Louis Theroux: Life on the Edge: Beyond Belief
12:55 am - 01:55 am, Friday, January 23 on U&W (25)
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Beyond Belief
The film-maker reflects on 25 years of his documentaries, featuring brand new conversations between Louis and some of his most memorable contributors. In this first edition, he looks back at his earliest documentaries, and explores how some people's most fervent beliefs can bring them into conflict with mainstream society. Louis catches up with some of his previous contributors including Mike Cain, who he first met in the mid-90s, having moved to the hills of Idaho for what he saw as an inevitable war with the federal government
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Louis Theroux
(Presenter)
Born:
May 20, 1970
in
Singapore
Best Known For:
His controversial documentaries.
Early-life:
Louis Sebastian Theroux was born on May 20, 1970, in Singapore, to American writer Paul and his British wife Anne. He has an older brother, the broadcaster Marcel, and his cousin is actor Justin Theroux. After attending Westminster School, where he befriended comedians Adam Buxton and Joe Cornish, and politician Nick Clegg, Louis gained a first-class degree in modern history from Magdalen College, Oxford. He landed his first journalism job working for alternative free paper Metro Silicon Valley, and in 1992 moved to Spy magazine.
Career:
Theroux got his TV break as a reporter on Michael Moore's TV Nation. When that ended, he was snapped up by the BBC to make the series Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends. In 2001 he fronted When Louis Met…, featuring an array of celebrities who were shadowed by the journalist. Two years later, the BBC aired a series of one-off specials in which Louis explored various figures in America. In 2006, he signed a deal with the BBC to film 10 documentaries over three years, which aired sporadically. Among them were The Most Hated Family in America and Louis Theroux: Under the Knife. He continues to make acclaimed documentaries on a range of unusual subjects.
Quote:
"The subjects I'm interested in are quite extreme. They're so far beyond the pale of normal human interaction that you're never going to get a reality show on that territory."
Trivia:
He's won several awards and in 2005 published a book, The Call of the Weird: Travels in American Subcultures.
Tom Barrow
(Director)
Arron Fellows
(Executive producer)
