Louis Theroux

Louis Theroux is an English broadcaster and journalist, he is famous for his participation in all his work via a first person narrative and objective view. He currently works with BBC, producing documentaries. Theroux moved to London when he was four and attended Westminster School where he befriended comedians Adam Buxton and Joe Cornish. He then went to Magdalen College in Oxford where he gained a first class degree in modern history. His first journalism job was at Metro Silicon Valley, an alternative free weekly newspaper in California.
    In 1992 he was hired as a writer for Spy magazine. He was also working as a correspondent on Micheal Moore's TV nation series, for which he provided segments on off-beat cultural subjects, including Avon ladies in the Amazon, the Jerusalem Syndrome, and the attempts by the Klu Klux Klan to re brand itself as a civil rights group for white people. When TV Nation ended he was signed to a development deal by the BBC, out of which came Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends . 

Louis Theroux's Wierd Weekends 
This is a television documentary series that gives viewers an insight into the lives of individuals in which an average person would not come into contact with. This usually means interviewing people with extremist beliefs or being involved with organizations that are disproved of by society. 
 Books
In 2005, Louis wrote a book named The Call of the Weird: Travels in American Subcultures which was centered around characters he had previously interviewed and filmed in episodes of Weird Weekends. He tracked down over 10 of the participants 7 years later to see if they had changed at all. 


When Louis met....
In the series, Theroux accompanied a different British celebrity in each programme as they went about their day-to-day business, interviewing them about their lives and experiences as he did. This series was far more observational then Weird Weekends. This series was less successful and was cancelled before season 3 due to Louis struggling to find people to appear.

BBC Two Specials 
n these special programmes, beginning in 2003, Theroux returned to American themes, working at feature-length, this time with a more natural tone. In March 2006, he signed a new deal with the BBC to make ten films over the course of three years.Subjects for the specials include criminal gangs in Lagos, Neo-Nazis in America, ultra-Zionists in Israel, and child psychiatry. The 2007 special, The most hated family in America, garnered particular critical praise from the international media.
 Awards and Nominations

1996 Emmy Awards:

• Nominated: Outstanding Informational Series for TV Nation

British Academy Television Awards 2001:

• Won: Richard Dimbleby Award for the Best Presenter (Factual, Features and News) for Weird Weekends

2002 Royal Television Society:

• Nominated: Best Presenter for When Louis Met…

British Academy Television Awards 2002:

• Won: Richard Dimbleby Award for the Best Presenter (Factual, Features and News) for When Louis Met…
• Nominated: Flaherty Documentary Award for When Louis Met the Hamiltons

Journalists John Safran and Harmon Leon cite him as an "important influence".