Jason Donovan in Who Do You Think You Are?
Does Jason Donovan have ancestral ties to the man who helped build the first road that crossed the Blue Mountains?
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A new season of the excellent UK genealogy series Who Do You Think You Are? begins this Sunday night on SBS ONE, beginning with Jason Donovan.
In this episode Donovan talks with his father, actor Terry Donovan, about his childhood years and family life with estranged mother Sue, who is best known to TV audiences as former ABC News presenter Sue McIntosh. There’s not enough explained on what has taken place within the family here, which for a documentary of this nature feels remiss.
But Donovan later learns he his ancestry dates all the way back to convict Australia, including one distant relative who was instrumental in building the first road that crossed the impervious Blue Mountains.
This season has already aired on Pay Television but you can catch it from 7:30pm this Sunday on SBS ONE.
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Looks like I missed out. I forgot it is now June. If anyone can find it, I’d really like to watch it.
Hi Jenni,
There are a lot of Cox family descendents out there. I’m one and I know at least two others. My mother went to a reunion of descendents of William Cox in Tassie some years ago and there were literally hundreds of them. I’m looking forward to seeing the show on Sunday as I missed it.
I was impressed by William Cox. The firsthand account from a convicts ship diary of his humanitarian care of the convicts was nice to hear in an age where it would not have always been the case. Then the story of his leadership, earning the respect of his convict laborers by working with them on the road. The name William Cox rang a bell so I checked and sure enough, my husband’s Gt x 4 Grandfather, James Schofield, was on a list of convicts assigned to William Cox in 1823. It’s nice to know that he was fortunate enough to be in the care of such a man.
Sorry i missed Jason Donovan,s story on Sunday 22 may on SBS and was wondering if it is going to be replayed on Austar of free to air. We are part of the william Cox family .
Thank you
Jennie Cox
when the Jason Donovan episode aired in the UK my blog got a massive avalanche of visits from Brits wanting to find out about Sue McIntosh. Most of them landed on an article about The Paul Hogan Show 🙂
i’ve been a fan of the Australian version of the show, and a semi-fan of this UK version, but i will be tuning in to see Jason Donovan’s story. Good to see SBS still airing this good documentary (factual) series
Who else will be in this season pls?
I didn’t think I was going to like this episode, but it’s actually really good, and the story of the road in the Blue Mountains is fascinating.
I didn’t specifically time the ep, but it is scheduled for an hour on SBS. BBC often sell shorter international versions of some shows.
I caught this on BBC Knowledge about 6 months ago, great series.
David on BBC it runs for just under 60 minutes (without ads) can I assume that SBS has the shorter 50 min edited version?
Looking forward to this season of WDYTYR?
MDA was one of my favourite shows, and he was excellent in the role of Richard Savage.
I love this series.
Can’t wait for this new episode.
This will be good, I really like Jason, a much underrated theatre performer here.
David, FWIW on the genealogy forums in the UK this episode was highly regarded as one of the best.