Michael Apted guided the vaunted "Seven Up" documentary series through each life cycle for decades, until his death in early 2021. He had helmed the series through "63 Up" in 2019, and his death left the fate of "70 Up" in limbo.
Now Britain's ITV has announced a successor, according to the Guardian. Documentary veteran Asif Kapadia ("Maradona," "Amy") has been anointed to carry out the "honor and privilege" of overseeing what is expected to be the final episode of the groundbreaking series, which has followed about a dozen Brits of different classes every seven years since they were 7 years old.
The series began as a 40-minute special for Grenada TV -- for which Apted was a researcher -- in 1964 with the mission statement of "Give me the boy until he is 7 and I will show you the man." There is nothing comparable to this life-spanning sociological study of a bunch of little Boomers. We have reviewed the first eight episodes here and here.
The "Up" series was recently voted the most influential British TV show of the past 60 years, according to the Guardian in 2024.
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