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 title this week shou;d be 'Where did you buy a banjo'

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.

Unless she suddenly finds out she is related to George Formby, this like the rest of the series is paint drying stuff.

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!!

This guy has made watching worthwhile!

The librarian you mean? He's rather cute, isn't he?

How bad must Parkinson's have been if his was deemed boring and this managed to get passed

Yes, that's what I meant

The story has suddenly got interesting as well.

The last time I saw this many Banjo's I was watching Deliverance.

I was looking forward to this week but again it's just one ancestor and dull as ditch water

OMG This has been dire

I don't want to hear the word banjo ever again

Is this national banjo week?

The programme should be re--titled Sheridan Smith has fun with her family

Terrible.

and on the next series...... Ashley Banjo ?

Why did they stop showing the US ones on BBC1? They showed half a series then stopped.

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.

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 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.

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 ?

Dull dull dull.
This series has been dire. Maybe they should rest it for a few years.