Editing Michael Apted (section)

===Television===
Apted began his career in television as a trainee for six months at [[Granada Television]] in [[Manchester (England)|Manchester]], where he worked as a researcher. One of his first projects at Granada would become his best known: the [[Up (film series)|''Up ''series]], which began in 1964 as a profile of 14 seven-year-old children for the current affairs series ''[[World in Action]].'' As a researcher and assistant to Canadian director [[Paul Almond]], Apted was involved in selecting the children, who came from a variety of backgrounds and classes.<ref name="Nation7Up">{{cite magazine |url=https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/michael-apted-up-series-british-life/ |title=A Thing or Two About Life |date=2 November 2020 |magazine=The Nation |access-date=7 November 2022 |last1=Pedersen |first1=Susan |author-link=Susan Pedersen (historian)}}</ref> Though originally conceived as a one-off documentary, the series has become an institution. When it was suggested that they revisit the subjects at ages fourteen and twenty one, Apted accepted the offer to direct and directed every subsequent episode in the series.<ref name="Nation7Up"/> It explores Apted's thesis that the [[British class system]] remains largely in place. It studies the participants based on the [[Jesuit]] motto "Give me a child until he is seven and I will show you the man",<ref>{{Cite web |last=Weeratunga |first=Jann |title="Give me a child until he is seven and I will show you the man." – The Schools Reading Road Show |url=https://srrssa.co.za/give-me-a-child-until-he-is-seven-and-i-will-show-you-the-man/ |access-date=9 January 2021 |language=en-US}}</ref> looking at how they develop during their lives, compared to when they were seven. The series looks at the lives of these people over the years; the latest instalment, ''63 Up'', was produced in 2019.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Haddou |first=Jihane |date=8 January 2021 |title=Give Me the Child Until He Is Seven and I Will Give You the Man |url=https://jihanehaddou.medium.com/give-me-the-child-until-he-is-seven-and-i-will-give-you-the-man-9298fa4b35b5 |access-date=9 January 2021 |website=Medium |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=8 January 2021 |title=Michael Apted, Director Of The 'Up' Documentary Series, Dies At 79 |url=https://www.npr.org/2021/01/08/955128728/michael-apted-director-of-the-up-documentary-series-dies-at-79 |access-date=9 January 2021 |publisher=NPR |language=en}}</ref> It won a [[Peabody Award]] in 2012 "for its creator’s patience and its subjects' humanity."<ref>[http://www.peabodyawards.com/award-profile/institutional-award-michael-apteds-up-series72nd Annual Peabody Awards] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210109140205/http://www.peabodyawards.com/award-profile/institutional-award-michael-apteds-up-series72nd |date=9 January 2021 }}, May 2013.</ref>

During his seven-year period of working at Granada, Apted also directed a number of episodes of ''[[Coronation Street]],''<ref name=":1" /> then written by [[Jack Rosenthal]], among others. Apted and Rosenthal later collaborated on a number of popular television and film projects, including the pilot episodes for ''[[The Dustbinmen]]''<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Dustbinmen: There's a Hole in Your Dustbin, Delilah |url=http://www.tv.com/shows/the-dustbinmen/theres-a-hole-in-your-dustbin-delilah-318268/ |access-date=9 January 2021 |website=TV.com}}</ref> and ''[[The Lovers (1970 TV series)|The Lovers]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Duguid |first=Mark |title=Lovers, The (1970–71) |url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/1289920/ |access-date=9 January 2021 |website=BFI Screenonline}}</ref> They worked together again in 1982 for the TV movie ''[[P'tang, Yang, Kipperbang]]'',<ref>{{Cite web |title=P'tang, Yang, Kipperbang. (1982) |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6999e9e7 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190701223908/https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6999e9e7 |url-status=dead |archive-date=1 July 2019 |access-date=9 January 2021 |publisher=British Film Institute |language=en}}</ref> the first film commissioned by Britain's [[Channel 4]]. In 1976 Apted directed a play in the Granada TV series ''[[Laurence Olivier Presents]]''. The episode was ''[[The Collection (play)|The Collection]]'' by [[Harold Pinter]]. The play starred [[Laurence Olivier]], [[Malcolm McDowell]], [[Alan Bates]] and [[Helen Mirren]].<ref name="Variety obit">{{cite web |title=Michael Apted, Director of 'Coal Miner's Daughter' and 'Up' Series of Documentaries, Dies at 79 |date=8 January 2021 |url=https://variety.com/2021/film/news/michael-apted-dead-up-docs-1234881490/ |work=Variety |access-date=9 January 2021}}</ref>

Apted used his idea from the ''Up'' series a second time in ''[[Married in America]]'' and ''Married in America 2''. The idea was to interview nine married couples every two years over a ten-year period to tell a more complete story of their marriages.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/06/16/PK175924.DTL&type=printable |title=Keeping a watchful eye on love, commitment / Michael Apted's 'Married in America' to trace nine couples over 10 years |date=16 June 2002 |work=San Francisco Chronicle |access-date=9 January 2021}}</ref> In 2005, he directed the first three episodes of the TV series ''[[Rome (TV series)|Rome]]''.<ref>The three first episodes were:
*{{Cite web |title=Rome: The Stolen Eagle |url=http://www.tv.com/shows/rome/the-stolen-eagle-291012/ |access-date=9 January 2021 |website=TV.com}}
*{{Cite web |title=Rome: How Titus Pullo Brought Down the Republic |url=http://www.tv.com/shows/rome/how-titus-pullo-brought-down-the-republic-291013/ |access-date=9 January 2021 |website=TV.com}}
*{{Cite web |title=Rome: An Owl in a Thornbush |url=http://www.tv.com/shows/rome/an-owl-in-a-thornbush-291014/ |access-date=9 January 2021 |website=TV.com}}</ref>

For his work in television, Apted won several [[British Academy of Film and Television Arts|British Academy Awards]], including two Flaherty Documentary Awards for his work on 28 ''Up'' and ''35 Up'' and a BAFTA for Best Dramatic Director for the single play ''Kisses at Fifty'' in 1974.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://awards.bafta.org/keyword-search?keywords=Michael%20Apted |title=BAFTA Awards |publisher=BAFTA |access-date=8 January 2021}}</ref>

[[Image:Michael Apted by David Shankbone.jpg|150px|thumb|Michael Apted in 2007]]