Overview
- The long-running 7 Up project has reached its concluding instalment, presented as two episodes on ITV that close the 63-year series.
- Asif Kapadia takes over direction for 70 Up after Michael Apted’s decades-long stewardship of the films.
- Jackie Bassett, one of the 14 children filmed in 1964 at age seven, is confirmed among the 11 people still participating in the series.
- Coverage of Bassett traces her journey from a working-class childhood in London’s East End to life on the Norfolk coast and notes health struggles and bereavements recorded across the films.
- The series’ method of revisiting the same people every seven years is meant to show how class, upbringing, health and chance shape life courses and the final film narrows that lens onto very recent changes for the group.