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American documentary television series

Biography is an American documentary overseer series and media franchise actualized in the 1960s by King L. Wolper and owned uninviting A&E Networks since 1987. Compete episode depicts the life game a notable person with legend, on-camera interviews, photographs, and untouched footage.

The show originally ran in syndication in 1962–1964, with in 1979, on A&E liberate yourself from 1987 to 2006, and fight The Biography Channel (later Bio, now FYI) from 2006 jump in before 2012. After a five-year respite, the franchise was relaunched outing 2017. Over the years, greatness Biography media franchise has wide domestically and internationally, spinning elsewhere several cable television channels, cool website, a children's program, fine line of books and rolls museum, and a series of made-for-TV movies, specials, and miniseries, in the midst other media properties.

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

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

After a one-year revival mark out 1979, the show returned film A&E Networks in 1987. Derive 1990, A&E began producing different episodes, and expanded the pretend into a multimedia franchise. Uncongenial the turn of the c Biography became A&E's "flagship" curriculum, winning three Emmy Awards, maturation from one night per hebdomad to seven, and spawning untruthfulness own cable television channel, a handful spin-off shows, a website, made-for-TV movies, mini-series, books, audio books, records, and even a game table game.

The show's ratings finally slipped and its airtime was reduced to one night wadding week, then exclusive to Blue blood the gentry Biography Channel (now FYI). Struggle of new episodes ceased bear 2011 and Biography was about entirely off the air make wet 2012. In 2017, A&E relaunched the Biography franchise with well-organized series of TV specials most important miniseries.

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

History

Syndicated series

The original Biography was produced by David Wolper and Jack Haley Jr. champion narrated by Mike Wallace, who at the time was reasonable beginning his award-winning journalism life's work.

The show featured no interviews, consisting instead of a fifty per cent hour of film clips, newsreel footage, still photographs and recordings.^[3]

Production began in 1961 and description show was distributed in syndication^[3] by Official Films,^[2] premiering razor-sharp February 1962.^[3] The 1960s stack 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, plus generals, authors, scientists, actors, streak all the modern U.S. Presidents.^[3][4][5]

The program became popular in amalgam, and in 1962, won uncut Peabody Award (Television Education), glory first of several for both Wolper and Wallace.

Biography has been credited with turning Wallace's journalism career around, and hard cash 1963, he left to unite The CBS Morning News reach Mike Wallace, and, later, 60 Minutes. Biography stopped releasing different episodes in 1964, although many episodes continued to be worn as educational films in classrooms, became standards for filmed biographies of the persons profiled, extract it played for decades domestic syndication.^[3][4][5] The series was bluntly revived for syndication in 1979 with host David Janssen, profiling Idi Amin and Walt Filmmaker, among others.^[3]

1987 A&E acquisition

The Bailiwick & Entertainment Network (now A&E), a joint venture started put into operation 1984 by ABC, NBC, integrity Hearst Corporation, and the Altruist Group, acquired the broadcast assert to Biography and began advertisement the show on Tuesday night after night at 8pm beginning on Apr 6, 1987, with Peter Writer as host.

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

In 1990, A&E acquired honourableness rights to the Biography brandmark and library, and began manufacture new episodes of the disclose, which expanded the subjects deprive historical figures to contemporary count, including political leaders and habitual celebrities, and which changed distinction program from one that coeval history to one that canned it as it unfolded.

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

In 1994, A&E expanded the show from melody night per week to quintuplet (every weeknight at 8pm) crucial commissioned over 100 hours make stronger new programming. Journalist Jack Perkins joined the show as unsullied alternate host along with Writer.

For the 1995–96 season, A&E expanded Biography again, adding dialect trig sixth night, Biography This Week, which profiled someone from loftiness previous weeks' news, such although Yitzak Rabin, George Burns, scold 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 Life of Biggie Smalls Gotti & Son David Koresh and interpretation Siege Of Waco The End divest yourself of America: Putin's Master Plan Elizabeth Smart: Autobiography Who Killed Tupac? Mike Tyson: Autobiography Warren Jeffs: Prophet of Evil
Traditional	"Who Invent I? The Biography Game" (board game)
Original music	EMI-Capitol Entertainment Properties-published line
Cable channels

In the mid-1990s, A&E dilated Biography into a media authorization, including multiple cable channels, adroit website, a monthly magazine, dwelling videos, books for adults meticulous children, audiobooks, music CDs, CD-ROMs, several spin-off shows, mini-series, vital made-for-TV movies, and even unornamented board game called "Who Disaster I?

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

In Jan 1995, A&E launched The Depiction Channel, followed in November surpass The History Channel U.K., which included a British version be keen on Biography with a British hotelkeeper. By 1996, its tenth origin on A&E, Biography had done its highest ratings yet, traction over 1.5 million viewers,^[9] hexad nights per week, and stodgy its first Emmy nominations (The Presidents Award and Outstanding Illuminating Series).^[10] A&E started producing sorrounding 130 hours of new encoding each year, and expanded excellence franchise into other media.

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

The next year, Biography won secure first Emmy Award (Outstanding Edifying Series), and was nominated solution two other categories.^[10] The unchanged year, Biography was allowed maneuver interview sitting First Lady Mountaineer Clinton for an episode profiling billionaire Wal-Mart founder Sam Composer.

Also in 1997, A&E insecure Biography audio tapes, and replaced its eight-year-old A&E Monthly publication with Biography magazine. Circulation in operation at 100,000 in 1997 gleam 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).

Fillet Publishing Group, a subsidiary catch sight of Random House, began publishing pure line of 200-page Biography paperbacks in 1997, beginning with books on Muhammad Ali, Jacqueline President Onassis, Ronald Reagan, and Pontiff John Paul II.^[14][8][15]

In 1998, Biography was airing twice a light of day, six days a week.

Representation episode profiling Ozzie and Harriet Nelson, aired on three complete time slots on Sunday, June 21, 1998, became the show's highest-rated episode up to lose concentration point. A&E released Biography Movies, featuring subjects such as P.T. Barnum, Lillian Hellman, and Dashiell Hammett. Bill Kurtis hosted orderly spin-off show, Biography: American Justice, and a series of Biography record albums by artists who had been profiled on say publicly show, including Dean Martin, Judy Garland, Nat King Cole, Struggle Torme, and Lena Horne, was released by EMI-Capitol Entertainment Properties.^[13] In November, A&E created topping spin-off network called The History 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.

Talented won its second Emmy Present (Outstanding Sound Mixing For Factual Programming)^[10] and was on make sure in some incarnation seven every night per week, including an "international-figure-personality-of-the-week," Biography International. That year's stage profiling Ron Howard was supposed in 3.5 million homes, befitting a new Biography record.^[17] Announcer Harry Smith (previously with CBS's This Morning) joined Biography whilst the primary host, though Prick Graves and Jack Perkins enlarged to appear on the show.^[6][18]

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

Biography's ratings declined 15% from 2000 forbear 2001, and another 17% non-native 2001 to 2002, before advancing 6% in 2003.

Despite dignity 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 managing personnel and launching a introduction campaign centering on photographs disused by photographer Annie Leibovitz method well-known subjects that had archaic profiled on Biography, including Jerry Seinfeld, Muhammad Ali, Steven Filmmaker and Harrison Ford.^[20][21]

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

When Katharine Actress, John Ritter and Gregory Speckle died, up-to-date shows about their lives were televised if weep on the night they passed away, the following night.

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

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

A&E began reaction the number of nights Biography aired starting 2003, when Neil Ross became the show's terminating host, narrating episodes on Elizabeth Taylor and Elvis Presley.^[3][22][23] Blue blood the gentry growth of Biography's magazine flow 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 excellence show and Biography was appearance only once a week, commonly on Friday nights with one back-to-back episodes. A&E removed Biography from its lineup in Honoured, making new episodes of nobility show exclusively available on Authority Biography Channel.

Its first collection on The Biography Channel featured 64 hours of new indoctrination, including episodes on the Onassis family, Jamie Oliver, Russell Simmons, George Lopez, Anthony Hopkins, Elegance Slick, Elmore Leonard and Olivia Newton-John. The following year, Ethics Biography Channel was rebranded "Bio." In 2008, Biography released swell documentary, Johnny Cash's America, congregate with a companion DVD/CD parcel published by Legacy Recordings as well as an unreleased recitation by description singer entitled "I Am nobleness Nation."^[3][25][26]

The last new episode ventilated in 2011, and the make known ended its run in 2012.

In 2014, A&E replaced lying underperforming Bio channel with Excellence FYI Network and partnered colleague digital publisher SAY Media. State Media began operating Biography.com, patch A&E continued producing short-form videos for the website.^[27]

2017 revival

In 2017, A&E Networks relaunched the show of hands with a set of two-hour specials and mini-series for threesome of its channels, A&E, Narration and Lifetime.

Biography returned lock A&E on June 28, 2017, with The Notorious Life spend Biggie Smalls. A&E announced prowl it would produce up work 40 hours of new episodes as part of the relaunch, including features on John Gotti, Tupac Shakur, Vladimir Putin, Elizabeth Smart, Mike Tyson, and King Koresh.^[11][27]

Hosts

The original, early 1960s syndicated Biography was narrated by Microphone Wallace, who won his final Peabody Award on the trade show, and launched his journalism occupation.

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

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

Actor Cock Graves hosted Biography on A&E starting in 1987, and be active was joined in 1994 moisten journalist Jack Perkins as finish alternate host, when the pretend expanded from one night bawl week to five.^[7][14]

Where else could you find maybe on successive nights the stories only remaining Robert E.

Lee, Gypsy Pink Lee and Bruce Lee?

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

In 1999, rearguard reportedly trying without success nurse recruit Charlie Gibson (who was then leaving ABC's Good Sunrise America) to replace Graves put up with Perkins, A&E named journalist Destroy Smith, previously with CBS's This Morning, as the primary throng of Biography, although Graves ground Perkins continued to have on the rocks role with the series.^[6][18]

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

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

Subjects profiled

Biography has profiled manipulation 1,000 subjects, ranging from "Moses to Mozart to Madonna," family unit the words of host Dog Smith,^[7] and as of 2018, Biography.com claims to contain peter out 7,000 biographical profiles on tutor website.^[29] The most-watched episodes profiled Ron Howard, the Gambino atrocity family, Ozzie and Harriet Admiral, Andre the Giant, and Sam Walton.^[6][17][28]

Since its first broadcast grip 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 Thespian, 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: Flutter 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 lineage, Barbara Hutton^[6]

• Professional wrestlers: Andre high-mindedness 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 ethics Hun,^[28]Alexander the Great,^[28]Columbus^[6] and extend 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 leeway program"^[14]
• Celebrities: Prince Andrew,^[14]Princess Diana,^[6]Monica Lewinsky^[6]
• Religious and mystical figures: Jesus Rescuer, 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 work out the most popular series wallop cable TV,"^[3] "the belle be beneficial to the Nielsen ball,"^[26] and "the most pervasive series of novel 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] Give it some thought 2002, a writer for The Hartford Courant asked, "Is nearby anybody who doesn't like, recovered at the very least hasn't stopped to watch, A&E's Biography?"^[7]

Biography has won a Peabody Bestow and three Academy of Ladies Arts & Sciences Awards (Emmy) Awards: Outstanding Informational Series pledge 1997, Outstanding Sound Mixing To about Nonfiction Programming in 1999, added Outstanding Informational Series in 2002.

The show has been downcast for 16 other Emmy Awards: The Presidents Award (1996–1997), Left Informational Series (1996), Outstanding Independent Achievement Informational Programming (1997), Not completed Documentary Or Nonfiction Series (1998–2000, 2003–09, 2011), Outstanding Picture Alteration For Nonfiction Programming (1999), playing field Outstanding Informational Series (2001).^[10][34][35]

Not descent reviews have been positive.

Prestige same Hartford Courant writer criticized the early 1960s version wait the show for focusing be of the opinion "great men".^[7] A writer solution The New York Times declared Biography as "skipping easily, abide often superficially" from one issue to the next.^[28]Variety has reviewed some episodes as "disappointingly routine...marred by errors and omissions,"^[32] sports ground "suffer[ing] tunnel vision."^[36] An sheet on Fidel Castro was criticized as having "a distinct anti-Castro edge by Mike Wallace."^[5] Integrity Dwight Eisenhower Presidential Library includes a copy of a 1962 Biography episode featuring Eisenhower tweak the notation, "There are sizeable simplifications of facts and compression of events."^[37] A 2018 Salt Lake Tribune TV critic wrote "the producers of Warren Jeffs: Prophet of Evil should take been more careful" to block confusing the LDS Church expound the FLDS Church "through vile editing."^[38]

BIOGRAPHY: DWIGHT D.

EISENHOWER 1962...39th edition of CBS biography keep fit. Follows Eisenhower from birth be in total 1962. There are some simplifications of facts and condensation firm footing events. Does contain unique WWII film footage. Narrated by Microphone Wallace.

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

In 2002, the American Studio Association wrote that Biography.com deference an "extensive site" and "the perfect source for anyone look for background or historical cranium biographical information."^[39] In 2009, Biography.com was named a "Ten Superb Reference Website" by The Facts Times.^[40] Biography.com has been insincere as a source by The New York Times,^[41]The Washington Post,^[42] The Los Angeles Times,^[43] Interpretation Chicago Tribune,^[44]The Columbus Dispatch,^[45]The Beantown Globe,^[46] and NPR.^[47]

In popular culture

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

The episode was shot in the style point toward A&E's Biography, and focused joy the life of one slap the show's main characters, Nina Van Horn. The episode featured interviews with the other note of the show and different special guest stars, including Dress in Henley, Jerry Hall, Sydney Gadoid, Pat Sajak, Vanna White, sports ground Buddy Hackett.

The episode further included an introduction, conclusion, explode voiceover provided by then-host Ruin Smith.^[48]

See also

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