I stumbled on this article in the UK Guardian about
49 Up.
A poignant, human drama in the era of Celebrity Shark Bait
Quote:
We are about to see the next episode of what is surely the most powerful drama ever screened on British television. Tomorrow night ITV1 will air the latest instalment in a series that began in 1964, when World in Action interviewed a group of seven-year-old children - and which has caught up with them every seven years since. Now those children are 49 years old.
Officially, that makes the programme a documentary. But it is deeper, more touching and more gripping than that label suggests. For what it shows, unfolding before us, is nothing less than the drama of human life.
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There is a quiet, affecting beauty to all of this. So, in the era of Celebrity Shark Bait, let us give thanks for one of those rare occasions when television reaches beyond the banal - and touches the enduringly, inspiringly human.
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There are some spoilers in that article, though it doesn't tell anything about Neil.
All the "Ups" since 28 have been released in the theater in the US, but I see no release date on IMDB. If anyone knows or hears of a release date please post it.