After making the boots-on-the-ground war documentary war series My Fighting Season and The Fighting Season for Audience Network, Ricky Schroder teamed up again with cameraman/producer River Rainbow Hagg to zoom in on the crisis in Syria. “I wanted to do a third (documentary) program, but there wasn’t an opportunity to embed with the U.S. military, at least not officially,” said Schroder about his upcoming untitled Syria doc. In the series, Hagg witnesses the war being…...
- 1/6/2017
- Deadline TV
Ricky Schroder Productions (Rsp) is in pre-production on a new television series, “The Fighting Season: Soldier Edition,” TheWrap has learned exclusively. The series follows in the footsteps of Rsp’s previous six-part documentary series titled “The Fighting Season,” which aired in May 2015 and was executive produced by Ricky Schroder, Jim Rabon and John Paul DeJoria. The new series will continue the conversation on America’s longest war told from a soldier’s perspective. The show will combine real footage filmed by military members while deployed, plus interviews and reenactments to tell their personal stories. Also Read: Ricky Schroder Afghanistan...
- 9/30/2015
- by Joe Otterson
- The Wrap
Tomorrow the six-part docuseries “The Fighting Season” comes to Directv’S Audience Network.TV Picks: “The Fighting Season”, a six-episode documentary series created and produced by Ricky Schroder, will premiere Tuesday, May 19 at 9 p.m. Et/Pt on Directv’s Audience Network. Inspired by the bravery of our United States military, actor/director Ricky Schroder and a small film crew traveled to Afghanistan to be embedded with the units on the frontlines for over three months, and documented their missions during the deadliest and most violent time in the war’s history.The series gives an unprecedented look into the experiences of the Us Army in […]...
- 5/18/2015
- by April Neale
- Monsters and Critics
Directv announced today the premiere of The Fighting Season, a six-episode documentary series executive produced by Patron tequila and John Paul Mitchell (among many businesses) mogul John Paul DeJoria, created and produced by Ricky Schroder. The series will premiere on Tuesday, May 19 at 9 p.m. Et/Pt on Directv’s Audience Network. The storyIn March of 2014, as America was in the midst of the war in Afghanistan, the Taliban increased the frequency of their attacks in an attempt to prevent the Afghan people from voting and derail the historic 2014 Afghan presidential elections. Highly trained American soldiers commanded by the […]...
- 3/21/2015
- by April Neale
- Monsters and Critics
Ricky Schroder experiences the horror of war firsthand in his new documentary series “The Fighting Season,” which debuts on DirecTV’s Audience Network on May 19, TheWrap has exclusively learned. Viewers will see a side of the former “Silver Spoons” and “NYPD Blue” actor they never imagined as he spends over 100 days encamped with American troops in the midst of war with the Taliban in the run-up to last year’s historic Afghan presidential elections in the six-episode documentary that he created and produced. “It was the experience of a lifetime, but I am not sure I want to experience it again,...
- 3/20/2015
- by Debbie Emery
- The Wrap
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