‘Who Do You Think You Are?’: Celebs discover their roots
Posted on March 5, 2010
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“Who Do You Think You Are?” is first and foremost a TV show, and thus it requires the presence of stars and a story arc punctuated with dramatic moments, and it has all those things.
But the series, which premieres at 8 p.m. ET Friday (March 5) on NBC, doesn’t necessarily need all those things. In tracing their own roots, the celebrities who take part in the show get to tell larger American stories, and that’s pretty cool even without voiceover narration and music cues.
“Who Do You Think You Are?” is executive produced by “Friends” star Lisa Kudrow (who will be the subject of the March 19 episode) and based on a British series of the same name. Friday’s premiere features “Sex and the City” star Sarah Jessica Parker, who had assumed that she was primarily of German descent and that her family had only been in the United States since the mid-19th century.
She discovers, though, that there’s a lot more to it than that — tracing her roots all the way back to colonial Massachusetts.
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