When Louis Met...

When Louis Met...
Title card from When Louis Met... Keith Harris & Orville in Panto
StarringLouis Theroux
Country of originUnited Kingdom
No. of series2
No. of episodes8 (3 + 5)
Production
Executive producersDavid Mortimer, Kevin Sutcliffe
Running time60 minutes
Original release
NetworkBBC Two
Release13 April 2000 (2000-04-13) –
26 March 2002 (2002-03-26)
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When Louis Met... is a series of documentary films by Louis Theroux. The series was originally broadcast on BBC Two from 2000 to 2002. In the series, Theroux accompanied a different British celebrity in each programme as they went about their day-to-day business, interviewing them about their lives and experiences as he did so.

Theroux's episode about Jimmy Savile (When Louis Met Jimmy) was voted one of the top 50 documentaries of all time in a survey by Channel 4.[citation needed] In another episode (When Louis Met the Hamiltons), the Conservative MP Neil Hamilton and his wife Christine, were arrested during the course of filming following allegations of indecent assault; these were subsequently found to be false. The show did not return for a third series, and Theroux said that he had difficulty in finding people to appear.[1]

  1. ^ "Entertainment | Theroux quits award-winning show". BBC News. 28 November 2002. Retrieved 6 March 2014.