WDYTYA is coming to SBSTV in OZ

[trish251]

I've just watched the Nigella repeat on English tv  (boxing day morning) hadn't seen that one.   I wonder if we'll get to see the Australian series.  I would love to see it.   
Who is producing the series, perhaps I could drop them and email.

You might find some information here - I did have a link to the production company earlier - but (of course) I can't find it now!
http://programs.sbs.com.au/whodoyouthinkyouare/

Martin -  no doubt in Australia ancestry are sponsers of the programs, as SBS now carries advertising - we get ads for ancestry during the program

Trish

[downside]

Trish

People outside Australia get this message if they click on your link.

This website is only available in Australia and its territories.

[deeiluka]

Try this link to find out about the DVD of the Australian series of 6 episodes.....

http://www.dymocks.com.au/ProductDetails/ProductDetail.aspx?R=9322225065673

It will cost 29.95 Australian dollars plus appropriate postage.

I suspect the Australian episodes may have a different slant to those from the UK.

......dee

[trish251]

Trish

People outside Australia get this message if they click on your link.

This website is only available in Australia and its territories.

How poor is that!!!!!!!!!!!  Blimey I'm on the BBC website all the time - glad they let me in   

I'll see if I can find anything useful

Trish

[trish251]

About the production - from the site you cannot see

Developed and first produced by a British production company, Wall To Wall Television, the format has been a hit since it premiered on the BBC in 2004, inspiring millions of Britons to research their family trees. Sydney-based executive producer Margie Bryant of Serendipity Productions and Perth-based executive producer Brian Beaton of Artemis International saw the first episode when it screened in the UK and together optioned the rights as a co-production. Film Australia came on board as the main investor and production partner with all players working closely with the local network investor SBS Independent and WA state investors ScreenWest and Lotterywest to shape the series.

Although based on a deceptively simple idea, making the series involved months of research and planning, with each celebrity carefully cast so that their personal journey unlocked a different theme in Australia’s development as a nation.

“It’s one of the most challenging things I’ve ever done,” Bryant says. “The whole signing up of celebrities was really difficult because even if they had an interest in the idea, the amount of time we were requiring was more than most of them took for their annual holidays.”

WDYTYA is a Film Australia National Interest Program, Serendipity Productions and Artemis International production in association with Screenwest, Lottery West, and SBS Independent.

Format devised by Wall to Wall Media Ltd and based upon a programme originally produced in the UK by Wall to Wall Media Ltd.

Format licensed by Wall to Wall Media Ltd.

Some other links
http://www.screenwest.com.au/
http://www.artemisfilms.com/about_us.htm
http://www.filmaust.com.au/

One of the links for Oz family history I hadn't seen before (no doubt someone has it in the Oz links that I haven't checked) - but it seems to have a useful number of resources listed
http://www.cohsoft.com.au/afhc/

Trish

(I hope the links work outside Oz - somewhat difficult for me to check)

[jc26red]

Hi Trish,
How strange, Dee had given me a link a long time ago and it worked then from the UK. I expect Wall to Wall will wait to see how popular it is in Aus then buy the series from Serendipity back for the BBC - thats what usually happens when we sell our programs to the USA. Though they usually change the format so much they ruin it  Australian and Canadian versions of our programs are usually quite good though.

One word of caution to anyone wanting to buy a DVD outside their own country, the formats are different and may not play on your DVD player if you don't have a multi-region player. A DVD player in your pc only allows up to 4 region changes before it sticks to the last one!!!!  Australia and the UK use different formats 

[deeiluka]

Thanks for the warning, JC. I should have remembered that! Another senior's moment.....   

That's decided me .....I'll have to try to locate the UK DVDs somewhere in Oz! As the local library has the first series, they must be available somewhere in the format we can use.

And it seems the Oz DVDs won't be much use to you.   

.....dee

[jc26red]

I only have multi-region players Dee

We tend to buy DVDs wherever we travel and my old laptop was bought in NZ so would play anthing from Australia anyway...

jc

[MarieC]

Thanks, all you busy researchers, I'm much more enlightened about the making of the series now!! 

Do hope the BBC will screen ours for you in the UK, or alternatively that you'll be able to find a compatible DVD format to buy it.  Dymocks Bookstores are the licensed resellers for all SBS programme material in Australia.

I'm still looking forward very much to ours.  And to seeing a few more of the UK episodes!

MarieC