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Associated Press
14-04-2025
- Business
- Associated Press
NYSE Content Advisory: Pre-Market update: NYSE President reassures U.S. market infrastructure is resilient
NEW YORK, April 14, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) provides a daily pre-market update directly from the NYSE Trading Floor. Access today's NYSE Pre-market update for market insights before trading begins. Kristen Scholer delivers the pre-market update on April 14th Read NYSE President Lynn Martin's CNBC Op-ed Here Opening Bell MSNBC Films, Sky Studios, Paradine Productions, and White Horse Pictures celebrate the upcoming premiere of documentary series, 'David Frost Vs.' Closing Bell Executives and guests of IonQ (NYSE: IONQ) celebrate World Quantum Day Download the NYSE TV App and Subscribe Here View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE New York Stock Exchange
Telegraph
23-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Telegraph
David Frost Vs, review: a welcome reminder of a brilliant interviewer
Last month Mike Parkinson brought his chat show legend father, Michael, back to life via artificial intelligence and a highly dubious podcast. This month, Wilfred Frost brings his chat show legend father, David, back to life via more conventional means – the prestige documentary series. Both sons were gifted an immense body of work to preserve and curate. Parkinson Jr would no doubt agree that David Frost Vs (Sky Documentaries) is the more palatable and successful way to present it. The six-part series (three now, three later in the year) isn't always wholly successful, but when it is, as in its completely spellbinding second episode, it is mighty documentary-making, both cerebral and emotional. Each episode takes a new subject through which we can view Frost, America and Britain, and the world at large during the 1960s and 1970s. First up is The Beatles, then Muhammad Ali, and finishing this three-part run with Jane Fonda. To be reminded of Frost's brilliance as an interviewer (and as the maker of television) is no bad thing, and the copious clips from The David Frost Show et al are wondrous enough to scarcely need a documentary around them at all. At times I longed to just watch him at work – questing, respectful, louche – without interruption. Charting John Lennon's life and career via his interviews with Frost was refreshing, though at times you wondered if the director had forgotten that the programme was supposed to be about Frost. The episode on Fonda is an illuminating take on America and the Vietnam War, but at times it reduced Frost to a keen observer, and little more. The episode on Ali, however, achieves the series' ambitious aim of marrying form and substance, interviewer and interviewee. The intellectual tussle of Frost and Ali's first televised interview in 1968 is remarkable (at one point Frost accepts dead air to allow Ali to get his notes), with Frost pressing the Nation of Islam convert's claim that 'all whites are devils' (this concept ran through their many encounters and received an extraordinary coup de grace in their final interview in 2003). There is mutual respect – dare I say it, even something like love – but Frost is never on the back foot. Yet the episode is also about Black America and the civil rights movement, and its finest moment comes in an interview with Jesse Owens, not Ali. Frost is visibly overcome by the eloquence and grace of Owens, and at one point can only mutter, 'You really are terrific. And what you say is terrific'. If you've never fully appreciated Frost's power as an interviewer, or if time has faded the memory, this series is a captivating reminder. He was the master. Frost floated like a butterfly, stung like a bee.
Sky News
21-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Sky News
Sir David Frost's son: What I learned reviewing broadcast legend's famous interviews
Dad was a showman with great charisma, but he never lost sight of the fact that an interview is about the guest, not the host. That is made clear when you review the 10,000+ interviews he did, as I have done over the last decade since he left us. That theme has been central to the series, David Frost Vs. Six individual films about crucial moments in our recent history, that are still relevant and resonant today, where Dad just happened to have a front row seat, not six films specifically about Dad. His extraordinarily revealing interviews with the likes of The Beatles, Yoko Ono, Muhammad Ali, Jane Fonda, Elton John and Richard Nixon are in part so revealing because they were given time to breathe. Long-form is critical to have a chance of delivering the era-defining conversations that stand the test of time as he did so often. But it takes much more than that. These conversations are deeply personal. I think our films will reveal more than expected about the people and topics we explore because you really feel the words being spoken. Dad understood live television better than anyone and when it came to interviewing, both his guests and his viewers are drawn in because what drove him was a genuine curiosity about people. He never entered an interview with an agenda. He was interested in the person in front of him and what they had to say. But I don't think that is something you can teach or learn. He just genuinely loved people.
