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The family tree-tracing series will not return.
May 15, 2012
NBC has cancelled Who Do You Think You Are after three seasons. The genealogy documentary series, which premiered in March 2010, followed one celebrity in each episode as they traced back through their family tree to learn about their roots.
The show aired a total of 27 episodes and featured such stars such as Matthew Broderick, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Martin Sheen. The series finale is set to air this Friday, May 18, 2012.
Comments (129)
05/17/12 at 11:10am
Oh no, my mother is going to be livid. She loved this show!
05/17/12 at 09:37am
I love this show I wish they would do my family history so I would know where I came from
05/16/12 at 10:08pm
This is a shame ... I love this show so much ... it pulls at my heart strings ... and makes me want to be closer to my family.
This show was my personal quiet time show ... I will miss this program very much.
Kim
This show was my personal quiet time show ... I will miss this program very much.
Kim
05/16/12 at 09:08pm
With the US version the history of the family tree can only realistically go back as far as the age of the nation before it becomes a case of 'they came from somewhere else' and unless the show is willing to travel and research the family history there the story just ends.
With the original BBC version (with British celebs\actors etc.) they tend to follow the family tree as far as they possibly can (In one case linking someone back through heraldry to a king and back through the rolls ultimately by divine right to God him\herself!) even if that means going around the world to do it and they don't shy away from nasty family stories and stick to the nicer heroic and inspiring stories like the US version.
With the original BBC version (with British celebs\actors etc.) they tend to follow the family tree as far as they possibly can (In one case linking someone back through heraldry to a king and back through the rolls ultimately by divine right to God him\herself!) even if that means going around the world to do it and they don't shy away from nasty family stories and stick to the nicer heroic and inspiring stories like the US version.
05/16/12 at 08:55pm
I can't believe they are cancelling one of the shows that holds the highest interest for me every week. I love genealogy along with the history lessons it teaches. It seems the shows with appeal to folks with brains always get the axe. Sad commentary.
05/16/12 at 10:49am
I agree with Connie. I look forward to this show every week. There are few shows that require you to stop and think about how REAL (not reality) life actually works, and this show does make us think about how our actions today will effect generations to come by looking back at how the generation's actions before us effected our daily lifeds. Please do not cancel.
05/16/12 at 10:43am
I love this show! No blood or guts or swearing, just an interesting, entertaining show.
05/15/12 at 07:54pm
sure do like the show of "Who Do You Think You Are, I think it helps people to get closer to there families. When we get a great thing on television you want to take it off. I think its good for our upcoming young people to no who there ancestors are. Pray that you change your minds and not take this off. You don't have to have special people on the show, any one would help that likes genealogist.
05/15/12 at 04:47pm
Who cares about celebrity's family tree?
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