Perspectives | |
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Genre | Documentary series |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
No. of series | 6 |
No. of episodes | 29 |
Production | |
Running time | 60 minutes (including adverts) |
Production company | (see below) |
Release | |
Original network | ITV |
Original release | 24 April 2011 – 18 October 2016 |
Perspectives is a current British television arts documentary series for ITV. The show began airing on 24 April 2011 and aired its fifth series in 2015.
Each hour long programme sees well-known celebrities (who have included Ian McKellen, David Walliams, Sheila Hancock and Paul O'Grady) travel to various parts of the world to explore more about a person who has inspired them. They're not all people, some can be books such as Griff Rhys Jones whose chosen subject was the novel The Wind in the Willows .
The first series of the show was announced on 31 March 2011 and began airing on 24 April 2011, starting with Ian McKellen: Looking for Lowry. [1]
Episode | Airdate | Presenter | Title |
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1 | 24 April 2011 | Ian McKellen | Looking for Lowry |
2 | 1 May 2011 | Andrew Lloyd Webber | A Passion for the Pre-Raphaelites |
3 | 8 May 2011 | Robson Green | The Pitmen Painters |
4 | 15 May 2011 | Hugh Laurie | Down by the River |
Episode | Airdate | Presenter | Title |
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1 | 25 March 2012 | David Suchet | People I Have Shot |
2 | 1 April 2012 | Lenny Henry | Finding Shakespeare |
3 | 8 April 2012 | John Sergeant | Sergeant on Spike |
4 | 22 April 2012 | David Walliams | The Genius of Dahl |
5 | 29 April 2012 | Griff Rhys Jones | Wind in the Willows |
Episode | Airdate | Presenter | Title | Production Company |
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1 | 17 March 2013 | David Suchet | The Mystery of Agatha Christie | Testimony Films |
2 | 24 March 2013 | Warwick Davis | The Seven Dwarfs of Auschwitz | Chameleon Television |
3 | 31 March 2013 | Sheila Hancock | The Brilliant Brontë Sisters | Blakeway North |
4 | 7 April 2013 | Michael Portillo | Portillo on Picasso | Plum Pictures |
5 | 14 April 2013 | Paul O'Grady | Gypsy Rose Lee - The Queen of Burlesque | Olga TV |
6 | 21 April 2013 | Jonathan Ross | Alfred Hitchcock - Made in Britain | Hot Sauce TV |
7 | 5 May 2013 | Hugh Laurie | Copper Bottom Blues | Plum Pictures |
A fourth series of Perspectives was announced on 13 February 2014 and began airing on 20 April 2014, starting with Alan Davies: The Magic of Houdini. [2]
Episode | Airdate | Presenter | Title | Production Company |
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1 | 20 April 2014 | Alan Davies | The Magic of Houdini | What Larks! |
2 | 27 April 2014 | Gary Kemp | Kick Out the Jams | Snapper TV |
3 | 4 May 2014 | Will Young | The Man In The Hat: Rene Magritte with Will Young | Blakeway North |
4 | 11 May 2014 [3] | Emeli Sande | Emeli Sande on Frida Kahlo | Blakeway North |
5 | 18 May 2014 [4] | Alfie Boe | Freddie Mercury Saved My Life | Brook Lapping |
6 | 25 May 2014 [5] | Bruce Forsyth | Bruce Forsyth on Sammy Davis Junior | Rain Media Entertainment |
A fifth series of Perspectives began airing on 19 April 2015 starting with: "Michael Jackson's Thriller with Ashley Banjo"
Episode | Airdate | Presenter | Title | Production Company |
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1 | 19 April 2015 [6] | Ashley Banjo | Michael Jackson's Thriller | Blakeway North |
2 | 26 April 2015 [7] | Len Goodman | For The Love of Fred Astaire | Potato |
3 | 3 May 2015 [8] | Rick Wakeman | Vivaldi’s Four Seasons | The Interesting Film Company |
4 | 10 May 2015 [9] | Terry Jones | In Charlie Chaplin's Footsteps | Wild Pictures |
5 | 17 May 2015 [10] | Nicky Campbell | The Great American Love Song | Wingspan Productions |
6 | 24 May 2015 [11] | Eddie Redmayne | War Art | Foxtrot Films |
Series 6 began airing on 18 October 2016.
Episode | Airdate | Presenter | Title | Production Company |
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1 | 18 October 2016 | David Harewood | In the Shadow of Mary Seacole | TBA |
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