I'm looking forward to seeing NBC's episodes of this. I think it's been made by the same production company as the UK version, but the quality of the series is all down to the genealogist researchers who make sure that the celebrities have interesting backgrounds. In the UK I know that various people are asked to take part, but if their backgrounds aren't interesting (or are similar to previous episodes), they quietly stopped.
Given that beyond a few generations, many Americans families began somewhere else, I expect to see some travel too. Aside from UK episodes featuring Nazi Germany, we've also had slavery in the West Indies and stories stretching into Eastern Europe or the Indian subcontinent. Adam On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 11:52 PM, David Lynch <[email protected]> wrote: > Having seen a few episodes of WDYTYA off BitTorrent, I'd agree that > it's pretty good television, for what basically amounts to celebrity > geneology. > > On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 17:03, Mark J. <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > On Jan 14, 4:55 pm, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I am happy to stand in line to take a dump on Zucker at this point, but > in > >> this case I will try to defend him. I think this is pretty much the best > >> that could be expected from him - and I thought there was a good chance > it > >> would be worse. This looks like the 5 Leno hours are being replaced by > >> Parenthood and Friday Night Lights (which allows them to move L&O to > 10:00 > >> on Monday a new of 2 "new" scripted hours of drama), the new Seinfeld > Show > >> (which does not appeal to me, but must be a step up from most Reality > >> Shows), and extra hour of Dateline and a rerun of SVU (which allows them > to > >> push new SVU episodes to 10:00 on Wed). I don't know what "Who Do You > Thnk > >> You Are?" is, sounds like a Reality Show, but it is only for 2 months > till > >> they get to FNL. > > > > "Who Do You Think You Are?" is reality on the documentary side-- > > notable persons go back and discover who their ancestors were--but > > Adam has said that the original British version was fascinating > > television. Which means that the Yanks will probably screw it up. > > > > -- > > TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "TV or Not TV" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected] > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en > > > > > > -- > David J. Lynch > [email protected] > > -- > TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "TV or Not TV" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en >
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