Celebrity: A 21st-Century Story - Season 1
Season 1
Episodes
Episode One Ordinary People
The first episode examines how the Beckhams changed the model of the celebrity power couple, while the rise of reality TV led to a gigantic influx of people gaining overnight fame, fed by a press that saw an easy source of material. The programme also examines how leaked sex tapes changed the nature of celebrity scandal.
Episode Two Trainwreck
Charting the story of celebrity in the late noughties, this film looks at how different groups cashed in on the public's insatiable appetite for access to the famous.
Episode Three Lust for Likes
This film tells the story of how celebrities capitalised on a digital revolution in order to sidestep the traditional routes to fame.
Episode Four Power Grab
Charting the last five tumultuous years, this final episode takes us to the end of 2020 and interrogates the methods used by celebrities to get everything they want.
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