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Sharkfest and ‘Secrets of the Whales’: Nat Geo Is Diving Deep for Nature Programming in 2021
A TCA panel of National Geographic experts explained why massive sea creatures still fascinate us — and how much we still don't know about them.
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Steve Greene
February 9, 2021 4:31 pm
Features
‘City So Real’ Is Exactly What Everyone Should Be Watching This Weekend
Steve James' five-part docuseries on Chicago's 2019 mayoral race is now the most prescient and meaningful docuseries about 2020 America.
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Ben Travers
October 29, 2020 6:30 pm
Features
‘Rebuilding Paradise’: Ron Howard Jumped Into a Documentary Without Knowing Where the Story Was
"Many people did want the catharsis of talking about it," director Ron Howard said.
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Kristen Lopez
August 3, 2020 3:12 pm
Awards
‘Cosmos: Possible Worlds’: How the ‘Anomalisa’ Team Advanced Stop-Motion for Humanizing ‘Vavilov’
The tragic career of pioneering Russian botanist/geneticist Nikolai Vavilov required a distinctive look only achieved with stop-motion.
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Bill Desowitz
June 24, 2020 7:30 pm
Criticism
‘Cosmos: Possible Worlds’ Review: Gorgeous Scientific Escapism Advocates for Rebels and Optimism
In its second rebooted incarnation, "Cosmos" once again bridges time and space to go beyond a simple video a teacher can show in science class.
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Steve Greene
March 9, 2020 4:30 pm
Features
‘Genius’ Season 3 Finds Its Aretha Franklin in Cynthia Erivo
Tony, Emmy, and Grammy Award winner Cynthia Erivo is set to play the “Queen of Soul” Aretha Franklin in the latest installment of the Emmy Award-winning anthology series.
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LaToya Ferguson
October 3, 2019 1:05 pm
Features
‘Yellowstone Live’: Meet the Beavers, The Breakout Animal Stars of the Park
A new camera setup is giving live glimpses of these dam builders in ways few humans have seen before.
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Steve Greene
June 25, 2019 8:00 pm
Features
‘The Hot Zone’: Anatomy of a Plague
Nat Geo's "The Hot Zone," based on the Richard Preston bestseller about Ebola and starring Julianna Margulies, debuts on May 27.
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Ann Donahue
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May 24, 2019 10:18 am
Awards
Scoring ‘Hostile Planet’ and ‘Our Planet’ With a Musical Sense of Environmental Urgency
The Nat Geo and Netflix docuseries don't shy away from climate change, which is reflected in the scores by Benjamin Wallfisch and Steven Price.
By
Bill Desowitz
May 21, 2019 11:00 am
Features
‘The Hot Zone’: Companion Podcast ‘American Epidemics’ Will be Released in Run-Up to Nat Geo Show
In advance of the limited series, a three-part podcast will look at some of the most dangerous biological chapters in American history.
By
Steve Greene
May 9, 2019 4:33 pm
Criticism
‘The Hot Zone’ Review: Nat Geo’s Viral Outbreak Thriller Terrifies With Cold, Hard Facts
Julianna Margulies is a renegade scientist determined to save the world in Nat Geo's meticulous and clinical limited series.
By
Ben Travers
April 30, 2019 7:00 pm
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