Get a closer look at some of Hollywood's perfect pairs.

Hollywood Power Couples

Get a closer look at some of Hollywood&#39;s perfect pairs.

"The Gentlemen" and "Slow Horses" return this fall, while the "Reacher" spin-off series "Neagley" makes its debut. See our guide of the biggest Fall TV and streaming releases.

2026 Fall TV and Streaming Watch Guide

&quot;The Gentlemen&quot; and &quot;Slow Horses&quot; return this fall, while the &quot;Reacher&quot; spin-off series &quot;Neagley&quot; makes its debut. See our guide of the biggest Fall TV and streaming releases.

Get a closer look at these actors from their many TV and streaming series roles.

Streaming Stars, Then and Now

Geoffrey O'Connor is an Academy Award-nominated filmmaker best known as being the principle directorial force behind the BAFTA Award-winning BBC-2 series "Weird Weekends" with writer/ presenter Louis Theroux. Geoffrey created that series' participant-journalist model, directed the pilot and he was the program's Senior Producer. In 2022, he teamed up with RJ Cutler's "This Machine" to develop a four-part series and he is the executive producer of the 2022 investigative documentary "Make People Better," which exposes the rogue practice genome engineering in China. In 2021, Geoffrey was short-listed for a Cannes' "Lion Award" for a documentary about a unique prison reform program in Washington State. And in 2019 he produced and directed a BBC-2 documentary with Louis Theroux entitled "Surviving the Most Hated Family," which is a follow-up to their breakout 2007 hit "The Most Hated Family in America." In the 1990s, Geoffrey independently produced four documentaries about threatened indigenous societies and environmental devastation in the Brazilian Amazon earning him an Academy Award nomination for the short film "At the Edge of Conquest" as well as an IDA "Best Documentary" nomination for the nonfiction film "Amazon Journal," which ran on PBS. Geoffrey chronicled his experiences in the Brazilian rain-forest in the NY Times and LA Times "Notable Book of the Year" entitled "Amazon Journal: Dispatches from a Vanishing Frontier." A citizen of the U.S. and Ireland, Geoffrey lives in New York but splits his time on directing assignments between the UK where he works for BBC-2 and the U.S. where he freelances for a variety of production companies.

Louis Theroux: Surviving America's Most Hated Family

At the Edge of Conquest: The Journey of Chief Wai-Wai

Awards

Geoffrey O'Connor

Academy Awards, USA

CINE Competition

Deauville Film Festival

Florida Film Festival

International Documentary Association

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