Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jerry London, who directed the nine-hour Shogun that aired on NBC in September 1980, remembers his project as challenging, and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fans will have to wait a while before the second season hits streaming services, but anyone looking for more Shogun should ...

London’s criticism of the new adaptation stems primarily from comparisons to his version of Shogun. “It’s completely different from the one I did,” London explains. “Mine was based on the love story ...

The director of Shogun's original miniseries has weighed in on FX's latest adaptation, and it's fair to say which version he prefers. Jerry London, who helmed a 1980 miniseries based on the 1975 novel ...

The event took on added significance when a deputy chief of mission at the Embassy of Japan shared how the original 1980 “Shogun” miniseries had become an unexpected diplomatic tool when he was a ...

Actor Richard Chamberlain, who starred in two of the biggest TV events of the 1980s in the mini-series “Shogun” (1980) and “The Thorn Birds” (1983), has died in Hawaii following a stroke. Chamberlain, ...

The actor, who died at 90, was the most compelling face of a maximalist, soapy television era. By James Poniewozik James Poniewozik is the chief TV critic for The Times. When mini-series ruled prime ...

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