Film-maker says it is ‘incredible honour’ to pick up baton from Michael Apted who died in 2021
Asif Kapadia will bring the long-running ITV documentary series Up to an end with a concluding instalment that will air this year.
The series, which began in 1964 and was voted the most influential UK TV show of the last 50 years in 2024, has followed a group of people from childhood to adulthood at seven-year intervals and now checks in on them as they approach old age.
The series’ longtime director Michael Apted died in 2021. Kapadia, who is best known for his documentaries about Amy Winehouse, Ayrton Senna and Diego Maradona, now takes control and has described the appointment an “incredible honour and privilege”.
Kapadia said the documentary was his favourite of all time and that he considered the original series “the ultimate portrait of human life”.
