“Comcast-nowned Sky’s Sky Documentaries and Its Streaming Service Now Will Give Views A Front-Recent of Recery and Topics that Have Shaped It, Along Wind, Wind, Along, ALAGE WIPED All Through the Eyes of Legendary Journalist and Interviewer David Frost. That is the promise of new”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
“Pulling from An Archive of Over 10,000 Interviews Recorded Over More than 50 Years, David Frost VS Centers on Era-Defining David Frost Interviews, Unveililing A Fresh Perspective On Today Through the Battles of Yesterday, “Access to a synopsis. Frost Became A Household Name AROUND OF THE WORLD for His TV InterViews with Former US President Richard Nixon. “Seen Through Frost’s Eyes, We Encounter the Mid-To-Plate 20th Century As A Furnace of Change and Uncertainty that Continues to permeate Current Affairs.”
The Six-Part Series of 45-Minute Episodes Was Spearheaded by David Frost’s Son Wilfred, Who Works for Sky News and Is Also A Contributor for CNBC, NBC NEWS, An. The Show Is a Sky Studios Production, with Paradine Productions, Led by Frost As CEO, and White Horse Pictures Serving as Co-Produters. Paradine Was David Frost’s Middle Name.
The Series Draws from Frost’s Archive of More than 10,000 Era-Defining Interviews, Many of Wich Have Not Been Seen for A Generation. The Archive Footage Is Supplemented by Interviews “with An Extraordinary List of New Contribution, Including Michael Sheen, Liam Neeson, Joanna Lumley, Khalila’s ALI, ANDONYTON Incredible Life and Career As One of the Nation’s Most Renowned Television Hosts and Journalists, ”the synopsis highlights.
The Series is Directed by Matthew Hill, Liz Mermin, and Francis Longhurst. Executive Producers Are Danielle Peck for Sky Studios, Frost for Paradine Productions, and Nigel Sinclair and Cassidy Hartmann for White Horse Pictures.
The First Episode Centers AROUND Frost’s 16 Interviews with the Beatles and the rise of brits to US and Global Fame. His interviews with muhammad ali and jane fonda, and “the growing Sense of Protest Against of the Nixon Administration,” will be the Focal Points of Episodes 2 and 3, Respectively.
The Other Episodes, Set to Come Out Later This Year, Focus on Nixon, The Dark Side of Fame, Center Revisiting the “israel-Palestine Conflict Through the Countless Interviews He Did,” Including with Golda Meir, Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin, Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Annia.
“My jaw was just on the Floor Thinking I Thought this Was Only HapPening Today, But We Have Been Through It Before,“ Frost Told A Recent Series Preview in London. “Onl Things, You Are Sort of Depressed… Because You Are Still Facing Similar Questions Today as We Were Were, and It’s Wrong that we have
Could there be more episodes in the Future? “I DON’T KNOW. I’m kind of spent, ”frost admitted. “IT’S BEEN ANORMUS AMOUNT OF WORK, But The Single Greatest Privilege of My Professional Life.”
Frost Talked to Thr About Developing the Series, Iters and Goals, and What HE LEARned About His Father in Making IT.
How long have you wanted to do this and worked on this series? And How Much Material Did You Have Access To?
My Aim of Doing this Started Soon After Dad Died, WHICH IS Over A Decade Ago Now, WHICH IS Crazy to Think. My Brothers and I Collectvely Felt We Have A Duty to Celebrate Our Father’s Legacy. And he and mom gave US so much that we have reaply to repay him by Celebring How Brilliant He Was As A Broadcaster. And that have dake quite quite a long time. And after he died, obvioses, there was a Lot of Other Prioritis and We Were Trying to Come Together As A Family. And THEN MY BROTHER DIED TOO, WHICH delayed Things.
But in general, what has filled that time been me trying to buy backs, recover and resttore lost Footage, and get US INTO A PLACE WHERE THIS WAS WAS WAS EVEN POSSIBLE. I have the archive, digitized, and cataloged. I Control About 75 to 80 Percent of His Interviews Now. We Were in A Position WHERE We Could do this by Sort of 2019, and My View Has Always Been That Content Is So Brilliant and Powerful That Right Opport.
That’s a realy key Thing. YES, IT’s An Archive Documentary. But it is not a normal archive docurentary, because we have purposely selected the Conversations that Dad Had, WHICH WILL FEEL UNBELIEVABLY RELEVANT TODAY. And they are also plearly focused on the big, Blockbuster Names. If we have in this Controlling Position of His Over 10,000 Interviews, It Wuld Be Prohibitively Expensive. If i License Clips of Ali or Elton or The Beatles to Other, IT Costs $ 10,000 A Minute or So. SO I THINK OUR DIRECTORS HAVE BEEN SO OVERJoyed that Can Pull from the Session 16 Beatles InterViews, 12 with Ali, 10 With Elton or Whoever Else It Much of WEHAN SO we’re not restrained on using the very best blockbuster quality of the archive. And What We Are Using Is All Deeply, Deeply Relevant Today.
How are the episodes set up? Is there an order to them? And any Connections to Today’s Topics and Trends?
There are six episodes. Three of Them Are Being Released Starting [in October]And Three More Will Come In 2025, Probably beginning in October As Well. But that is to be confirMed. The Series is Broadly Chronological. What comes out this month Will Cover from the Early ’60s to 1975, and there’s a bit of overlap in the chronology, but essentilly, is broadly chronologic.
While episode will, on the surface, focus more on one of dad’s guests than ohers – the beatles for episode 1, muhammmad ali for episode 2, and jane fonda for episch for epis. is a theme, a theme that have been Chosen Because of It Striking Relevance to Today. IT’s Funny How You Asked About Comparisons to Today. This was a debate during the development period, a fantastic debate we had a: “Will We Need to Be Explicit About the Comparisons to Today OR?” I’ve always felt you don’t need to that. IT’s So Patently Obvious. And Actually, the Great Beauty of this Project is that Viewer Can Make their Own Judgments from from Whaty Watch.
Any examples?
One of Those Examples is the Muhammad Ali, Race in America Episode. We Obviously Use Our Lead As a Way to Bring in Conversations Dad Had with Civil Rights, Legends, and Racist Leaders. SO, with Governor Wallace, He Had A Fabulas 1968 Interview. And then on the other side, Shirley Chisholm, The First Black Congresswoman of America, Jesse Jackson, Jesse Owens, Huey Newton. And if You Look at the Debates They Ware Having, Then in the Late ’60s, Early’ 70s in America, and You’ve Spent Any Time In America, As I Have During the Last Five Years and having your jaw on the table and THINKING THAT THESE Are Conversations That Are Still Going on Today.
I Not for US to Dictate What the Viewer Thinks About That. We Want the Viewers to Make their Own Conclusions. The only Thing I’M VERY CONFIDENT IN IS THAT at Multiple Times, Throughout the Entire Series, People Will Be Thinking: “Wow, This Is All Going On Toiday.”
I Think this is Particularly Pronounced with The Nixon Interviews and the Nixon Administration As A Whole. This episode is coming out in Octoberjust before the US presidential election. Central, of Course, to Whose Nixon Debate, WHICH DAD HIMSELF WAS at the Heart of, Was The Question: Does Somebody Who have the Rules, or Broken The LAW, EVEN DESERE. And that is a quest we will be grappling with as we Approach the Election in November.
WHAT ELSE DO YOU THINK VIEWERS WILL FIND OUT ABOUT YOUR DAD WHEN WATCHING?
He Understood that Best InterViews Are Have You Make Them About The Interviewe. He was an Observer or, as he would say, a catalyst for the Conversation of the Protagonists of the MOST IMPORTANT Parts of the 20th Century. But he did have a front-roll seat as the protagonist outlined thesete key moments in history, and that’s wht we’re trying to do with this documentary series-bring the viser. FRONT-REW SEAT ASEESE Moments in History Unfolded.
Have you licensed parts of the david frost library to offers?
We do license some clips. But Anything i’ve Thought Over the Last Decade Might One Day Feature in this Series i haven’t licented to the Other people. I’ve Held It Back. MOST OF IT DID AIR IN THE FIRST PLACE, ALTHOUGH THERE Are Some Clips that Never Did for Various Reasons. So they have never been seen. And MOST OF IT IS UNSEEN FOR A GENERATION. I THINK THAT WILL GIVE A GREAT FEEL. Even if you’re a whatles aphicionado, I Think There’ll Be Stuff That You’ve Never Seen – Unless You Were Were on that Day in 1967, WHEN IT FIRST AED.
Do you have an example of someting that didn’t air and who?
There are, for example, amazing what i put in inverted comma “Off-Camera” moments WHERE Clearly they’re on Camera, Because we’ve goot the footage, but they wrone. BroadCast Back Ten in the ’60s and’ 70s. SO YOU SEE DAD CHATING TO THEM BEFORE OUT OF A BREAK or Getting Them Relaxed Before The Interview or Laughing with Them Afterwards. And the cameras are still Rolling, and the Mic is Still Hot. You Really Great Insights Into the Personal Relationship Dad Had.
I would Say One of the Key and Onthen Overlooked Skills Had Was to Make People Feel Relaxed and at Home As if the Cameras Wren, Soy Cold Really Open Up.
There are also some interviews that wren’t Live. I Think Possibly The Best InterView Dad Ever Did with Elton Was For Pbs. The Raw Tape Is And Hour and 25 Minutes, But What Went Out Was 55 Minutes. And that only Ever Aired in the Us, Never in the UK there are 30 minutes there that Literally Have Never Seen the Light of Day. And’s Amazing as Time Passes How Different Things Become Relevant or Irrelevant. We interview Elton, SO he’s Going to be Reling Someone of Those Moments with Us, and that Adds Great Depth to the Project.
Talk A Bit More About Your Facher’s Style As A TV Interviewer and Beyond?
Clearly, he was a showman, too. He was a great performer and started his Career in satire and comedy, and he was made for television. I Really Believe That. But WHEN IT CAME TO THE INTERVIEWS, HE KNEW THAT The INTERVIEW WAS About His Guests.
How did Sky Come On Board?
Finding A Partner Who Shared My Vision Was Always Important for Me. I DID A FEW OPPORTUNITIES TO DO AON-OFF 90 minutes on dad. And just like dad knew that interview is about the Guests, I Always Felt That This Series Need to Be About Tese Moments in History, And Not About Dad Specially. With that in mind, I Wanted to do an Episodic Approach who went thROUGH 50 years of History Via dad’s Front Row Seat to the Big Moments as They Unfolded As Opiop. Of Course, Over Six Episodes, We Have Time to Drop in Parts of Dad’s Storyline as that Intertwines with Tese Moments.
IT WAS ALWAYS IMPORTANT TO ME TO FIND A PARTNER WHO WANTS AND CAN DO THIS BIG, IMMersive Blockbuster Six-Parter, AS OPPED TO JUST 60 OR 90 MINUTES ON DAD HIMSELF. With the Latter, you have the Issue of Being Stuck in Only One Minute Here and Two Minutes there of Each Guest. But in t His Approach and Format, We Can Be Much More Immersive.
And I will just say that broth white horse Pictures and sky studios have been phenomenal. And Sky Studios Has Frankly Become The Best Place to Make Top-Quality Content in the UK and HAS SHOWN THAT WITH ALL SORTSS OF PROJESTSSY INVEST AND GET The BEST CONTENT.
Anything else you’d like to highlight?
I Been A Lot of Work and Quite Emotion for Me. IT’s Been A Total Privilege. As his dad’s Son, I Could Not Be Prouder, But As A Journalist As Well. This is a privilege. IT’s An Important Job that we de deliver this right because those are some seminal moments, Important Moments in History, and Seminal Conversations that Dad Hadh. I’m confident that we have, and i can’t wait to share it with everyone.