The new Netflix documentary series on the Dallas Cowboys and Jerry Jones is incredible. I never use that term lightly. Everything about it is compelling. There are stories I’d never known or had long forgotten about the team that won three Super Bowls in four years, starting only three years after Jones bought the team. I ripped through it in …
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Spike Lee recently said that his documentary series on former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick will not be televised by ESPN. As Lee has since told it, the decision was not recent. “That thing fell apart a year ago,” Lee told Business Insider on Tuesday, via Drew Lerner of AwfulAnnouncing.com. “No one had ever asked me about it. I was on …
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The BBC has explaned why it pulled the Ozzy Osbourne: Coming Home documentary from the broadcaster’s schedule just hours before it was due to air. The project was set to share “moving and inspirational” insight into the final chapter of the heavy metal pioneer’s life, and featured contributions from his wife Sharon and his children Jack and Kelly. The one-off …
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Jillian Michaels noticeably did not take part in Fit for TV: The Reality of The Biggest Loser, a Netflix docuseries that pulled back the curtain on what went down on the weight loss show that aired from 2004 to 2020. Michaels served as a trainer on the series for 12 seasons and found herself embroiled in controversy when she was accused …
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Director Carol Bash and Robert Shepard, director of photography, on a set for the documentary, Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band. The documentary was made with the help of funding from public media. Stacey Holman/PBS hide caption toggle caption Stacey Holman/PBS The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) has helped make PBS a home for independent documentaries for more …
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The BBC has postponed the broadcast of a documentary showing the last years of Ozzy Osbourne’s life, which had been scheduled to be broadcast on Monday. Ozzy Osbourne: Coming Home had been due to air on BBC One at 21:00 BST, but was removed from the schedule earlier in the day. A BBC spokesperson said: “The film has moved in …
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The BBC‘s Ozzy Osbourne documentary has been removed from the schedules hours before it was due to air. Ozzy Osbourne: Coming Home was supposed to launch on BBC One tonight, charting the last chapter of the late Black Sabbath founder’s life, with contribution from wife Sharon and children Jack and Kelly. With mere hours to go until Coming Home was due to …
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ESPN Films had commissioned Spike Lee to create an eight-part documentary regarding former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick. The series, however, will not be released. Via Reuters.com, both ESPN and Lee said on Saturday that the docuseries is dead. “ESPN, Colin Kaepernick and Spike Lee have collectively decided to no longer proceed with this project as a result of certain creative …
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In the fall of 2021, the director Julia Loktev traveled from her Brooklyn home to Moscow, with the intent to film some friends under pressure. That summer, the Russian government had cracked down on the remaining independent media in the country, designating outlets and journalists it found irksome as “foreign agents”. Loktev, who moved to the US from the Soviet …
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