70 Up - ITV teaser for "later this year"

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This looks fabulous!

My favourites Neil, Symon and Bruce are mentioned, Suzy and Charles return to the programme and tributes to the lovely Nick, Lynn and of course Michael Apted.

Placemark here for sharing the latest news?

Lots of coverage out today. E.g. https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/documentaries/itv-7-up-series-finale-announced-newsupdate/

I’ve been rewatching the past episodes in readiness. These are my near contemporaries and some episodes are quite an emotional watch. It’s a privilege to have been able to share the participants’ lives from childhood to closing years. I think there’s much to learn about finding peace with where you are in life.

Also it’s been a really good way of showing my DC what life was like for us growing up.

Im so glad they’re doing the final episodes. Theyre my contemporaries as well; I can remember watching the first episode with my parents and brother, and Ive watched it every 7 years since.

I’ve been watching since 35 Up so it feels like a huge chapter that’s closing as it won’t be continuing. Good to see Suzy back.

Yes, it will be bittersweet.

Watched 28 up in sociology at school as that was the most recent one then !!

I was introduced to this programme at school and have been fascinated by it since. I’m looking forward to it. I always look out for Neil in particular. He was such a lovely, bright, happy child that it was distressing to see his decline as an adult, though good to see things did improve for him later on.

Looking like "70 Up: The Final Chapter" will be this September.

Yes, there’s a preview at the BFI Southbank on the 7th so it’ll be on TV sometime after that.

Tuesday 15th announced. I am surprised at how emotional I feel.

I have been watching these from the start this weekend. I maybe never saw all of them. I'm the same age as them and it's been an emotional thing looking at how we used to live , the fashions, the attitudes. I'm going to finish them all but I know it's going to be gut wrenching.

Yes, I think it has the potential to. I wonder if, knowing that, they'll try to lift the mood? Show us grandchildren, and life going on?

I see somebody started a duplicate thread.

Started watching this in sociology too at school in late 80s - so would’ve been 28 up then I think…

I loved Neil as a child, I would have wanted him in my class he had so much enthusiasm and potential. It was such a shame he seemed so depressed later. I hope he's in a much better place now.

I was born in 1955 so very similar in age.

Edit: to be clear I'm only a year older than Neil but I enjoyed teaching chatty, quirky children like him.

I expect it will be an emotional rollercoaster whatever they do re direction and editing. Since the last episode Nick and Michael Apted have died and this is the last ever series.

Thinking of paying £5.99 for the ad-free ITVX for one month just for these two ninety minute episodes as I cannot abide adverts!

Neil's story is so difficult to watch because of the stark difference between the happy child and troubled adult. I can't think of one participant who isn't depicted sympathetically though. Apart from maybe Nick's American wife.

My Dad was a teacher in Liverpool and two children in his class were chosen Neil and the other scouse boy.

There was the taxi driver who seemed like a lovely family man until he moved to Spain 'because there were too many foreigners in Britain' 🙄. To be fair in the next series he did seem to take on board how illogical that was.

To be fair to him he did say he wanted to live with his own type of people. There's no harm with that. The East end of London has always been the destination for wave after wave of immigrants and as they prosper they move on and out.

I was surprised to see on the one I watched today the outburst by Jackie that she said she had felt too sympathetically treated and about the rows she had had with them.

So he didnt like foreigners where he lived so he moved away so he would be the foreigner somewhere else - doesn't make much sense to me. He came back though so perhaps it wasn't as good as he thought it would be. I still say he was a good family man and seemed to be caring for one of his grandchildren too

Tony is one I find less relatable on the surface - I'm a northern woman and the cheeky cockney chappie thing just doesn't work for me. But the fact that he's had his struggles, made mistakes, loves his family etc. It's all so relatable. That's what I love about the series. It's so human and shows how we have so much in common with each other.

Aww, Bruce's catch-up was out today. Adore Bruce!

He reminds me of my Uncle who also wanted to be a jockey when he was young. Not someone I'd choose to be friends with but would do anything for his family.