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Offline greenrig

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BBC Who Do You Think You Are ? - New Series
« on: Friday 08 April 16 12:55 BST (UK) »
At WDYTYA Live yesterday in Birmingham, I asked some members of the production team about the likelihood of a new series of the TV programme. They replied that they have been commissioned to produce another series. No indication of content, although one researcher said she would "love to do Hugh Laurie".
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Re: BBC Who Do You Think You Are ? - New Series
« Reply #1 on: Friday 08 April 16 12:57 BST (UK) »
Quote from: greenrig on Friday 08 April 16 12:55 BST (UK)
... one researcher said she would "love to do Hugh Laurie".
That wasn't the question she was asked!

I've got a spreadsheet of all the episodes, which I mark off every time I watch one, just to see if I've seen them all yet .... and I seem to have seen many of the same ones several times, so still no wiser as to how many I've seen yet!

When I see celebs/similar dying I think "Awww, shame they weren't on WDYTYA before they left".  e.g. Ronnie Corbett last week.

So pleased the Bee Gees chap got to do his, one year before he died.
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Re: BBC Who Do You Think You Are ? - New Series
« Reply #2 on: Friday 08 April 16 16:10 BST (UK) »
I watch some episodes each time they are repeated, others just the once will do!
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Re: BBC Who Do You Think You Are ? - New Series
« Reply #3 on: Friday 08 April 16 16:20 BST (UK) »
I'd be delighted to have a NEW series. Especially if I knew WHO the "celebs" were ... often haven't heard of them prior to programme.
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Re: BBC Who Do You Think You Are ? - New Series
« Reply #4 on: Friday 08 April 16 16:52 BST (UK) »
Quote from: StanleysChesterton on Friday 08 April 16 12:57 BST (UK)
When I see celebs/similar dying I think "Awww, shame they weren't on WDYTYA before they left".  e.g. Ronnie Corbett last week.
So pleased the Bee Gees chap got to do his, one year before he died.

My "grab them before they go" list would have to include:
Mick Jagger
Professor Robert Winston
Sir Simon Rattle
Evelyn Glennie
Virginia Wade
Sir Clive Sinclair
Salman Rushdie
Bill Bailey

- people I enjoy watching or listening to!
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Re: BBC Who Do You Think You Are ? - New Series
« Reply #5 on: Friday 08 April 16 19:11 BST (UK) »
Mine would be:

Rod Stewart
Ken Bruce
Andy Bell (Erasure)
Eddie Izzard
Deborah Harry (US series)
and my dad (get the experts solving my family mysteries!)
McLeod, McKean, Hepburn (Fife)
McGowan, Gowan (Dumfriesshire, Ireland)
Nelson, McKean (Lanarkshire)
McKean, Mulgrew (Lethbridge, Alberta)
Boswell, Plumb, Lyon, Stokes, Pemberton, Crawford, Threadgold (Cheshire)
Tierney (Scotland/Ireland)

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Re: BBC Who Do You Think You Are ? - New Series
« Reply #6 on: Friday 08 April 16 21:27 BST (UK) »
Mine would be:-

John Nettles.
David Jason. His Welsh mothers father was John Jones born c1877 in Liverpool, they can find who his parents were.
Ross Kemp.
Steve McFadden.
Researching:

LONDON, Coombs, Roberts, Auber, Helsdon, Fradine, Morin, Goodacre
DORSET Coombs, Munday
NORFOLK Helsdon, Riches, Harbord, Budery
KENT Roberts, Goodacre
SUSSEX Walder, Boniface, Dinnage, Standen, Lee, Botten, Wickham, Jupp
SUFFOLK Titshall, Frost, Fairweather, Mayhew, Archer, Eade, Scarfe
DURHAM Stewart, Musgrave, Wilson, Forster
SCOTLAND Stewart in Selkirk
USA Musgrave, Saix
ESSEX Cornwell, Stock, Quilter, Lawrence, Whale, Clift
OXON Edgington, Smith, Inkpen, Snell, Batten, Brain

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Re: BBC Who Do You Think You Are ? - New Series
« Reply #7 on: Friday 08 April 16 22:19 BST (UK) »
Morrissey

Bryan Ferry

Nicola Sturgeon

Denis Law

Jenny Agutter

John Prescott

Lucy Worsley or Mary Beard if some of the above can't do it




SCOTLAND: Wardlaw Steen/Stein Tweedie McBride McEwan Pate/Peat Brown Somerville Bishop Farier/Ferrier Wood  Torrance Gibb Ross Dunlop Downs Richardson Ramsey Story Snaddon/Sneddon Auld Allan McLean McInnes Mason Law Lawson Kerr Cockburn Christie Ballingall Wardrope Weir Wallace Scott.
IRELAND: Welsh Clifford Lee Allingham Keane Dale Robinson Greer McVey Bingham Skelton Carson Broomfield Clark McEwan/McKeown McCreary McLaughlan.
YORKSHIRE: Cudworth Smith Cope Coulton Hainsworth

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Re: BBC Who Do You Think You Are ? - New Series
« Reply #8 on: Saturday 09 April 16 09:02 BST (UK) »
Chris Evans

Paul Weller

Jasper Carrott (born Robert Norman Davis)

Jon Bon Jovi  (just for my wife, then she might take an intrest in our hobby)

Jeremy Corbyn

Chris Kamara

Cheryl Tweedy
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Wild, - Claughton, Lancashire
Kay, - Longridge, Chipping, Ribchester
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