Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives

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{{Infobox television

| genre = Documentary{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1306997/|title=Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives|website=IMDb.com|accessdate=12 August 2018}}

| based_on = The Many Worlds by Hugh Everett

| director = Louise Lockwood

| presenter = Mark Oliver Everett

| starring =

• Mark Oliver Everett
• Max Tegmark

| narrated = Annie Mac

| country = United Kingdom

| language = English

| executive_producer = Andrew Thompson

| editor =

• Folko Boermans
• Jon Neuburger

| runtime = 60 minutes{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b008d2zj|title=Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives|publisher=BBC|accessdate=12 August 2018}}

| company = BBC

| released = {{Start date|2007|11|26|df=yes}}

}}

Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives is a BAFTA-winning[http://www.bafta.org/awards/television-craft/television-craft-nominations-in-2008,363,BA.html TV Craft Winners 2008] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080402005543/http://www.bafta.org/awards/television-craft/television-craft-nominations-in-2008,363,BA.html |date=2 April 2008 }}, BAFTA television documentary broadcast in 2007 on BBC Scotland and BBC Four, in which American rock musician Mark Oliver Everett talks with physicists and the former colleagues of his father—Hugh Everett—about his father's many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics.Thompson, Andrew, [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7113098.stm "The rock star and the quantum mechanic"], BBC News, Monday, 26 November 2007[http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=hugh-everett-new-film-tackles-many-2008-10-21 Hugh Everett: New film tackles "many worlds" theory of quantum mechanics] 60 second science, Scientific American blog, by Jordan Lite and George Musser The documentary was shot and directed by Louise Lockwood and edited by Folko Boermans.

The American premiere screening was at the 2008 inaugural World Science Festival in New York City.{{Cite web |url=http://www.rockingeels.com/ |title=RockingEels.com - an Eels Fansite |access-date=26 June 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100819114546/http://www.rockingeels.com/ |archive-date=19 August 2010 |url-status=dead }}

The documentary was shown in full before each concert during the 2008 world tour of Eels.{{citation needed|date=November 2020}}

A petition was started to persuade the BBC to issue the documentary on DVD.[http://ninaowls.multiply.com/video/item/1983 Petition to BBC 4 for release of Parallel Worlds Parallel Lives on DVD] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100501051826/http://ninaowls.multiply.com/video/item/1983 |date=1 May 2010 }}

Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives was broadcast in the United States on the PBS program Nova on 21 October 2008. The US version of the documentary features American voice actors for the narration.[https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/manyworlds/ Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives"], PBS Nova TV program, October 2008. This version was available in DVD but has fallen out of print.[https://www.amazon.com/NOVA-Parallel-Worlds-Lives/dp/B001MYIPXC/ref=sr_1_1 Amazon listing for Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives] Amazon.com

The British version of the documentary is narrated by Annie Mac. The NOVA version was narrated by journalist Stefanie E. Frame.

Everett called making the film "the single most rewarding experience of my life in many ways."{{Cite web |url=https://www.wnyc.org/story/hugh-everett-is-alive-and-well-in-an-alternate-universe/ |title=Hugh Everett Is Alive and Well in an Alternate Universe |work=Studio 360 |publisher=WNYC |date=10 December 2015}}