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| BRANSON (HBO)
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BROADCAST
HISTORY:
12/1/22
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12/22/22
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STATUS:
canceled/ended (2022-2023 season) |
TIME SLOT:
completed airing its current season |
SEASON(S):
1 (4 episodes, 0 of which have yet to air) |
| VISIT THE OFFICIAL WEB SITE |
ADDITIONAL NOTES:
limited series |
DESCRIPTION:
(from HBO's web site, December 2022) Sixteen days before Richard Branson is scheduled to make a potentially historic flight as the first passenger to reach space in his own spacecraft in July 2021, the billionaire entrepreneur sits down for a conversation with acclaimed filmmaker Chris Smith, in light of the risk that lies ahead. Smith ultimately takes us on an expansive and intimate 70-year journey, from Branson’s upbringing as the son of a spirited, tough-love mother in Britain, to his pursuits of extreme, personal daredevilry that serve both to grow his businesses’ brands and feed his insatiable, lifelong thirst for high-stakes adventure. With added insight from family members, business associates, and journalists, and illustrated by decades of archival and home video footage, Branson reveals the ups and downs of a man driven by risk taking in both his business and personal life, reflecting on the costs and rewards of his lifelong, relentless optimism and boundary-pushing. After dropping out of school where he struggled with dyslexia, Branson began his entrepreneurial career as a 15-year-old publisher of a student magazine and went on to become a millionaire by the age of 22 with the booming success of Virgin Records. His launch of the airline Virgin Atlantic soon followed, along with a myriad of other Virgin branded businesses with varying levels of success, culminating in the launch of Virgin Galactic, his commercial spaceflight company in 2004. His record-breaking, transoceanic boat and balloon challenges, and now his crusade to bring customers to space, have all been positioned by Branson with the Virgin brand front and center. Branson remains a complex figure, committed to both philanthropic initiatives and his own bottom line. |
PRINCIPAL CAST INFORMATION:
· Richard Branson
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CREW INFORMATION:
· Chris Smith as DIR
· Kate Noble as EP
· Lisa Heller as EP (HBO)
· Nancy Abraham as EP (HBO)
· Tina Nguyen as SP (HBO)
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GENRE(S):
· reality (all)
· reality (documentary)
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STUDIO INFORMATION:
· HBO Documentary Films
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