May 17th, 2021 By David Knox Make a commentFiled under: Programming,
There’s a fair bit of Queen on TV this week with Nine screening
Bohemian Rhapsody tomorrow night and repeating
Show Must Go On special tonight.
But ABC will debut UK factual series
A Life In Ten Pictures on Thursday with Freddie Mercury as the first subject.
The series endeavours to reveal secrets by those who know their stories best, through a handful of images, from iconic shots to private snaps.
Others to feature include John Lennon, Elizabeth Taylor, Tupac Shakur and Muhammad Ali.
Freddie Mercury’s image is known around the world. He was one of the most photographed men in history. But could just a handful of photos uncover new truths about someone we think we all know? This documentary throws a unique lens onto an extraordinary life, focusing on ten defining pictures – from iconic shots to private snaps – with their secrets revealed by those who were there and those who knew Freddie Mercury
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Programming Profile
10-05-2021
Biographical documentaries are hot property at the moment. In this article, we explore the reasons why, dig into some recent hits and look at what’s coming down the production pipeline.
During his keynote at last month’s virtual edition of MipTV, English football legend David Beckham revealed plans to make a biographical documentary about himself via his recently launched prodco Studio 99.
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Royal documentaries now fill so much airtime, they must be one of the UK s biggest industries.
There are surely more people employed as talking heads, serving up palace gossip while sitting in armchairs flanked by bookcases, than are working today in shipbuilding or coal mining.
Following last week s excellent profile of the Queen s lifelong friend and lady-in-waiting Lady Pamela Hicks, this week ITV is showing The Day Will And Kate Got Married, and The Queen Unseen.
Queen Elizabeth and The Spy in the Palace was far from the usual speculation and tittle-tattle. The spy in question was Sir Anthony Blunt (pictured) who was named as a Soviet double agent 40 years ago