For Your Consideration: Amazon Studios Ups the FYC Ante
‘Tis the season for Emmy FYC (For Your Consideration) events, which have blown up in the past few years. On many nights, overwhelmed Los Angeles-area Television Academy members must choose between competing events, whose main purpose is campaigning for their votes. Just a few years ago, Amazon Studios wouldn’t have been part of any awards discussion in the 213, 323 and 310 area codes. It’s only been since 2013 that the big streamer on...
Documentaries Go Deep on 25th Anniversary of LA Riots
For everyone who lived in the Los Angeles metro area at the time – and countless millions upon millions of others watching live on television – the horrific events that transpired beginning April 29, 1992 will forever be etched in memory. Twenty-five years later, at least four major documentaries are examining the deadly violence and chaos that broke out after a Simi Valley, California jury acquitted four LAPD officers of beating...
‘Soundtracks’ on CNN: The Music of History’s Most Defining Moments
September 11. The assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The Stonewall riots. Music is a unique lens through which to view these and other highly-examined, momentous events that have shaped world history over the past half a century. That is the concept behind a distinctive eight-part documentary series– with each hour-long episode focusing on a groundbreaking historical event or period of time—called “Soundtracks: Songs That...
PBS’ American Experience ‘The Great War’ Redefines History
Thousands upon thousands of women carrying protest signs march down Fifth Ave. in New York City. No, it’s not a scene from the nationwide protests that took place the day after the Trump inauguration in January. This women’s march is from more than 100 years ago— August 29, 1914 to be exact—when protesters took to the streets to advocate for a peaceful end to World War I, which had erupted that summer in Europe, sparked by the...
History Comes to Life in Season 2 of WGN America’s ‘Underground’
The abolitionist Frederick Douglass, who died in 1895, is certainly having a moment—notwithstanding President Trump’s recent comment about him that many interpreted as the president thinking Douglass was still alive. Ten-time Grammy Award-winning musician John Legend will portray the African-American social reformer in WGN America’s “Underground,” the historic drama series on which Legend is one of the executive producers. That’s just...
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