EXCLUSIVE: The BBC is returning to the subject of Elon Musk, with a sequel documentary four years after 72 Films first profiled the tech billionaire.
Musk: The Next Chapter (working title) follows on from 2022’s The Elon Musk Show, and will track his life since the tumultuous takeover of Twitter, now rebranded as X. This takes in his right-wing political agenda, public backing and falling out with President Donald Trump, and the latest in his complex private life.
The doc is one of three high-profile commissions coming from the UK’s public broadcaster’s BBC Factual division today. The others are Brexit: How Britain Voted Out (working title), a Norma Percy doc from Zinc Media Group’s Brook Lapping, and PBS co-production The Diary of Anne Frank (working title).
Despite Musk’s general wariness of the mainstream media and perceptions he engages in the dissemination of misinformation on his social media platform,
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