{"id":6446,"date":"2015-01-21T18:00:57","date_gmt":"2015-01-22T00:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=6446"},"modified":"2021-08-30T19:21:43","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T00:21:43","slug":"towers-delivers-strange-inheritance-to-fox-business-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2015\/01\/21\/towers-delivers-strange-inheritance-to-fox-business-network\/","title":{"rendered":"Towers delivers \u2018Strange Inheritance\u2019 to Fox Business Network"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Strange<\/a><\/a>Chicago-based Towers Productions<\/a> is getting down to business with \u201cStrange Inheritance,\u201d<\/a> an original primetime series to debut next week on Fox Business Network.<\/a><\/p>\n

Hosted by Fox News anchor Jamie Colby, the show will focus on how real families deal with the priceless legacies and bizarre treasures they inherit. Stories range from efforts to keep a 900-acre bug museum in business to discovery of a rare 1913 Liberty Head nickel.<\/p>\n

Premiering at 8 p.m. Monday, \u201cStrange Inheritance\u201d will air back-to-back half-hour episodes Mondays through Thursdays.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re excited to bring viewers an entertaining and informative program that delves into the emotional and financially extraordinary situation of inheritance,\u201d Bill Shine, senior executive vice president of Fox News Channel, said in a statement.<\/p>\n

\"Jonathan<\/a>

Jonathan Towers<\/p><\/div>\n

Once known for its serious, hourlong documentary series on A&E and the History Channel (including \u201cAmerican Justice,\u201d \u201cGangland,\u201d \u201cWrath of God\u201d and \u201cBiography\u201d), Towers Productions retrenched after the cable networks supplanted long-form nonfiction programming with character-driven reality series.<\/p>\n

For executive producer Jonathan Towers, who assembled an all-Chicago crew of more than 20 producers, editors and videographers to deliver the first season\u2019s 26 episodes, \u201cStrange Inheritance\u201d is a boon to the 25-year-old company that bears his name and to the local television production community.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m genuinely excited about this show and its prospects as a long-term franchise,\u201d Towers said in an interview. \u201cIt\u2019s really a show about families and about generations \u2014 something that we can all relate to.\u201d<\/p>\n

About half the subjects came by way of auction houses that tipped producers to noteworthy estates. In each case, Towers said, the stories came first and the characters followed.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe typical reality TV business is very focused on \u2018casting\u2019 people and looking for characters who pop on camera, but that was not the way we did it,\u201d Towers said. \u201cWe went out and found these really interesting, sometimes bizarre, but always good family inheritance stories. And then, because the stories were so strong, the real-life characters just kind of came along.<\/p>\n

\"As a producer, I found it truly fascinating and, I think, a very positive thing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chicago-based Towers Productions is getting down to business with \u201cStrange Inheritance,\u201d an original primetime series to debut next week on Fox Business Network. Hosted by Fox News anchor Jamie Colby, the show will focus on how real families deal with the priceless legacies and bizarre treasures they inherit. Stories range from efforts to keep a... Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6446"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6446"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30715,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6446\/revisions\/30715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}