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If you’re hungry like the wolf for all the Duran Duran behind-the-scenes anecdotes and band history you can get, you’re in luck — Showtime is premiering a documentary about the hit ’80s/’90s band called Duran Duran: There’s Something You Should Know on Friday, December 27, at 9 p.m. ET/PT.
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Amazon Prime’s Showtime Channel
If you have Amazon Prime or start a free 30-day trial of Amazon Prime, you can watch all live and on-demand Showtime content via the Showtime Channel, which comes with a free seven-day trial:
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Once you’re signed up for both Amazon Prime and the Showtime channel, you can then watch Duran Duran: There’s Something You Should Know either live as it airs or on-demand anytime after.
For either option, you can watch on your computer via the Amazon website, or on your phone (Android and iPhone compatible), tablet, Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Fire TV Stick, Apple TV, Xbox One, PlayStation 4 or other streaming device via the Amazon Video app.
FuboTV
Showtime is available as an add-on to FuboTV’s main 95-channel package. Both the main channel bundle and the Showtime add-on can be included in your free seven-day trial:
Once signed up, you can either watch Duran Duran: There’s Something You Should Know live, or you can watch on-demand anytime after. With either option, you can watch on your computer via the FuboTV website, or on your phone (Android and iPhone supported), tablet, Roku, Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, Chromecast or other supported device via the FuboTV app.
Hulu
Whether you already have Hulu or you want to sign up for a new subscription, Showtime is available as an add-on to either Hulu or Hulu with Live TV:
Once signed up for Hulu and the Showtime add-on, you can watch Duran Duran: There’s Something You Should Know live as it airs, or you can watch it on-demand anytime after.
You can watch on your computer via the Hulu website, or on your phone (Android and iPhone supported), tablet, Roku, Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, Chromecast, Xbox One, PlayStation 4 (on-demand only), Nintendo Switch, Echo Show or other streaming device via the Hulu app.
‘Duran Duran: There’s Something You Should Know’ Preview
This new documentary about Duran Duran is described as “a candid look at the band’s career with previously unseen footage and intimate conversations with the original line-up: singer Simon Le Bon, bassist John Taylor, drummer Roger Taylor, and keyboardist Nick Rhodes. The film will showcase the defining moments of the band’s four-decade career and preview a glimpse of what’s next for them.
This British new wave band burst onto the scene in 1981 with its self-titled album, which contained the single “Girls on Film,” the first of 14 singles that would crack the Top 10 on the U.K. charts. They followed it up a year later with Rio, which had “Hungry Like the Wolf,” “Save a Prayer,” and the title song, all of which did well in the U.K. and the U.S. But their two biggest hits were the 1984 song “The Reflex” and 1985 James Bond theme “A View to a Kill.”
The band has never quite matched their success in the 1980s, but they did have a few hits in the 1990s — “Ordinary World” and “Come Undone” — and even charted a song in 2004. They were largely quiet for several years until, in 2011, the band released a song called “Girl Panic!”, the video for which featured famous supermodels Yasmin Le Bon, Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell, Eva Herzigova, and Helena Christensen playing the band.
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Crawford is actually one of the featured interviews in the documentary, as is fellow hit ’80s artist Boy George.
“They were pioneers in music videos. That’s how we got our music,” says Crawford in the trailer. Boy George adds, “To have the career that Duran Duran, it’s like the ultimate dream.”
The original band members also talk about how they all thought the success would last forever and personalities began to clash the more famous they became.
“Getting the personalities to work was more challenging than the music,” says drummer Taylor, with Rhodes adding, “Misunderstandings, petty nerves.”
Then it became hard to accept that they weren’t having the success in the 1990s that they had in the previous decade. But it looks like all of the original band members were game to get together for this documentary and explore all of that drama from the height of their fame.
Duran Duran — There’s Something You Should Know premieres Friday, December 27, at 9 p.m. ET/PT on Showtime.