Editing Louis Theroux (section)

====''When Louis Met...''====
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In the series ''[[When Louis Met...]]'' (2000–02), Theroux accompanied a different British celebrity in each programme in their daily lives, interviewing them as they go. His episode about British entertainer [[Jimmy Savile]], entitled ''When Louis Met Jimmy'',<ref name="GuardianJimmy">{{cite web | url=https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2014/mar/23/louis-theroux-inhabit-intimate-space-jimmy-savile | title=Louis Theroux: 'You get to inhabit quite an intimate space' | newspaper=The Guardian | date=22 March 2014 | access-date=20 March 2015 | author=Lewis, Tim}}</ref> was voted one of the top documentaries of all time in a 2005 survey by Britain's [[Channel 4]].<ref name="IMDBJimmy">{{cite web | url=https://www.imdb.com/list/ls000124764/ | title=Channel 4's "50 Greatest Documentaries" | publisher=IMDB | date=18 April 2011 | access-date=20 March 2015}}</ref> Some years after the episode was filmed, the [[NSPCC]] described Savile as one of the most prolific sex offenders in Great Britain.<ref name="BBCSavile">{{cite web | url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-31948094 | title=BBC commissions Savile documentary | publisher=BBC News | date=18 March 2015 | access-date=20 March 2015}}</ref>

In an interview in 2015, Theroux expressed his intention to produce a follow-up documentary about Savile for the BBC to explore how the late entertainer had continued his abuse for so long, to meet people he knew closely, and examine his own reflections on his inability to dig more deeply into the first case.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-34709583.stm |title=Louis Theroux to make new Jimmy Savile film |publisher=[[BBC News]] |access-date=6 March 2016}}</ref> This follow-up documentary, titled ''Savile'', aired on BBC Two on Sunday, 2 October 2016, and lasted 1 hour and 15 minutes.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07yc9zh |title=BBC TWO Louis Theroux: Savile |publisher=BBC |access-date=3 October 2016}}</ref>

In ''When Louis Met the Hamiltons'', the former [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|MP]] [[Neil Hamilton (politician)|Neil Hamilton]] and his wife [[Christine Hamilton|Christine]] were arrested during the course of filming, due to false allegations of indecent assault.

In ''When Louis Met Max Clifford'', [[Max Clifford]] tried to set up Theroux, but he was caught lying as the crew recorded his live microphone during the conversations.

After this series concluded, a retrospective called ''Life with Louis'' was released. Theroux made a documentary called ''[[Louis, Martin & Michael]]'' about his quest to get an interview with [[Michael Jackson]] to which he lost out to [[Martin Bashir]] who went on to make the documentary [[Living With Michael Jackson]]. Selected episodes of ''When Louis Met...'' were included as bonus content on a Best-Of collection of ''Weird Weekends''.