The New Yorker Presents - Season 1
1 - Episode 1
Air Date: February 16, 2016
Filmmaker Alex Gibney (Going Clear) tells how the FBI could have prevented the 9/11 attacks - if it weren't for the CIA. Le Cafe de Balzac: Paul Giamatti plays 19th-century French author Honore de Balzac, who drank 50 cups of coffee each day. Unreality Star: Patients with "The Truman Show delusion" believe their lives are being watched on TV. Cartoon by Roz Chast.
2 - Episode 2
Air Date: February 16, 2016
The Ride of Their Lives: Filmmaker Steve James (Hoop Dreams) profiles two young people in the world's most dangerous sport - bull riding. Black Bodies in Motion and in Pain: Writer Edwidge Danticat looks at racist violence in America through art. The Death and Life of Atlantic City: Writer Nick Paumgarten on the closure of the Revel casino. Cartoons by Roz Chast and Liana Finck.
3 - Episode 3
Air Date: March 15, 2016
4 - Episode 4
Air Date: March 22, 2016
5 - Episode 5
Air Date: March 22, 2016
6 - Episode 6
Air Date: March 29, 2016
7 - Episode 7
Air Date: March 29, 2016
8 - Episode 8
Air Date: April 5, 2016
9 - Episode 9
Air Date: March 7, 2016
THE SILVER THIEF: Filmmakers Chapman Way and Maclain Way (Wild Wild Country; The Battered Bastards of Baseball) profile master thief Blane Nordahl. UP AND THEN DOWN: Writer Nick Paumgarten explains why life as we know it depends on elevators. TOM OF FINLAND: The artist called Tom of Finland changed the image of gay men forever. Is his work porn, or is it art? CARTOONS by Farley Katz and Benjamin Schwartz.
10 - Episode 10
Air Date: April 12, 2016
11 - Episode 11
Air Date: April 12, 2016