BBC "Who Do You Think You Are?" Paul Hollywood (WDYTYA Series 12 Episode 1)

[ScouseBoy]

Did anyone get a clear view of the medals?

Was the Africa star and the Italy Star clearly shown?

[Mowsehowse]

Did anyone get a clear view of the medals?

Was the Africa star and the Italy Star clearly shown?

I have just checked this out on i-player.  I don't think anything was said about the stars in particular, although you can spot brief, partial views of them.

[ScouseBoy]

Anyone who missed it in the UK, I believe there is a repeat on one of the channels this evening.

[nanny jan]

Anyone who missed it in the UK, I believe there is a repeat on one of the channels this evening.

It's on BBC1 at 11.35pm.

[loobylooayr]

Just caught this episode on iPlayer.

WDYTYA has always been one of my favourite TV programmes and in the early years I would be glued to the screen. However the last series found my attention starting to drift. And this first episode of series 12 had me opening another Window (I watched it on my laptop) and checking my emails within the first 20 mins. Perhaps I'm just getting bored with the format - the same old same old .
I don't watch Bake Off , so I although I knew who Paul H was , I've never watched him before. Can't say I took to him although he did seem interested and moved by both his Grandad's story and Donald the Post's too.
Personally and with apologises I found the WW2 history a bit dreich. No doubt it was interesting to Paul but another "what my father/grandpa did in the war" segment seemed like the same old same old I referred to above. I found the Scottish history (honest I'm not biased) a bit more interesting but even at that, we the viewers never got a proper look at Census records or the OPR record.
Lastly, I just hope that the next time I visit some remote old graveyard to search for a GGG-granny some anoraked expert pops up to lead me to the exact location and show me a chapter written about her in someone's book .   I wish !!

Don't know who is next? I'll probably watch it and hope it gets a bit more exciting.

Looby

[dawnsh]

Some of us will have been with wdytya? since the first series and at times, the format might be a bit stale and the stories familiar.

But people start their family history all the time and for them, this is all new and exciting.

[silvery]

Some of us will have been with wdytya? since the first series and at times, the format might be a bit stale and the stories familiar.

But people start their family history all the time and for them, this is all new and exciting.

It's hard to believe that anyone just thinking about starting would have found the Hollywood programme exciting.   I think it would have put people off instead.  Talk about dreary - WW11 and scenery.

[Mowsehowse]

But people start their family history all the time and for them, this is all new and exciting.

Agree, but many of the comments here, have been wanting more about how it was done, which would be useful for "newbies" too.

[cms]

The next one is Jane Seymour and we have been told that it involves life under the Nazis. Again!