‘Who Do You Think You Are?’ Returns In June To BBC – Lloyd Webber, Claire Foy, Bear Grylls, Chris Ramsey & More
The two-time BAFTA award-winning genealogy show ‘Who Do You Think You Are?‘ returns to the BBC in early June 2023, and features nine new celebrities on extremely personal journeys as they each delve into unknown family ancestry.
This newest series is, once again, filled with astonishing revelations for the celebrities who have chosen to bare all in the show. Musical theatre master Andrew Lloyd Webber unearths uncanny parallels between his life and the lives of his ancestors. Actor and comedian Emily Atack discovers that she, Ryan Reynolds and a certain football club have a lot more in common than she might ever have guessed. Award-winning actors Claire Foy and Lesley Manville dive head-first into their family histories only to stumble upon stories worthy of any TV drama. Claire finds out that her family were caught up in a murder trial and Lesley learns how an ancestor fighting for workers’ rights ended up paying a very heavy price.
Meanwhile, Strictly Come Dancing winner and actor Kevin Clifton and broadcaster & DJ Dev Griffin find themselves travelling overseas on the trail of their ancestors. Kevin ends up in one of the most remote places in Canada and Dev travels to Jamaica where he’s surprised by some very personal records about his great-grandparents. Comedian, podcaster and TV host Chris Ramsey comes to realise that the saying “you make your own luck” might be one of the aptest phrases applied to his family’s past as he discovers some extraordinary survival stories and an ancestor who won a very unusual lottery.
Twin doctors and presenters Chris and Xand van Tulleken make their ‘Who Do You Think You Are?’ journey together, on the trail of their Dutch ancestry, and adventurer Bear Grylls is delighted to end up in the wild, surprisingly through a royal connection.
“As one of Britain’s most beloved documentary series returns for series 20, the line-up of household names, and the array of astonishing family histories, grow from strength to strength,” said Simon Young, BBC Head of History. “This series is often imitated but never bettered, and this latest edition demonstrates why.”
‘Who Do You Think You Are?’ is produced by Wall to Wall Media, Executive Produced by Colette Flight and series produced by Victoria Bell. The format is distributed by Warner Bros. International Television Production.
‘Who Do You Think You Are?‘ Season 20 does not have an exact premiere date yet, but will air on BBC One and iPlayer in early June 2023. If you want to keep track of this or any other show, you can add them via our Never Miss system, and you’ll be notified when it gets a UK premiere date.
