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Family, Race, Class and Triumph of Human Spirit Examined in QUEST @pbs #documentary #quest

For his debut documentary, QUEST, director Jonathan Olshefski spent nearly a decade chronicling the daily triumphs and tragedies of the Raineys, a working class African-American family in North Philadelphia. The father, Christopher “Quest” Rainey, is a local music producer and promoter who hosts a popular freestyle session for aspiring rappers in his home basement studio; the mother, Christine’a…

Is this a blurry picture of a fisherman and a seal ?! NO ! Its John Slattery and Fred Armisen, in costume from the set of American Documentary. AND

Its IFC's American Documentary News Update Time !

According to Slattery's interview with Seth Meyers, the Iceland segment of American Documentary is based on one of the most famous documentary's of all time, Robert Flaherty's Nanook of the North, and Slattery plays the documentarian Flaherty (Fred is an unnamed North inhabitant).

Nanook of the North has a Criterion Edition release, but you can legally find the full release below if you're interested in getting a feel for the film (it-predates copyright). So Mad Men fans should look forward to IFC's American Documentary. No mention of Bill in this segment.

The above pic seems like a fan mockup - but I just thought I would do a news roundup on the IFC channel mockumentary Bill is writing/starring in:

Bill will write and star in the IFC show - he also said a URochester that the episodes would be mockumentary from quote "different eras."

Paste Magazine says that it will be a "“a curated series of half-hour documentaries and biopics, each about a completely fictitious subject” and include Seth Meyers and Fred Armisen

The show should come to air sometime in 2015 - but with only six episodes " spoofing politicians, artists, and more. Armisen and Hader will executive produce, as well as appearing in the show itself."

The Nerdist.com suggested it will be a kind of "This Is Spinal Tap for TV"

Deadline originally reported the IFC deal, and reminds us that Hader has already had two Emmy nominations, working on TV, for SNL !

The interrobang suggests, (perhaps seriously or not) that the first show might feature Fred's "Ian Rubbish and the Bizzaros"

"I think in 10 or 20 years from now, we'll all look back at these sketch comedy shows that are coming out now, and we'll notice that they all had a look and a sound and rhythm. We'll go like, 'Remember that style from 2013-2014 that was like this?' We're too close to it now, but it's gonna happen. You'll even be able to make fun of it."