Long Lost Family
Brian Reynolds
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I have just watched one of the most moving stories that I have ever seen on Long Lost Family - in which a woman was reunited with both her mother and her father.
What I don't understand is - why is this new series having its first airing on itv3 when previous series were so successful on itv1 ?
What I don't understand is - why is this new series having its first airing on itv3 when previous series were so successful on itv1 ?
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Last series was on July/August time IIRC and sometimes the meetings are filmed quite close to transmission
Let's just start on this one shall we?
I sit in tears at every episode.
How can you not? So much loss, so much love, so much emotion.
Glad the other person found his brother, he looked so like his mum. Sad she had passed away.
I thought Corinne looked very different afterwards. Younger and more relaxed.
No comments, as yet, on last Wednesday's episode. Or have I missed another thread ?
I was under the impression that it was a really popular programme - although, IMO, very 'fairy- tale.'
They never show when this process goes wrong and, sadly, in 'real life' - it does frequently.
I think there have been episodes in the past where the captions at the end have said that people have not got on well and broken off contact.
They obviously need permission from all parties involved sp if the "process goes wrong" then quite likely they will not get permission.
'Tis true - but I can't remember a 'no further contact' on any of the end captions.
I meant that the presenters never mention that these searches might well end up in tears - thus perpetuating their usual fairytale endings.
There was one episode in one of the early series where a woman was looking for her biological father. He came across as a bit odd, and a bit sleazy to be honest. At the end of the episode, the captions implied that they'd decided not to have any more contact, though they didn't use those exact words.
I missed last week's episode, will have to watch it on catch up.
I don't get quite the same feeling of God's Waiting Room that I sometimes do from ITV. Maybe it's a pitch for a younger audience, or maybe it's just to do with different adoption protocols. Obviously they have five times the population to draw on.
Didn't empathise with the girl and her Dad = seemed very staged. The bloke from Oz and his sister/half-siblings was OK. Not the best ep IMO....
I so agree
He went to an EXCLUSIVE boarding school, they made a point of saying that. I guess his Mum didn't want her darling boy held back by a pregnant girlfriend after spending a fortune on his education. I am not sure that is forgivable.
No details on his life now. They do usually say something like 'now married and living with his wife and with 3 adult children ..... But nothing on him at all
I did get the slight impression he may now dance at the other end of the ballroom, although I could be entirely wrong.
In the ITV programme, Nicky Campbell was adopted within days of birth ad later in life traced his birth mother and father.
Davina McCall, while not adopted, was brought up by her paternal grandparents from the age of 3 until she was 13 when she went to live with her father. In Davina's opinion her mother was ill-suited to motherhood.