Monday, September 7, 2020
A&E has announced a special TV premiere of
Biography: I Want My MTV. Airing on Tuesday (9/8) at 9pm ET, the
Saboteur Media production depicts
MTV from its early days as a music-video broadcasting network to the role it plays in American youth culture today.
The doc, which debuted at the
Tribeca Film Festival last year, features interviews with the network’s founders and VJs, journalists and artists including
Sting,
Pat Benatar,
Billy Idol,
Annie Lennox,
Nancy Wilson,
Fab Five Freddy and
Darryl “
DMC”
McDaniels.
Additionally, the doc includes rare archival footage and outtakes like an unseen interview with the late
David Bowie.
Biography: I Want My MTV was directed and produced by
Tyler Measom and
Patrick Waldrop.
Watch the trailer below.
