‘Norman Lear: 100 Years Of Music And Laughter’ Team Got Entire Gang Together To Celebrate A Legend – Contenders TV: Docs + Unscripted
deadline.comIn celebration of Norman Lear’s 100th birthday, executive producers Brent Miller and David Jammy were tasked with putting together the event of the century that would live on in the ABC documentary Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter.
No small feat when you’re honoring a titan of television behind so many hits including Good Times, The Jeffersons, All in the Family, One Day at a Time and The Facts of Life among others.
The guest list alone features the who’s who of Hollywood including Justina Machado and Emily Hampshire, who joined Miller and Jammy at Deadline’s Contenders Television: Documentary + Unscripted to share insight into how they made the dream project a reality. “What we really didn’t want to do was make this banal, shiny special that brings a parade of celebrities onstage to read off a teleprompter,” Jammy said. “Our starting point was that we really wanted to surround Norman with talented people who carried his story, and then find a format that allowed us to get beneath the surface of what it is about Norman that makes him extraordinary and so special.” Added Miller: “It was a love letter in a sense but we wanted it to be more meaningful than that.
We wanted to really capture all bits of his life, a life that’s been well lived. How do you do that in such a short amount of time?
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