Who Do You Think You Are? - Seventh Series

[Keeweegal]

Just thought I would poke my nose in from 'Down Under'  on Foxtel last night we had 'Vic Reeves' or James Leigh? comedian.   Absolutely fascinating family history on his mums side.   What series was this person in?     We must be behind over here in Aus.

Kimberly 

[RJ_Paton]

Just thought I would poke my nose in from 'Down Under'  on Foxtel last night we had 'Vic Reeves' or James Leigh? comedian.   Absolutely fascinating family history on his mums side.   What series was this person in?     We must be behind over here in Aus.

Kimberly 

Vic reeves was in Series 1 - the next one in the UK will be series 7

[Keeweegal]

 

Thanks Falkryn....I guess we're not down under for nothing.     

Are these on DVD by any chance? it might be quicker than waiting for the next 6 series.

Kimberly

[RJ_Paton]

Certainly the first three series are available on DVD I don't know about the rest of them

(Checking the BBC shop site only shows series 1 & 2 as available but they are taking advance orders for series 4)

[Keeweegal]

  Cheers

Kimberly

[Ruskie]

Kimberly,

Don't be too worried, they don't appear to be showing the episodes in any particular order. Some of the later ones have been aired here.

Too late now, but if you have pay TV, last weekend you missed three days of back to back WDYTYA's on BBC Knowledge - and they were not shown in any particular order.  They aired from 1 pm to 11pm. Most enjoyable though I'd seen them all before. 

I agree though, you don't have to know the celebs to enjoy the show. I also thought Jodie Kidd was an interesting one. I did know who she was though. 

[Keeweegal]

Hiya Ruskie 

Thanks for the heads up..

Am off to the land of the long white cloud for a couple of weeks.....have set foxtel iq onto record....will have to have lotsa bags of chippies and guiness for catching up when I get back. 

Kimberly

[c-side]

Back to series 7 - I know that Kate Humble gets to the Institute of Mining in Newcastle upon Tyne at some point - apparently she has some mining roots.

It might be worth watching just to see the inside of their library - fabulous building with some extremely old books.

C

[Gaille]

I just hope its better than the last series.

For me it seemed to spend about half the show on one person and then the rest of the show rushing thru the rest of the generations.

Cant rememeber who it was but one show spent half an hour on the persons father being in a phsyciatric hospital - which he already knew about - and then went back to his grandparents who he also knew, and 1 person from a previous generation,so at the end of the programme all he had actually learnt was the name of 1 person.

I watched it with mum & dad (I find its a good way of getting them remembering stuff lol) but even dad said at the end of the series it was more concentrated on 'Social history' than researching family history.

Only difference was Kevin Whateley the last in the series, but someone told me his was 'left over' from the previous series, hope the new series is more like that tho!

Have to wait n see when it starts tho,

Gaille