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The groundbreaking Up documentary series tops the list of most influential TV shows of the last 50 years... but does YOUR favourite make the cut?


The Up series has been voted as the most influential programme of the last 50 years in a poll by members from the Broadcasting Press Guild.

In second place on the list of shows that ‘changed broadcasting, influenced how we look at the world and made us laugh or think in a new way,’ is Sir David Attenborough’s BBC nature programme Life On Earth, which first ran in 1979 In second place on the list of shows that ‘changed broadcasting, influenced how we look at the world and made us laugh or think in a new way,’ is Sir David Attenborough’s BBC nature programme Life On Earth, which first ran in 1979. Some more recent programmes to appear on the list include Michaela Coel’s hard-hitting drama I May Destroy You, about a woman trying to come to terms with being raped, and BBC’s smash hit reality show The Traitors.

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