Living with Michael Jackson

*Living with Michael Jackson*
Living with Michael Jackson
Genre	Documentary
Directed by	Julie Shaw
Presented by	Martin Bashir
Starring	Michael Jackson
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Production
Executive producer	Jeff Anderson (Tonight)
Producers	James Goldston and Julie Shaw
Production company	Granada Television
Original release
Network	ITV (UK); ABC (U.S.)
Release	3 February 2003
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Living with Michael Jackson is a television documentary in which the British journalist Martin Bashir interviewed the American singer Michael Jackson from May 2002 to January 2003. It was broadcast in the United Kingdom on ITV (as a Tonight with Trevor McDonald special) on 3 February 2003, and in the United States three days later on ABC, introduced by Barbara Walters.^[1] Jackson took Bashir on a tour of his home, Neverland Ranch, and discussed his family, unhappy childhood, plastic surgery and relationships with children.

In November 2003, the BBC aired Louis, Martin & Michael, a documentary by the British filmmaker Louis Theroux, who had lost out to Bashir to make the documentary.^[2] In December 2003, following controversy raised from Bashir's documentary, Jackson was charged with seven counts of child molestation and two counts of intoxicating a minor with alcohol,^[3] all of which he was acquitted of in a court of law in June 2005.^[4]

^ Stanley, Alessandra (6 February 2003). "TELEVISION REVIEW; A Neverland World Of Michael Jackson". The New York Times. Retrieved 28 June 2009.
^ "Singer Jackson whipped by father". 13 November 2003 – via BBC News.
^ Broder, John M. (19 December 2003). "Jackson Is Formally Charged With Child Molesting". The New York Times.
^ "Jackson cleared of child molestation". The Guardian. Associated Press. 13 June 2005.

[nytimes_review-1] Stanley, Alessandra (6 February 2003). "TELEVISION REVIEW; A Neverland World Of Michael Jackson". The New York Times. Retrieved 28 June 2009.

[2] "Singer Jackson whipped by father". 13 November 2003 – via BBC News.

[3] Broder, John M. (19 December 2003). "Jackson Is Formally Charged With Child Molesting". The New York Times.

[4] "Jackson cleared of child molestation". The Guardian. Associated Press. 13 June 2005.

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