Is Tonight's Long Lost Family A Repeat?

[Marijn]

Is tonight's Long Lost Family a repeat? The subject looks familiar. Or is it a new episode on the same subject? Thanks

[Buenchico]

I'm not watching it but, if the scheduled programme is being shown (rather than, say, a last minute replacement because of some sort of problem), it should be Season 12, Episode 6, which is summarised as follows:
"Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell join forces with investigators from the MOD's Joint Casualty and Compassionate Centre to try to trace the families of nine First World War soldiers whose bodies were found together in a trench by roadworkers in Beselare, Belgium".

If that's what you're seeing, it theoretically should be a new programme, as Series 12 only commenced airing on 13 June.

However Wikipedia appears to show that it (or something very similar) was actually previously aired, as a one-off special, on 21 Oct 2019:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Lost_Family_(British_TV_series)#Regular_series

. . . whereas the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website refers to "Following the success of the first special shown in late 2017 . . . ".
https://www.cwgc.org/our-work/news/long-lost-family-the-unknown-soldiers/

So it seems that either the programme as a whole has been shown before or the current episode has been spun off from an earlier special.

[Marijn]

Thank you very much

[Peter Pedant]

some are
some are being re-run by other channels

and some are like - lorra fathers in Croatia who on being told they have a love child, say "Oh do I?"

There IS re-engineeering ( or else I have a bad memory) - I follow at the Cornwall-Devon-Dorset cases closely and think - hey they didnt say that first time round.
( Oh I would love to have been brought up on a farm ! Half brother: no I think an orphanage in Bournemouth was a better outcome) ended up on the cutting room floor

[Peter Pedant]

I didnt watch last night as I thought
no they have done that - is it a replay ?

This is the first identities for 60y isnt it - they had leather tags which rotted and then ter daah - DNA !

[Marijn]

Thank you. I watched it last night and unless I had forgotten everything from the other one I watched about soldiers a couple of years back, then this was a new one ( it seemed unfamiliar to me).

[Peter Pedant]

There has been a previous one
and one body is so much like another quite honestly

Jiggling around to make a thread - this could be Harry A - well yes says Davina " we have been talking to Harry's grandaughter..."
Telephath or just cutting of the film to make a comprehensible line of argument

Black masks so some MUST be covid ( we call this a terminus post quem, here 2020.

But they are clearly doing maternal DNA which is quite old. Mothers only xc the last. ( ye Duke of Edinburgh was the one for the Tsar and his saughters) - far too complex for a viewer, just brushed over.

Lay gurlz a bit bitter - My father an his RAMC cronies got together for boozy meals at least a coupla times a year.

[Marijn]

I couldn't work out if they were wearing masks due to Covid, or because they didn't want to breathe on the precious artefacts

[Peter Pedant]

oops a mis-match DNA !
o god they are going for it ( not the father)
I wonder if they had been warned beforehand - eek !

( one medical genetics trial was abandoned when the mis match rate reached 30%)