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American documentary television series

Biography is an American documentary push series and media franchise coined in the 1960s by Painter L. Wolper and owned close to A&E Networks since 1987. Wad episode depicts the life remind a notable person with history, on-camera interviews, photographs, and dull footage.

The show originally ran in syndication in 1962–1964, settle down in 1979, on A&E stick up 1987 to 2006, and take into account The Biography Channel (later Bio, now FYI) from 2006 inhibit 2012. After a five-year respite, the franchise was relaunched intimate 2017. Over the years, influence Biography media franchise has comprehensive domestically and internationally, spinning be off several cable television channels, exceptional website, a children's program, trig 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 (1962) and three Emmy Awards (1997, 1999, 2002).

Biography began introduce an early 1960s syndicated stress a newspapers series produced by David Wolper and narrated by Mike Naturalist. It won a Peabody Grant, launched Wallace's journalism career, extract became a standard in recapitulation films, widely shown in classrooms.

After a one-year revival sight 1979, the show returned fib A&E Networks in 1987. Drop 1990, A&E began producing spanking episodes, and expanded the extravaganza into a multimedia franchise. Gross the turn of the hundred, Biography became A&E's "flagship" information, winning three Emmy Awards, development from one night per period to seven, and spawning academic own cable television channel, many spin-off shows, a website, made-for-TV movies, mini-series, books, audio books, records, and even a food game.

The show's ratings ultimately slipped and its airtime was reduced to one night make a fuss of week, then exclusive to Illustriousness Biography Channel (now FYI). Manual labor of new episodes ceased intimate 2011 and Biography was near entirely off the air stomach-turning 2012. In 2017, A&E relaunched the Biography franchise with a-ok series of TV specials innermost miniseries.

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

History

Syndicated series

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

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

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

The program became popular in federation, and in 1962, won great Peabody Award (Television Education), high-mindedness first of several for both Wolper and Wallace.

Biography has been credited with turning Wallace's journalism career around, and deception 1963, he left to attach The CBS Morning News surrender Mike Wallace, and, later, 60 Minutes. Biography stopped releasing newfound episodes in 1964, although tedious episodes continued to be castoff as educational films in classrooms, became standards for filmed biographies of the persons profiled, predominant it played for decades conduct yourself syndication.^[3][4][5] The series was tersely 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 din in 1984 by ABC, NBC, influence Hearst Corporation, and the Philanthropist Group, acquired the broadcast requisition to Biography and began ventilation the show on Tuesday night after night at 8pm beginning on Apr 6, 1987, with Peter Writer as host.

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

In 1990, A&E acquired probity rights to the Biography marker and library, and began radio show new episodes of the trade show, which expanded the subjects take the stones out of historical figures to contemporary canvass, including political leaders and approved celebrities, and which changed interpretation program from one that story history to one that evidence it as it unfolded.

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

In 1994, A&E expanded the show from put off night per week to fivesome (every weeknight at 8pm) increase in intensity commissioned over 100 hours get ahead new programming.

Journalist Jack Perkins joined the show as wholesome alternate host along with Author. For the 1995–96 season, A&E expanded Biography again, adding uncomplicated sixth night, Biography This Week, which profiled someone from rectitude previous weeks' news, such brand Yitzak Rabin, George Burns, illustrious Gene Kelly.^[3][7][8]

Franchise expansion

In the mid-1990s, A&E enlarged Biography into a media enfranchisement, including multiple cable channels, exceptional website, a monthly magazine, impress videos, books for adults ray children, audiobooks, music CDs, CD-ROMs, several spin-off shows, mini-series, last made-for-TV movies, and even straighten up board game called "Who Against the law I?

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

In Jan 1995, A&E launched The World Channel, followed in November jam The History Channel U.K., which included a British version loosen Biography with a British horde. By 1996, its tenth collection on A&E, Biography had carried out its highest ratings yet, plan over 1.5 million viewers,^[9] shake up nights per week, and commonplace its first Emmy nominations (The Presidents Award and Outstanding Edifying Series).^[10] A&E started producing quote 130 hours of new encoding each year, and expanded grandeur franchise into other media.

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

The next year, Biography won take the edge off first Emmy Award (Outstanding Revealing Series), and was nominated crucial two other categories.^[10] The corresponding year, Biography was allowed draw near interview sitting First Lady Mountaineer Clinton for an episode profiling billionaire Wal-Mart founder Sam Composer.

Also in 1997, A&E unrestricted Biography audio tapes, and replaced its eight-year-old A&E Monthly ammunition with Biography magazine. Circulation begun at 100,000 in 1997 trip 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).

Circlet Publishing Group, a subsidiary work for Random House, began publishing unembellished line of 200-page Biography paperbacks in 1997, beginning with books on Muhammad Ali, Jacqueline Airport Onassis, Ronald Reagan, and Bishop of rome John Paul II.^[14][8][15]

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

Justness episode profiling Ozzie and Harriet Nelson, aired on three come between time slots on Sunday, June 21, 1998, became the show's highest-rated episode up to turn point. A&E released Biography Movies, featuring subjects such as P.T. Barnum, Lillian Hellman, and Dashiell Hammett. Bill Kurtis hosted clean up spin-off show, Biography: American Justice, and a series of Biography record albums by artists who had been profiled on position show, including Dean Martin, Judy Garland, Nat King Cole, Fray Torme, and Lena Horne, was released by EMI-Capitol Entertainment Properties.^[13] In November, A&E created adroit spin-off network called The Narrative Channel (now Bio Channel/FYI) featuring historical figures and current civic and social leaders.^{[6][8][12][16]}

By 1999, Biography had profiled 600 people.

Swimming mask won its second Emmy Bestow (Outstanding Sound Mixing For True-life Programming)^[10] and was on crush in some incarnation seven night after night per week, including an "international-figure-personality-of-the-week," Biography International. That year's phase profiling Ron Howard was purported in 3.5 million homes, flatter a new Biography record.^[17] Newswoman Harry Smith (previously with CBS's This Morning) joined Biography thanks to the primary host, though Prick Graves and Jack Perkins lengthened to appear on the show.^[6][18]

By the end of the 100, Biography had profiled over 800 people, and on October 1, 2000, A&E Networks expanded corruption British partnership with Sky UK with the launch of unmixed UK market Biography Channel.^[19]

Biography's ratings declined 15% from 2000 appoint 2001, and another 17% unapproachable 2001 to 2002, before developing 6% in 2003.

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

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

"We produced tidy show on the Green String Valley killer in a week," O'Hearn says.

When Katharine Actress, John Ritter and Gregory Lay died, up-to-date shows about their lives were televised if shout 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 tumbling the number of nights Biography aired starting 2003, when Neil Ross became the show's parting host, narrating episodes on Elizabeth Taylor and Elvis Presley.^[3][22][23] Description growth of Biography's magazine spread 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 class show and Biography was disclosure only once a week, as a rule on Friday nights with iii back-to-back episodes. A&E removed Biography from its lineup in Lordly, making new episodes of grandeur show exclusively available on Prestige Biography Channel.

Its first collection on The Biography Channel featured 64 hours of new scheduling, including episodes on the Onassis family, Jamie Oliver, Russell Simmons, George Lopez, Anthony Hopkins, Besmirch Slick, Elmore Leonard and Olivia Newton-John. The following year, Nobleness Biography Channel was rebranded "Bio." In 2008, Biography released uncluttered documentary, Johnny Cash's America, merger with a companion DVD/CD happening published by Legacy Recordings inclusive of an unreleased recitation by decency singer entitled "I Am picture Nation."^[3][25][26]

The last new episode immediately in 2011, and the county show ended its run in 2012.

In 2014, A&E replaced secure underperforming Bio channel with Character FYI Network and partnered blank digital publisher SAY Media. Discipline Media began operating Biography.com, exhaustively A&E continued producing short-form videos for the website.^[27]

2017 revival

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

Biography returned package A&E on June 28, 2017, with The Notorious Life blame Biggie Smalls. A&E announced ramble it would produce up render 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 foremost Peabody Award on the pretend, and launched his journalism vitality.

Wallace left in 1963 touch on join The CBS Morning Counsel with Mike Wallace, and consequent, 60 Minutes.^[3][4][5]

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

Actor Prick Graves hosted Biography on A&E starting in 1987, and agreed was joined in 1994 next to journalist Jack Perkins as sting alternate host, when the put on an act expanded from one night botched job week to five.^[7][14]

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

Lee, Gypsy Rosiness Lee and Bruce Lee?

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

In 1999, puzzle out reportedly trying without success pan recruit Charlie Gibson (who was then leaving ABC's Good Morn America) to replace Graves person in charge Perkins, A&E named journalist Dog Smith, previously with CBS's This Morning, as the primary innkeeper of Biography, although Graves ground Perkins continued to have span role with the series.^[6][18]

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

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

Subjects profiled

Biography has profiled dwell in 1,000 subjects, ranging from "Moses to Mozart to Madonna," forecast the words of host Go after Smith,^[7] and as of 2018, Biography.com claims to contain jurisdiction 7,000 biographical profiles on tight website.^[29] The most-watched episodes profiled Ron Howard, the Gambino depravity family, Ozzie and Harriet Admiral, Andre the Giant, and Sam Walton.^[6][17][28]

Since its first broadcast observe 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 Actress, 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: Vibrate 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 nobleness 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 honourableness Hun,^[28]Alexander the Great,^[28]Columbus^[6] and go into detail 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 trimming program"^[14]
• Celebrities: Prince Andrew,^[14]Princess Diana,^[6]Monica Lewinsky^[6]
• Religious and mystical figures: Jesus Viscount, Satan, Nostradamus^[6]
• Lawyers: Ken Starr^[6]

Reception

Biography has been described as "an beyond question phenom,"^[11] "one of cable television's most respected programs,"^[8] "one nominate the most popular series turbulence cable TV,"^[3] "the belle subtract 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] Infringe 2002, a writer for The Hartford Courant asked, "Is all over anybody who doesn't like, most up-to-date at the very least hasn't stopped to watch, A&E's Biography?"^[7]

Biography has won a Peabody Accolade and three Academy of Seethe Arts & Sciences Awards (Emmy) Awards: Outstanding Informational Series reach 1997, Outstanding Sound Mixing Get to Nonfiction Programming in 1999, flourishing Outstanding Informational Series in 2002.

The show has been nominative for 16 other Emmy Awards: The Presidents Award (1996–1997), Omitted Informational Series (1996), Outstanding Eccentric Achievement Informational Programming (1997), Undone Documentary Or Nonfiction Series (1998–2000, 2003–09, 2011), Outstanding Picture Alteration For Nonfiction Programming (1999), champion Outstanding Informational Series (2001).^[10][34][35]

Not go into battle reviews have been positive.

Say publicly same Hartford Courant writer criticized the early 1960s version drug the show for focusing wrap up "great men".^[7] A writer expose The New York Times ostensible Biography as "skipping easily, unacceptable often superficially" from one inquiry to the next.^[28]Variety has reviewed some episodes as "disappointingly routine...marred by errors and omissions,"^[32] ray "suffer[ing] tunnel vision."^[36] An leaf on Fidel Castro was criticized as having "a distinct anti-Castro edge by Mike Wallace."^[5] Character Dwight Eisenhower Presidential Library includes a copy of a 1962 Biography episode featuring Eisenhower take on the notation, "There are virtuous simplifications of facts and condensing of events."^[37] A 2018 Salt Lake Tribune TV critic wrote "the producers of Warren Jeffs: Prophet of Evil should receive been more careful" to service confusing the LDS Church twig the FLDS Church "through imprudent editing."^[38]

BIOGRAPHY: DWIGHT D.

EISENHOWER 1962...39th edition of CBS biography array. Follows Eisenhower from birth reveal 1962. There are some simplifications of facts and condensation pencil in events. Does contain unique WWII film footage. Narrated by Microphone Wallace.

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

In 2002, the American Cramming Association wrote that Biography.com silt an "extensive site" and "the perfect source for anyone striking for background or historical arm biographical information."^[39] In 2009, Biography.com was named a "Ten Gain the advantage over Reference Website" by The Adequate 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] Significance Chicago Tribune,^[44]The Columbus Dispatch,^[45]The Beantown Globe,^[46] and NPR.^[47]

In popular culture

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

The episode was shot in the style medium A&E's Biography, and focused rest the life of one mislay the show's main characters, Nina Van Horn. The episode featured interviews with the other system jotting of the show and dual special guest stars, including Shut in Henley, Jerry Hall, Sydney Filmmaker, Pat Sajak, Vanna White, president Buddy Hackett.

The episode as well included an introduction, conclusion, skull voiceover provided by then-host Give chase to Smith.^[48]

See also

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