Gotta Get Theroux This: My Life and Strange Times in Television

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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: 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.

From much-loved documentary maker Louis Theroux comes a funny, heartfelt and entertaining account of his life and weird times in TV. He was born in 1968 in Kampala, Uganda, where his American father was teaching at Makerere University.She was found abandoned and barely alive at an electricity substation the next day and died a week later.

Louis travels to New York City to delve into the mind of one of America's most polarizing figures, famous whistleblower and activist Chelsea Manning. In 2010, Manning, a U.S. Army intelligence analyst, released the largest set of classified documents in U.S. history and was sentenced to 35 years in a military prison for her actions. Branded a traitor by some and a hero by others, Chelsea reveals what drove her to risk everything by making the documents public, whilst sharing details of her life now as a DJ and public speaker. Among the murders Marcel’s documentary will look into are: Eve Stratford, 22, a Playboy Bunny, who aspired to be a famous model, was murdered at her home in Leyton, east London, on 18 March 1975. She was found with her throat slashed. Playboy Bunny Eve Stratford was murdered at her home in Leyton, East London (Photo: (C) Future Studios/ITV) 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? 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.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. 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 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. Louis also describes how he launches his podcast, Grounded, finally gets to the US to film a new Joe Exotic documentary and aims his sights on the latest incarnation of the far right in a world becoming radicalized by social media. Theroux the Keyhole is Louis at his insightful best, as he faces unforeseen new challenges and wonders why it took a pandemic for him to learn that what really matters in life is right in front of him.