Bafta-award-winning filmmaker Louis Theroux to return to BBC 2

[Bob Crabtree]

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Bafta-award-winning filmmaker Louis Theroux to return to BBC TWO

The man who has been up close and personal with the Hamiltons, spent a month living in a brothel and enraged the US professional wrestling fraternity has been commissioned to make ten 60-minute programmes.

They will be screened on the channel over the next three years.

Having taken a break from television to write his book, The Call of the Weird; Travels in American Subcultures, Louis is now back researching ideas for the new commissions.

Commenting on his return to television, Louis says: "As a student of bizarre organisations and eccentric people, the BBC feels like my natural home."

Roly Keating, Controller of BBC TWO, adds: "Louis is one of the most influential and unique voices in modern TV.

"His acute eye and wicked sense of humour have been away for too long. It's great to welcome him back to BBC TWO."

Louis first appeared on BBC TWO in Michael Moore's TV Nation in 1994.

Since then he has gone on to make the award-winning Weird Weekends and a series of films about British celebrities, including Paul and Debbie Daniels, Chris Eubank, and MP Ann Widdecombe.

He won Bafta's Richard Dimbleby Award for Best Presenter in 2001 and 2002.

The commissions are BBC Productions for BBC TWO.

Executive Producer, Nick Mirsky, is the man behind The Armstrongs - the excruciating series which is gaining a cult following on BBC TWO. The Series Producer is Stuart Cabb.