Roy Stockdill wrote in message news:mailman.0.1371381989.681.genbrit@rootsweb.com... >A new series starts on ITVI on Tuesday June 25, made by Wall To Wall >Television, the same people who make Who Do You Think You Are? (snip) >Now, don't get me wrong, I am sure it will be an interesting series, >I know >some of the Wall to Wall People (indeed, I was in one of their >programmes >about the comedian John Bishop) and I recognise the exigencies of >television >demand a bit of emotion! However, am I being unfair in thinking these >showbiz >luvvies can turn on the tears and emotion to demand? Clearly, none of >them can >be family historians since people such as ourselves would take it all >in our >stride! Wouldn't we??? It's the tears on demand that's made me very selective when watching "Who Do You Think You Are".. I'm going to have to watch this on the iPad since my cable company doesn't get the ITV stable, so it's going to have to be good to keep me watching... Thanks for the reminder, though, Lesley Robertson

On 19/06/2013 17:27, Lesley Robertson wrote: > > It's the tears on demand that's made me very selective when watching > "Who Do You Think You Are".. I'm going to have to watch this on the iPad > since my cable company doesn't get the ITV stable, so it's going to have > to be good to keep me watching... > Thanks for the reminder, though, I thank Roy for the WARNING rather than the Reminder! The amount of sentimental tosh and ridiculous tears that we get in WDYTYA drives me mad enough, but it sounds as though the proportion of slush to good stuff in this programme will be far too high for me. -- Jenny M Benson