Wilfred Frost, son of legendary British broadcaster David Frost, is assembling some of his father's classic interviews into a series of TV programs, one of which will feature Frost's scattered interviews with members of the Beatles.
The series, "David Frost Vs.," is set to stream on MSNBC starting April 27.
Via the Hollywood Reporter:
“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, unveiling a fresh perspective on today through the battles of yesterday,” according to a synopsis. Frost became a household name around the world for his TV interviews with former U.S. President Richard Nixon. “Seen through Frost’s eyes, we encounter the mid-to-late 20th century as a furnace of change and uncertainty that continues to permeate current affairs.”
...The first episode centers around Frost’s 16 interviews with The Beatles and the rise of Brits to U.S. and global fame. His interviews with Muhammad Ali and Jane Fonda, and “the growing sense of protest against 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, centered around Elton John, and a final episode that was originally set to explore the Cold War but changed to a focus on revisiting the “Israel-Palestine conflict through the countless interviews he did,” including with Golda Meir, Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin, Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, and others.
Wilfred Frost said:
"If we weren’t in this controlling position of his over 10,000 interviews, it would be prohibitively expensive. If I license clips of Ali or Elton or The Beatles to others, it costs $10,000 a minute or so. So I think our directors have been so overjoyed that they can pull from these 16 Beatles interviews, 12 with Ali, 10 with Elton or whoever else it might be and be able to use as much of it as they want. 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."
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