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General => The Common Room => The Lighter Side => Topic started by: downside on Tuesday 30 January 07 15:41 GMT (UK)
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ITV at 9pm tonight.
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Thanks for the reminder!
Nanny Jan
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Was he Jonathon Creek ?
If so, I'm watching !
(Drool, drool !)
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Yes, and no further comment...
meles
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I shan't be drooling but I'm very gratefull of the reminder - I don't watch much TV so I allways forget about the good stuff that's on :)
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Thanks. I'm on my own tonight - I shall deffo watch.
Not just Jonathan Creek - QI - one of my fave progs ;D ;D ;D
Gadget
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Great forgot about it.
Just set my reminder ;D ;D
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:) :) :) :)
Dearie Dearie Me - what a load of old codswhallop this episode turned out to be !!
If I'd wanted to watch a programme about Freemasonry I'd have done so.
I won't be watching the next episode, that's for sure.
Come back WDYTYA Please !!
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Dearie Dearie Me - what a load of old codswhallop this episode turned out to be !!
If I'd wanted to watch a programme about Freemasonry I'd have done so.
I won't be watching the next episode, that's for sure.
Come back WDYTYA Please !!
AGREED (to both) ... but it is coming back soon ... seen another thread about it ...
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Thought this was pretty rubbish, a good concept but this had nothing genealogical about it and was a dumbed down version of who do you think you are?.
Even the opening titles and theme music were a rip off of who do you think you are?, and to top it off Alan D, one of my favourite actors from Jonathan Creek, QI etc came across as being quite disrespectful and didn't seem to take the programme seriously.
Bit of a shame, but then this is ITV.
acceber
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I didn't see all of this programme as I changed channels after about 15 minutes as I got tired of Alan Davies playing to the camera. If I had wanted to see an inane performance I could have got one of my children's chuckle brothers video's out. As Acceber has said the subject wasn't taken serious by Alan Davis which spoiled what I did see but by the sounds of it I did the right thing by turning over.
old rowley
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He started off as a rebel without a cause and decided that being middle class was good by the end of the programme.
He wasn't very enthusiastic about digging up his roots, so we had to make the most of the historical information along the way, bricklaying and property development in London's suburbs etc.
He did seem almost emotionless throughout so it was hard to like the programme.
downside
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I found it very boring :(
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Well I recorded it but I don't think I'll bother watching it now. Couldn't miss new CSI could I?
Just a point for Alan, He is an emotionless person which is why he is good in QI and Jonathan Creek.
Sylviaann
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Even the opening titles and theme music were a rip off of who do you think you are?
It's from Wall To Wall, the same company that brought us WDYTYA.
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Hi FocusMM - glad you managed to get yourself posted!
Agree wholeheartedly about the prog - it bored me rigid! I turned off half way thru and read instead. The bricklaying thing was a right bore and buying meat in the market - what do the makers think we want to watch! I won't make an effort to see next episode
Sallysmum
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Agree with you all. Boring - I too turned off before the end.
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I taped it and have just watched it.
I have to agree that it wasn't the most rivetting programme I've ever watched! ::)
I think the programme makers have boxed themselves into a corner and wonder if that's why they only seem to have made 3 programmes.
They seem to have limited themselves to the idea of the celebrity trying to emulate the jobs of a couple of their great grandparents. This is all very well if the jobs were of some interest and/or the celebrity in question has sufficient charm to make it interesting.
Ann Kirkbride had that charm and also seemed genuinely interested. Alan Davies seemed a bit bored (like the rest of us) and rather ashamed that his great grandfathers weren't 'working class and proud of it'. It's obviously not the done thing in 'luvvie' circles to own up to middle class origins!
I'm not giving up on it yet - after all, there's only one more to go, and I'm pretty sure that Ken Stott will have the required charm in bucket fulls.
Yes, I miss the genealogical side of things - but, I suppose that's a different programme - WDYTYA!! Although, I'm a bit worried that they're going to continue their 'let's do any celebrities whose ancestry isn't British and go travelling all over the place ' approach after reading about Natasha Kaplinsky's story in the Sunday papers!! Let's have more of a mix of 'home and abroad'!
I think ITV need to take some time to rethink the format of their programme - perhaps they could revert to WDYTYA's original approach and actually cover British ancestors now and again, with even a bit of family research thrown in!
Jill
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I agree it became boring, not so much because of the masonic bit but because of the ridiculous idea of re-creating the dinner and the farcical artificial "we only have a day to do it" angle - it's the same with the gardening/interior design makeover shows - does anyone recall the work NOT being done in time? And if it was, would the programmes admit it?
Still, off hobby horse and back to YDKYB: the masonic possibilities alerted me to a possible alternative area of research which hadn't occurred to me (see separate thread) and was useful for that alone.
But as a programme we have to accept that it is not intended to be a genealogical programme, far more social history. And it's a bit harsh to suggest that AD "wasn't very enthusiastic about digging up his roots". Even if he had been, it was clearly not what the programme-makers wanted. When you have two such interesting gt-grandfathers (and let's face it, we'd be well pleased to have either of them in our trees and especially to have that fantastic family group photo) there's enough material for an hour's programme. It's just a pity that they are more interested in seeing celebs make idiots of themselves trying manual labour.
I'll still be watching next week.
Gareth
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Although I found the bit about the masons intriguing I generally found the programme boring and even made worse because of the commercials.
Roll on Who do you think you are I say.....
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Well I liked the programme, especially the part about the Masons, which you hear little about, I was amazed that they allowed him the information that they did. Much preferred it to last weeks. My fav is still WDYTYA though ;D ;D
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I thought it was well worth missing. :) not a patch on Anne Kirkbride last week