Michael Apted

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

Larry Ryan

07, Jan, 2023 @1:00 PM

Michael Apted obituary

Eclectic director of documentaries and feature films, from Seven Up! to James Bond

Ryan Gilbey

10, Jan, 2021 @5:13 PM

Michael Apted, 1941-2021: tributes paid to ‘visionary’ director of Up series

The film-maker, who has died aged 79, held up ‘a mirror to society’ with his pioneering documentaries

Harriet Sherwood

09, Jan, 2021 @6:55 PM

Michael Apted: a vital and dignified director who understood how class shapes us all

Apted made his name with the brilliant Up TV series that examined people’s lives every seven years, before going on to become a film-maker of distinction, whose influence cannot be overstated

Peter Bradshaw

08, Jan, 2021 @10:31 PM

Michael Apted, director and Seven Up documentarian, dies at 79

British director made films Coal Miner’s Daughter and The World is Not Enough, and the long-running Up documentary series

Benjamin Lee

08, Jan, 2021 @8:58 PM

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

19, Dec, 2019 @8:47 AM

If the magisterial 63 Up teaches us anything, it’s that we are sustained by love | Tim Adams

The latest episodes in Michael Apted’s groundbreaking series revealed the importance of the right relationships

Tim Adams

09, Jun, 2019 @8:00 AM

The week in TV: Killing Eve, Black Mirror, 63 Up, Tales of the City, Chernobyl – review

Jodie Comer’s assassin reveals lets the mask slip, while a new Black Mirror gleams

Euan Ferguson

09, Jun, 2019 @6:00 AM

63 Up review – documentary marvel makes all other reality TV look trivial

Michael Apted’s groundbreaking seven-yearly series returns, seeming more dreamlike than ever as it follows its subjects into retirement and beyond

Lucy Mangan

04, Jun, 2019 @9:00 PM

TV tonight: Britain's future gets even grimmer in Years and Years

Populism reaches Westminster in Russell T Davies’s turbulent ‘what if’ drama. Plus Michael Apted’s monumental documentary series returns with 63 Up. Here’s what to watch this evening.

Phil Harrison, David Stubbs, Graeme Virtue, Mike Bradley and Paul Howlett

04, Jun, 2019 @5:19 AM

'I see my life as a failure' – the amazing rebirths of Seven Up star Neil Hughes

He wanted to be an astronaut but became a squatter, grouse-beater and Lib Dem councillor. As the Up series hits 63, the man whose story gripped a nation explains why he won’t be watching

Dave Simpson

03, Jun, 2019 @5:01 AM