The Amazing 90s: April 15
After The Amazing 80s performs well, Nine buys Nat Geo's follow-up series and adds more local footage.
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Tonight Nine premieres The Amazing 90s a retro-doco series looking back on news, TV, movies, music, pop culture, sport and politics across the 1990s.
Like the specials that looked on the 1980s last year, this National Geographic series has been re-edited and re-voiced by Nine with local events included. The Amazing 80s rated quite well for Nine which probably explains why the footage has been re-edited.
The original series aired on Nat Geo last August.
The series covers the decade from the Gulf War in 1990 through to the panic caused by fear of the Y2K Millennium bug. First-hand accounts of the biggest news stories of the decade in Australia and the US are told by the players at the heart of the action: The death of Diana; Monica Lewinsky and the Clinton sex scandals; the birth of the internet; the rise of Pauline Hanson; the OJ Simpson Trial; the Thredbo Disaster and Port Arthur Massacre. Plus favourite Aussie TV shows, movies and commercials from the 90s. As well as the impact of Toy Story, The Blair Witch project, the Macarena, Jerry Springer and Vanilla Ice.
In Episode One, join Tracy Grimshaw, Lisa Wilkinson, Sonia Kruger, Chrissie Swan, Leila Mckinnon, Ray Martin, Richard Wilkins, Laurie Oakes, Catriona Rowntree and many others as we relive: Sex scandals in the White House, Bananas in Pyjamas, Naughtiest Home Videos; Silverchair, 16-year-old- Perkins and Freeman at the Commonwealth Games, The Gulf War, plus the recession we had to have.
The Amazing 90s features over 60 interviews with prominent 1990s figures and commentators, including the pollies: John Howard, Colin Powell, and Peter Costello. Plus The Wiggles, Bananas in Pyjamas unmasked, Steve Vizard, Spiderbait, and international stars like Mathew Perry, Roseanne Barr (who doesn’t hold back!), Courtney Love, Shannen Doherty, Arsenio Hall.
This engrossing six-part series is an epic journey back in time, showcased with archival footage and memorable moments that only the amazing 1990s could provide.
8.45pm tonight on Nine.
- Tagged with The Amazing 80s, The Amazing 90s.
3 Responses
The NatGeo one was better.
It looked like it was produced in the late 90’s … so old fashioned! Who did the voice over?
Thanks for that, I do wonder how much of the NatGeo original will remain, on the up side we should have more local content.