Steve Jobs: PBS Special Documentary, Air Date
PBS is set to air its one-hour television special on the late Apple CEO Steve Jobs next Wednesday.
Jobs' PBS documentary, One Last Thing is titled after Jobs' trademark franchise. Jobs tended to use this tagline when unveiling surprise products and software news at the end of Apple's keynotes.
The documentary features interviews and footage with Jobs, along with anecdotes from some of his closest friends and family.
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It also provides an insight into Jobs' life from the perspective of understanding the influences that "shaped his character" and pushed him to revolutionize a bevy of industries.
PBS unveiled the individuals they interviewed for the special: Apple co-founders Ronald Wayne and Steve Wozniak; original Apple Mouse Designer Dean Hovey; NeXT Computer Investor Ross Perot; Jobs and Wozniak matchmaker Bill Fernandez; Wall Street Journal Technology Columnist Walt Mossberg; Reed College Calligraphy Professor Robert Palladino; Black Eyed Peas front man Will.i.am; and, writer Robert Cringely.
PBS also promised viewers a "never-before broadcast interview" with Steve Jobs from 1994. The interview transpired two years before Apple purchased NeXT, and then brought Jobs back for the beginning of the company's comeback.
John F. Wilson, PBS' senior vice president and chief TV programming executive, gave a statement on the program: "From the vast complexity of time and space to the genius of a man who put technology in the palm of our hands, these extraordinary programs explore the work of two visionaries in science and technology."
This latest documentary joins a long list of television shows that aired after Jobs' death. Bloomberg's "Game Changers" documentary on Jobs aired Oct. 14. The Discovery Channel, in conjunction with NBC, aired "iGenius: How Steve Jobs Changed the World” on Oct. 16.
"Steve Jobs - One Last Thing" will air on PBS on Nov. 2 at 10 p.m. EST.
