NBC will sing Motown tune with 12-hour miniseries

The Associated Press, AP Online
Published June 4, 2004


LOS ANGELES (AP) - A 12-hour series about the famed Motown Records music empire and its founder, Berry Gordy, is being developed for NBC.
"Berry Gordy's Motown" will dramatize Gordy's rise from Detroit's inner city to the head of an entertainment empire with artists that included Diana Ross and the Supremes; Smokey Robinson and the Miracles; the Temptations; and Michael Jackson and the Jackson 5, the network said Thursday.

The series isn't expected to air until the 2005-06 season.

Producer Suzanne de Passe, whose credits include "Motown Returns to the Apollo," the miniseries "The Temptations" and "The Jacksons: An American Dream," is developing the project with NBC.



....mmm, i wonder how this'll be.

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

One sided.

OdysseyMiles said:

probably.

Wanna bet they butcher this like they do all the "musical segements" on American Dreams?

VoicesCarry said:

i've never watched that show...do they butcher that chit?

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

Jennifer Love Hewitt is Nancy Sinatra. Ashanti is Mary Wells. Hilarity ensues.

VoicesCarry said:

holy flaming hohners, no.



nbc

Suzanne de Passe has produced high quality televison in the past. I see no reason why this would be any different.

I really liked "The Jacksons: An American Dream"

and with the way it showed Joe beating the shit out of the kids,

Motown PR teachin Mike to lie about his age..

it wasn't the most biased miniseries.