British GENES (GEnealogy News and EventS)

Posted: 30 Jul 2012 04:31 AM PDT

The UK television series Who Do You Think You Are returns next months with a new run. This blog has already reported on Annie Lennox and John Bishop taking part (see http://britishgenes.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/annie-lennox-to-appear-in-wdytya.html and http://britishgenes.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/john-bishop-in-wdytya.html), but joining the line up are Samantha Womack, Alex Kingston, Celia Imrie, Patrick Stewart, William Roache, Hugh Dennis, John Barnes and Gregg Wallace.

According to the tie in magazine of the same name the provisional transmission date is August 15th, but BBC policy is not to formally announce confirmed schedules until two weeks prior to transmission, so this may still change. There is also a basic run through of themes covered at www.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com/news/who-do-you-think-you-are-2012-new-series-celebrities-revealed

Will Patrick Stewart actually turn out to have a mutant X gene? More soon!

(With thanks to Else Churchill @SoGGenealogist, and Who Do You Think You Are magazine)

Chris

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