It’s sort of surprising that there haven’t been more musical biography TV shows to date — because the large-scale canvas of a six or eight or ten-part series would give you many more hours of room to tell stories, and to play more great pop music.
J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot are working on a “scripted series” for Netflix about the iconic rock band U2.
I’m not sure U2 would be my top pick for a biopic TV series, but they certainly have enough music to get people interested in the show.
How do you tell the story of a great artist — and include a bunch of their most beloved music — in so short amount of time?