A look at the revolutionary careers in comedy and movies of Mike Nichols and Elaine May. Starting as a stand-up duo—who offered a new style of comedy—Nichols and May would go on to become major forces in Hollywood.

• Week 1: Comedy pioneers - Nichols and May moved stand-up from gags to recognizable human behavior
• Week 2: Mike Nichols conquers Broadway – 1960’s hit maker in partnership with Neil Simon
• Week 3: Nichols’ first two movies—Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and The Graduate—heralded a new era of film in Hollywood.
• Week 4: Elaine May travels a harder road as a female filmmaker in the male-dominated Hollywood: Neil Simon’s scripted hit The Heartbreak Kid followed by two legendary flops, Mikey and Nicky and Ishtar
• Week 5: Old masters: Elaine May triumphs as script doctor; Mike Nichols soars to new heights with film, TV and Broadway hits.