Eager, and perhaps way overly eager to reopen America in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, Donald Trump has recently said he is tired of watching 14-year-old basketball games on TV with all sports leagues shuttered.
Well, the more than two-decade-old basketball games that are the fuel for ESPN's upcoming The Last…
UPDATED, 2:38 PM: ESPN said today that Vick, the two-part 30 for 30 documentary about former NFL star Michael Vick, will premiere at 9 p.m. Thursday, January 30. The second installment will bow a week later, at 9 p.m. February 6.
PREVIOUSLY, October 28: The past decade for ESPN has been an eventful one, to put it…
Comic-Con officially kicks off in two days, but with six months to go until the start of the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, the Robert Redford-founded snowy shindig today revealed a new look, a new award and a new selection that spotlights the ever-growing presence of television at the Utah gathering.
Looking in the…
Oscar winner O.J.: Made In America, Ava DuVernay’s criminal justice docu 13th and Alex Gibney’s cyber warfare picZero Days are among the 12 winners of Peabody Awards for documentaries.
PBS scored four of the 12 spots, with Frontline pieces on ISIS and the refugee crisis, Independent Lens: Trapped and POV: Hooligan Spa…
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced new rules for the upcoming 90th Annual Academy Awards and one significant change in eligibility for Best Documentary Feature. The new docu rules might have had a major impact on the 2016 race — in particular for O.J.: Made in America, the ESPN-produced, 7…
Sixty finalists have been named for the 2017 Peabody Awards, including Oscar-winning docu O.J.: Made in America, Emmy-winning comedy Veep, freshman FX comedies Atlanta and Better Things and breakout NBC drama This Is Us. Read the full list below.
Also making the cut are freshman Netflix dramas Stranger Things and…
This year's documentary feature nominees are a particularly news-centric bunch, with four out of the five tackling the subjects of current furious worldwide debate. Ava DuVernay's 13th, Raoul Peck's I Am Not Your Negro and Ezra Edelman's O.J: Made in America all address the issue of racial discrimination in the U.S.…
The National Association of Television Program Executives has announced the winners of its third annual Reality Breakthrough Awards, and it certainly is a wide-ranging lot. Among the honorees revealed today at the NATPE conference in Miami were the Oscar-shortlistedO.J.: Made in America as Best Documentary, The Voice…
Recognizing the best in documentary filmmaking, the 10th annual Cinema Eye Honors was held tonight at the Museum of the Moving Image, and in the end, the Kirsten Johnson-directed Cameraperson took home the night’s top honor, Outstanding Nonfiction Feature. The film, a cinematic memoir comprised of footage shot by…
With his Manhattan home just blocks away and his specter even closer, Donald Trump went unmentioned – at least by name – at the National Board of Review Awards gala in New York Wednesday night. But judging by the foreboding in more than a few acceptance speeches, the president-elect isn’t far from Hollywood’s…
Those who need a time out from New Year’s Day football can switch over to Viceland for a documentary about one of football’s greatest stars. But O.J.: Made in America, Ezra Edelman’s 7 1/2-hour film about the myriad issues surrounding the O.J. Simpson case, is much more than just a look at one of the gridiron’s…
It would seem Ezra Edelman took on a borderline-insane task when he agreed to make a five-hour documentary about O.J. Simpson, especially as he initially wasn't wild about the subject matter. "We lived through this," he says, "and I knew enough about the story and what it’s about thematically and certainly surrounding…
