Seven Up! changed British TV – and how we see ourselves. Here’s why the series is still unmissable
Jane Martinson
The Up documentaries, voted the most influential TV show of the past 50 years, shone a unique light on our national character, says the BPG’s Jane Martinson
September 2023
The generous spirit at the heart of the Up television series
Letter: Their lives illustrated so clearly the significance of early experience and access to opportunity, writes Prof Kate Purcell
August 2023
Other lives
Nick Hitchon obituary
Other lives: Nuclear scientist whose life was chronicled in the TV series that started in 1964 with Seven Up!
January 2023
Down the rabbit hole
What links Cate Blanchett’s new film Tár to Sissy Spacek and hot sauce?
A composer and conductor opens the door to Loretta Lynn, Wings of Desire and classic 90s rock from Goo Goo Dolls
January 2021
Michael Apted obituary
Michael Apted, 1941-2021: tributes paid to ‘visionary’ director of Up series
Michael Apted: a vital and dignified director who understood how class shapes us all
Michael Apted, director and Seven Up documentarian, dies at 79
December 2019
2019 in TV
The 50 best TV shows of 2019: the full list
The pick of the year’s top television featured ghosts, gangsters, comedy buffoons – and a hot priest
June 2019
If the magisterial 63 Up teaches us anything, it’s that we are sustained by love
Tim Adams
Observer TV reviews
The week in TV: Killing Eve, Black Mirror, 63 Up, Tales of the City, Chernobyl – review
TV review
63 Up review – documentary marvel makes all other reality TV look trivial
TV tonight
TV tonight: Britain's future gets even grimmer in Years and Years
'I see my life as a failure' – the amazing rebirths of Seven Up star Neil Hughes
Seven Up! reaches 63: ‘I started filming them when they were young. But we are like a family now’
May 2017
Unlocked review – plenty of talent, nothing to work with…
Unlocked review – spies and jihadis battle it out in entertaining thriller
January 2017
Inspiring culture for 2017
Fight the power: documentaries to unleash the activist in you
Children in poverty, rape in the military, mass murderers at large … Oscar-nominated director Lucy Walker picks 10 powerful documentaries to galvanise you into action
December 2013
TV review
28 Up South Africa – TV review
Haunted by disease and death, the fourth visit to the 'children' of the post-Apartheid era is a hymn to the human spirit, writes Lucy Mangan
March 2013
Media blog
How Granada TV chairman Sir Denis Forman changed my life
Producer and director Michael Apted pays tribute to the former Granada TV chairman who died last week
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