Sunday evening sorted.
Documentary filmmaker Louis Theroux is returning to our TV screens this Sunday with a new documentary titled, Louis Theroux: Life on the Edge.
However, this one will be a little different than his usual ones.
This four-part series will look back on over 60 hours of the filmmaker and journalist’s most famous and celebrated documentaries.
It will also feature new interviews with some of those featured in his most challenging documentaries.
The BBC’s description reads: “From his Weird Weekends episodes on survivalists and UFOs to his now notorious documentary about the White Aryan Resistance in California (Louis and the Nazis), Louis has always been drawn to those whose beliefs seem unusual, confused or, in some cases, abhorrent.”
Speaking ahead of the premiere on Sunday night, Theroux said this documentary had been a long time in the making.
“For years I’ve wanted to go back and make sense of the programmes I’ve made, find out what happened to some of the contributors, update their stories, and see what all these many hours of making TV might add up to,” Theroux said.
“Lockdown gave me the time and space to do this. It’s been a strange and fascinating couple of months working on this, and especially fun to dig through old episodes of Weird Weekends – programmes I made in the mid-nineties, when the world was a very different place.
“I’m really proud of what we’ve been able to do with this new series.”
The four part series will kick off on BBC Two on Sunday, 6 September at 9pm.
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