Biography
Biography is actually a documentary tv series. It was a chain hosted by Mike Wallace and produced for CBS by David Wolper in 1961 to 1964. The A&E Network it has produced fresh episodes since 1987 later re-ran it. The elderly variant featured entertainment amounts such as John Barrymore or Will Rogers, or historical figures such as Mark Twain and Helen Keller. Even the A&E series has set the emphasis on these people as Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Plácido Domingo, Freddie Mercury, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Eric Clapton, Pope John Paul II, Gene Tierney, Selena, Diego Rivera, Mao Zedong and also Queen Elizabeth II, along with literary characters such as The Phantom, Superman, Hamlet, Betty Boop, along with Santa Claus. This program finished up devoting enough amounts that in 1999, it split off into an whole network, The Biography Channel.
The majority of the episodes featured the entire life stories of present social or political leaders or historical characters. People such as Charles Dickens, William Shakespeare, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Enrico Caruso, and Eva Peron were profiled. After a few decades, however, the series began episodes including Britney Spears, Al Pacino, Johnny Depp and Marilyn Manson, on characters from popculture. This move apart from intellectual subject material was criticized by some.