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Louis graduated from Oxford in 1991 and got his break in television in 1994 working for the American documentary maker Michael Moore, who hired him as a writer and correspondent on his show, TV Nation. He then went on to make the BAFTA-winning series Louis Theroux’s Weird Weekends, When Louis Met…, and a series of award-winning specials including The Most Hated Family in America, Miami Mega Jail, Altered States and the feature-length documentary, My Scientology Movie. As Louis woos his beautiful wife Nancy and learns how to be a father, he also dares to take on the powerful Church of Scientology. Just as challenging is the revelation that one of his old subjects, Jimmy Savile, was a secret sexual predator, prompting him to question our understanding of how evil takes place. Filled with wry observation and self-deprecating humour, this is Louis at his most insightful and honest best.
From much-loved documentary maker Louis Theroux comes a funny, heartfelt and entertaining account of his life and weird times in TV. What evidence was missed? What clues were the police of the time unable to make use of? As witnesses reach the ends of lives and memories fail, this might be the last chance to get justice for the three victims.” Eve Stratford (second from right) pictured with Eric Morecambe (circa 1974) (Photo: (C) Future Studios/ITV) Who is Marcel Theroux?
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Combining one-on-one conversations with Louis’ signature immersive filming style, each of the six programmes explore their subject’s lives and careers up to today, including those at pivotal moments in their careers. From Mindhouse productions, co-founded by Theroux, the second series is expected to air on BBC Two and BBC iPlayer later this year. Louis has won numerous awards, including three BAFTAs, an RTS award, and Grierson’s Trustees’ Award, andin 2019, he set up his own independent television production company, Mindhouse, alongside Arron Fellows and Nancy Strang. The first series saw Louis up close and personal with some of the UK’s biggest stars: Stormzy; Dame Judi Dench; Yungblud; Bear Grylls; Katherine Ryan; and Rita Ora, with an average audience of more than 2.1m tuning in* (*Consolidated viewing figures for the first four episodes) in the first 7 days. Louis heads to the French Riviera to meet one of the icons of Hollywood’s Golden age, Dame Joan Collins. Welcomed into her holiday home near St Tropez, Louis and Dame Joan discuss the highs and lows of her multi-decade career, including her star turns in The Stud and as Alexis in Dynasty. Louis also hits the town with Dame Joan and her husband of over 20 years, Percy Gibson. In 1994 fledgling journalist Louis Theroux was given a one-off gig on Michael Moore's TV Nation, presenting a segment on apocalyptic religious sects. Gawky, socially awkward and totally unqualified, his first reaction to this exciting opportunity was panic. But he'd always been drawn to off-beat characters, so maybe his enthusiasm would carry the day. Or, you know, maybe it wouldn't . . .
Filmed across a number of locations, from New York City to Normandy, Glastonbury to the French Riviera, the upcoming series will bring viewers closer than ever to some of the world’s most well-known personalities and Louis’s most diverse range of guests yet: Marcel Theroux, a British-American, is the elder son of the American travel writer and novelist Paul Theroux and his then-wife Anne Castle. His younger brother is the journalist and television presenter Louis Theroux. She was found abandoned and barely alive at an electricity substation the next day and died a week later.From here, the standard redemption narrative demands that Doherty be riddled with regret, apologise to one and all, sup on some green tea and commit to a new start. But under Theroux’s stewardship, what emerges is something far more complex and interesting.
It’s another day at the aquarium in this lovely series, and we are introduced to the sea cucumber that breathes through his bottom, cow nose rays that won’t stop breeding and need a contraceptive and Friday the naughty sea turtle who continues to get into trouble. HR The Great British Bake Off 8pm, Channel 4
Over the years, Louis has kept true to a way of working that is uniquely his own: by charming his subjects, he’s able to offer rounded portraits of the people involved in complex social issues and human dilemmas, while always resisting easy judgements. BBC Factual announces six names that meet multi award-winning journalist and broadcaster Louis Theroux for the second series ofLouis Theroux Interviews, including cultural icons and industry trailblazers from across the worlds of sport, entertainment and global affairs. Lynda Farrow, 29, a croupier, was four months pregnant when she was found by her eight-year-old daughter with her throat slashed in the hallway of their home in Woodford, east London on 19 January 1979. Lynda Farrow was a croupier and was four months pregnant when she was murdered (Photo: (C) Future Studios/ITV)
LOUIS THEROUX IS A GENRE-DEFINING DOCUMENTARY PRESENTER BEST KNOWN FOR PRODUCING IMMERSIVE DOCUMENTARIES THAT EXPLORE THE CONTROVERSIAL AND COMPLEX ASPECTS OF THE HUMAN CONDITION.
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The final part of this documentary on the nation-defining frontier conflicts delves into the difficult history of the Native Police, who from 1837 killed approximately 72,000 Indigenous Australians on behalf of the white settlers. Then, in an emotional sequence in Arrernte lands, film-maker Rachel Perkins brings her own family story full circle. Ellen E Jones Live at the Apollo 9.45pm, BBC Two
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