| SHOWTIME | Season Premiere Date: August 22, 2021 |
Summary:
The four-part documentry directed by Jenny Carchman looks at the rise of New York's tabloid gossip press from the 1970s to the present with interviews with New York Post's Cindy Adams, Flo Anthony, A.J. Benza, Paula Froelich, Perez Hilton, Fred Mwangaguhunga, Maury Povich, and Ben Widdicombe.
Genre(s):
Movie/Mini-Series, Business, Documentary
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Season 1 Episodes
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S1:E1. Episode 1
Air Date: August 22, 2021
Aug 20, 2021
The documentary, by filmmaker Jenny Carchman, is compelling history not only of the tabloid and gossip column world, but also about Rupert Murdoch’s career in America. ... The series, in short, could have used an editor down around part four. That, however, should deter no one from the scholarly pleasures of the rest of this work.
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Aug 23, 2021
Gossip is about a lot more than just juicy tidbits and the columnists that peddle them, presenting a multifaceted look at gossip's role in the newspaper/media ecosystem and at Rupert Murdoch's enterprises in particular. It also reminds us that what happened in those columns didn't stay there, with examples ranging from Kim Kardashian to Harvey Weinstein to Donald Trump.
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Aug 20, 2021
Aug 20, 2021
“Gossip’s” shortcomings seem to suit its subject. It is, in the main, a vehicle for delivering incident, personality, and verve: it will leave you with the understanding that the New York City tabloid press was among the authors of Trump’s success. It imparts little sense of what anything it has to tell us means — or, indeed, how that press exists today beyond Adams.
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TV Guide Magazine
Aug 19, 2021
Breezy but too narrowly focused survey of sensationalism. [16-29 Aug 2021, p.5]
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Season 1 Overview
Air Date: August 22, 2021
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S1:E1. Episode 1
Air Date: August 22, 2021
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Season 1 Overview