"49 up" on tonight at 9pm

[goldenecitrone]

My daughter said she is going to wait until they all die and buy the boxed set.

Special edition, the Mortician's Cut.

 

[marty21]

I foresee a problem if it carries on until 98 up. Won't they want to do a special programme two years later on everybody who reaches 100 years of age? This will necessarily spoil the whole premise of the series as a snapshot of life every seven years. Gutting.

I'm looking forward to 84 up when they all finally retire

 

[danny la rouge]

It starts on Monday, 14 May 2012, 9:00PM - 10:00PM, btw.

http://www.itv.com/presscentre/56up/ep01week20/default.html

 

[goldenecitrone]

I'm looking forward to 84 up when they all finally retire

You mean 105 up.

 

[quimcunx]

It starts on Monday, 14 May 2012, 9:00PM - 10:00PM, btw.

http://www.itv.com/presscentre/56up/ep01week20/default.html

No wonder I couldn't find it on any of the BBC channels.

This must be the best quality programme ITV has ever done.

 

[danny la rouge]

This must be the best quality programme ITV has ever done.

That'd be Corrie.

 

[quimcunx]

 

[danny la rouge]

Don't you flick your eyes at me, missy.

 

[kalidarkone]

I'm really excited about this! I first watched 7 up when I was about 14 and loved it. I love Tony the taxi driver

 

[clicker]

I'm really excited about this! I first watched 7 up when I was about 14 and loved it. I love Tony the taxi driver

same here....isnt he the would be jockey? love the girl who wanted to work in woolies....i think i read somewhere that someone who dropped out last time is back in....which must be the solicitor? Also read the guy in the caravan is doing good....for such a largish group of people they do seem on the whole 'happy-ish' which is cockle warming.

 

[butchersapron]

same here....isnt he the would be jockey? love the girl who wanted to work in woolies....i think i read somewhere that someone who dropped out last time is back in....which must be the solicitor? Also read the guy in the caravan is doing good....for such a largish group of people they do seem on the whole 'happy-ish' which is cockle warming.

Doing good? He's a lib-dem counillor.

 

[clicker]

Doing good? He's a lib-dem counillor.

shit he isnt is he...i liked him too.

 

[danny la rouge]

This is on tonight.

 

[paulhackett]

El bumpo..

This is on in 20 minutes

 

[marty21]

Enjoying it as usual - a rare ITV quality programme, makes me feel ancient though, I think I've been watching it since it was 28up!

 

[scifisam]

Enjoying it as usual - a rare ITV quality programme, makes me feel ancient though, I think I've been watching it since it was 28up!

Me too, but I was a lot younger than you when I started watching it.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Am recording it to watch later

 

[moomoo]

I remembered Neil. His story makes me sad.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

I remembered Neil. His story makes me sad.

He's got it right in that true happiness is with friends.

 

[clicker]

I think the guy who ended up in Australia struck me as so close to his child self.....scared of not fitting in etc.....glad he had a good marriage and a heap of grandkids to love him....and I bet the old dears in the retirement park all mother him too.

 

[danny la rouge]

He seemed a nice granddad. Very comfortable in that role.

I laughed at the guy who came back to promote his band. Fair enough, why not? But he didn't really have much else to add, did he? Although my kids (who did end up watching) were sympathetic to his non appearance all these years and were pissed off on his behalf at the press.

 

[Me76]

Neil seemed very frustrated and not at all happy in his own skin. It made me quite sad.

 

[Divisive Cotton]

I remembered Neil. His story makes me sad.

You watched him and thought, Christ this person hasn't had any happiness in his life

 

[clicker]

Neil seemed very frustrated and not at all happy in his own skin. It made me quite sad.

Yes he had flashes of seeming joy, when the cameras were not directly on him maybe....chatting to locals etc, but there always seemed to be an urgency to get away , even from them. I think he is very astute, he can read the show very well, but I hope he finds some peace in his future. Interesting he joined the church, although he was almost brutally honest in only having done it to find a 'role', same as being a councillor was due to the lack of paid employment elsewhere. He was such a bright eyed bubbly kid. It made me sad too.

 

[Part 2]

I was quite disappointed with it overall.

I suppose it was good to see the first woman who hadn't managed much at school had progressed gradually and was in a good place. I felt sad about the aussie bloke who admitted to still feel he wasn't very confident although he obvioualy has a supportive family. The last fella promoting his band I didn't like and he came across as a bit of a tosser imo.

I was at a mental health conference a few years ago and Neil was there. He was really nervous and I watched a few people throughout the day go up to talk to him. I'd no idea if they were approaching him because they knew him or because he was on the telly but when he spoke about people thinking they knew what his life was like I did get the idea it might be the latter.

Looking forward to seeing the other fella from the kids home next week.

 

[clicker]

bumpity bump....second part tonight.

 

[youngian]

Spent ages trying to find this on the ITV player. You would of thought they would be really proud to flag it up on their homepage, but no its that knobhead Keith Lemon instead.

Hope Neil is enjoying his work as a lay preacher, being a Lib-Dem activist can't do much for depression.

I will be interested to see what Tony is up to as he usually having a crack at something different in between the Knowledge; running a pub, bit part actor, jockey. Whats more he doesn't care if it doesn't work out. Unlike Neil he proabably had that Albert Camus in the back of his cab.

 

[butchersapron]

I'm not watching this, will catch up when all done. But the point of the original series was to show how class effects our passage through life - not to learn how individuals had done. It showed in the 70s version that it pretty much decided your fate. That was at the height of social mobility. The State now agrees that social mobility is dead. Is anyone here going to talk about that sort of thing?

 

[purenarcotic]

I'm not watching this, will catch up when all done. But the point of the original series was to show how class effects our passage through life - not to learn how individuals had done. It showed in the 70s version that it pretty much decided your fate. That was at the height of social mobility. The State now agrees that social mobility is dead. Is anyone here going to talk about that sort of thing?

I suppose it doesn't directly tackle that, but indirectly I think it does. By seeing how the people have done I think you do see that the class they've been born into has largely dictated their standard of life as adults. But I agree, it doesn't seem to be doing a lot to question how right that is on a direct, outspoken level. But then this is the first time I've watched this, so I don't know how much it did that previously (if at all).

 

[youngian]

I'm not watching this, will catch up when all done. But the point of the original series was to show how class effects our passage through life - not to learn how individuals had done. It showed in the 70s version that it pretty much decided your fate. That was at the height of social mobility. The State now agrees that social mobility is dead. Is anyone here going to talk about that sort of thing?

That's a bit of sociological pretension to get the programme commissioned when television had loftier ambitions. But its nothing resembling a scientific sample to draw any conclusions about the nature of class.
So no I don't feel shallow by taking an interest in them as individual personalities. If anything many of them have climbed the ladder which statistics show isn't happening for a vast swathe of people. Also would be interesing to know how appearing in this world famous documentary has made to their lives, which could make them atypical.