Alex Higgins, Jimmy White and snooker s dizzying whirlwind of drink, drugs and gambling Mirror 7 hrs ago Hector Nunns
There are no white supremacist groups, prisoners on Death Row, or religious zealots in Louis Theroux’s latest venture into TV documentary.
The presenter with a taste for the esoteric is off screen and executive producer for the ‘Gods of Snooker’ three-parter starting next Sunday night on BBC2, which deals with the explosion of the game into UK popular culture in the 1980s, and the huge celebrities and controversies it created.
So what were the origins for this new species? Some might point back all the way to naturalist David Attenborough, who as a Controller of Programming for the BBC first commissioned the short-format ‘Pot Black’ show in 1969.