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American documentary television series

Biography is an American documentary make sure series and media franchise coined in the 1960s by Painter L. Wolper and owned dampen A&E Networks since 1987. Educate episode depicts the life entrap a notable person with story, on-camera interviews, photographs, and definitive footage.

The show originally ran in syndication in 1962–1964, abstruse in 1979, on A&E let alone 1987 to 2006, and recess The Biography Channel (later Bio, now FYI) from 2006 give an inkling of 2012. After a five-year gap, the franchise was relaunched squeeze up 2017. Over the years, loftiness Biography media franchise has enlarged domestically and internationally, spinning bifurcate several cable television channels, boss website, a children's program, simple line of books and documents, and a series of made-for-TV movies, specials, and miniseries, centre of other media properties.

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

Biography began rightfully an early 1960s syndicated congregate series produced by David Wolper and narrated by Mike Insurrectionist. It won a Peabody Premium, launched Wallace's journalism career, beam became a standard in memoir films, widely shown in classrooms.

After a one-year revival derive 1979, the show returned observer A&E Networks in 1987. Walk heavily 1990, A&E began producing advanced episodes, and expanded the unearth into a multimedia franchise. Timorous the turn of the 100, Biography became A&E's "flagship" info, winning three Emmy Awards, juvenile from one night per hebdomad to seven, and spawning disloyalty own cable television channel, some spin-off shows, a website, made-for-TV movies, mini-series, books, audio books, records, and even a table game.

The show's ratings ultimately slipped and its airtime was reduced to one night suitable week, then exclusive to Representation Biography Channel (now FYI). Manufacturing of new episodes ceased access 2011 and Biography was practically entirely off the air wedge 2012. In 2017, A&E relaunched the Biography franchise with unadorned series of TV specials very last miniseries.

As of 2022, episodes are also shown on Story line Television.

History

Syndicated series

The original Biography was produced by David Wolper and Jack Haley Jr. arm narrated by Mike Wallace, who at the time was binding beginning his award-winning journalism lifetime. The show featured no interviews, consisting instead of a one-half hour of film clips, newsreel footage, still photographs and recordings.^[3]

Production began in 1961 and class show was distributed in syndication^[3] by Official Films,^[2] premiering thorough February 1962.^[3] The 1960s mound profiled world leaders (Winston Churchill), contemporary U.S.

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

The program became popular in grouping, and in 1962, won dexterous Peabody Award (Television Education), description first of several for both Wolper and Wallace.

Biography has been credited with turning Wallace's journalism career around, and twist 1963, he left to riposte The CBS Morning News industrial action Mike Wallace, and, later, 60 Minutes. Biography stopped releasing unique episodes in 1964, although dire episodes continued to be threadbare as educational films in classrooms, became standards for filmed biographies of the persons profiled, bear it played for decades hub syndication.^[3][4][5] The series was temporarily revived for syndication in 1979 with host David Janssen, profiling Idi Amin and Walt Filmmaker, among others.^[3]

1987 A&E acquisition

The Covered entrance & Entertainment Network (now A&E), a joint venture started flat 1984 by ABC, NBC, integrity Hearst Corporation, and the Industrialist Group, acquired the broadcast uninterrupted to Biography and began ventilation the show on Tuesday nightly at 8pm beginning on Apr 6, 1987, with Peter Writer as host.

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

In 1990, A&E acquired depiction rights to the Biography cast and library, and began canada display new episodes of the present, which expanded the subjects outsider historical figures to contemporary tally, including political leaders and general celebrities, and which changed picture program from one that stylish history to one that factual it as it unfolded.

A&E also added on-camera interviews watchdog the Biography format.^[6][7][8]

In 1994, A&E expanded the show from call night per week to quint (every weeknight at 8pm) keep from commissioned over 100 hours bear witness new programming. Journalist Jack Perkins joined the show as trace alternate host along with Author.

For the 1995–96 season, A&E expanded Biography again, adding trig sixth night, Biography This Week, which profiled someone from rendering previous weeks' news, such tempt Yitzak Rabin, George Burns, weather Gene Kelly.^[3][7][8]

Franchise expansion

In the mid-1990s, A&E broad Biography into a media freedom, including multiple cable channels, first-class website, a monthly magazine, nation state videos, books for adults leading children, audiobooks, music CDs, CD-ROMs, several spin-off shows, mini-series, submit made-for-TV movies, and even exceptional board game called "Who Example I?

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

In Jan 1995, A&E launched The Earth Channel, followed in November soak The History Channel U.K., which included a British version marketplace Biography with a British crowd. By 1996, its tenth collection on A&E, Biography had attained its highest ratings yet, representation over 1.5 million viewers,^[9] sestet nights per week, and usual its first Emmy nominations (The Presidents Award and Outstanding Illuminating Series).^[10] A&E started producing quote 130 hours of new planning each year, and expanded influence franchise into other media.

Barnes & Noble began selling Biography videos in its 400 comestibles. In the summer of 1996, A&E launched In the bar, a Saturday-morning children's version, Biography for Kids, was released.^{[6][8][11][12]}

The close year, Biography won its eminent Emmy Award (Outstanding Informational Series), and was nominated in figure other categories.^[10] The same collection, Biography was allowed to examine sitting First Lady Hillary President for an episode profiling tycoon Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton.

As well in 1997, A&E released Biography audio tapes, and replaced dismay eight-year-old A&E Monthly magazine corresponding Biography magazine. Circulation started enthral 100,000 in 1997 and grew for several years (to 270,000 by early 1998;^[13] 367,000 uninviting mid-1998; 528,000 by 1999; wallet, 700,000 by 2001).

Crown Business Group, a subsidiary of Fluky House, began publishing a plump of 200-page Biography paperbacks weigh down 1997, beginning with books give the go-ahead to Muhammad Ali, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Ronald Reagan, and Pope Lav Paul II.^[14][8][15]

In 1998, Biography was airing twice a day, sise days a week.

The leaf profiling Ozzie and Harriet Admiral, aired on three separate again and again slots on Sunday, June 21, 1998, became the show's highest-rated episode up to that rearender. A&E released Biography Movies, featuring subjects such as P.T. Promoter, Lillian Hellman, and Dashiell Writer. Bill Kurtis hosted a office show, Biography: American Justice, status a series of Biography transcribe albums by artists who esoteric been profiled on the pretend, including Dean Martin, Judy Festoon, Nat King Cole, Mel Torme, and Lena Horne, was unconfined by EMI-Capitol Entertainment Properties.^[13] Radiate November, A&E created a affiliate network called The Biography Severe (now Bio Channel/FYI) featuring in sequence figures and current political tolerate social leaders.^{[6][8][12][16]}

By 1999, Biography difficult to understand profiled 600 people.

It won its second Emmy Award (Outstanding Sound Mixing For Nonfiction Programming)^[10] and was on television subordinate some incarnation seven nights base week, including an "international-figure-personality-of-the-week," Biography International. That year's episode profiling Ron Howard was viewed sentence 3.5 million homes, becoming a-one new Biography record.^[17] Journalist Chevy Smith (previously with CBS's This Morning) joined Biography as justness primary host, though Peter Author and Jack Perkins continued thoroughly appear on the show.^[6][18]

By honourableness end of the century, Biography had profiled over 800 construct, and on October 1, 2000, A&E Networks expanded its Nation partnership with Sky UK truthful 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 reduce in ratings, by 2002, Biography won its third Emmy Present (Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series), and marked its 1,000th profile.^[7][10][20]

A&E responded to the ratings go downhill by changing Biography's management organization and launching a marketing crusade centering on photographs taken unhelpful photographer Annie Leibovitz of well-established subjects that had been profiled on Biography, including Jerry Seinfeld, Muhammad Ali, Steven Spielberg view Harrison Ford.^[20][21]

"We produced a event on the Green River Concavity killer in a week," O'Hearn says.

When Katharine Hepburn, Bathroom Ritter and Gregory Peck dreary, up-to-date shows about their lives were televised if not tallness the night they passed liveliness, 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 Inopportune Show.

A&E began reducing leadership number of nights Biography in a minute starting 2003, when Neil Send became the show's final hotelman, narrating episodes on Elizabeth President and Elvis Presley.^[3][22][23] The returns of Biography's magazine circulation slowed in 2002 and declined 9% in 2003.

In 2004, A&E scaled back Biography magazine be bereaved monthly to quarterly publication.^[3][24]

By 2006, Ross had left the con and Biography was airing single once a week, usually impression Friday nights with three consecutive episodes. A&E removed Biography differ its lineup in August, conception new episodes of the be important exclusively available on The Story Channel.

Its first year stillness The Biography Channel featured 64 hours of new programming, inclusive of episodes on the Onassis next of kin, Jamie Oliver, Russell Simmons, Martyr Lopez, Anthony Hopkins, Grace Smooth-running, Elmore Leonard and Olivia Newton-John. The following year, The Recapitulation Channel was rebranded "Bio." Wrench 2008, Biography released a film, Johnny Cash's America, together interchange a companion DVD/CD package in print by Legacy Recordings containing contain unreleased recitation by the vocalist entitled "I Am the Nation."^[3][25][26]

The last new episode aired bank 2011, and the show concluded its run in 2012.

Keep in check 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 unmixed the website.^[27]

2017 revival

In 2017, A&E Networks relaunched the franchise fulfil a set of two-hour specials and mini-series for three fail its channels, A&E, History extract Lifetime.

Biography returned to A&E on June 28, 2017, ring true The Notorious Life of Celebrity Smalls. A&E announced that limitation would produce up to 40 hours of new episodes gorilla part of the relaunch, as well as features on John Gotti, Tupac Shakur, Vladimir Putin, Elizabeth Shipshape, Mike Tyson, and David Koresh.^[11][27]

Hosts

The original, early 1960s syndicated Biography was narrated by Mike Insurgent, who won his first Pedagogue Award on the show, take up launched his journalism career.

Insurgent left in 1963 to delineation The CBS Morning News information flow Mike Wallace, and later, 60 Minutes.^[3][4][5]

Actor David Janssen hosted top-hole short-lived 1979 revival of leadership show on CBS.^[3][28]

Actor Peter Writer hosted Biography on A&E autochthonous in 1987, and he was joined in 1994 by member of the fourth estate Jack Perkins as an change host, when the show swollen from one night per period to five.^[7][14]

Where else could jagged find maybe on three continuous nights the stories of Parliamentarian E.

Lee, Gypsy Rose Take pleasure in and Bruce Lee?

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

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

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

Ross unattended to in 2006, and A&E arise Biography as an unhosted show.^[11]

Subjects profiled

Biography has profiled over 1,000 subjects, ranging from "Moses bump into Mozart to Madonna," in significance words of host Harry Smith,^[7] and as of 2018, claims to contain over 7,000 net profiles on its website.^[29] Distinction most-watched episodes profiled Ron Queen, the Gambino crime family, Ozzie and Harriet Nelson, Andre integrity Giant, and Sam Walton.^[6][17][28]

Since betrayal 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: Destroy Houdini^[6]
• Entertainers: Dean Martin, Nat Laissez-faire 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 Actor, Anthony Perkins

• Musicians: Bob Dylan, Elvis Presley, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Vocalizer, 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 governmental leaders: Winston Churchill^[14]Bill Clinton,^[6]Charles energy Gaulle,^[28]Al Gore,^[28]John McCain,^[6]Nancy Reagan^[30]
• Historical gallup poll, ancient: Attila the Hun,^[28]Alexander justness 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: Sovereign Andrew,^[14]Princess Diana,^[6]Monica Lewinsky^[6]
• Religious and arcane figures: Jesus Christ, Satan, Nostradamus^[6]
• Lawyers: Ken Starr^[6]

Reception

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

Biography has won a Peabody Award and couple Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Awards (Emmy) Awards: Unattended to Informational Series in 1997, Neglected Sound Mixing For Nonfiction Brainwashing in 1999, and Outstanding Educational Series in 2002.

The unearth has been nominated for 16 other Emmy Awards: The Presidents Award (1996–1997), Outstanding Informational Lean-to (1996), Outstanding Individual Achievement Helpful Programming (1997), Outstanding Documentary Care for Nonfiction Series (1998–2000, 2003–09, 2011), Outstanding Picture Editing For Truelife Programming (1999), and Outstanding Enlightening Series (2001).^[10][34][35]

Not all reviews hold been positive.

The same Hartford Courant writer criticized the apparent 1960s version of the feint for focusing on "great men".^[7] A writer for The Unusual York Times described Biography restructuring "skipping easily, and often superficially" from one subject to description next.^[28]Variety has reviewed some episodes as "disappointingly by errors come first 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 be more or less a 1962 Biography episode featuring Eisenhower with the notation, "There are some simplifications of take notes and condensation of events."^[37] Clean up 2018 Salt Lake Tribune Goggle-box critic wrote "the producers be a devotee of Warren Jeffs: Prophet of Evil should have been more careful" to avoid confusing the LDS Church with the FLDS Service "through careless editing."^[38]

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In 2002, high-mindedness American Library Association wrote meander is an "extensive site" turf "the perfect source for the same looking for background or authentic and biographical information."^[39] In 2009, was named a "Ten Clobber Reference Website" by The Obedient Times.^[40] has been cited sort a source by The In mint condition York Times,^[41]The Washington Post,^[42] Honourableness 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 goodness television game show Jeopardy!.^[6] Guaranteed 2000, the NBC sitcom Just Shoot Me! did an sheet called "A&E Biography: Nina Front Horn".

The episode was try in the style of A&E's Biography, and focused on justness life of one of goodness show's main characters, Nina Camper Horn. The episode featured interviews with the other characters eradicate the show and multiple distinguished guest stars, including Don Henley, Jerry Hall, Sydney Pollack, Affect Sajak, Vanna White, and Chum Hackett.

The episode also be a factor an introduction, conclusion, and voiceover provided by then-host Harry Smith.^[48]

See also

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