Sky confirmed plans to debut the four-part docuseries "Branson" on Sunday 4 December on Sky Documentaries and streaming service NOW.
"Branson" is directed by Chris Smith and executive produced by Kate Noble. Branson shows how Sixteen days before Richard Branson is scheduled to make a potentially historic flight as the first passenger to reach space in his own spacecraft in July 2021, the billionaire entrepreneur sits down for a conversation with acclaimed filmmaker Chris Smith. Smith explains a 70-year journey, beginning withBranson’s upbringing as the son of a spirited, tough-love mother in Britain, to his pursuits of extreme, personal daredevilry that serve both to grow his businesses’ brands and fulfill his need for adventures.
After dropping out of school where he struggled with dyslexia, Branson began his entrepreneurial career as a 15-year-old publisher of a student magazine and went on to become a millionaire by the age of 22 with the booming success of Virgin Records. His launch of the airline Virgin Atlantic soon followed, along with a myriad of other Virgin branded businesses with varying levels of success, culminating in the launch of Virgin Galactic, his commercial spaceflight company in 2004. His record-breaking, transoceanic boat and balloon challenges, and now his crusade to bring customers to space, have all been positioned by Branson with the Virgin brand front and center.
Branson remains a complex figure, committed to both philanthropic initiatives and his own bottom line. With added insight from family members, business associates, and journalists, and illustrated by decades of archival and home video footage, "Branson" reveals the ups and downs of a man driven by risk taking in both his business and personal life, reflecting on the costs and rewards of his lifelong, relentless optimism and boundary-pushing.