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Who do you think you are - USA

  • 26-05-2010 9:21pm
    #1
    amdublin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,653 ✭✭✭✭


    How many bloody ads can RTE show for this???!!!!

    Talk about overkill!!!!


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  • #2
    RubyBlu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 300 ✭✭RubyBlu


    What time is it on?


  • #3
    Our man in Havana
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,473 ✭✭✭✭Our man in Havana


    Thursday. 22.25
    HISTORY DOCUMENTARY: Who Do You Think You Are?
    On: RTÉ 1 (101)
    Date: Thursday 27th May 2010 (starting tomorrow evening)
    Time: 22:25 to 23:15 (50 minutes long)

    Susan Sarandon attempts to trace her enigmatic grandmother, Anita Rigali, who disappeared when Susan's mother Leonora was a child.
    (Subtitles, Part 2, 3 Star)
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    Excerpt taken from DigiGuide - the world's best TV guide available from http://www.getdigiguide.com/?p=1&r=270652

    Copyright (c) GipsyMedia Limited.


  • #4
    Basq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,295 ✭✭✭✭Basq


    I tried watching the UK version or this.. and the US version.

    Couldn't get into it at all!


  • #5
    JP Liz V1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 89,454 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    Its all to tie in with the SATC 2 movie release thats why its promoted so much
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  • #6
    Our man in Havana
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,473 ✭✭✭✭Our man in Havana


    JP Liz V1 wrote: »
    Its all to tie in with the SATC 2 movie release thats why its promoted so much
    Yawn!


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  • #7
    Clementine
    Closed Accounts Posts: 77 ✭✭Clementine


    I've watched some of these- Sarah Jessica Parkers one and Lisa Kudrow's- and they were awful. Really awful. The BBC ones are far far better.

    The American version has a preview at the beginning and end of each segment before it cuts to ads (given it's American, there are a lot of these segments) and it's done in the style of "Next, Sarah Jessica uncovers a mystery that will change her family history, forever!".

    In fairness, it is interesting that some of them can trace their ancestors back to 1600's but the voiceover and editing style that it's presented in is akin to Hells Kitchen US.


  • #8
    RubyBlu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 300 ✭✭RubyBlu


    I really enjoyed the UK one. America usually 'dumbs down' these shows and they are terrible, almost lose the documentary style and become fiction due to all the editing.

    I'll still check it out.


  • #9
    mikom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    Clementine wrote: »
    "Next, Sarah Jessica uncovers a mystery that will change her family history, forever!".

    Her father was Shergar?


  • #10
    Bogger77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,857 ✭✭✭Bogger77


    mikom wrote: »
    Her father was Shergar?
    No, but she has a lovely daughter!


  • #11
    Basq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,295 ✭✭✭✭Basq


    Bogger77 wrote: »
    No, but she has a lovely daughter!
    Indeed! This is a photo of them together..

    Baby-Horse.jpg

    Ah no.. it's all been done before!


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  • #12
    krpc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 619 ✭✭✭krpc


    basquille wrote: »
    Indeed! This is a photo of them together..

    Baby-Horse.jpg

    Ah no.. it's all been done before!

    3 Mobile? Neigh! Neigh! Neigh!


  • #13
    Bogger77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,857 ✭✭✭Bogger77


    I meant her
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  • #14
    amacachi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,316 ✭✭✭✭amacachi


    basquille wrote: »
    I tried watching the UK version or this.. and the US version.

    Couldn't get into it at all!

    How can you not get into the UK version? :S

    The Ainsley Harriet episode is one of the funniest things I've ever seen. :pac:


  • #15
    Basq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,295 ✭✭✭✭Basq


    amacachi wrote: »
    How can you not get into the UK version? :S

    The Ainsley Harriet episode is one of the funniest things I've ever seen. :pac:
    Well.. i saw the Jeremy Clarkson one, so maybe that was a particularly bad episode!


  • #16
    amacachi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,316 ✭✭✭✭amacachi


    basquille wrote: »
    Well.. i saw the Jeremy Clarkson one, so maybe that was a particularly bad episode!

    Haven't seen that one. The Jerry Springer episode is excellent as well. Definitely track down the Ainsley Harriet episode, I don't know if you'll find it funny like I did but it is a great little bit of TV. The Nicky Campbell episode is good too. Hmmm, actually I've hugely enjoyed most every episode I've seen. :P


  • #17
    Adelante
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 110 ✭✭Adelante


    Sorry didnt realise thread was already started, mods feel free to close or move thanks


  • #18
    Caprica
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 889 ✭✭✭Caprica


    This is not a patch on the UK version, the yanks have dumbed it down and coated it in sugar. On the Uk one I would really recommend the Jerry Springer, Natasha Kiplinksy and Kim Catrall.

    Who is that doing the voiceover? Is he Irish?


  • #19
    Our man in Havana
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,473 ✭✭✭✭Our man in Havana


    I suspect they have re-dubbed the narration with an Irish actor.


  • #20
    jos28
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,224 ✭✭✭jos28


    Caprica wrote: »
    TOn the Uk one I would really recommend the Jerry Springer, Natasha Kiplinksy and Kim Catrall.

    Have to agree, the Kim Catrall episode was excellent.


  • #21
    mandz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 526 ✭✭✭mandz


    jos28 wrote: »
    Have to agree, the Kim Catrall episode was excellent.

    Don't let SJP hear you say that...Don't they both allegedly "hate" each other?!


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  • #22
    Poly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,807 ✭✭✭Poly


    The Jeremy Paxman one was very good


  • #23
    snickerpuss
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,055 ✭✭✭snickerpuss


    I really like the UK version of the show but this one was just horrible. The tacky music, the incessant recaps, her continually saying WOW AMAZING OH MY GOD! Ugh. Won't be watching it again. Or will to complain bitterly all the way through :-p


  • #24
    irishh_bob
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,700 ✭✭✭irishh_bob


    the one thing i learned from this show is that sarah sea biscuit wasnt acting in sex and shoes


  • #25
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,247 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    amdublin wrote: »
    How many bloody ads can RTE show for this???!!!!

    Talk about overkill!!!!

    I decided to watch it today and it took a hell of a time, even on fast forward, to get through the ads. Edit: the break was actually 5.75 minutes!:eek:

    I hope that RTE didn't spend too much money on it, because it was unwatchable, for all of the reasons above. Each time a new fact emerged, it was like the moment in Pimp My Ride when the person sees their refurbished car for the first time.:eek:


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