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A popular documentary series profiling an eclectic range of notables, with each episode focusing on one figure. Based on a half-hour syndicated program that ran from 1961-64 and in 1979, the concept was successfully revived as an hourlong show with Peter Graves as host in 1987. Well-established and a franchise series for A&E by 1994, it later spun off the Biography Channel.

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Smile Pinki
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Like Pinki, the little girl of the film's title, you'll be grinning ear-to-ear — and shedding tears of joy — after seeing this 2008 Oscar-winning documentary short. Director Megan Mylan's heartwarming work chronicles efforts in India to encourage parents of children born with cleft lips to take them to a hospital for free corrective surgery. The defect causes public shame and makes speaking difficult, but all of these kids, including 5-year-old Pinki and 11-year-old Ghutaru, are finally ready for their close-ups.

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Sheryl Crow Biography and Real Housewives of OC | Today's News: Our Take | 12/20/2007
Biography: Sheryl CrowYou may want to tune in to the Biography channel tonight, because considering the life Sheryl Crow has led to date, we're pretty confident her profile piece will be pretty compelling. Let's see… she's a Grammy-winning singer/songwriter, a breast-cancer survivor, a new mom and she's managed to get a new album together that's due out in February. Watch this clip to see an absolutely glowing Crow gush about her baby boy and her hopes for his future. Watch it now! | More online videosReal Housewives Mini-marathonThe Real Housewives of Orange County is one of those shows that falls into our "hate it but love it" category (hate the fact you got sucked in to such trashy reality TV, yet can't help but love the show). Considering everything is in repeats for holiday and/or strike reasons, now may be a good time to venture over to Bravo and delve into the ridiculously soapy lives of these obscenely wealthy women and their fams. C'mon, fess up if your a fan...no sha... read more
Can you tell me what A&E is ... | Matt Roush | 1/9/2006
Question: Can you tell me what A&E is turning into? Rollergirls? I just don't get it. I have enough problems trying to understand the programming on Spike. By the way, it would be nice if some of these cable networks would show some older movies. The constant repeats of the few movies they do show is getting old and tiresome, and these networks ought to have enough movies in their film libraries without having to air repeats so often. Also, welcome back. Answer: It's good to be back, even if that means confronting depressing topics like the decline of A&E. The network will crow about the younger demographics it now attracts since it has shifted focus from a broad-based arts-and-entertainment network to a bottom-feeding swill factory that perpetrated one of the worst shows of the decade in Growing Up Gotti (which, thankfully, is history). If it weren't for the fact that MI-5 is still in the wings, waiting to return in summer (last I heard), plus the occasional Biography special or ... read more

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Premiered: April 06, 1987, on A&E

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Premise: A popular documentary series profiling an eclectic range of notables, with each episode focusing on one figure. Based on a half-hour syndicated program that ran from 1961-64 and in 1979, the concept was successfully revived as an hourlong show with Peter Graves as host in 1987. Well-established and a franchise series for A&E by 1994, it later spun off the Biography Channel.

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