Louis Theroux

Boybands Forever

Behind the singing, smiles and double denim was blood, sweat and tears. Heartthrobs from Take That to Westlife and 911 share tales of success, adoration and the flipside of fame.

Release Date:2024-11-16

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:2

Boybands Forever

Behind the singing, smiles and double denim was blood, sweat and tears. Heartthrobs from Take That to Westlife and 911 share tales of success, adoration and the flipside of fame.

Release Date:2024-11-16

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Episode Count:3

Jamali Maddix: Follow the Leader

The comedian and documentary maker spends time with leaders and key figures in growing communities on the fringes of the mainstream to find out just why they inspire such devotion among followers.

Release Date:2024-09-20

Department:Production

Job:Consulting Producer

Episode Count:4

Doctor Who: Unleashed

Following the same format of Doctor Who: Confidential, Steffan Powell takes audiences behind the scenes of each episode of BBC's Doctor Who.

Release Date:2024-05-11

Character:Self

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:4

Can I Tell You a Secret?

Three women's lives are changed forever when a prolific stalker infiltrates their social media accounts. And they're only a fraction of his many victims.

Release Date:2024-02-21

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

Vote Count:33

Tell Them You Love Me

A true crime documentary inspired by one of the most polarising criminal trials of recent history. It explores themes including disability, race, sex and perception of consent by looking back on the controversial case of philosophy professor Anna Stubblefield.

Release Date:2023-11-01

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:8

David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count

The writer and comedian looks at antisemitism and the progressive left. From theatre to football, Baddiel explores a political blindspot with Stephen Fry, Miriam Margolyes and Neil Gaiman.

Release Date:2022-11-21

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:2

Louis Theroux Interviews

Louis Theroux interviews some of the biggest names in UK entertainment and is granted exclusive access into their lives, both at work and at home.

Release Date:2022-10-25

Character:Self - Presenter

Episode Count:12

Vote Count:1

Louis Theroux's Forbidden America

Louis Theroux returns to the USA for three documentary films exploring the alt right and its use of social media, rap artists and their often bloody and fatal vendettas, and the repercussions in the porn industry following the #MeToo movement.

Release Date:2022-02-13

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Character:Self

Episode Count:3

Vote Count:10

Sex Actually with Alice Levine

Alice Levine is stepping out of her comfort zone to embark on a journey of sexual discovery across the UK. Invited into homes all over the country, she will explore what sex means for modern Brits; whether they’re doing it for pure pleasure, for money, or even seeking spiritual enlightenment.

Release Date:2021-09-22

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Episode Count:3

Vote Count:1

Louis Theroux: Shooting Joe Exotic

This special sees Louis travel to America to investigate the story of a man who has become one of the most controversial and captivating icons of recent times: the gun-toting, self-described 'gay hillbilly' and 'Tiger King' Joe Exotic.

Release Date:2021-04-05

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Character:Self

Vote Count:13

Louis Theroux: Life on the Edge

Louis Theroux reflects on 25 years of documentaries, featuring brand new conversations between him and his most memorable contributors.

Release Date:2020-09-06

Character:Self

Episode Count:4

Vote Count:3

Louis Theroux: Selling Sex

Meet women in UK, legally providing sexual services, either to make a living or to supplement their income, potentially earning hundreds of pounds per hour.

Release Date:2020-01-12

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Character:Himself

Vote Count:14

Louis Theroux: Surviving America’s Most Hated Family

Louis returns to visit the Westboro Baptist Church in the wake of the death of its leader.

Release Date:2019-07-14

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Character:Himself

Vote Count:10

Louis Theroux: Mothers on the Edge

Louis Theroux visits specialist psychiatric units which treat mothers experiencing serious mental illness whilst allowing them to live alongside their babies.

Release Date:2019-05-12

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Character:Himself

Vote Count:8

Louis Theroux: The Night in Question

Louis Theroux heads to American college campuses and comes face-to-face with students whose universities are accusing them of sexual assault.

Release Date:2019-03-04

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Character:Himself

Vote Count:15

Louis Theroux: Take My Baby

Louis heads to California, the US adoption capital, where the majority of newborn adoptions are carried out privately, creating a multimillion dollar industry. Agencies, facilitators and lawyers can earn thousands of dollars per baby.

Release Date:2018-11-25

Character:Himself

Louis Theroux: Altered States

A three part documentary exploring the unusual ways modern America deals with birth, love and death.

Release Date:2018-11-04

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Character:

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:10

Louis Theroux: Docs That Made Me

Documentary fans are in for a treat as renowned documentarian Louis Theroux dived into the BBC Archives and selected his favourite documentaries. Each of them had an impact on Louis. They cover a range of styles - some vérité-driven, others told more through interview - but in all of them you see life at its most raw, its most strange and therefore its most human. In Louis Theroux: Docs That Made Me Louis explains why he chose the documentaries and how they have inspired his work.

Release Date:2018-07-18

Character:Self

The Big Narstie Show

Grime legend and social media sensation Big Narstie hosts an anarchic studio show along with his co-host, and the hottest comedian in town, Mo Gilligan.

Release Date:2018-06-29

Character:Self

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:4

The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer

Four different celebrities all aim to impress judges Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith with their baking skills.

Release Date:2018-03-06

Character:Self - Guest

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:8

Louis Theroux: Talking to Anorexia

Anorexia, the pathological fear of eating and gaining weight, is now the most deadly mental illness in the UK, affecting around one in every 250 women. In this film, Louis Theroux embeds himself in two of London's biggest adult eating-disorder treatment facilities: St Ann's Hospital and Vincent Square Clinic. As he spends more time with patients both on and off the wards, he witnesses the dangerous power that anorexia holds over them, and finds himself drawn into a complex relationship between the disorder and the person it inhabits.

Release Date:2017-10-29

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Character:Himself

Vote Count:10

Louis Theroux: Dark States

Louis Theroux visits three American cities and examines a uniquely devastating human crisis in each - heroin addiction, sex trafficking and murder.

Release Date:2017-10-08

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Character:Himself

Episode Count:3

Vote Count:15

The Russell Howard Hour

Russell Howard offers his unique take on the week's news and current affairs, picking through the biggest UK and international stories, and offering a wise and worldly view on the globe's news. Along the way, he'll welcome celebrity guests and leading experts, as well as hear from fledgling global correspondents. Plus, there will be stand-up, too, as Russell showcases some of the comedy scene's finest and most exciting stars.

Release Date:2017-09-21

Character:Self

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:11

Louis Theroux: Savile

Sixteen years after his documentary When Louis Met Jimmy, Theroux seeks to understand how he was tricked by a man who became his friend.

Release Date:2016-10-02

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Character:

Vote Count:32

Louis Theroux: A Different Brain

Following on from his recent look at alcoholism, the UK’s premier documentarian returns with another sensitive film, this time on living with a brain injury. Earl’s personality and interests have radically altered since he was involved in a car crash, while Dan – who sustained his injury in the late 90s – is desperate to live independently again. Elsewhere, Amanda is struggling to readjust to family life, and Natalie’s carers share her especially affecting story.

Release Date:2016-05-15

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Character:Himself

Vote Count:18

Peston on Sunday

Release Date:2016-05-08

Character:Themselves - Guest

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:1

My Scientology Movie

Following a long fascination with the religion and with much experience in dealing with eccentric, unpalatable and unexpected human behavior, the beguilingly unassuming Theroux won't take no for an answer when his request to enter the Church's headquarters is turned down. Inspired by the Church's use of filming techniques, and aided by ex-members of the organization, Theroux uses actors to replay some incidents people claim they experienced as members in an attempt to better understand the way it operates. In a bizarre twist, it becomes clear that the Church is also making a film about Louis Theroux.

Release Date:2016-05-05

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Character:Self

Vote Count:273

Louis Theroux: Drinking to Oblivion

Louis spends time at King's College Hospital in London where he immerses himself in the lives of patients in the grips of alcohol addiction and the medical staff trying to make them better.

Release Date:2016-04-24

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Character:

Vote Count:20

Louis Theroux: Transgender Kids

Louis Theroux travels to San Francisco where a group of pioneering medical professionals help children who say they were born in the wrong body transition from boy to girl or girl to boy at ever younger ages.

Release Date:2015-04-05

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Character:Himself

Vote Count:24

Louis Theroux: By Reason of Insanity

Louis immerses himself in the world of Ohio's state psychiatric hospitals, meeting patients who have committed crimes - at times horrifically violent - while in the grip of severe mental illness.

Release Date:2015-03-22

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Character:Himself

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:15

Hot Ones

The show with hot questions and even hotter wings invites a famous guest over to eat and then interviews them while they're struggling through the heat.

Release Date:2015-03-12

Character:Self

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:54

Chicken Shop Date

The format of Chicken Shop Date involves Amelia Dimoldenberg meeting a celebrity guest at a local chicken shop for a date, where they engage in casual, awkward, and sometimes flirtatious conversation.

Release Date:2014-12-03

Character:Self - Guest

Episode Count:1

Louis Theroux: LA Stories - Edge of Life

Louis is at Cedars Sinai Medical Centre in L.A to learn about the American way of death.

Release Date:2014-03-30

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Character:Presenter

Louis Theroux's LA Stories

Louis Theroux’s LA Stories - three new films putting Los Angeles under the microscope.

Release Date:2014-03-23

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Character:Himself

Episode Count:3

Vote Count:19

Julia Zemiro's Home Delivery

Each week, Julia will invite one of Australia’s finest comics to take a trip down Memory Lane. And Memory Bus Route. And Memory Bike Path. Julia and her guest will make their way from the seat of childhood memories, the family home, through the surrounding neighbourhood and all the way to the school gate, reliving formative moments, talking about life, love and achievement, about the past, present and future. What Julia discovers about her guests will explain, well, almost everything. Time-travelling guests Carl Barron, Noeline Brown, John Safran, Alan Brough and Shane Jacobson will share with Julia where they stacked their first bike, stole their first kiss and learned the art of a withering comeback.

Release Date:2013-09-18

Character:Self

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:1

The Last Leg

Adam Hills and co-hosts Josh Widdicombe and Alex Brooker provide some offbeat commentary on the significant moments of the past seven days.

Release Date:2013-01-25

Character:Self

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:23

Louis Theroux: Twilight of the Porn Stars

In 1997, Louis Theroux made a documentary about the world of male porn performers in Los Angeles. 15 years later, he returns to find a business struggling with the deluge of free porn on the internet. Louis revisits some of the original programme's contributors as well as meeting the latest crop of porn performers dreaming of porn stardom.

Release Date:2012-06-10

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Character:Himself

Vote Count:36

Louis Theroux: Extreme Love

Louis Theroux looks at the extreme pressures placed on relationships by conditions such as autism and dementia, meeting both those diagnosed and the people who love and care for them.

Release Date:2012-04-19

Character:Himself - Presenter

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:1

Louis Theroux: America's Most Dangerous Pets

The programme follows Theroux as he travels to the United States to meet people who own animals normally found in Africa and Asia, including big cats and dangerous primates. In the programme, Theroux visits GW Exotic Animal Foundation in Oklahoma.

Release Date:2011-10-30

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Character:Self

Vote Count:20

Louis Theroux: America's Most Hated Family in Crisis

Following up on his 2007 documentary, The Most Hated Family in America, Louis Theroux returns to Topeka, Kansas, for a week-long visit with the Westboro Baptist Church. He again joins the Phelps family on their controversial pickets where they try to antagonise communities with offensive slogans and anti-gay placards. But four years on from Louis's last visit, there are signs of disarray in the Phelps clan. A series of defections of family members has shaken up the church.

Release Date:2011-08-14

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Character:Himself - Presenter

Vote Count:53

Louis Theroux: Miami Mega-Jail

Louis takes an in-depth look at Miami's jail system, a vast holding pen for the unconvicted where most inmates are awaiting trial.

Release Date:2011-05-22

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Character:Louis Theroux

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:25

Louis Theroux: The Ultra Zionists

Louis Theroux spends time with a small and very committed subculture of ultra-nationalist Jewish settlers. He discovers a group of people who consider it their religious and political obligation to populate some of the most sensitive areas of the West Bank, especially those with a spiritual significance dating back to the Bible. Throughout his journey, Louis gets close to the people most involved with driving the extreme end of the Jewish settler movement - finding them warm, friendly, humorous, and deeply troubling.

Release Date:2011-02-03

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Character:Louis Theroux

Vote Count:32

Louis Theroux: The City Addicted to Crystal Meth

Join Louis Theroux as he investigates the affect crystal meth addiction is having on the local community of Fresno in California's Central Valley.

Release Date:2010-11-13

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Character:Himself

Vote Count:34

Louis Theroux: Law and Disorder in Lagos

Louis Theroux is in Lagos, following the local gangs and a paramilitary task force.

Release Date:2010-10-10

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Character:Himself

Vote Count:20

Louis Theroux: America's Medicated Kids

Faced with the challenging behaviour of their kids, more and more parents in America are turning to psychoactive medication to help them cope, even though the drugs, and sometimes the diagnoses, remain controversial. Louis travels to one of America's leading children's psychiatric treatment centres, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to get to know the diagnosed children and hoping to understand what drives parents to put their kids on drugs.

Release Date:2010-04-18

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Character:Himself

Vote Count:35

Louis Theroux: A Place for Paedophiles

Louis has gained access to Coalinga Mental Hospital in California, which houses more than 500 of the most disturbed criminals in America, convicted paedophiles. Most have already served lengthy prison sentences, but have been deemed unsafe for release. Instead, they have been sent here for an indefinite time. Spending time with those undergoing treatment, Louis wrestles with whether he can ever allow himself to believe men whose whole history is defined by deception and deceit.

Release Date:2009-04-19

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Character:Himself

Vote Count:44

Louis Theroux: Law and Disorder in Johannesburg

Louis Theroux travels to Johannesburg, where the residents find themselves increasingly besieged by crime as he looks at the issue of law and disorder.

Release Date:2008-12-07

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Character:Himself

Vote Count:22

Louis Theroux: Law and Disorder in Philadelphia

Louis visits one of America’s most crime-ridden cities in this installment of Law and Disorder.

Release Date:2008-10-30

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Character:Himself

Vote Count:24

Louis Theroux's African Hunting Holiday

Louis goes to South Africa where American tourists pay to hunt wild animals in privately owned reserves.

Release Date:2008-04-06

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Character:Himself

Vote Count:23

Louis Theroux: Behind Bars

For two weeks, Theroux visits the San Quentin State Prison.

Release Date:2008-01-13

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Character:Himself

Vote Count:32

Louis Theroux: Under the Knife

Louis Theroux: Under the Knife is a TV documentary written and presented by Louis Theroux about the people and doctors involved in plastic surgery operations. Filmed mostly in the USA, in the programme, Louis himself ends up getting liposuction.

Release Date:2007-10-07

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Character:Himself

Vote Count:26

Louis Theroux: The Most Hated Family in America

Louis meets the Phelps family — the people at the heart of the controversial Westboro Baptist Church. The Phelps have rabid anti-homosexual beliefs, and often campaign at the funerals of American soldiers. They believe that every tragedy in the world is God's punishment for homosexuality.

Release Date:2007-04-24

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Character:Himself - Presenter

Vote Count:74

The Graham Norton Show

Each week celebrity guests join Irish comedian Graham Norton to discuss what's being going on around the world that week. The guests poke fun and share their opinions on the main news stories. Graham is often joined by a band or artist to play the show out.

Release Date:2007-02-22

Character:Self

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:259

Louis Theroux: Gambling in Las Vegas

Louis heads to Las Vegas, to reveal the world behind the myths of casino culture. Among the people he meets are two of the casino's 'high-rollers' and an employee who looks after them as well as a retired doctor who says she has gambled away $4million in seven years.

Release Date:2007-02-20

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Character:Himself

Vote Count:29

The Weird World Of Louis Theroux

Louis Theroux narrates a compilation of clips from his documentaries.

Release Date:2007-01-28

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Character:Himself

Vote Count:5

The One Show

A topical magazine-style daily television programme broadcast live on BBC One.

Release Date:2006-08-14

Character:Self - Guest

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:25

De Wereld Draait Door

Talk show hosted by Matthijs van Nieuwkerk containing a mixture of news, information, television bloopers and general entertainment.

Release Date:2005-10-10

Character:Self

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:5

Louis Theroux: Louis and the Nazis

Louis Theroux travels to California to meet the man dubbed "the most dangerous racist in America"; Tom Metzger. Louis meets him, his family and his publicity manager as well as following him to skinhead rallies and on a visit to Mexico.

Release Date:2003-12-21

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Character:Himself

Vote Count:40

Louis, Martin & Michael

Louis Theroux sets out on a personal quest to meet the ultimate pop idol - Michael Jackson - and examine the often bizarre world that surrounded him and those that worshipped at his altar. The journey began in the summer of 2002 with a simple phone call to Uri Geller - a personal friend of Jackson's - to fix a meeting for Louis. What happened next resulted in a fantastical trek into a weird world of characters who orbited around the 'King of Pop'. Majestic Magnificent, Michael's personal magician, could be the gatekeeper to a meeting or just a fraud. Would Louis, a lifelong fan of Jackson, eventually meet his hero?

Release Date:2003-11-16

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Character:Self

Vote Count:13

Louis Theroux: Louis and the Brothel

Louis stays with the residents of a soon to open brothel in Nevada for a few weeks.

Release Date:2003-11-09

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Character:Himself

Vote Count:31

Living with Louis

The people profiled by Louis Theroux in the documentary series "When Louis Met..." reflect on their time with Louis and he gives his thoughts on them.

Release Date:2002-01-01

Character:himself

Friday Night with Jonathan Ross

Jonathan Ross's take on current topics of conversation, guest interviews and live music from both a guest music group and the house band.

Release Date:2001-11-02

Character:Self - Guest

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:25

Lorraine

Lorraine is the early weekday morning, lifestyle and entertainment show for ITV, presented by Lorraine Kelly and Kate Garraway. ITV Breakfast produces Lorraine, which airs every weekday from 08:30 until 09:25, following Daybreak. The programme replaced Kelly's previous show, GMTV with Lorraine.

Release Date:2001-09-03

Character:Self

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:6

When Louis Met...

A fly-on-the-wall series showing Louis Theroux spending time with guest celebrities.

Release Date:2000-04-13

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Character:Himself

Episode Count:8

Vote Count:3

Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends

Louis Theroux which delves into the weirder fringes of American society.

Release Date:1998-01-15

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Character:

Episode Count:16

Vote Count:34

TV Nation

TV Nation is a satirical newsmagazine television series written, directed and hosted by Michael Moore that was co-funded and originally broadcast by NBC in the United States and BBC2 in the United Kingdom. The show blended humor and journalism into provocative reports about various issues. After moving to Fox for its second season, the show won an Emmy Award in 1995 for Outstanding Informational Series. TV Nation was created in the wake of the success Moore had with the documentary Roger & Me, prompting Warner Bros. television to ask Moore for television series ideas. In January 1993 NBC green-lit a pilot episode which took three months to complete. Interest from the BBC prompted NBC to insert the show into its summer 1994 lineup.

Release Date:1994-07-19

Character:Himself

Episode Count:17

Vote Count:11