Bravo Announces Premiere of Michael Moore's 'The Awful Truth'.NEW YORK--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--Nov. 11, 1998-- New Original Series Premieres April 14, 1999 This spring, the director of the award-winning documentary Roger & Me and author of the New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times best-seller, Downsize Downsize Reducing the size of a company by eliminating workers and/or divisions within the company. Notes: When a company downsizes, it is attempting to find ways to improve efficiency and increase profitability. It is sometimes referred to as trimming the fat. This!, brings his signature "guerilla video" style and scathingly funny observations to Bravo with the premiere of The Awful Truth. This 12-part original series premieres Wednesday, April 14 at 9:00 PM/ET and 10:00 PM/PT. "Michael Moore  Editing of this page by unregistered or newly registered users is currently disabled due to vandalism. represents a point of view and a style of storytelling that is rare in media today," said Ed Carroll
Edgar Fleischer Carroll (July 27, 1907 - October 13, 1984) was a pitcher in Major League Baseball. Listed at 6' 3", 185 lb., Carroll batted and threw right-handed. , Executive Vice President and General Manager of Bravo. "His smart humor and subversive approach will have great appeal to our audience, which relies on Bravo for creative expression." Adds Frances Berwick, Senior Vice President of Programming for Bravo, "Michael Moore's direct, no-holds-barred commentary on our cultural landscape has made him a champion of the American worker." The Awful Truth is a weekly half-hour series that combines comedy with non-fiction and places fictional characters This is a list of fictional characters. It has been expanded into the following lists:
in full National Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. commercial broadcasting company. It was formed in 1926 by RCA Corp., General Electric Co. (GE), and Westinghouse and was the first U.S. company to operate a broadcast network. and FOX -- namely, produce a critically acclaimed show with a large cult following This article does not discuss cultist groups, personality cults, or "cult" in its original sense of "religious practice". See cult (disambiguation) for more meanings of the term "cult". and be canceled after 12 episodes," says Moore. Planned segments for the premiere season will combine topical issues with Moore's own observations on the drama of everyday life, including: -- The Witch Hunt - Moore takes a group of Puritans down to D.C. to show Ken Starr and the Republicans how to conduct a proper (and affordable) witch hunt. -- A Gift for Bill Gates (person) Bill Gates - William Henry Gates III, Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft, which he co-founded in 1975 with Paul Allen. In 1994 Gates is a billionaire, worth $9.35b and Microsoft is worth about $27b. - Bill Gates has just built the most expensive house in the world -- a six story, $60 million pad. Michael brings him a weedwacker as a housewarming house·warm·ing n. A celebration of the occupancy of a new home. Noun 1. housewarming - a party of people assembled to celebrate moving into a new home gift. He also attempts to introduce the world's richest man to the world's poorest man. -- Air-Drop on Afghanistan - The new government of Afghanistan has ordered everyone in the country to turn in their TV sets. Michael decides to air-drop TV's over Afghanistan. Michael Moore's ground-breaking documentary, Roger & Me, chronicled his relentless pursuit of Roger Smith, Chairman of General Motors, to confront him about the closing of GM factories in his home town of Flint, Michigan. Written, directed and produced by Moore, Roger & Me is the highest-grossing, non-concert documentary of all time. The film appeared in more than 100 critics "Ten Best Films of the Year" lists and won numerous awards. Moore's other films include Pets or Meat: The Return to Flint (an epilogue to Roger & Me); the comedy feature Canadian Bacon, starring John Candy; and his most recent film, The Big One, which he filmed while on a 47-city author tour for Downsize This! In addition to the New York Times bestseller Downsize This!, Moore is also the co-author (with wife Kathleen Glynn) of the recently published Adventures in a TV Nation. Moore's last foray into television was with the irreverent, Emmy Award-winning series, TV Nation. Part satire, part news magazine, the New York Daily News New York Daily News Morning daily tabloid newspaper published in New York City. It was founded in 1919 by Joseph Medill Patterson and his cousin Robert McCormick as a subsidiary of the Tribune Co. of Chicago. The first successful tabloid-format newspaper in the U.S. called TV Nation "the best show in the last thirty years." In 1995, TV Nation won the Emmy for the Most Outstanding Informational Series and received a second nomination in 1996. The Awful Truth is an original series produced by Bravo in association with Channel 4 in the United Kingdom. The new original series follows in the footsteps of two other acclaimed Bravo series: Inside The Actors Studio Inside the Actors Studio is the Emmy-nominated, longest-running original series on the Bravo cable television channel, hosted by James Lipton. It is produced and directed by Jeff Wurtz. , where great actors and directors share their methods (Sundays at 8:00 PM/ET), and Bravo Profiles, which takes viewers behind the scenes of the creative process. (Monday through Friday at 8:00PM/ET). Bravo, The Film and Arts Network, offers critically acclaimed American and international films as well as performing arts, including dance, theater, classical music and jazz. Bravo is available to over 35 million homes nationwide. |
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