Who Do you think you are new series starts tonight...

[craft1948]

Just a reminder it's on BBC1 at 9pm and it's June Brown (Dot Cotton).

[emmie]

I would like to watch some of them in the series, June Brown's programme looks particularly interesting. Though can't say like the man much, but the Jerry Springer one a while back was very good, though rather harrowing in parts.

[craft1948]

I think they're usually very interesting em, I particularly enjoyed Boris Johnson's though wasn't too surprised to find royalty lurking in his tree.

[rockyracoon]

I absolutely love this show, one of the best things to come from the BBC. Craft, I loved the Boris one too, he's such a character, not surprising with that a background. Did you see any of the American ones, Lisa Kudrow's was excellent with a nice twist towards the end.

[emmie]

Boris Johnson turned out to be one the most interesting ones of all, his lineage is quite varied, wasn't one grandfather/great grand father turkish.

[craft1948]

I only watched one of the American ones Rocky; for some reason I didn't enjoy it very much............

[craft1948]

Yes I think one was Turkish em..............and very high up the chain of command politically I think.

[rockyracoon]

Yes Em he was if i remember rightly. Craft i agree re the US ones they were shorter and not as interesting but that particular one was very good.

[rockyracoon]

Ainsley Harriott's was good, mind you could go on really couldn't you as most of them are good.

[craft1948]

Apparently they research quite a few famous people's past, but discard the boring ones.

[rockyracoon]

Lol, I'd like to know who the boring ones were. Imagine that, being told your ancestry is boring. Mind you, mine probably is.

[craft1948]

Mine is rocky............it's all farm labourers.

[emmie]

Wasn't it Michael Parkinson who's family history was too tame and was rejected, as there was not enough scandal, or interesting characters.

[cazzz1975]

I like the show but I do think some of it is a little acted, the faux shock and the camar close ups of tears

[cazzz1975]

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[craft1948]

JK Rowling is in this series and she vowed she wouldn't cry...........apparently she did.

[rockyracoon]

It's amazing what they dig up really, even if you had a few bob they can get into archives no one else is allowed access to, especially in Ireland when they covered Dervla Kirwin.

[emmie]

Cazz you are right, sorry to say it's sometime the ladies who profess shock horror, oh my word type comments, bit contrived. But Jerry Springer was in deep shock, after he discovered that both grandmothers perished at the hands of the Nazi's, and as he went to one the camps, his face just crumpled, i felt terribly upset for him, and of course all the other families who lost loved ones in those terrible places.

[jackthehat]

Jane Horrock's was far too staged........she wept at the 17 year old girl struggling to bring up her many siblings.....when the Census return clearly showed her parents (mother, at least) living next door!!

I know the woman who helped JH in that and she said that they had been very clever in what they recorded and how they said it......

[echokilo]

About time it was back!! Love it - just hope these episodes are as interesting as previous ones!

[cazzz1975]

I agree em, I defy anyone not to be moved visiting some of the concentration camps that is different in my opinion, however some of the people like that newsreader for the beeb, I cant remember her name almost had to tweezer some pubic hair to get some tears out