THIS AMERICAN LIFE is produced by host and executive producer Ira Glass and the same team that creates the award-winning, weekly public radio show of the same name. More than a decade after the radio show first went on the air, it’s more popular than ever, with 1.7 million listeners on more than 500 stations around the country, and another 400,000 people downloading it every week, making it the number one podcast in the country most weeks. Nominated for Emmy Awards in directing, cinematography and writing in its first season, THIS AMERICAN LIFE brings the radio show’s storytelling to television. Glass and his producers worked again with director Chris Wilcha and cinematographer Adam Beckman to make the second season of stories even more ambitious than the first. Each of the six, half-hour episodes has a theme that touches on all the stories in it: Underdogs, Going Down in History, Two Wars, Escape, Scenes from a Marriage, and John Smith. Glass guides audiences through each episode with the same direct, informal style that made the radio version of THIS AMERICAN LIFE a hit, and has helped it win nearly every major award in broadcasting. Surprising, funny, dramatic, new. It’s the second season of THIS AMERICAN LIFE. |
