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‘Genius: Aretha’ Trailer: Watch Cynthia Erivo Fight to Keep Her ‘Queen of Soul’ Crown (Video)
R-E-S-P-E-C-T for National Geographic, which set the premiere date for “Genius: Aretha” Tuesday and dropped the trailer for the pandemic-delayed season of the anthology, which stars Cynthia Erivo within the title position. In the trailer, which you’ll view above, Erivo’s Aretha Franklin is topped the “Queen of Soul” and spends a lot of the two-minute video attempting to keep up maintain of that title whereas others got down to carry her down. Nat Geo revealed Tuesday throughout its day on the digital Television Critics Association press tour that “Genius: Aretha,” which has suffered a number of manufacturing delays during the last yr on account of COVID-19, will air as a four-night occasion sequence starting Sunday, March 21, at 9/8c. The eight episodes of the season will air in pairs of two, with all accessible to stream on Hulu by Thursday, March 25. Also Read: Nat Geo Documentary Films Acquires ‘Playing With Sharks’ “Genius: Aretha” will discover “Aretha Franklin’s musical genius and incomparable career, as well as the immeasurable impact and lasting influence she has had on music and culture around the world,” per Nat Geo. “Franklin was a gospel prodigy, an outspoken civil rights champion and widely considered the greatest singer of the past 50 years, receiving countless honors throughout her career. ‘Genius: Aretha’ will be the first-ever, definitive and only authorized scripted series on the life of the universally acclaimed Queen of Soul.” The anthology sequence is government produced by showrunner Suzan-Lori Parks, Imagine’s Brian Grazer, Ron Howard and Anna Culp, Anthony Hemingway, Clive Davis and Atlantic Records chairman and CEO Craig Kallman, Francie Calfo, Ken Biller, Gigi Pritzker and Rachel Shane and Sam Sokolow. “Genius: Aretha” hails from twentieth Television and Imagine Entertainment, in partnership with Warner Music Entertainment. See under for the record of “Genius: Aretha” episode descriptions and air dates. Also Read: Here Are the Premiere Dates for Broadcast TV’s New and Returning Midseason Shows (Updating) RESPECT Sunday, March 21 at 9/8c Desperate for successful, Aretha travels to Muscle Shoals in 1967 to report her first album with Atlantic Records. After struggling the lack of her surrogate mom, Little Re braves her first solo in 1953, in her father’s, C.L. Franklin, church. UNTIL THE REAL THING COMES ALONG Sunday, March 21 at 10/9c Struggling to seek out her sound, Aretha catches the eye of Jerry Wexler at Atlantic Records in 1966. Meanwhile, Little Re has her first touring expertise on the Gospel Circuit in 1954 with C.L. Franklin and meets her idol, Clara Ward. DO RIGHT WOMAN Monday, March 22 at 9/8c Aretha juggles her music profession and her dedication to the civil rights motion, led by Martin Luther King Jr., in 1967 and 1968. Meanwhile, Little Re leaves behind her new child little one to return to the Gospel Circuit in 1955, assembly with music legends James Cleveland and Little Sammie Bryant. UNFORGETTABLE Monday, March 22 at 10/9c Aretha is featured on the duvet of Time Magazine in 1968, however she’s devastated when the article focuses on the scandalous particulars of her private life. Barbara Franklin and Young C.L. Franklin battle to determine themselves in Memphis in 1941, earlier than Little Re is born. YOUNG, GIFTED AND BLACK Tuesday, March 23 at 9/8c Aretha, impressed by Angela Davis and the Soledad Brothers, data her protest album “Young, Gifted and Black” in 1970. Despite Jerry Wexler’s uncertainty, the album is a hit. Barbara Franklin comes to a decision that has a devastating impact on Little Re in 1951. Also Read: Winter TV 2021: All the Premiere Dates for New and Returning Shows – So Far (Photos) AMAZING GRACE Tuesday, March 23 at 10/9c Aretha data her best-selling dwell Gospel album “Amazing Grace” in 1972 at New Temple Missionary Baptist Church, ignoring her sibling’s pleas to report as an alternative at New Bethel with their father, C.L. Franklin. Little Re discovers that she’s pregnant along with her second little one, forcing her to go away faculty. While pregnant, she data her first album at New Bethel in 1956. CHAIN OF FOOLS Wednesday, March 24 at 9/8c As the Queen of Soul enters the age of disco, Aretha will do something to stay related — together with stealing a possibility from her sister Carolyn. She receives a GRAMMY nomination however is in the end snubbed from successful the award. While on the ceremony, she meets with Arista founder Clive Davis. Meanwhile, Jerry Wexler leaves Atlantic Records, and he and Aretha half methods. NO ONE SLEEPS Wednesday, March 24 at 10/9c Despite vital emotional losses, together with a second divorce and the dying of her father in 1984, Aretha pushes herself artistically and triumphs. She begins a profitable profession at Arista, with the assistance of Clive Davis, and in an unforgettable GRAMMY efficiency in 1998, she solidifies her everlasting reign because the Queen of Soul. Read unique story ‘Genius: Aretha’ Trailer: Watch Cynthia Erivo Fight to Keep Her ‘Queen of Soul’ Crown (Video) At TheWrap
