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American documentary television series

Biography is an American documentary television series and media franchise created in the s by David L.

Wolper and owned by A&E Networks since Each episode depicts the life of a notable person with narration, on-camera interviews, photographs, and stock footage. The show originally ran in syndication in –, and in , on A&E from to , and on The Biography Channel (later Bio, now FYI) from to After a five-year hiatus, the franchise was relaunched in Over the years, the Biography media franchise has expanded domestically and internationally, spinning off several cable television channels, a website, a children's program, a line of books and records, and a series of made-for-TV movies, specials, and miniseries, among other media properties.

Biography has won a Peabody Award () and three Emmy Awards (, , ).

Biography began as an early s syndicated television series produced by David Wolper and narrated by