Fans call for Louis Theroux to be knighted after triumphant return to TV

Louis Theroux returned to our television screens last night with a new, hard-hitting documentary series, ‘Dark States’.

Airing on BBC2, ‘Dark States’ will see Theroux visit three American cities to explore a devastating human crisis that dominates each, with last night’s episode focusing on heroin addiction.

The documentary-maker travelled to Huntington, West Virgina, as he investigated the impact that the Class A drug has in the city, meeting people who have been long-term heroin users as well as a newborn baby who had to be weaned off the drug.

Theroux exposed the way that heroin use has increased among residents following a crackdown on prescription painkillers, with some turning to heroin in order to get their high at a fraction of the cost of prescription opioid medication.

BBC viewers were left “shocked” and “devastated” by the episode, with many admitting that they had found it “uncomfortable” to watch, however, fans also flocked to social media to praise the way that Theroux carried the documentary and his sympathetic approach to the addicts, even asking why the 47-year-old filmmaker hasn’t been knighted yet:

Over the next two weeks ‘Dark States’ will also explore sex trafficking and murder in America.

Louis Theroux: Dark States airs on Sunday’s at 9pm on BBC Two.

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