Overview
- ITV, which confirmed the plan Thursday, will close the 62-year project with 70 Up later in 2026 with no specific air date yet.
- Asif Kapadia will direct the concluding films after longtime steward Michael Apted died in 2021.
- The new chapters reunite Tony Walker, Neil Hughes, Bruce Balden, Symon Basterfield, Paul Kligerman, Jackie Bassett, Sue Davis, Peter Davies, John Brisby, Andrew and Suzy Lusk, with tributes to Lynn Johnson and Nick Hitchton.
- ITV commissioned the finale through Sue Murphy and Jo Clinton-Davis, with MultiStory Media producing in association with Lafcadia and ITV Studios distributing globally outside North America.
- The Up series began in 1964 with fourteen seven-year-olds and returned every seven years to examine class, opportunity and life’s turns, a format widely credited with reshaping documentary storytelling.