Who Do You Think You Are?
- TV Series
- 2004–
- 1h
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8.0/10
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Celebrities study their lineages and family trees, usually learning surprising secrets they never knew about their families.Celebrities study their lineages and family trees, usually learning surprising secrets they never knew about their families.Celebrities study their lineages and family trees, usually learning surprising secrets they never knew about their families.
- Won 2 BAFTA Awards
- 2 wins & 6 nominations total
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- TriviaThe series abandoned an episode on Michael Parkinson because his family history was deemed to be too boring.
- Crazy creditsThe opening titles for each season show all the participants for that season, each in front of objects or buildings which are relevant to their story. The order of the participants changes from one episode to the next, with the subject of the episode always being the final one in the sequence.
- ConnectionsFeatured in This Morning: Episode dated 16 July 2009 (2009)
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Who Do You Think You Are
Series 19
Sue Perkins was distractingly frenetic from the get go but as she got out and about as the history unfolded there was quite an emotional rollercoaster for everyone. The parallels of an interment camp and Nazis resettlement camp were marked and it was shocking to enter the Nazis programme of eugenics and aryan genetics.
This was a brilliant show and we learned much about the history. Sue wears her heart on a sleeve and we feel her pain in a visceral way. I'm giving this show a 10 outta 10 I was gripped.
Richard Osman, quite a national treasure, we learn that when his father walked out when he was 9 for another woman his mother cut off all relations with his side of the family, perhaps to the detriment of Richard's childhood. The show necessarily focuses on only his mothers side, which is only a partial story. Richard's grandfather clearly stepped up to be the male role model in his life much to his credit and his story was most poignant. 8 outta 10 from me, so much was missing!
Matt Lucas, I'm not sure why this show moved at a snails pace but it was bordering on stop. Matt led us through a terrible history of fleeing the Nazis and concentration camps were very few survived. It was awful and he held it together. It wasn't historically the best of shows so for me it was a 6 outta 10, we must never forget.
Anna Maxwell Martin, you had to laugh before any of the history was revealed Anna proclaimed everything about everyone and then was shown to have got it all wrong. Her need to embellish a back story was beyond irritating, however she got her comeuppance when her grandfather's was way beyond anything she could imagine. She remained fixated that people learn all their parenting off their parents, negating the influences of friends, neighbours, other relatives and a world full of professionals. Overall it was not very interesting history at best a 5 outta 10.
Ralf Little, great show and very interesting history, I'm giving this a 10 outta 10.
Series 19
Sue Perkins was distractingly frenetic from the get go but as she got out and about as the history unfolded there was quite an emotional rollercoaster for everyone. The parallels of an interment camp and Nazis resettlement camp were marked and it was shocking to enter the Nazis programme of eugenics and aryan genetics.
This was a brilliant show and we learned much about the history. Sue wears her heart on a sleeve and we feel her pain in a visceral way. I'm giving this show a 10 outta 10 I was gripped.
Richard Osman, quite a national treasure, we learn that when his father walked out when he was 9 for another woman his mother cut off all relations with his side of the family, perhaps to the detriment of Richard's childhood. The show necessarily focuses on only his mothers side, which is only a partial story. Richard's grandfather clearly stepped up to be the male role model in his life much to his credit and his story was most poignant. 8 outta 10 from me, so much was missing!
Matt Lucas, I'm not sure why this show moved at a snails pace but it was bordering on stop. Matt led us through a terrible history of fleeing the Nazis and concentration camps were very few survived. It was awful and he held it together. It wasn't historically the best of shows so for me it was a 6 outta 10, we must never forget.
Anna Maxwell Martin, you had to laugh before any of the history was revealed Anna proclaimed everything about everyone and then was shown to have got it all wrong. Her need to embellish a back story was beyond irritating, however she got her comeuppance when her grandfather's was way beyond anything she could imagine. She remained fixated that people learn all their parenting off their parents, negating the influences of friends, neighbours, other relatives and a world full of professionals. Overall it was not very interesting history at best a 5 outta 10.
Ralf Little, great show and very interesting history, I'm giving this a 10 outta 10.
- martimusross
- Jul 11, 2022
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