TV Review: Who Do You Think You Are?, BBC One, Wednesday 27 August, 9pm

Published: August 28, 2008, 4:28 am

Tags: tv news, who do you think you are

We all know Jerry Springer from his schlocky TV show. (I had the dubious pleasure of visiting Chicago to be an audience member for one of his shows some years back. It still ranks as one of the most traumatic experience of my life. Chicago was lovely, I must stress.) But Jerry has had quite a life - born in a tube station in England, emigrated to America, embarked on a political career becoming both a presidential aide to Robert Kennedy and then, himself, mayor of Cincinnati. It's clear, from another extraordinary episode of WDYTYA?, that Jerry has been carrying some family pain for most of his life. If you missed the show and you're intending to catch up on your PVRs or the iPlayer, be warned... there was a lot of crying.

[ Full article ]

Blog link

Comments