Louis Theroux is engaged on a brand new documentary primarily based on the Netflix sequence Adolescence.
The 55-year-old documentary maker and podcaster is creating the brand new undertaking – which is able to examine the expertise of on-line misogyny on boys – by means of his manufacturing firm Mindhouse.
A supply instructed The Solar newspaper’s TV Biz column: “It is sensible to provide a documentary this deeply uncomfortable space, significantly within the wake of the drama which surprised the nation.
“Having somebody of Louis’ calibre spearheading it provides to the heft and can hold the subject material on the forefront of individuals’s minds.”
The programme will examine the impact individuals like misogynist Andrew Tate and UK vlogger HSTikkyTokky, whose actual identify Harrison Sullivan, 20, have on younger males.
Adolescence – starring Owen Cooper and Stephen Graham – tells the story of how 13-year-old Jamie Miller (Cooper) is arrested for the homicide of his college classmate Katie Leonard (Emilia Holliday).
Talking beforehand in regards to the inspiration for Adolescence, Stephen instructed Tudum: “Certainly one of our goals was to ask, ‘What is occurring to our younger males today, and what are the pressures they face from their friends, from the web, and from social media?’ And the pressures that come from all of these issues are as troublesome for teenagers right here as they’re the world over.”
“There was an incident the place a younger boy [allegedly] stabbed a lady. It shocked me. I used to be considering, ‘What’s happening? What’s taking place in society the place a boy stabs a lady to loss of life? What’s the inciting incident right here?’ After which it occurred once more, and it occurred once more, and it occurred once more. I actually simply needed to shine a lightweight on it, and ask, ‘Why is that this taking place right now? What’s happening? How have we come to this?’”
