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Prolific British scribe James Graham will ask “why television has a problem with the working classes” in the Edinburgh TV Festival MacTaggart lecture this year. Graham, whose credits include Sherwood, Dear England, Brexit: The Uncivil War and Quiz, will deliver the 49th address in two months time, an…

EXCLUSIVE: CNN has picked up Sky’s BAFTA-winning Lockerbie doc series from Louis Theroux’s Mindhouse. Lockerbie examines what was the deadliest terror attack on the U.S. before 9/11 on its 35th anniversary. The 1988 bombing of flight Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, led to the deaths of 270…

EXCLUSIVE: Tell Them You Love Me explores the story of a controversial affair between Anna Stubblefield, a white university professor, and Derrick Johnson, a non-verbal Black man with cerebral palsy. Stubblefield claimed she and Johnson had fallen in love, but when his family found out about their…

EXCLUSIVE: A two-part Netflix documentary from Louis Theroux’s production biz will tell the story of the victims of a prolific UK cyberstalker and how they ultimately helped bring him to justice. Dropping on Netflix globally on February 21, Can I Tell You A Secret? will tell the harrowing real-life…

The morning after his MacTaggart, Louis Theroux has called out the “right-skewing press” and “vested interests” who want to defund the BBC. The celebrated documentarian delivered the annual address last night, during which he said an "atmosphere of anxiety" is leading to "less confident filmmaking,&#8221…

Louis Theroux has warned in his Edinburgh TV Festival MacTaggart address that an “atmosphere of anxiety” is leading to “less confident, less morally complex filmmaking.” The celebrated documentarian reflected on a three decades-long career during which he has made shows about a wealth of topics…

Louis Theroux has unveiled a Sky feature documentary exploring the controversial affair between a married female professor and a non-verbal black man with cerebral palsy, which led to one of the most divisive criminal trials of the 21st century. As he prepares to deliver tomorrow’s Edinburgh TV…

Celebrated UK documentarian Louis Theroux is to deliver this year’s Edinburgh TV Festival MacTaggart lecture. Theroux, who has been a leading light of the doc landscape for more than a quarter of a century, will speak about the “challenges facing broadcasters in the multi-platform universe, how he…

Louis Theroux is not comfortable with the disruptor moniker. He almost recoils at the notion, sitting back in his chair, chewing over the word and its literal, historical and symbolic connotations. "It has become a cliché; it's definitely a cliché," he eventually says. But then comes one of the…

EXCLUSIVE: The BBC and CNN are teaming up to mark 20 years since the Columbia space shuttle disaster. The broadcasters will co-produce the documentary, working titled Columbia: The Final Flight, with production housed at Mindhouse, the company co-founded by Louis Theroux. The show will tell the…

EXCLUSIVE: Aloke Devichand, Netflix’s Head of Asian Original Documentaries who commissioned docs on Blackpink and Naomi Osaka along with an Oscar-nominated short, has exited the streamer after nearly five years. Devichand joined Netflix in 2018 in the newly-created post to build a slate of docs from…

EXCLUSIVE: Louis Theroux’s Mindhouse Productions is making a premium Sky documentary about the tragic Lockerbie bombings as the celebrated documentarian and his Mindhouse co-founders talk moving into scripted, “leaning into the U.S. market,” future investment and the BBC’s controversial Jimmy Savile…