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Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends

Field	Value
image	Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends.png
caption	Title card from Season 3
runtime	50 minutes
executive_producer	David Mortimer
starring	Louis Theroux
opentheme	Mini Skirt by Esquivel
country	United Kingdom
language	English
network	BBC Two
first_aired
last_aired
num_series	3
num_episodes	17

Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends is a television documentary series, in which Louis Theroux gives viewers the chance to get brief glimpses into the worlds of individuals and groups that they would not normally come into contact with or experience up close. In most cases, this means interviewing people with extreme beliefs of some kind, or just generally belonging to subcultures not known to exist by most or just frowned upon. It was first shown in the United Kingdom on BBC2. In 2001, Theroux was awarded the Richard Dimbleby Award as well as the Best Presenter BAFTA for his work on the series.

Theroux's view on Weird Weekends:

Episodes

Series overview

Series 1 (1998)

Series 2 (1999)

Series 3 (2000)

Book

In 2005 Louis released a book called The Call of the Weird: Travels in American Subcultures where he revisits people he previously interviewed for the Weird Weekends documentaries. He attempts to track down ten of his subjects, up to seven years after the shows, claiming a desire to see what "changes in their subcultures might say about the changes in the world at large", or at least "curious of what became of some of the odd folk [he] got to know".

He tracks down Thor Templar (alien resistance commander), JJ Michaels (porn star), Ike Turner (musician and ex-husband of Tina, from an uncompleted episode), Mike Cain (survivalist), Haley (prostitute), Jerry Gruidl (Aryan Nations), Mello T (pimp turned rapper), Oscody (survivor of Heaven's Gate, also from an incomplete episode), Marshall Sylver (Hypnotist), and Lamb & Lynx (the singing White Nationalist twins – aged 11).

References

Hanks, Robert. (13 May 1999). "Television Review". The Independent.
(22 June 2018). "'Hugging Saint' Embraces Denton".
William Grimes. (7 February 2007). "Back on the Road, Tracking the Red, White and Odd". [[The New York Times]].
Mount, Harry. (December 2005). "TV’s Socrates". Literary Review.
"The Call of the Weird by Louis Theroux". [[Pop Matters]].

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