NEW Christine McVie 90 Minute Documentary airs in the UK September 20th

If you are in the UK on September 20th, cancel your plans!

Fleetwood Mac's Songbird: Christine McVie
Friday 20, September 2019 21:00 BBC FOUR

Christine McVie is undoubtedly the longest-serving female band member of any of the enduring rock ‘n’ roll acts that emerged from the 1960s. While she has never fronted Fleetwood Mac, preferring to align herself with ‘the boys’ in the rhythm section whom she first joined 50 years ago, Christine is their most successful singer-songwriter. Her hits include ‘Over My Head’, ‘Don’t Stop’ and ‘Everywhere’.

After massive global success in both the late 1970s and mid-1980s, Christine left the band in the late 1990s, quitting California and living in semi-retirement in Kent, only to rejoin the band in 2014. In this 90-minute film, this most English of singers finally gets to take centre-stage and tell both her story and the saga of Fleetwood Mac from her point of view.

Interviewed Guest Christine McVie
Interviewed Guest Stevie Nicks
Interviewed Guest Mick Fleetwood
Interviewed Guest John McVie
Interviewed Guest Neil Finn
Interviewed Guest Mike Campbell
Interviewed Guest Stan Webb
Interviewed Guest Nancy Wilson
Executive Producer Mark Cooper
Director         Matt O'Casey

There are actually two channels in the UK airing shows related to Fleetwood Mac on September 20th 

(Compiled by Fleetwood Mac UK)
UK TV channels BBC Four and Sky Arts have an evening dedicated to Fleetwood Mac on Friday 20 Oct 2019

UK TV: Fleetwood Mac "Don't Stop" Documentary Tonight BBC Four 9:15pm

Fleetwood Mac - Don't Stop Documentary
The story of one of the biggest-selling bands of all time, told in their own words.

BBC Four
Friday, September 5th - 21:15 (9:15pm)
Saturday, September 6th - 01:35 (1:35am)
Sunday, September 7th - 00:00 (12:00am)

DURATION: 1 HOUR

Fleetwood Mac are one of the biggest-selling bands of all time and still on the road. Their story, told in their own words, is an epic tale of love and confrontation, of success and loss.

Few bands have undergone such radical musical and personal change. The band evolved from the 60s British blues boom to perfect a US West Coast sound that saw them sell 40 million copies of the album Rumours.

However, behind-the-scenes relationships were turbulent. The band went through multiple line-ups with six different lead guitarists. While working on Rumours, the two couples at the heart of the band separated, yet this heartache inspired the perfect pop record.

BBC Four: Fleetwood Mac "Don't Stop" Doc To Re-Air in the UK June 21st

This 2009 Documentary originally aired on the BBC just ahead of Fleetwood Mac's Unleashed tour dates in the UK and Ireland.  

Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham. Both are interviewed, along with colleagues John McVie and Mick Fleetwood, all seeking to dispel some of those ( wait for it) rumours.

The Documentary takes a look back over the band's long career, from the early blues outfit led by Peter Green in the late 1960s, to their reincarnation in the 1970s with the line-up that went on to record the 40-million-selling album Rumours. Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks reveal the truth behind the successes, failures and relationships that have characterised their music and made them one of the most enduring acts in popular music.

BBC Four (1 Hour)
June 21, 2013 9:00pm
June 22, 2013 1:00am
June 23, 2013 11:30pm

Spend Your Sunday with Fleetwood Mac !

Fleetwood Mac Sunday in the UK
With the re-release of 'Rumours' in the UK on Monday, January 28th - Sky Arts and the BBC will air a few shows on the band.  I haven't seen the "Video Killed The Radio Star" show with Mick, but the other two "Don't Stop" and "Classic Albums" I'd highly recommend you check out.


Video Killed the Radio Star
Mick Fleetwood discusses the music videos that defined Fleetwood Mac, including Big Love and the 'mini movie' for Gypsy.
Sunday, January 27, 2013 - 4pm (30 Min)
Sky Arts 1


Classic Albums Rumours
Fleetwood Mac reveal how private turmoil acted as a catalyst in the creation of a Grammy-winning album that went on to sell more than 40 million copies world wide.
Sunday, January 27, 2013 - 4:30pm (1 Hour 20 Min)
Sky Arts 1

Fleetwood Mac - "Don't Stop"

2009 Documentary looking back over the band's long career, from the early blues outfit led by Peter Green in the late 1960s, to their reincarnation in the 1970s with the line-up that went on to record the 40-million-selling album Rumours. Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks reveal the truth behind the successes, failures and relationships that have characterised their music and made them one of the most enduring acts in popular music
Sunday, January 27, 2013 (1 Hour)
BBC Two UK 11pm
BBC Two NI 11:25pm

Documentary: FLEETWOOD MAC - DON'T STOP Airing on BBC4 May 4th

FLEETWOOD MAC - DON'T STOP
This 2009 Documentary originally aired on the BBC just ahead of Fleetwood Mac's Unleashed tour dates in the UK and Ireland.  

The Documentary takes a look back over the band's long career, from the early blues outfit led by Peter Green in the late 1960s, to their reincarnation in the 1970s with the line-up that went on to record the 40-million-selling album Rumours. Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks reveal the truth behind the successes, failures and relationships that have characterised their music and made them one of the most enduring acts in popular music.

Airing on BBC4 Friday, May 4, 2012 9:00pm

Airing on BBC4 Saturday, May 5, 2012 1:25am

Excerpt 1

Excerpt 2 | Excerpt 3

REVIEW

Fleetwood Mac - Don't Stop lacked the caustic edge of the Rock Family Trees film about the band from 1995. That contained some great stuff about the fake Fleetwood Mac launched by their former manager Clifford Davis, true confessions from ex-guitarist Bob Weston about his affair with Mick Fleetwood's wife, and the one about addled guitar hero Peter Green wandering around with pieces of cheese in his hair. But inevitably director Matt O'Casey's new film had the advantage of being able to bring the story up to date, notably in a bittersweet coda reflecting on the still-unbridged chasm between Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham.

For all the doggedness of founding father Mick Fleetwood, who increasingly resembles a castaway from a tropical island - funnily enough, he now lives in Hawaii, along with original bassist John McVie - the Mac became the biggest band of their era because of Buckingham and Nicks. Of all the inter-band traumas, theirs was the most spectacular, intense and creative, and it still bites both of them hard to this day.

Nicks, in particular, wasn't pulling any punches. It hurt her when Buckingham wrote "Go Your Own Way" about her, and it still does: "Ladylike, prudish Stevie, which I am, was very offended by him saying 'shacking up is all you want to do', because I was not in any kind of shacking up mood. I was not shacking up with anybody."

By all accounts Buckingham has always been a gifted but bloody difficult band-mate - "one of those people that will go up on the cross to make a point, and die," as Nicks put it - but marriage and children have given him some equilibrium. Yet his history with teenage sweetheart Stevie is still a weeping scab. "Maybe in 10 or 15 years when Lindsey and I are 75, we'll be friends again, when Fleetwood Mac is a distant memory," she said wistfully. But like the Flying Dutchman, maybe the Mac can never stop.

Written by: Adam Sweeting

The Artists Desk

Fleetwood Mac Weekend on BBC 4: "Don't Stop" & "Man of The World" Documentaries

Two Documentaries will be running back to back over the next couple of days on BBC 4 in the UK.  PLUS Classic Albums: Rumours will air on Dutch Ned3 Feb 5th at 21:05.

Peter Green: "Man of the World"

Friday, 4th Feb 2011 - 21:00 - BBC Four

Saturday, 5th Feb 2011 - 01:30 - BBC Four

Sunday, 6th Feb 2011 - 23:40 - BBC Four

Fleetwood Mac - "Don't Stop"

Friday, 4th Feb 2011 - 22:30 - BBC Four

Saturday, 5th Feb 2011 - 03:00 - BBC Four

Sunday, 6th Feb 2011 - 22:40 - BBC Four

If you miss the show, the full show can be watched here

Also... Fleetwood Mac's Classic Albums: Rumours will be airing on Dutch Ned3 tomorrow at 21:05h.  I looked for a link online for more details, or times but couldn't see anything. [Thanks @JPVDW]

TWO FLEETWOOD MAC DOCUMENTARIES AIR THIS WKND IN THE UK

If you missed its first string of broadcast dates back when it first aired in the UK and Ireland last November, 2009 - nows your chance to watch record it.  Or you can watch the documentary here (7 parts)

Date: August 27, 2010
Time: 23:30 (11:30pm)
Duration: 60 minutes
Channel: BBC Four

Also in the UK on BIO UK another documentary will air. [description]: Fleetwood Mac were a band born out of the English blues movement pioneered by John Mayall in the mid-Sixties. This is the story of the rise of the successful soft rock group.

Date: August 28, 2010
Time: 22:00 (10pm)
Duration: 60 minutes
Channel: BIO UK

REAL DRAMA, REAL CATFIGHTS, REAL CHAOS... FLEETWOOD MAC IN THE 70'S

Fleetwood Mac's story is more than Rumours
EADT24

I CAN’T speak for what showbiz reporting was like in the 1970s and 80s but Fleetwood Mac must have been a gift to entertainment hacks the world over.

These days it’s all about whether Cheryl Cole is wearing her wedding ring or not or the latest adventures of Katie Price and her cross-dressing cage-fighting boyfriend.

Crashingly dull, in fact.

If you want real drama, real catfights, real chaos, then do some reading up on Fleetwood Mac. Better still, watch the documentary that’s floating about on the BBC’s iPlayer.

Like me, you might have thought of the band as plodding pop-rock dinosaurs. Which they undoubtedly are – the footage of Mick Fleetwood and John McVie in their sunshine villas sporting flat caps has them banged to rights on that front – but you can’t deny their “backstory” is incredible. Sensational. Almost unbelievable.

You might think it’s strange that a band is named after its drummer and bass player, or find it intriguing that the blues-rock of Albatross and the shiny pop sheen of Everywhere are actually by the same group. But that’s nothing, believe me.

For those who aren’t familiar with the tales and the travails of the Anglo-American rock giants, here’s my top 10 highlights of the Fleetwood Mac story:

1. Lead guitarist, singer and songwriter Peter Green – responsible for bringing the band to prominence and its early hits – struggles with mental illness and “never comes back” after first trying acid. He quits the band in 1970 after they don’t agree with his plans to give all their money away to charity.

2. Rhythm guitarist Jeremy Spencer goes missing in 1971 after popping out “to get a magazine”. When they find him after several days searching, he has joined a religious cult.

3. After slide guitarist Danny Kirwan is fired after developing an alcohol problem and some increasingly erratic behaviour, his replacement Bob Weston embarks on an affair with Fleetwood’s then wife, Jenny Boyd. He’s fired as well.

4. In the wake of Kirwan’s departure, the band cancel their tour. However, their manager, Clifford Davis, claiming he owns the rights to the name Fleetwood Mac, takes a fake version of the band out on the road instead, sparking a legal battle.

5. The band hire new guitarist Lyndsey Buckingham who insists his girlfriend and musical partner, the singer Stevie Nicks, joins as well. (In fact, this might be the answer to keeping Oasis going post-Noel. Has anyone got Roxette’s number?).

6. Buckingham and Nicks’ relationship hits the rocks, leading them to write vicious and accusatory songs about each other, notably Nicks’ Dreams and Buckingham’s Go Your Own Way. Incredibly, they dutifully perform backing vocals on each others’ tunes.

7. They eventually split up – as do McVie and his wife Christine, the keyboard player – but the band rumbles on.

8. Nicks has an illicit affair with Fleetwood, who then shacks up with Nicks’ best friend. The band still goes on.

9. During the making of Tusk, the follow-up to their biggest selling album, Rumours, Buckingham wants to go in an experimental direction: the rest of the band recall him lying on the floor, his cheek to the ground, wailing into a microphone.

10. After the band hit the paydirt again with 1987’s pop behemoth Tango In The Night, Buckingham refuses to go out on tour and quits. When he announces his decision, Nicks physically attacks him.

What else? Well.., alcoholism, drug addition, rehab, bankruptcy, half a dozen extra members, splits, reunions. I probably could go on.

It puts a handful of Sugababes line-up changes into perspective, doesn’t it? I really do wonder how much of this stuff actually got reported back in the newspapers the day. Hardly any of it, I would guess.

And the most incredible thing? Fleetwood Mac are still going; and the classic line-up too, minus Christine McVie, who retired from performing a few years ago. They played a run of dates in the UK earlier this month, in fact. They’re in their 60s now, all still alive, still performing those old songs from Albatross to Everywhere, still sitting on a tour bus together.

Whatever do they find to talk about?

REMINDERS... THIS WEEK ON BBC FOUR (FLEETWOOD MAC TRIPLE PLAY)

Millions watched the BBC in the UK when Fleetwood Mac's new documentary "Don't Stop" first aired last week.  If you missed the show on TV the first time round - this Friday and Saturday the show is being rebroadcast on BBC Four... It's a really well done doc with all new interviews from the current band members and includes loads of old footage.  The documentary focusing mainly on the Rumours era members but also pays respect to members leading up to the Rumours era.... On Friday it's back to back documentaries with Rock Family Trees following - which is also really good...

Triple

FLEETWOOD MAC

Feature

this Friday and Saturday

November 6/7th

on BBC Four

Friday:

21:00 - Fleetwood Mac - Don't Stop Documentary

One of the biggest selling bands of all time are back on the road. This is their story, told in their own words.

22:00 - Rock Family Trees - Documentary

The career of Fleetwood Mac, famous for their complicated inter-band relationships as well as their music.

Saturday:

00:45 - Peter Green: Man of the World - Documentary

The story of the blues performer who found fame in the 1960s as the lead guitarist of Fleetwood Mac, but left the public stage for years as he battled drug addiction and mental illness. Featuring archive footage and interviews with Noel Gallagher, Carlos Santana, his former bandmates and the musician himself.

02:25 - Fleetwood Mac - Don't Stop - Documentary

FLEETWOOD MAC "DON'T STOP" BBC DOCUMENTARY.... ON YOUTUBE

Here's the first part in a 7 part series of the BBC Documentary on Fleetwood Mac called "Don't Stop" which recently aired in the UK on BBC One. It's a new documentary on the band with new interviews and old footage that I've never seen before... I have to say, it was really well done... For additional footage: FMSahara

Watch The Full Documentary Right Here

FLEETWOOD MAC - "DON'T STOP" DOCUMENTARY COMMENTARY

Fleetwood Mac and a divorce lawyer’s Rumours
MarilynStowe

I watched an incredibly personal interview with the band Fleetwood Mac on the BBC the other night, in advance of their forthcoming British tour. The band members are clearly older and wiser than they were in the late 1970s. They had stories to tell about the emotional turbulence in their lives when arguably they were at the height of their success. It made fascinating viewing for me, a fan who keeps The Very Best Of close by in my bedroom.

I love the music and I love their voices, but I must admit that the words haven’t always made sense to me. I’ve just been conscious that these are world-class artists producing world-class timeless music. Now I understand how their tumultuous lives have contributed so much to their art.

Continue To Marilyn's Blog

(REVIEW) FLEETWOOD MAC "DON'T STOP" DOCUMENTARY

Review:
Fleetwood Mac - Don't Stop, BBC One
Written by: Adam Sweeting
The Artists Desk

Fleetwood Mac - Don't Stop lacked the caustic edge of the Rock Family Trees film about the band from 1995. That contained some great stuff about the fake Fleetwood Mac launched by their former manager Clifford Davis, true confessions from ex-guitarist Bob Weston about his affair with Mick Fleetwood's wife, and the one about addled guitar hero Peter Green wandering around with pieces of cheese in his hair. But inevitably director Matt O'Casey's new film had the advantage of being able to bring the story up to date, notably in a bittersweet coda reflecting on the still-unbridged chasm between Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham.

For all the doggedness of founding father Mick Fleetwood, who increasingly resembles a castaway from a tropical island - funnily enough, he now lives in Hawaii, along with original bassist John McVie - the Mac became the biggest band of their era because of Buckingham and Nicks. Of all the inter-band traumas, theirs was the most spectacular, intense and creative, and it still bites both of them hard to this day.

Nicks, in particular, wasn't pulling any punches. It hurt her when Buckingham wrote "Go Your Own Way" about her, and it still does: "Ladylike, prudish Stevie, which I am, was very offended by him saying 'shacking up is all you want to do', because I was not in any kind of shacking up mood. I was not shacking up with anybody."

By all accounts Buckingham has always been a gifted but bloody difficult band-mate - "one of those people that will go up on the cross to make a point, and die," as Nicks put it - but marriage and children have given him some equilibrium. Yet his history with teenage sweetheart Stevie is still a weeping scab. "Maybe in 10 or 15 years when Lindsey and I are 75, we'll be friends again, when Fleetwood Mac is a distant memory," she said wistfully. But like the Flying Dutchman, maybe the Mac can never stop.

Watch Don't Stop on the BBC iPlayer here.

THREE FLEETWOOD MAC DOCUMENTARIES ON THIS WEEK - BBC FOUR

Triple
FLEETWOOD MAC
Feature
this Friday and Saturday
November 6/7th

on BBC Four

Friday:
21:00 - Fleetwood Mac - Don't Stop Documentary
22:00 - Rock Family Trees - Documentary

Saturday:
00:45 - Peter Green: Man of the World - Documentary
02:25 - Fleetwood Mac - Don't Stop - Documentary

TV RATINGS FOR FLEETWOOD MAC "DON'T STOP" DOCUMENTARY

TV ratings: The X Factor hits high note

Talent show The X Factor attracts record audience of nearly 14 million, leading night of success for ITV1

BBC1's Fleetwood Mac documentary, Don't Stop, won its slot with 2.4 million viewers and a 17% share over an hour from 10.20pm.

"DON'T STOP" FLEETWOOD MAC DOC. BBC ONE

"DON'T STOP" FLEETWOOD MAC

BBC One's iplayer is loaded with the new Fleetwood Mac documentary "Don't Stop" that just aired in the UK. New Interview footage is included from each member of the band including John McVie who NEVER gives interviews in print, on the radio and definitely not for tv! So that's a bonus right there... Sadly Christine McVie didn't contribute to the documentary but does appear in the program via older interview footage taken from previous documentaries.

If you missed it, and you live in the UK, check out the BBC iplayer BBC One.

On TV the program will broadcast again:

Fri 6 Nov 2009 21:00 BBC Four

Sat 7 Nov 2009 02:25 BBC Four

Mon 9 Nov 2009 01:30 BBC Four

Sunday: Don't Stop Documentary... Johnnie Walker's Sound of the 70's

[repost - reminders]
FLEETWOOD MAC
DON'T STOP DOCUMENTARY
BBC ONE

NEXT ON:
Today, November 1st - 22:20
(except Northern Ireland)

Fleetwood Mac, one of the biggest-selling bands of all time, are back on the road again. Their story, told in their own words, is an epic tale of love and confrontation, of success and loss.

Few bands have undergone such radical musical and personal change. The band evolved from the 60s British blues boom to perfect a US West Coast sound that saw them sell 40 million copies of the album Rumours.

However, behind the scenes relationships were turbulent. The band went through multiple line-ups with six different lead guitarists. While working on Rumours, the two couples at the heart of the band separated, yet this heartache inspired the perfect pop record.

BROADCASTS
Sun 1 Nov 2009 22:20 BBC One (except Northern Ireland)
Sun 1 Nov 2009 22:50 BBC One (Northern Ireland only)
Fri 6 Nov 2009 21:00 BBC Four
Sat 7 Nov 2009 02:25 BBC Four
Mon 9 Nov 2009 01:30 BBC Four

DURATION
60 minutes

Johnnie Walker's Sounds Of The 70's
On BBC Radio 2's Johnnie Walker's Sounds Of The 70's - Fleetwood Mac's Mick Fleetwood and Lindsey Buckingham join Johnnie Walker to discuss the stories behind their incredible 70s back catalogue, which includes the hits Go Your Own Way, Dreams, The Chain and Rhiannon.

Mick and Lindsay have reunited with Stevie Nicks and John McVie for Fleetwood Mac's first live tour in five years and have released a remastered collection of their greatest hits.

Next on: Sunday, November 1st - 15:00 on BBC Radio 2

The Broadcast is now available on the BBC2 site to re-listen to: HERE

BBC 1 THIS SUNDAY.... FLEETWOOD MAC "DON'T STOP" DOCUMENTARY

What's on the box this week?
'Fleetwood Mac: Don't Stop' 
(BBC 1, Sunday)
Meathchronicle.ie

Almost everything that ever happens to a rock band has happened to Fleetwood Mac. One of the greatest and most enduring acts in popular music, they began in the 1960s and can still sell out stadiums in 2009, surviving countless personnel changes and inter-band meltdowns.

Featuring new interviews with Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks, this documentary delves deep into the heart of the band, tracing the relationships, turmoil and changes and unwinding the complex love story between Nicks and former partner Buckingham.

Now, Fleetwood, McVie, Buckingham and Nicks are back onstage together, singing the songs that were fuelled by their 1970s relationships and their fall-out. Together they are Fleetwood Mac, one of the biggest names in rock. But it still hurts.

Fleetwood Mac - Don't Stop BBC One Documentary & Johnnie Walker's Sounds Of The 70's

All you BBCer's in the UK - keep your eyes peeled for late this Sunday night on BBC One a Fleetwood Mac Documentary called "Don't Stop" will be on... Not sure if this is a new doc on the band, or a rebranding of something old... In any case, here are the details:

Fleetwood Mac - Don't Stop
NEXT ON:
Sunday, 22:20 on BBC One (except Northern Ireland)

Fleetwood Mac, one of the biggest-selling bands of all time, are back on the road again. Their story, told in their own words, is an epic tale of love and confrontation, of success and loss.

Few bands have undergone such radical musical and personal change. The band evolved from the 60s British blues boom to perfect a US West Coast sound that saw them sell 40 million copies of the album Rumours.

However, behind the scenes relationships were turbulent. The band went through multiple line-ups with six different lead guitarists. While working on Rumours, the two couples at the heart of the band separated, yet this heartache inspired the perfect pop record.

BROADCASTS
Sun 1 Nov 200922:20BBC One (except Northern Ireland)
Sun 1 Nov 200922:50BBC One (Northern Ireland only)

Elsewhere...
Johnnie Walker's Sounds Of The 70's

On BBC Radio 2's Johnnie Walker's Sounds Of The 70's - Fleetwood Mac's Mick Fleetwood and Lindsey Buckingham join Johnnie Walker to discuss the stories behind their incredible 70s back catalogue, which includes the hits Go Your Own Way, Dreams, The Chain and Rhiannon.

Mick and Lindsay have reunited with Stevie Nicks and John McVie for Fleetwood Mac's first live tour in five years and have released a remastered collection of their greatest hits.

Next on: Sunday, November 1st - 15:00 on BBC Radio 2