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Wednesday Their time was the '70s and '80s with mega-productions such as “Rich Man, Poor Man,” “Holocaust,” “Centennial,” “Shogun,” “Lonesome Dove” and of course “Roots.” The miniseries allows for stories of depth and complexity not possible within the confines of the traditional half-hour or hour-long TV series. Many miniseries are based on best-selling novels, and the novelist’s name is often attached to the project as a selling point (“Stephen King’s ‘The Langoliers,’” “Armistead Maupin’s ‘Tales of the City’”). Miniseries are usually part of a network’s strategy for the television season. www.medialifemagazine.com /News2005/jun05/june27/3_wed/news3wednesday.html   (931 words)

Miniseries The United States has produced both historical miniseries such as Holocaust (1978) and serialisations of "blockbuster" novels such as The Thorn Birds (1983). In a miniseries on the other hand, there is a clearly defined beginning, a middle and an end, (as in a conventional play or novel) enabling characters to change, mature or die as the serial proceeds. This scheduling is important because the high production costs of miniseries can only be recovered through exposure to the largest, most lucrative, and attentive audiences and the material dealt with is often of either difficult and potentially upsetting, or of a sexually explicit nature not deemed suitable for children. www.museum.tv /archives/etv/M/htmlM/miniseries/miniseries.htm   (1245 words)

TRIO: Pressroom Following the premiere of Epic TV: The Top Ten Miniseries Of All Time, TRIO will air three critically acclaimed miniseries throughout the Thanksgiving weekend: Shogun, Holocaust and Brideshead Revisited. The top ten miniseries of all time were selected by TRIO¹s "blue ribbon" panel which included television executives, critics, producers, directors and actors. The documentary counts down the top ten miniseries of all time that have made the biggest and most lasting cultural impact on our society and the genre itself. www.triotv.com /corp/press/2003/pr20031022b.html   (501 words)

AMERIKA Some have contended that Amerika was produced to provide a television counter to the controversial ABC movie The Day After, which depicted nuclear holocaust between the U.S. and Russia in 1983. Broadcast on ABC over the course of seven nights in the middle of February 1987, Amerika was a controversial 14 and 1/2 hour miniseries. The right thought the miniseries inadequately portrayed the brutality of the U.S.S.R. The United Nations thought the movie would erode its image. www.baldwintrustgroup.org /Law/amerika.htm   (710 words)

Holocaust is bigger than sweeps, alas The Holocaust loomed large on TV this past weekend, with the premiere of heavily promoted films like the ABC miniseries "Anne Frank" (Sunday and Monday, 9-11 p.m. Five films about the Holocaust in one year is a lot, and that's not including rebroadcasts like last month's PBS presentation of "Schindler's List" or the voluminous documentary footage on cable networks like the History Channel, which has a six-hour miniseries, "Hitler's Holocaust," scheduled in June. All three sweeps periods, which are crucial for amassing high ratings, feature a Holocaust film, beginning with February's "Haven" on CBS and ending with November's "Uprising," an upcoming NBC miniseries about the Warsaw ghetto uprising. www.medialifemagazine.com /news2001/may01/may21/1_mon/news4monday.html   (627 words)

Amazon.com: Holocaust (EP mode) (1978) : Video Originally a made-for-TV miniseries (that won a slew of Emmy Awards), this film follows parallel stories: those of a Jewish family in Germany from 1935 to 1945 and a German (Michael Moriarty) who rises in the Nazi ranks until he is overseeing the death camps. One of the most powerful scenes in the entire miniseries is when the Streep character (who is a Christian) goes to church and the Priest starts to criticize the persecution of the Jews. The time span that the miniseries covers is equivalent to that of the reign of the Third Reich (1933-1945). www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6303338569?v=glance   (1972 words)

Mel Takes on Holocaust - Dec 07, 2005 - E! Online News The Oscar winner, who took heat over his depiction of Jews in his God, guts and gore movie, The Passion of the Christ, is developing a TV movie for ABC via his television production company, Con Artists, that is based on a survivor's tale. Sladek first learned of Van Beek's story through his father, who as a child survived the Holocaust by hiding in Slovakia and who is friends with Van Beek family. If all goes according to plan, the Holocaust project is expected to air sometime in the 2006-07 television season. www.eonline.com /News/Items/0,1,17923,00.html   (746 words)

Mel Gibson Plans TV Miniseries on Holocaust - New York Times Gibson's television production company is developing a four-hour miniseries for ABC based on the self-published memoir of Flory A. Van Beek, a Dutch Jew whose gentile neighbors hid her from the Nazis but who lost several relatives in concentration camps. Gibson will act in the miniseries, nor is it certain yet that his name, rather than his company's, will be publicly attached to the final product, according to several people involved in developing it. Gibson's father, Hutton Gibson, has repeatedly denied that the Holocaust happened, saying before the release of "Passion of the Christ," for example, that accounts of the Holocaust were mostly "fiction" and asserting that there were more Jews in Europe after World War II than before. www.nytimes.com /2005/12/06/arts/television/06cnd-gibson.html?ei=5090&en=e9636446874c3b28&ex=1291525200&adxnnl=1&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=print&adxnnlx=1133913433-qs8DH0QreCUVey4MPzHxnw   (840 words)

Moment Magazine - Features ABC followed with Anne Frank and in May, HBO and Showtime featured two more original films with Holocaust themes on cable TV. Uprising, a two-part NBC miniseries about the Warsaw ghetto uprising, was slated to air during the last of the three all-important sweeps months when networks schedule their most ratings-grabbing programs. And Holocaust films won't be the exception, according to Paul Dergarabedian, a film industry analyst with Exhibitor Relations Co. Inc. www.momentmag.com /archive/apr02/feat1.html   (2102 words)

0,7340,L-3181606,00.html Catholic actor and director Mel Gibson's latest project - a TV movie set against the backdrop of the Holocaust - is raising eyebrows before a single scene has been shot. Gibson, whose film "The Passion of the Christ" was seen by some critics as anti-Semitic and whose father is on record as doubting the Holocaust, may not take an executive producer credit on "Flory." But his attachment to the project has attracted the attention of some Jewish groups. Gibson's ultraconservative Catholic father, Hutton Gibson, is on record as doubting the Holocaust, describing it last year as "maybe not all fiction, but most of it is." www.ynetnews.com /articles/0,7340,L-3181606,00.html   (448 words)

cbs2.com - Mel Gibson Plans Miniseries On Holocaust The director of "Passion of the Christ" is developing a TV movie set against the backdrop of the Holocaust. Also, his father is on the record denying that the Holocaust took place. Called "Flory," the movie is based on the true-life love story of a Dutch Jew named Flory Van Beek and her non-Jewish boyfriend who sheltered her from the Nazis. cbs2.com /local/local_story_341110044.html   (240 words)

CanMag- Television- Gibson Under Fire Director of the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies in Melrose Park, Pennsylvania, Rafael Medoff, reportedly told the AP that “for [Gibson] to be associated with this movie is cause for concern. During “Passion’s” height at the box office, Gibson’s father famously ascertained that the Holocaust never actually occurred creating a maelstrom of insidious PR for Gibson, a Catholic, who has since defended the film as strictly factual and loyal to the New Testament. The TV movie will be adapted from Flory A. Van Beek’s 1998 memoir “Flory: Survival in the Valley of Death” and will be developed for the screen by Cynthia Saunders according to the Associated Press. www.canmag.com /news/4/21/2569   (453 words)

MSN Encarta - What's Your TV IQ? What 12-hour miniseries had Americans glued to their television sets for 8 straight nights in January 1977? What was the first video shown on MTV? On I Dream of Jeannie, Jeannie could not show her encarta.msn.com /quiz_135/What%27s_Your_TV_IQ.html   (146 words)

Mel Gibson's TV miniseries on Holocaust raises concerns Mel Gibson's TV miniseries on Holocaust raises concerns www.dailybreeze.com /today/articles/2072997.html   (124 words)

Wednesday Their time was the '70s and '80s with mega-productions such as “Rich Man, Poor Man,” “Holocaust,” “Centennial,” “Shogun,” “Lonesome Dove” and of course “Roots.” The miniseries allows for stories of depth and complexity not possible within the confines of the traditional half-hour or hour-long TV series. Miniseries are usually part of a network’s strategy for the television season. Many miniseries are based on best-selling novels, and the novelist’s name is often attached to the project as a selling point (“Stephen King’s ‘The Langoliers,’” “Armistead Maupin’s ‘Tales of the City’”). www.medialifemagazine.com /News2005/jun05/june27/3_wed/news3wednesday.html   (931 words)

TRIO: Pressroom Following the premiere of Epic TV: The Top Ten Miniseries Of All Time, TRIO will air three critically acclaimed miniseries throughout the Thanksgiving weekend: Shogun, Holocaust and Brideshead Revisited. The documentary counts down the top ten miniseries of all time that have made the biggest and most lasting cultural impact on our society and the genre itself. The top ten miniseries of all time were selected by TRIO¹s "blue ribbon" panel which included television executives, critics, producers, directors and actors. www.triotv.com /corp/press/2003/pr20031022b.html   (501 words)

Las Vegas Weekly: DVD's Despite a high degree of sappy melodrama, these highly popular miniseries still are fondly recalled by tens of millions of TV viewers. At a time when the television networks are reduced to running reruns of their top shows during sweeps and cable is carrying the miniseries mantle, the arrival of Shogun is a welcome reminder of the potential of television as a provider of mass entertainment. Adapted from James Clavell's epic novel, Shogun was cut from the same cloth as most other miniseries of the time. www.lasvegasweekly.com /2003/09_25/cinema_dvds.html   (501 words)

Wednesday Their time was the '70s and '80s with mega-productions such as “Rich Man, Poor Man,” “Holocaust,” “Centennial,” “Shogun,” “Lonesome Dove” and of course “Roots.” The miniseries allows for stories of depth and complexity not possible within the confines of the traditional half-hour or hour-long TV series. Many miniseries are based on best-selling novels, and the novelist’s name is often attached to the project as a selling point (“Stephen King’s ‘The Langoliers,’” “Armistead Maupin’s ‘Tales of the City’”). Miniseries are usually part of a network’s strategy for the television season. medialifemagazine.com /News2005/jun05/june27/3_wed/news3wednesday.html   (931 words)

Gerald Green Interview with Don Swaim Gerald Green, author of Holocaust, The Last Angry Man, and over two dozen other books, is not only an author, but a producer and director for NBC-TV Studio. He made Holocaust into a docudrama miniseries for television. wiredforbooks.org /geraldgreen   (107 words)

VH1.com : Movies : Person : Lee Montague : Biography Lee Montague was seen in Franco Zeffirelli's expensive, all star TV production Jesus of Nazareth (1977) and in the harrowing multipart historical drama Holocaust (1978). In the mid '70s, Montague began showing up on American-financed TV miniseries which required European location shooting. He averaged about one film per year after his 1959 movie debut in The Savage www.vh1.com /movies/person/44148/bio.jhtml   (116 words)

eCLAL: An Online journal of Religion, Public Life and Culture Now “The Ten Commandments,” with its timeless themes of slavery and freedom, faith and doubt, adultery and fidelity, battles and miracles, has been shaped into a four-hour miniseries by ABC-TV. Additionally, a recent report focusing on attitudes of the 20- to 40-year-old Jewish cohort demonstrates that young American Jews find the Holocaust to be a more compelling reason to "feel Jewish" than Zionism. Until the modern era, Judaism was never a "religion" like Christianity, which is responsible primarily for its adherents' spiritual life, but a doctrine of life, which seeks to guide all the acts of man and all the ways of the society. www.clal.org /w1_index.html   (8039 words)

St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: Meryl Streep It was followed by an Emmy-winning performance in the highly praised TV miniseries Holocaust and a performance opposite Robert De Niro (in the first of three films with him) in her first Oscar-nominated role in The Deer Hunter. Considered by many to be "the" actress of her generation, Meryl Streep remains in a class by herself in terms of critical acclaim and career longevity. It was upon enrolling at the exclusive Vassar College that Streep became obsessed with both literature and acting--in addition to singing with a musical group and acting as vice president of her sophomore class. www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_bio/ai_2419201174   (343 words)

Meryl Streep - Biography Streep appeared in the CBS TV-movie "The Deadliest Season" (1977) as the wife of a professional hockey player accused of manslaughter and earned an Emmy Award as a Catholic who marries into a Jewish family in the NBC miniseries "Holocaust" (1978). Almost from her first screen appearances, Meryl Streep proved to be one of the premiere actresses of her generation. Streep more than held her own against Jack Nicholson as the abandoned and very pregnant wife out for revenge in "Heartburn" (1986) and a homeless alcoholic in "Ironweed" (1987). www.biggeststars.com /StarBiography.do?id=666   (1280 words)

AMCTV.com - Meryl Streep Biography Streep made her screen debut in Julia (1977), but made her strongest impression on television that year, with roles in the TV movie "The Deadliest Season" and the miniseries "Holocaust" (1978), for which she won an Emmy. Streep returned to films with The Deer Hunter (1978), receiving one of the first of her nine Academy Award® nominations. Born on June 22 in 1949, Streep knew early on she wanted to become an actress, and studied theater arts at Vassar, Dartmouth, and Yale. www.amctv.com /article/0,,1114-1--0-10-EST,00.html   (481 words)

Biography for Meryl Streep Streep made her screen debut in Julia (1977), taking a showy supporting role in that Jane Fonda starrer, and made a strong impression the same year in the TV movie The Deadliest Season and the highly rated miniseries "Holocaust" (1978, for which she won an Emmy). Considered by many movie reviewers to be the greatest living film actress, Meryl Streep has been nominated for the Academy Award an astonishing 13 times, and has won it twice. She was voted the 37th Greatest Movie Star of all time by Entertainment Weekly. www.imdb.com /name/nm0000658/bio   (481 words)

Holocaust reception in America Marvin J. Chomsky’s TV miniseries Holocaust; Meyer Levin, The Harvest; Langer, Age of Atrocity; Gurdus, Death Train; Leitner, Fragments of Isabella; Kaniuk’s Adam Resurrected*. Arthur A. Cohen, In the Days of Simon Stern; Meyer Levin, Obsession; Arnost Lustig, A Prayer for Katarina Horovitzovna*; Eliezer Berkovits, Faith after the Holocaust; Gil Elliot, The Twentieth Century Book of the Dead. Nora Levin, The Holocaust; Albert Friedlander, Out of the Whirlwind; Shaw, The Man in the Glass Booth (UK); Mel Brooks, The Producers ("Springtime for Hitler"). www-english.tamu.edu /pers/fac/myers/timeline.html   (1685 words)

Science Fiction Movie and TV Reviews And with his allegorical storytelling that draws directly from McCarthyism, Soviet totalitarianism and the Holocaust--to whit, the moving words of elderly concentration camp survivor Abraham (Leonardo Cimino)--he succeeds in showing how different personalities react under such an external stress. Before Independence Day or Earth: Final Conflict, untrustworthy aliens invaded in an amazing miniseries Although the story--or, perhaps, it's more the music than the story--borders on the melodramatic at times, and the pacing is more leisurely than the frenetic style of today, the frank, comprehensive look at conflict commands attention nonetheless. www.scifi.com /sfw/issue219/screen3.html   (860 words)

VH1.com : Movies : Person : Tom Bell : Main Best known to American audiences for his portrayal of Adolph Eichmann in the 1978 TV miniseries Holocaust, lean-and-hungry Liverpudlian character actor Tom Bell began his stage career in 1948, while still in his mid-teens. Bell's chip-on-the-shoulder demeanor enabled him to thrive in menacing or brooding roles in films from 1960... VH1.com : Movies : Person : Tom Bell : Main www.vh1.com /movies/person/4587/personmain.jhtml   (90 words)

Shop PBS - War and Remembrance Part I 6PK (DVD) Herman Wouk's novel, sequel to THE WINDS OF WAR, spawned this blockbuster TV miniseries. Millions followed "Pug" Henry's family through the heartbreak and triumph of World War II, from the Holocaust to nuclear war in the Pacific. War and Remembrance Part I 6PK (DVD) 6 DVD Set www.shoppbs.org /sm-pbs-war-and-remembrance-part-i-6pk-dvd--pi-1402770.html   (164 words)

VH1.com : Movies : Movie : The Wall : Review It could be said that without the incredible success of the ABC miniseries Holocaust in 1978, CBS might have thought twice before greenlighting the ambitious, three-hour TV docudrama The Wall four years later. VH1.com : Movies : Movie : The Wall : Review www.vh1.com /movies/movie/98718/review.jhtml   (164 words)

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