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‘I find myself weeping after almost every scene’: how seminal show 7 Up has touched your lives

It’s inspired careers, moved you deeply and helped you reevaluate your own journeys. As the series that began in 1964 comes to an end with 70 Up, Guardian readers explain the impact of the decades-spanning tale ITV’s landmark 7 Up documentary series has launched its final outing after 63 years. The show started following the lives of 10 boys and four girls in England when they were seven years old, and has returned every seven years since. As the final season 70 Up reaches its conclusion, seven people tell us what it has meant to them over the decades – along with pictures of themselves contrasting their appearance now with their childhood selves. Continue reading...

The GuardianThe GuardianGuardian readers and Alfie Packham15h ago

‘A losing battle’: will UK public service broadcasters survive amid US onslaught?

Jobs and programme budgets in firing line at BBC, Channel 4 and ITV as they are outgunned by YouTube and Netflix “I wouldn’t be surprised if the BBC or Channel 4 disappeared,” says one of the thousands of TV staff at risk of redundancy, as British broadcasters face what has rapidly become a fight for survival against US digital rivals. “My generation grew up with Netflix and YouTube … Honestly, I feel like it is a losing battle.” Continue reading...

The GuardianThe GuardianMark Sweney19 Sept

70 Up review – a deeply moving conclusion for the 63-year-long TV experiment

The landmark documentary series looked like it was done for good – until one participant was diagnosed with terminal cancer. Asif Kapadia takes the helm for its most elegiac, thoughtful outing ever Tell us your highlights from the documentary series 7 Up And so the great experiment begun by Granada Television in 1964 is over. That year, Seven Up! introduced the viewing public to 14 primary school children – 10 boys and four girls from a range of backgrounds – who would become part of an ongoing documentary project that returned to film them at regular intervals and interrogate the truth of the Jesuitical motto “Give me the child for the first seven years and I will give you the man”. Seven Up!, part of ITV’s flagship World in Action series, was directed by Paul Almond but thereafter the enterprise became synonymous with Michael Apted, who originally helped find the children and took over the making of the programmes. He died in 2021 , two years after completing 63 Up. It had been thought the series would end there but when one of the participants, Nick Hitchon – a Yorkshire farmer’s son who grew up to be a nuclear scientist – called one of the team to say that he had been diagnosed with terminal cancer and wanted to give one last interview, a final episode was commissioned. Continue reading...

The GuardianThe GuardianLucy Mangan15 Sept

Ugly scenes as Argentina lose World Cup final – video

There were ugly scenes at the end of the World Cup final as Argentina’s Leandro Paredes and Nahuel Molina were seen throwing punches at Spain players after their 1-0 defeat. Paredes was then sent off after shoving Spain's Eric García by the throat and wrestling Gavi to the ground. He had already been booked during the match. The antics after the final whistle were quickly condemned by UK broadcasters, with the former England goalkeeper Joe Hart labelling Argentina’s behaviour 'disgusting' on the BBC and ITV's Gary Neville calling it 'a disgrace' Lionel Messi’s World Cup fairytale ends with pitiful Argentina as final villains At the World Cup of superstars, a team take home the trophy Top 30: from half a million World Cup photos, why I love these the most ‘We had a date with destiny’: De la Fuente lauds Spain players after World Cup victory Continue reading...

The GuardianThe Guardian20 Jul