Yes, it really has been dull this year. Wonder if they just can't find any decent background stuff or have they changed the emphasis of the programme. I like Sheridan but this is dull stuff.
The cynic in me thinks we can see cuts in the BBC's programme budgets at work - it's cheaper and quicker to pay one researcher to focus on one story than a team of researchers following several different leads.
The cynic in me thinks we can see cuts in the BBC's programme budgets at work - it's cheaper and quicker to pay one researcher to focus on one story than a team of researchers following several different leads.
Remember when the celebrities on this show delved into their family's past as far back as the 18th and 17th century? (and some even further back than that)
What's with all the stopping in the late 1800's? Even I could do that without much effort and research.
There's been so much superfluous padding in this series it's ridiculous.....with Brendan O'Carroll's not even sticking with the show's mission statement.
Unless she suddenly finds out she is related to George Formby, this like the rest of the series is paint drying stuff.
Though George Formby played the Banjolele not a Banjo.
I quite enjoyed the programme, far better than last week. OK, she got emotional but many people do when learning about ancestors.
I suspect that if we read back then we would find that when they did two or more 'stories' per programme then there would be people moaning that they could not go into enough detail because of lack of time.
It was really self - indulgent. Her learning to play banjo, then we had to see her playing it for daddy (not for both of them, as she sat on the couch with her back to her mother, only daddy is in her world), and watching the pouty, well-paused sniffs made me remember why I had stopped following her on twitter.
As all have said - this new format for the programme is just boring, frankly.
I almost think they could do better with ordinary people who make extraordinary discoveries. BBC have to get off this limited look at a family tree.... nothing unusual, nothing to help the rest of us who want to learn how to do our own search, etc.
I found it quite enjoyable because Sheridan has such an infectious personality. But this series has been nothing like the old WDYTYA that used to be so compulsive viewing.
Focussing an entire episode on one ancestor isn't really what the original programme set out to do. There might be room for a new, different type of series like this, but why change a successful winning formula ?
When I turned it off after about 15 mins., I said to my wife that I felt that could hear TVs the length and breadth of the country doing the same. We don't seem to have missed much
I had to google her, anyway; , (ignoring Heartbeat, etc. I think I've only seem one thing she's been in, 7.39)
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Half an hour in and we've learned her great grandad played the banjo - riveting!
The cynic in me thinks we can see cuts in the BBC's programme budgets at work - it's cheaper and quicker to pay one researcher to focus on one story than a team of researchers following several different leads.
They havent travelled very far either.
I am losing the will to live and was looking forward to this one.
Edit. And these were the best peoples pasts they could find!!
The librarian you mean? He's rather cute, isn't he?
Yes, that's what I meant ;-)
The story has suddenly got interesting as well.
I don't want to hear the word banjo ever again >:(
The programme should be re--titled Sheridan Smith has fun with her family
Terrible.
and on the next series...... Ashley Banjo ?
What's with all the stopping in the late 1800's? Even I could do that without much effort and research.
There's been so much superfluous padding in this series it's ridiculous.....with Brendan O'Carroll's not even sticking with the show's mission statement.
Though George Formby played the Banjolele not a Banjo.
I quite enjoyed the programme, far better than last week. OK, she got emotional but many people do when learning about ancestors.
I suspect that if we read back then we would find that when they did two or more 'stories' per programme then there would be people moaning that they could not go into enough detail because of lack of time.
As all have said - this new format for the programme is just boring, frankly.
I was just trying to think of a famous plucker. Or was he a strummer, not a plucker.
For me the program turned out shite again.
Focussing an entire episode on one ancestor isn't really what the original programme set out to do. There might be room for a new, different type of series like this, but why change a successful winning formula ?
This series has been dire. Maybe they should rest it for a few years.
I had to google her, anyway; , (ignoring Heartbeat, etc. I think I've only seem one thing she's been in, 7.39)