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A&E opens Lunden’s doors
NEW YORK — A&E Network has picked up nine episodes of “Behind Closed Doors With Joan Lunden” to air this fall. Ten further installments will be produced by the cabler for premiere beginning in January.
Lunden produces in addition to hosting the hourlong documentary skein, which previously aired as a series of specials on ABC. “Behind Closed Doors” will be joined on A&E’s fall slate by another new weekly docu series, “First Prize,” which will give viewers a glimpse into the subcultures around various contests and competitions taking place across the U.S.
A&E has announced its dramatic fare for fall and next year. “Robert B. Parker’s Thin Air,” with Joe Mantegna, will preem in September. A telecast of “Peter Pan,” starring Cathy Rigby, will air in October. Two “Horatio Hornblower” pics and “The Great Gatsby,” with Mira Sorvino and Paul Rudd, are all set to bow in 2001.
History, Bio programs
A&E digital spinoff networks the Biography Channel and the History Channel also have announced their fall programming.
Among original shows on Biography’s fall sked are explorer-themed “Howard Carter: Treasure an
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Joan Lunden
Class of 2016
Birth name
Joan Elise Blunden
Born
September 19, 1950 (1950-09-19) (age 74)
Years active
1975–present
As of 2014 she is a special correspondent for NBC's Today show.
Early life[]
Lunden was born as Joan Elise Blunden in Fair Oaks, California, the daughter of Gladyce Lorraine (née Somervill) and Dr. Erle Murray Blunden, a physician.
She earned a liberal arts degree from California State University, Sacramento.
She attended California State University, Sacramento and later studied Spanish and anthropology at the former Mexico City campus of Universidad de Las Americas. She was a visiting instructor at Montclair State College in New Jersey, where she taught a course in broadcast journalism. Her first news anchor job was at KCRA-TV. She began her broadcasting career in Sacramento, California, where she worked for Channel 3 (KCRA) and Radio as co-anchor of the daily noon television news program. She produced the noon news broadcast and hosted KCRA's television specials.
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Joan Lunden
(1950-)
Who Interest Joan Lunden?
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Early Life
Lunden was born Joan Elise Blunden on Sept 19, 1950, in Notice Oaks, Calif.. Growing incense in Sacramento, Lunden missing her pop, a doc and aviatrix, in a plane good when she was solitary 13 days old.
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