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Posted Saturday 10/17/20 at 3:41AM EDT
Docuseries aren't all that different from their trashier reality TV predecessors
"The Vow is just the latest to tap into the surge of popularity for the docuseries format, which was spurred...
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Loving The Vow? Watch These Cult-Focused Docs Next.
The editor-in-chief of the daily newsletter Best Evidence, Sarah D.
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Posted Wednesday 2/20/19 at 12:57PM EST
Owen Wilson on playing a Wild Wild Country-inspired Documentary Now! cult leader: "I didn’t have to dig that deep!"
“I just tried to find the part of myself that could be a cult leader,” says Wilson, chuckling, of his...
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Posted Sunday 2/10/19 at 8:37PM EST
Watch Documentary Now!'s Wild Wild Country parody, starring Owen Wilson and Michael Keaton
The documentary series returns to IFC on Feb 20, but the first two episodes -- titled Batsh*t Valley: Part 1...
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Posted Friday 2/01/19 at 8:15AM EST
Priyanka Chopra to produce and star in a film based on Netflix's Wild Wild Country
The former Quantico star will play Ma Anand Sheela, a top figure in the Rajneesh cult.
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Posted Thursday 11/01/18 at 12:44PM EDT
Samantha Bee celebrates Halloween by brewing man parts in a witches' cauldron
“Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and caldron bubble,” Bee and fellow Full Frontal colleagues Ashley Nicole Black and...
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Posted Wednesday 10/10/18 at 4:00PM EDT
Documentary Now! enlists Michael Keaton and Owen Wilson for a Wild Wild Country parody
The IFC mockumentary's "B*tshit Valley" will feature Wilson as self-proclaimed spiritual leader Father Ra-Shawbard, leader of the Shawbardite commune.
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Posted Tuesday 10/09/18 at 6:10PM EDT
HBO passed on Wild Wild Country because there was no celebrity attached
According to Maclain Way and Chapman Way, they received a "very cold" reaction while shopping their sex cult documentary.
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Posted Sunday 9/09/18 at 8:02PM EDT
Anthony Bourdain wins a posthumous Emmy for Parts Unknown
Bourdain's CNN series took home two Emmys at the Creative Arts Awards, including Outstanding Writing for a Nonfiction Program and...
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Posted Friday 5/18/18 at 11:54PM EDT
How Netflix created its golden age of true-crime documentary series
Docuseries from Making a Murderer to Evil Genius to Wild Wild Country owe a debt to The Staircase, which aired...
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Posted Wednesday 4/18/18 at 11:16PM EDT
Wild Wild Country is coming out with a soundtrack: Meet the music supervisor
Chris Swanson landed the music supervisor gig after sending the Way brothers a fan note, but he only had $100,000...
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Posted Monday 4/16/18 at 11:31PM EDT
Wild Wild Country's Ma Anand Sheela has evolved from cult leader to criminal to meme
Why can’t we look away from Sheela? Perhaps it's because of her Trump-esque style, says Inkoo Kang, who adds: "It’s...
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Posted Monday 4/16/18 at 5:49PM EDT
Wild Wild Country left out a gruesome 1990 murder committed by a former follower
The Way brothers say a grisly 1990 murder committed by a former Rajneesh follower never came up in their research.
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SNL gets Robert De Niro to interrogate Ben Stiller as Robert Mueller and Michael Cohen
Saturday Night Live reunited the Meet the Parents co-stars in this week's cold open to recreate the classic lie detector scene...
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Posted Friday 4/06/18 at 10:24PM EDT
Before Wild Wild Country, two documentaries gave the Rajneesh cult sympathetic treatment
"The first attempt, thankfully lost in the mists of history, played like outright pro-Rajneesh propaganda," says Win McCormack.