Call it a tale of two Octobers.
This month, it’s been all about Ebola fears gripping New York — quite different from the “Banksy Fever” that struck here in October 2013, when the elus𓆉ive British street artist Banksy spent 31 days in the city creating and di🦹splaying his ꦰsingular works of art (one exhibit a day in an unannounced location).
The excitement of that time is captured in “Banksy Dඣoes New York,” premiering Nov. 17 (9 p.m.) on HBO.
Directed by Chris Moukarbel (“Me @The Zoo”), the documentary uses footage generated by the Web — Instagram, YouTube, Vine, etc. — to document Banksy’s mon🤡th-long stﷺay in New York.
“I would say 75 percent of the film is user-generated content from the Internet,” says Moukarbel. “We shot some interviews and some verite-type footage … What people will see is really a snapshot … of what the Internet looked like covering the Banksy phenomenon in October 2013. There were all these portals to the Web creating massive archives.”
To piece the movie together, Moukarbel says he and his team accessed the online archive💞s by searching key terms “organized around hashtags” — “banksy” or “banksyny,” for in💞stance.
“That led us to huge troves of footage,” he says. “We reviewed everything to see what was interesting and contacted the owners [of the f꧅ootage] to see if they wanted to participate. It was an effective way to research and tell a story in a public space.”
More ‘Meredith’ on tap
“The Meredith Vieira Show” has been renewed for a second season, NBC announced late Thursday.
The freshman talk show, which premiered Sept. 8 with the f🍸ormer “The View”/“Today Show”/“Who Wants To Be a Millionaire” host, is🍃 averaging 1.5 million viewers thus far. It airs here on Ch. 4 at 2 p.m.
NBCUniversal exec Ed Swindler (gotta love that name) said in a statement that the company “൲could not be happier” to bring “꧑TMVS” back for Season Two. The show is taped here at 30 Rock.
Meredith Vieira left “Millionaire𒉰” for the opportunity to host her own talk show — and it seems lꦰike she made the right decision.
You can get it for a song
That’s just Malarkey: “Vampire Diaries” co-star Michael Malarkey (Enzo) performs Nov. 15 at Webster Hall’s Marlin Room.
Meanwhile, HLN’s Robin Meade (“Morning Expre🦄ss”), will be Human Nature’s special guest star at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas for a Motown-style Christmas review (Dec. 12-14). The tie-in? Meade sings “Sleigh Bells” on the band’s “Human Nature — The Christmas Album,” out now on ♌iTunes.