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Emmys: ‘The New Edition Story’ Writer Abdul Williams on Telling the Group’s Epic Story, Warts and All
“The New Edition Story” writer Abdul Williams takes us inside his process of making the new benchmark for music biopics with BET.
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‘The New Edition Story’ EP Jesse Collins on Why the Group Decided to Share Its History, Warts and All
New Edition fans, if you’re planning on tuning in to BET’s three-night miniseries about the R&B group, premiering Jan. 24, be prepared to see a movie that has a lot more in common with recent musical biographies like Straight Outta Compton and the History of the Eagles documentary. Like those fine flicks, The New Edition Story focuses on the music, and, in this instance, uses it to plot a timeline of the group’s history. From their beginnings as preteens in Boston’s Orchard Park projects and e