Showtime Joins 2016 Coverage with Halperin/Heilemann Weekly Docu-Series ‘The Circus’
by
Kipp Jones15 Dec 2015
Showtime network announced on
Tuesday the creation of a weekly documentary-style TV series, which will
chronicle the 2016 presidential race beginning next month ahead of
the Iowa caucuses.
According
to Deadline, The Circus: Inside The Greatest Political Show On
Earth will follow “multiple individual stories and key characters from the
campaigns and capture their unique perspectives in weekly half-hour shows
between January and November.”
Per Showtime:
With intimate, behind-the-scenes access, cameras
will offer viewers a look at what the public rarely sees and explore the high
human drama inherent in the pursuit of the Oval Office.
Bloomberg Politics managing editors Mark Halperin
and John Heilemann,
who co-authored campaign books Game Change and Double Down, will
both act as contributors, in addition to producers for the series.
Other producers include campaign strategist and
media adviser Mark McKinnon, and Left/Right
co-presidents Banks Tarver and Ken Druckerman.
In a statement to Deadline, Showtime Networks
President David Nevins explained the premise of Circus:
Americans are captivated by the 2016 presidential
election, and a real-time political series of this nature has never been done
before…
People don’t want to wait a year to see how and why
things played out and the impact they had. Everything today is immediate, so
there’s no better time to change the way American politics are covered.
Nevis also praised Halperin and Heilemann as
“pre-eminent chroniclers of the presidential scene with their deeply
influential books.”
Halperin and Heilemann are co-hosts of Bloomberg
TV’s With All Due Respect.
Watch a promo for The Circus: Inside The Greatest
Political Show On Earth below:
The
Circus: Tease - Fight for the White House
Mark
Halperin
Mark Halperin is
the founding editor for Bloomberg
Politics, and Morton H. Halperin’s son.
Note:
John Heilemann
is a founding editor for Bloomberg
Politics.
Bloomberg
Politics is a division of Bloomberg
LP.
Michael R.
Bloomberg is the founder of Bloomberg
LP, and was a benefactor for the Harlem
Children's Zone.
Matthew C. Blank
is a trustee at the Harlem Children's
Zone, and the chairman & CEO for the Showtime Networks.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Harlem Children's Zone, and the Center for American Progress.
George Soros was
the chairman for the Foundation to
Promote Open Society, a benefactor for the Harlem Children's Zone, a supporter for the Center for American Progress, and is the founder & chairman for
the Open Society Foundations.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Center for American Progress.
Morton H. Halperin
was a senior fellow at the Center for
American Progress, is a senior adviser for the Open Society Foundations, Mark
Halperin’s father, and a director at the ONE Campaign.
Michelle Obama
was an advocate for the ONE Campaign.
Michael R.
Bloomberg was an advocate for the ONE
Campaign, a benefactor for the Harlem
Children's Zone, and is the founder of Bloomberg
LP.
Matthew C. Blank
is a trustee at the Harlem Children's
Zone, and the chairman & CEO for the Showtime Networks.
Bloomberg
Politics is a division of Bloomberg
LP.
Mark Halperin is
the founding editor for Bloomberg
Politics, and Morton H. Halperin’s son.
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