Inside the making of Showtime’s series about Fox News founder Roger Ailes. Borisk reports
From left, Russell Crowe and Roger Ailes. Photo: Courtesy of Showtime ; Alex Wong/Newsmakers/Getty Images On July 21, 2016, Gabriel Sherman, a journalist then at New York Magazine, was standing on a residential street in Cleveland, his newly fractured elbow in a sling, simultaneously covering the Republican National Convention and the forcing out of Fox News’ charming, conniving, and seemingly omnipotent ringmaster, Roger Ailes. Sherman’s phone flashed an L.A.
The series picks up Ailes’s story in 1996, dramatizing the brutal months during which he built Fox News. But Sherman’s entanglement began in late 2010, when he sold his book idea. Sherman pursued an on-the-record interview, first through Ailes’s flack Brian Lewis and then by approaching Ailes at events . Over the next three years, both writer and subject became certain his every move was being tracked by the other.
The day that Ailes officially resigned, Sherman sent the script to his friend Josh Raffel, then the head of marketing at Blumhouse Productions. That same day, Sherman was on the phone with the head of Blumhouse’s TV team. They didn’t want Sherman’s Rashomon treatment; they wanted the whole life, with real names, and it had to be “Roger-centric.”
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