Photograph: ITV PlcPhotograph: ITV PlcThe groundbreaking Up documentary series has been voted the programme that changed television the most over the past 50 years in a poll of the country’s leading TV writers.
The premise for the series came from the saying “give me the child until he is seven and I will give you the man” and chronicled the lives of 14 children as they grew up. Elsewhere in the list, David Attenborough’s influence on television is reflected by two of his shows featuring in the top 10: the 1979 natural history series Life on Earth in second place and the 2006 series Planet Earth in sixth place, which set a new bar in nature film-making.
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