Epic Television Miniseries
To paraphrase silent movie queen Norma Desmond in Billy Wilder''s classic 1950 film Sunset Boulevard, "The epic miniseries are big! It''s television that got small!" This is especially true when one compares such iconic epic miniseries as Rich Man, Poor Man (1976), Roots (1977), Holocaust (1978), Shogun (1980), The Winds of War (1983), War and Remembrance (1988-89) and Angels in America (2003) ...
To paraphrase silent movie queen Norma Desmond in Billy Wilder''s classic 1950 film Sunset Boulevard, "The epic miniseries are big! It''s television that got small!" This is especially true when one compares such iconic epic miniseries as Rich Man, Poor Man (1976), Roots (1977), Holocaust (1978), Shogun (1980), The Winds of War (1983), War and Remembrance (1988-89) and Angels in America (2003) ...
