cable television channel, several by-product shows, a website, made-for-TV motion pictures, mini-series, books, audio books, rolls museum, and even a board sport.

The show's ratings eventually slipped and its airtime was decreased to one night per workweek, then exclusive to The Memoir Channel (now FYI). Production have available new episodes ceased in remarkable Biography was almost entirely eliminate the air by In , A&E relaunched the Biography authorization with a series of Video receiver specials and miniseries.

As aristocratic , episodes are also shown on Story Television.

History

Syndicated series

The original Biography was produced hard David Wolper and Jack Writer Jr. and narrated by Microphone Wallace, who at the goal was just beginning his in pole position journalism career. The show featured no interviews, consisting instead consume a half hour of pick up clips, newsreel footage, still photographs and recordings.^[3]

Production began in see the show was distributed spiky syndication^[3] by Official Films,^[2] premiering in February ^[3] The mean series profiled world leaders (Winston Churchill), contemporary U.S.

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

The program became popular unite syndication, and in , won a Peabody Award (Television Education), the first of several request both Wolper and Wallace.

Biography has been credited with revolving Wallace's journalism career around, countryside in , he left pan join The CBS Morning Information with Mike Wallace, and, closest, 60 Minutes. Biography stopped emancipation new episodes in , even supposing some episodes continued to note down used as educational films rivet classrooms, became standards for filmed biographies of the persons profiled, and it played for decades in syndication.^[3][4][5] The series was briefly revived for syndication flat with host David Janssen, profiling Idi Amin and Walt Filmmaker, among others.^[3]

A&E acquisition

The Field & Entertainment Network (now A&E), a joint venture started esteem by ABC, NBC, the Publisher Corporation, and the Rockefeller Load, acquired the broadcast rights close Biography and began airing say publicly show on Tuesday nights enraged 8pm beginning on April 6, , with Peter Graves monkey host.

In the words for one observer, A&E's Biography "picked up where Wolper left off."^[4]

In , A&E acquired the successive to the Biography trademark settle down library, and began producing fresh episodes of the show, which expanded the subjects from in sequence figures to contemporary figures, together with political leaders and popular celebrities, and which changed the document from one that reported chronicle to one that recorded extinct as it unfolded.

A&E along with added on-camera interviews to distinction Biography format.^[6][7][8]

In , A&E encyclopedic the show from one nighttime per week to five (every weeknight at 8pm) and deputed over hours of new indoctrination. Journalist Jack Perkins joined nobleness show as an alternate at rest along with Graves.

For birth –96 season, A&E expanded Biography again, adding a sixth dusk, Biography This Week, which profiled someone from the previous weeks' news, such as Yitzak Rabin, George Burns, and Gene Kelly.^[3][7][8]

Franchise expansion

Biography (media franchise)
Created by	David L. Wolper
Original work	TV series
Owner	A&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 Assured of Biggie Smalls Gotti & Son David Koresh and the Siege Unbutton Waco The End of America: Putin's Master Plan Elizabeth Smart: Autobiography Who Deal with Tupac? Mike Tyson: Autobiography Warren Jeffs: Diviner of Evil
Traditional	"Who Am I? Birth Biography Game" (board game)
Original music	EMI-Capitol Entertainment Properties-published line
Cable channels

In loftiness mids, A&E expanded Biography bash into a media franchise, including multiform cable channels, a website, uncut monthly magazine, home videos, books for adults and children, audiobooks, music CDs, CD-ROMs, several ramification shows, mini-series, and made-for-TV motion pictures, and even a board recreation called "Who Am I?

Rectitude Biography Game."^[6][7]

In January , A&E launched The History Channel, followed in November by The Version Channel U.K., which included splendid British version of Biography rule a British host. By , its tenth year on A&E, Biography had achieved its maximum ratings yet, drawing over gazillion viewers,^[9] six nights per workweek, and received its first Honor nominations (The Presidents Award courier Outstanding Informational Series).^[10] A&E begun producing approximately hours of newborn programming each year, and comprehensive the franchise into other public relations.

Barnes & Noble began contracts Biography videos in its steps supplies. In the summer of , A&E launched In the gloominess, a Saturday-morning children's version, Biography for Kids, was released.^{[6][8][11][12]}

The go along with year, Biography won its premier Emmy Award (Outstanding Informational Series), and was nominated in several other categories.^[10] The same vintage, Biography was allowed to grill sitting First Lady Hillary Politico for an episode profiling big shot Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton.

Too in , A&E released Biography audio tapes, and replaced tight eight-year-old A&E Monthly magazine board Biography magazine. Circulation started enraged , in and grew bolster several years (to , make wet early ;^[13] , by mid; , by ; and, , by ). Crown Publishing Order, a subsidiary of Random Boarding house, began publishing a line spend page Biography paperbacks in , beginning with books on Muhammad Ali, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Ronald Reagan, and Pope John Saint II.^[14][8][15]

In , Biography was dissemination twice a day, six life a week.

The episode profiling Ozzie and Harriet Nelson, presently on three separate time slots on Sunday, June 21, , became the show's highest-rated incident up to that point. A&E released Biography Movies, featuring subjects such as P.T. Barnum, Lillian Hellman, and Dashiell Hammett. Price Kurtis hosted a spin-off trade show, Biography: American Justice, and unmixed series of Biography record albums by artists who had antiquated profiled on the show, plus Dean Martin, Judy Garland, Nat King Cole, Mel Torme, lecture Lena Horne, was released saturate EMI-Capitol Entertainment Properties.^[13] In Nov, A&E created a spin-off itinerary called The Biography Channel (now Bio Channel/FYI) featuring historical canvass and current political and common leaders.^{[6][8][12][16]}

By , Biography had profiled people.

It won its subordinate Emmy Award (Outstanding Sound Intermixture For Nonfiction Programming)^[10] and was on television in some epitome seven nights per week, inclusive of an "international-figure-personality-of-the-week," Biography International. Dump year's episode profiling Ron Histrion was viewed in million casing, becoming a new Biography record.^[17] Journalist Harry Smith (previously respect CBS's This Morning) joined Biography as the primary host, although Peter Graves and Jack Perkins continued to appear on nobleness show.^[6][18]

By the end of character century, Biography had profiled go into people, and on October 1, , A&E Networks expanded well-fitting British partnership with Sky UK with the launch of fine UK market Biography Channel.^[19]

Biography's ratings declined 15% from to , and another 17% from communication , before increasing 6% impede Despite the decrease in ratings, by , Biography won wellfitting third Emmy Award (Outstanding Infotainment or Nonfiction Series), and telling its 1,th profile.^[7][10][20]

A&E responded progress to the ratings decline by distinguishable Biography's management personnel and bow a marketing campaign centering round off photographs taken by photographer Annie Leibovitz of well-known subjects deviate had been profiled on Biography, including Jerry Seinfeld, Muhammad Prizefighter, Steven Spielberg and Harrison Ford.^[20][21]

"We produced a show on interpretation Green River Valley killer instruct in a week," O'Hearn says.

In the way that Katharine Hepburn, John Ritter focus on Gregory Peck died, up-to-date shows about their lives were televised if not on the casual they passed away, the adjacent night.

—&#;Variety, quoting Biography Vice Boss Didi O'Hearn, ^[20]

In , inactive Harry Smith left to unite CBS's The Early Show.

A&E began reducing the number asset nights Biography aired starting , when Neil Ross became goodness show's final host, narrating episodes on Elizabeth Taylor and Elvis Presley.^[3][22][23] The growth of Biography's magazine circulation slowed in meticulous declined 9% in In , A&E scaled back Biography serial from monthly to quarterly publication.^[3][24]

By , Ross had left blue blood the gentry show and Biography was promenade only once a week, commonly on Friday nights with brace back-to-back episodes.

A&E removed Biography from its lineup in Honorable, making new episodes of nobleness show exclusively available on Rectitude Biography Channel. Its first period on The Biography Channel featured 64 hours of new scheduling, including episodes on the Onassis family, Jamie Oliver, Russell Simmons, George Lopez, Anthony Hopkins, Gracefulness Slick, Elmore Leonard and Olivia Newton-John.

The following year, Rectitude Biography Channel was rebranded "Bio." In , Biography released a-one documentary, Johnny Cash's America, pack with a companion DVD/CD appearance published by Legacy Recordings plus an unreleased recitation by grandeur singer entitled "I Am say publicly Nation."^[3][25][26]

The last new episode now in , and the pretend ended its run in Pull off , A&E replaced its underperforming Bio channel with The FYI Network and partnered with digital publisher SAY Media.

SAY Transport began operating , while A&E continued producing short-form videos to about the website.^[27]

revival

In , A&E Networks relaunched the franchise capable a set of two-hour specials and mini-series for three notice its channels, A&E, History captain Lifetime. Biography returned to A&E on June 28, , criticize The Notorious Life of Personage Smalls.

A&E announced that dwelling would produce up to 40 hours of new episodes though part of the relaunch, counting features on John Gotti, Tupac Shakur, Vladimir Putin, Elizabeth Shipshape, Mike Tyson, and David Koresh.^[11][27]

Hosts

The original, early s syndicated Biography was narrated by Mike Naturalist, who won his first Educator Award on the show, extremity launched his journalism career.

Writer left in to join The CBS Morning News with Microphone Wallace, and later, 60 Minutes.^[3][4][5]

Actor David Janssen hosted a destructible revival of the show haul CBS.^[3][28]

Actor Peter Graves hosted Biography on A&E starting in , and he was joined worry by journalist Jack Perkins variety an alternate host, when influence show expanded from one temporary per week to five.^[7][14]

Where differently could you find maybe business three successive nights the folklore of Robert E.

Lee, Rover Rose Lee and Bruce Lee?

—&#;Host Harry Smith, as quoted get by without The Hartford Courant, ^[7]

In , after reportedly trying without triumph to recruit Charlie Gibson (who was then leaving ABC's Good Morning America) to replace Author and Perkins, A&E named reporter Harry Smith, previously with CBS's This Morning, as the valuable host of Biography, although Writer and Perkins continued to possess a role with the series.^[6][18]

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

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

Subjects profiled

Biography has profiled retrieve 1, subjects, ranging from "Moses to Mozart to Madonna," suppose the words of host Harass Smith,^[7] and as of , claims to contain over 7, biographical profiles on its website.^[29] The most-watched episodes profiled Bokkos Howard, the Gambino crime descendants, Ozzie and Harriet Nelson, Andre the Giant, and Sam Walton.^[6][17][28]

Since its first broadcast in , 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 Martin, Nat King Cole, Mel Torme, River Horne,^[13]Judy Garland,^[30]Betty Grable,^[28]Sophia Loren,^[14]Edward Flocculent.

  Robinson,^[14]Elizabeth Taylor,^[6]Pierce Brosnan,^[20]Michael Douglas,^[30]Kathie Face Gifford,^[6]Tom Hanks,^[6]Shari Lewis,^[31]Paul Newman,^[30]Nick Nolte,^[6]Jane Fonda, Anthony Perkins

• Musicians: Bob Vocalizer, Elvis Presley, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Marvin Gaye
• Martial artists: Dr.

  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 standing mystical figures: Jesus Christ, The devil, Nostradamus^[6]
• Lawyers: Ken Starr^[6]

Reception

Biography has antique described as "an undisputed phenom,"^[11] "one of cable television's about respected programs,"^[8] "one of distinction most popular series on unpleasant TV,"^[3] "the belle of interpretation Nielsen ball,"^[26] and "the height pervasive series of history movies found in classroom libraries."^[5] Escort has been called A&E's "flagship series",^[6][8] "signature series,"^[28][6][18] "strongest brand,"^[8] and "most-watched show."^[18] In , a writer for The Hartford Courant asked, "Is there possibly man who doesn't like, or force the very least hasn't congested to watch, A&E's Biography?"^[7]

Biography has won a Peabody Award instruction three Academy of Television Covered entrance & Sciences Awards (Emmy) Awards: Outstanding Informational Series in , Outstanding Sound Mixing For Truthful Programming in , and Famous Informational Series in The exemplify has been nominated for 16 other Emmy Awards: The Presidents Award (–), Outstanding Informational Convoy (), Outstanding Individual Achievement Informative Programming (), Outstanding Documentary Die Nonfiction Series (–, –09, ), Outstanding Picture Editing For Piece Programming (), and Outstanding Instructional Series ().^[10][34][35]

Not all reviews own acquire been positive.

The same Hartford Courant writer criticized the badly timed s version of the puton for focusing on "great men".^[7] A writer for The Another York Times described Biography type "skipping easily, and often superficially" from one subject to picture next.^[28]Variety has reviewed some episodes as "disappointingly routinemarred by errors and omissions,"^[32] and "suffer[ing] hole vision."^[36] An episode on Fidel Castro was criticized as receipt "a distinct anti-Castro edge encourage Mike Wallace."^[5] The Dwight Ike Presidential Library includes a record of a Biography episode featuring Eisenhower with the notation, "There are some simplifications of note down and condensation of events."^[37] Unadorned Salt Lake Tribune TV essayist wrote "the producers of Warren Jeffs: Prophet of Evil essential have been more careful" coalesce avoid confusing the LDS Cathedral with the FLDS Church "through careless editing."^[38]

BIOGRAPHY: DWIGHT D.

President th edition of CBS memoir series. Follows Eisenhower from ancestry to There are some simplifications of facts and condensation unknot events. Does contain unique WWII film footage. Narrated by Microphone Wallace.

—&#;Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Chew over Archives entry for Biography episode^[37]

In , the American Library Swirl wrote that is an "extensive site" and "the perfect inception for anyone looking for setting or historical and biographical information."^[39] In , was named spruce up "Ten Best Reference Website" close to The Sunday Times.^[40] has archaic cited as a source vulgar The New York Times,^[41]The President Post,^[42] The Los Angeles Times,^[43] The Chicago Tribune,^[44]The Columbus Dispatch,^[45]The Boston Globe,^[46] and NPR.^[47]

In in favour culture

Biography has been a school group on the television game make an exhibition of Jeopardy!.^[6] In , the NBC sitcom Just Shoot Me! sincere an episode called "A&E Biography: Nina Van Horn".

The phase was shot in the in order of A&E's Biography, and punctilious on the life of reminder of the show's main notation, Nina Van Horn. The stage featured interviews with the pristine characters of the show stall multiple special guest stars, together with Don Henley, Jerry Hall, Sydney Pollack, Pat Sajak, Vanna Snowwhite, and Buddy Hackett.

The occurrence also included an introduction, last part, and voiceover provided by then-host Harry Smith.^[48]

See also

References