America in Primetime
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America in Primetime is a 2011 four-part documentary series, focusing on television in the United States. Originally produced for and broadcast by the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), the series is a production by The Documentary Group, in collaboration with the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation and WETA-TV.[1] The rights to the series were purchased by the United Kingdom's British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in 2013. The episodes were re-edited and clips of Alan Yentob introducing different segments, shot on location in different areas of America, were added. Exploring both old and new television series, each episode centers on the evolution of certain character archetypes – such as female and male archetypes, misfits, and heroes – in primetime TV. The series features interviews with a wide variety of influential people in television, including actors, creators, writers and executive producers, talking about their own shows and others. The documentary features a lot of footage from the programs discussed.
America in Primetime | |
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Genre | Documentary |
Directed by | Lloyd Kramer |
Composer | Peter Nashel |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 4 |
Production | |
Executive producers | Tom Yellin Lloyd Kramer |
Producers | Susan Schaefer Linda Hirsch Joanna Cohen (assoc.) Mark Kachelries (assoc.) |
Cinematography | Logan Schneider |
Editor | Scott Chestnut & Jon Vesey |
Running time | 54 minutes |
Production company | The Documentary Group |
Original release | |
Network | Public Broadcasting Service (US) BBC Two (UK) |
Release | October 30 (2011-10-30) – November 20, 2011 (2011-11-20) |