This article by Megan Smolenyak was posted at the Huffington Post: HBO’s Family Tree First of Four Genealogy Series to Air in U.S. Posted: 05/02/2013 10:29 am Though there’s been a bit of a vacuum in genealogical programming in the U.S. over the last year or so, that’s happily about to change. First up is [...]
Information about the new show to air was found on the blog at SFGate.com. The new PBS show will begin filming and airing in San Fransico. Here is and excerpt from the articles: PBS and KQED, the Bay Area’s public media outlet, are teaming up to create a new TV series combining the proven popularity [...]
The following excerpt is from an article a the February 7, 2013 edition of KSTP.com: If you’ve ever heard a good “Sven and Ole” joke, you can credit that to the large Scandinavian population that settled in Minnesota. Nearly 10 percent of our population has Swedish ancestors. According to the 2000 Census, 586,000 Swedish-Americans have [...]
The following teasor is from the September 20, 2012 edition of Bloomberg Businessweek: Cross you fingers, and hope… A few prayors couldn’t hurt. Discovery Communications Inc. (DISCA)’s TLC is in talks to pick up “Who Do You Think You Are,” a show that works with Ancestry.com Inc. (ACOM) to unearth the genealogy of celebrities, two [...]
The following excerpt is from prefixmag.com: Actor/writer/director Christopher Guest is set to co-write (with Jim Piddock) and hopefully direct a new show entitled Family Tree. Starring Bridesmaids’ Chris O’Dowd, the mockumentary series has been picked up by HBO and a deal with BBC is in talks. The series would follow Tom Chadwick (O’Dowd) as he [...]
The following is from the RealityWanted.com website. The announcement was posted on July 11, and will close on July 20. It’s for New York city residents only. Casting Call Information City: New York Area State: NJ, NY Have you ever wondered where your ancestors came from thousands of years ago? Do you have a burning [...]
The following excerpt is from an article at the chortle.co.uk website: IT Crowd star Chris O’Dowd is set to star in a semi-improvised TV comedy made by Spinal Tap’s Christopher Guest. Guest is working with Best In Show actor Jim Piddock on the genealogy comedy Family Tree, entertainment website Vulture reports. Following the success of [...]
It was announced today that NBC is cancelling the popular genealogy show “Who Do You Think You Are?,” at the end of this season. Be that as it may, this season isn’t over yet and this Friday will feature an all new episode. This week features Paula Deen, the famous southern-style chef. Synopsis: Just how [...]
The following news release was received from Regine Labossiere: What does it mean to be Latino? This Sunday, the season finale of Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., the PBS TV series that explores race and identity through the genealogy of some of America’s best-known personalities, seeks to answer that question. Through the [...]
The following excerpt is from Reuters website of May 14, 2012. Shares fell 18% on the news that NBC’s Who Do You Think You Are? is being cancelled for a fourth season. (Reuters) – Ancestry.com (ACOM.O) shares fell 18 percent on Monday after U.S. network NBC decided not to renew the company’s TV show for [...]
This Friday, 11 May, will feature comedian Jason Sudeikis. A journey into his father’s side of the family brings Jason to the coal mines of Pennsylvania, where he discovers surprising facts about his ancestors’ immigration to America. The show airs Friday, 11 May 2012, at 8pm/7pm Central. Click here to view a preview.
The following excerpt is from a short article titled Finding Fake Roots in the Gene Expressions column, written by Razib Khan for Discovery Magazine. You can see that he’s not impressed by the seeming oversimplification of genetic results used for family history: I haven’t watched much of Henry Louis Gates Jr.’s Finding Your Roots series. [...]
The following is excerpted from an interesting article posted on the May 7, 2012 edition of Hollywood.com: The Social Network star, the daughter of legendary African-American producer Quincy Jones and Jewish actress Peggy Lipton, embarked on a journey to uncover her maternal roots on genealogy show Who Do You Think You Are? and her research, [...]
Whose behind all that great genealogy programming currently available on television. Here is an article from the South Florida Times about once company make big contributions to the little screen. [Call we still call it the little screen when some TVs look big enough to rival the "big screen" experience? -- just a side thought.] [...]
“Finding Your Roots” with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is the twelfth such series from Professor Gates. This 10 part series featuring the individual genealogies began March 25 on Sunday nights. Now, there are only three episodes left. Like “Who Do You Think You Are?,” which took its queues from Henry Gates’ work, “Finding Your Roots” [...]
