BBC Who Do You Think You Are ? - New Series

[josey]

Grayson Perry

[Beeonthebay]

Declan Donnelly
Bernard Cornwell
Paul O'Grady

Would love to see

Paul O'Grady
Colin Firth
Somebody off Corrie 
David Jason
Ricky Tomlinson
Caroline Ahearn
Shirley Bassey
Tom Jones

and many more

I would also like them to give Michael Parkinson a real shot and see if his family are really *that* boring, surely there must have been one interesting or juicy bit in there??!!

[Beeonthebay]

Boy George
George Michael
Elton John
Paul McCartney

[josey]

Elton John

Might even interview me - I was at school with him 

[Beeonthebay]

 

[Beeonthebay]

Just thinking about this, I have only ever seen maybe 4 or 5 of the US series, are they on Freeview or on subscribed channels?  I think I saw these episodes on youtube.

Have the Aussies made a series yet?

[StanleysChesterton]

My "grab them before they go" list would have to include:
Mick Jagger
Professor Robert Winston
Sir Simon Rattle
Evelyn Glennie
Virginia Wade
Sir Clive Sinclair
Salman Rushdie
Bill Bailey

- people I enjoy watching or listening to!

I don't know who some of those are, to be honest

I'm sure it's very expensive for them to make the programme, which has to be offset from the marketing budget and measured against sales/income/cashflow before they do another one.

The trouble is - it's not cheap to start with.  I bet they pay the celebs too (bit of a cheek, they should volunteer for free), then there's all the travelling costs (plus all the film crew/sound crew/etc etc).  And the experts they wheel in, just to hand over a bit of paper.... could cull some of those as half are pointless.

It's a bit interesting when they get some "expert" to explain the industry and changes that were occurring at the time, but that does seem to be expensive fluff.

[Bearnan]

I've been watching some of the old Who Do You Think You Are U.S.A on the W channel early mornings and afternoons. I don't know of half the people featured but they're  quite enjoyable.

[smudwhisk]

Have the Aussies made a series yet?

Yes I think the lat one made was the 6th or 7th series.  Unfortunately the BBC seems to think we'd only want to see the US series.  I've seen several but most I bought online and had posted to UK. They do appear on youtube but quickly get deleted for copyright infringement.