Subject: ‘Frontline’ Expands Into Multi-Part Series Amid Documentary Boom | Variety
From: "Eric Schwerin" <[email-masked]>
To: "Hunter Biden" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2015 08:17:41 -0400

‘Frontline’ Expands Into Multi-Part Series Amid Documentary Boom | Variety
Remember my friend who wrote the book about his brother on Pan Am 103?  Now
he's doing a three part Frontline....

http://variety.com/2015/tv/news/frontline-pbs-my-brothers-bomber-serial-jinx-1201555198/

Cynthia Littleton

PBS <http://variety.com/t/pbs/>’ venerable documentary franchise “Frontline
<http://variety.com/t/frontline/>” is expanding into multi-part
investigative series, exec producer
<http://variety411.com/us/los-angeles/producers/> Raney Aronson told
reporters Sunday during PBS’ portion of the Television Critics Assn. press
tour.

“Frontline” has a three-part series, “My Brother’s Bomber,” bowing Sept.
29. The series revisits the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Scotland
by following the Ken Dornstein, the brother of victim David Dornstein, on a
five-year trek through the Middle East in search of details and clues about
the bombing that killed 270 passengers. The hunt was sparked after the only
person convicted of the crime, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, was released from a
Scottish jail in 2009. (He died three years later in Libya.)

Aronson, who took the reins of “Frontline” from founding exec producer
David Fanning in May, said the Boston-based operation has several
large-scale investigations in the works that will be presented as
multi-part series in the coming years. She said it was impossible to ignore
the recent of deeply reported docu-serials such as public radio’s “Serial”
and HBO’s “The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst.”

“Frontline” is looking at options for “telling new stories in different
ways,” Aronson told *Variety*. She would not elaborate on the nature of the
investigative reports that are brewing.

In “My Brother’s Bomber,” Dornstein pursued new leads and some information
was passed on to U.S. law enforcement. Among those interviewed for the
series is former Lockerbie investigator Richard Marquise, a retired FBI
Special Agent. But the series “has been a work of journalism,” said
Dornstein, a writer and filmmaker who previously worked for “Frontline.”

*(Pictured: Raney Aronson, Richard Marquise, Ken Dornstein)*

Eric D. Schwerin
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