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Returning: Who Do You Think You Are?

British genealogy series Who Do You Think You Are? returns with new episodes on SBS this month.

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British genealogy series Who Do You Think You Are? returns with new episodes on SBS ONE from Sunday, 18 July at 7.30pm.

The UK version returns to the network featuring six UK celebrities who trace their family trees, but begins midway through Season Seven.

In the first episode of the series, award-winning comedian, actor and writer David Mitchell goes in search of his Scottish roots.

David knows the Mitchells were wealthy sheep farmers and for almost a hundred years, three generations of the family held a farm but mysteriously gave up the lease in 1933. David wants to know why they abandoned a sheep farming tradition that went back so many years.

David is also keen to discover more about another branch of his Scottish family – the Forbes. Using a book written by his great-great-grandfather Alexander Forbes as the starting point for his journey, he travels to the Isle of Skye. His investigation leads him to discover Alexander’s father, John Forbes, was a Church of Scotland minister who helped rescue girls from his parish who had been trafficked to work in a mill in Manchester.

However, the story takes an unexpected turn when David discovers some old church papers and John Forbes’s will. These documents reveal another, more disturbing side to his ancestor’s character.

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  2. Does anyone like the way they pick and chose the episodes. Rather then show in order. I know that they pick people that are known in Australia still. The still should be held up by the stories who cares if no one in Australia has heard of X or Y

  3. I think what makes the UK version the best, apart from pioneering it in the first place, is that the celebrities all seem to be genuinely fascinated by the history, rather than excited by the discovery.

  4. The Kim Cattrall one is a wonderful revealing and heartfelt journey. Her journey on the UK series is such a contrast to the lacklustre and “Oh my god” and “unnnbeleivableee” Sarah Jessica Parker on the light and US geared version.

  6. i can’t wait for the English version to return. I’ve been enjoyed the Australian repeats lately,

    David Mitchell is a good celebrity. I havent heard of him much except on his guest appearances on the QI show (on abc1), in which he’s good

  7. Season seven features Kim Cattrall from Sex and the City. I saw part of that episode on a Qantas flight from Melbourne to Sydney but missed the ending, so I can’t wait to see this one. Season eight (which starts in the UK at the end of July) features Jason Donovan, Rupert Everett, Alan Cumming and Dervla Kirwan.

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