The
Investor's Business Daily blog has a
short article about how
Who Do You Think You Are? chooses the celebrities for its episodes. It mentions how celebrities are coming to them to have the program work on their family histories. It says the research is done beforehand and that not everyone has a story they deem worth telling, which we have heard about before, but also talks about some of what the celebrities go through to appear on the show. The only celebrity I have heard named who was rejected for the show was
Michael Parkinson, who was
turned down for the British version of the program. I wonder who the American producers have had to turn away?
It would appear that the reason this was covered on IDB was because Ancestry.com is now publicly traded, as its stock exchange abbrevation is given a link. An interesting note is a reference to the fact that WDYTYA had an increase in ratings last season, but no discussion about the
lower ratings for this season's two episodes.
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