Iconoclasts (TV series)
Iconoclasts is an American television series that premiered on November 17, 2005 on Sundance Channel. Each episode pairs two "creative visionaries" who discuss their lives, influences, and art, most of whom are longtime friends with the other person featured in the episode. The series premiered on November 17, 2005 and last aired on November 13, 2012. The series consisted of six six-episode seasons.
| Iconoclasts | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Documentary |
| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of seasons | 6 |
| No. of episodes | 36 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Release | |
| Original network | Sundance Channel |
| Original release | November 17, 2005 – November 13, 2012 |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Episodes
Season 1 (2005)
| No. overall |
No. in season |
Guests | Original airdate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Samuel L. Jackson and Bill Russell | November 17, 2005 |
| 2 | 2 | Tom Ford and Jeff Koons | November 24, 2005 |
| 3 | 3 | Brian Grazer and Sumner Redstone | December 1, 2005 |
| 4 | 4 | Renée Zellweger and Christiane Amanpour | December 8, 2005 |
| 5 | 5 | Mario Batali and Michael Stipe | December 12, 2005 |
| 6 | 6 | Robert Redford and Paul Newman | December 29, 2005 |
Season 2 (2006)
| No. overall |
No. in season |
Guests | Original airdate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 1 | Eddie Vedder and Laird Hamilton | October 26, 2006 |
| 8 | 2 | Mikhail Baryshnikov and Alice Waters | November 2, 2006 |
| 9 | 3 | Quentin Tarantino and Fiona Apple | November 9, 2006 |
| 10 | 4 | Isabella Rossellini and Dean Kamen | November 16, 2006 |
| 11 | 5 | Paul Simon and Lorne Michaels | November 23, 2006 |
| 12 | 6 | Dave Chappelle and Maya Angelou | November 30, 2006 |
Season 3 (2007)
| No. overall |
No. in season |
Guests | Original airdate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 1 | Sean Penn and Jon Krakauer | October 25, 2007 |
| 14 | 2 | Alicia Keys and Ruby Dee | November 1, 2007 |
| 15 | 3 | Mike Myers and Deepak Chopra | November 8, 2007 |
| 16 | 4 | Howard Schultz and Norman Lear | November 15, 2007 |
| 17 | 5 | Wynton Marsalis and John Besh | November 22, 2007 |
| 18 | 6 | Madeleine Albright and Ashley Judd | November 29, 2007 |
Season 4 (2008)
| No. overall |
No. in season |
Guests | Original airdate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 1 | Desmond Tutu and Sir Richard Branson | October 16, 2008 |
| 20 | 2 | Stella McCartney and Edward Ruscha | October 23, 2008 |
| 21 | 3 | Tony Hawk and Jon Favreau | October 30, 2008 |
| 22 | 4 | Bill Maher and Clive Davis | November 6, 2008 |
| 23 | 5 | Venus Williams and Wyclef Jean | November 13, 2008 |
| 24 | 6 | Cameron Diaz and Cameron Sinclair | November 20, 2008 |
Season 5 (2010)
| No. overall |
No. in season |
Guests | Original airdate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25 | 1 | Charlize Theron and Jane Goodall | October 2, 2010 |
| 26 | 2 | Lenny Kravitz and Lee Daniels | October 9, 2010 |
| 27 | 3 | Hugh Jackman and Jean-Georges Vongerichten | October 16, 2010 |
| 28 | 4 | Cate Blanchett and Tim Flannery | October 23, 2010 |
| 29 | 5 | Ron Howard and Steve Nash | October 30, 2010 |
| 30 | 6 | David Blaine and Chuck Close | November 6, 2010 |
Season 6 (2012)
| No. overall |
No. in season |
Guests | Original airdate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 31 | 1 | James Franco and Marina Abramović | October 9, 2012 |
| 32 | 2 | Judd Apatow and Lena Dunham | October 16, 2012 |
| 33 | 3 | Seth MacFarlane and Norah Jones | October 23, 2012 |
| 34 | 4 | Christy Turlington Burns and Tory Burch | October 30, 2012 |
| 35 | 5 | Jamie Oliver and Paul Smith | November 6, 2012 |
| 36 | 6 | Chuck D and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar | November 13, 2012 |
Other
The show is very similar to Durch die Nacht mit … (German for "Into the night with..."), airing since 2002 on Franco-German television channel ARTE.
Iconoclasts has been parodied by Saturday Night Live (with Kristen Wiig as Björk and Kenan Thompson as Charles Barkley), MadTV, and American Dad! (with Katherine Helmond being paired with Usher, neither of whom know who the other one is).