Call Me Ted

Ted Turner's early years are marked by his complicated relationship with his father; Ted takes over his father's business in the wake of the elder Turner's suicide.

Ted takes on the three big networks in Senate hearings in Washington, D.C. and launches SuperStation WTBS; Turner closes out the decade with his most ambitious plan yet, the creation of a 24-hour news network known as CNN.

As the 1980s begin, Ted's focus on launching CNN prompts him to sell the last of his billboard business and to end his sailing career; his interest in protecting the environment and promoting world peace leads to the Goodwill Games.

The Gulf War gives CNN an opportunity to deliver news behind enemy lines for the first time in history; Ted's quest to preserve and save endangered bison; his relationship with Jane Fonda evolves.

Ted expands his media empire, merges with Time-Warner, becomes a billionaire, marries Jane Fonda and feuds with Rupert Murdoch; Ted rings in the new millennium with the AOL-Time Warner merger, but as the corporation falters, Ted falls on dark times.

In the wake of the failed AOL-Time Warner merger and the loss of his mentor Jimmy Brown, Ted throws his weight and remaining fortune behind philanthropic endeavours. He is diagnosed with Lewy body dementia, but as he always has, Ted perseveres.