Heilemann called The Circus the “ultimate field show.” He said that he and fellow hosts Alex Wagner and Mark McKinnon previously shot about 15 interviews for each 30-minute show.

The Circus is produced by Left/Right for Showtime, with Heilemann, McKinnon, Palmieri, Banks Tarver, Ken Druckerman, Tom Johnson and Divya Chungi as executive producers. Politico first reported on ...

Afterward, Heilemann got Manafort to do an interview for “The Circus,” asking him about the first two nights of the convention and whether the Trump campaign had managed to reach undecided voters.

John Heilemann, left, and Mark Halperin, are back on Showtime with “The Circus: Inside the Biggest Story on Earth,” examining President Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office.

Bannon’s conversation with “Circus” co-host John Heilemann serves as the centerpiece of the series’ midseason return, whose production coincided with a week so frenetic that the on-air cut ...

Showtime’s News and Documentary Emmy-nominated series “The Circus: Inside the Greatest Political Show on Earth” will return for Season 8 on Feb. 26 at 8 p.m. ET/PT, TheWrap can exclusively ...

The Circus creators Mark Halperin and John Heilemann joined Stephen Colbert on Wednesday’s Late Show for the first time since their election night appearance on Colbert’s live Showtime special ...

Yet on “The Circus,” Heilemann and Halperin didn’t add much new insight; the first season often seemed like a clip show from that week’s cable news.

Heilemann said that they see as precedent the case of “Mitt,” the 2014 documentary about the 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, who granted extensive access to filmmaker Greg ...

Host and executive producer of Showtime’s “The Circus,” John Heilemann, reacts to the emotional sound from today’s congressional hearing on the January 6th Capitol Hill riot. He states ...