The second season of ”Morgan Spurlock Inside Man” will continue to fit perfectly into the new-look CNN beginning in April, filling a journalistic void that the titular host sees when he flips through the TV at night.
“Long-form investigative journalism continues to be cut out of the process,” Spurlock told TheWrap. “What documentaries do is they fill that void in such an incredible way.”
Enter the second season of the name-changed docuseries (Season 1 was simply “Inside Man”), which had eight new episodes announced in late October.
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Some of the upcoming episodes that Spurlock is particularly excited about investigate America’s obsession with celebrity culture (“How have we gotten to this point in America?,” he asked. “There was a time years ago where you’d put an astronaut on the cover of a magazine.”), wealth disparity (“The Haves and the … Haves-much-less”), and should college athletes be paid?
For the latter, Spurlock embeds himself with a prominent Division I basketball program with a history of allegations against it.
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CNN President Jeff Zucker — who’s arrival to the cable network was pre-dated by the series’ greenlight — has nevertheless been a proponent of the show. In October, Zucker said, “‘Inside Man’ is the perfect example of the type of program our audience is looking for when we aren’t covering the news of the day.”
Essentially, “Morgan Spurlock Inside Man” is reality TV for real: ”Most ‘reality television’ doesn’t really deal with reality, whereas a show likes ours actually does,” Spurlock told TheWrap.
But Spurlock, who’s first show was an internet game show sold to MTV, is grateful for the decade-old unscripted boom: ”The birth of reality television pushed people towards documentaries because suddenly people who watch reality television said, ‘Regular people have great stories,’” Spurlock told TheWrap.
His great story was 2004′s right-place, right-time Academy Award-nominated documentary, “Super Size Me.”
“Morgan Spurlock Inside Man” premieres Apr. 13 at 10 p.m. on CNN.
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