Asif Kapadia Taking Over From Michael Apted to Conclude Landmark Brit Docuseries ‘7 Up’

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Asif Kapadia is set to complete the final chapter in what has long been considered a landmark and groundbreaking British TV docuseries.

The “Up” series of films launched in 1964 with “7 Up,” capturing the lives of 10 boys and four girls in England all aged of seven at the time. Cameras then revisited the group every seven years to chart their journey from childhood to teenagers, to adulthood, through careers, marriage, divorce, parenting, bereavement and more. 

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