General Chat

I suppose that the researchers must have had to contact the Australian branch of the family while the program was being made, otherwise there could have been problems with both giving information and showing the photos of possible living people.
It must have been an awful shock to them though, and it was obviously difficult for the mother and aunts who had been left to learn of what had happened to their father.

Just watched the Kim Cattrell one on bbci player, and think it is one of the best ever.

Her g.mother, uneducated and unskilled must have struggled to bring up her three daughters, but she obviously brought them up well, as they all appear to have done well in educating themselves, and now have comfortable lives.

So glad they have made contact with their half siblings, and hope they can enjoy their twilight years getting to know them better. Pity a half sister died before they found them.

I really enjoyed This weeks program with Kim Cateral, I felt for her mum and aunts it must have been awful for them to finely know about what happened to their father and that he had another family and that they were well looked after and the three girls were having a desperate time, I too would have been angry like Kim if it had been my relative.
Hope next weeks is as good.

In case anyone is wondering who it's going to be in next week's programme (the last of this series) it's Martin Freeman.
And before you all shout "WHO?????" ....he played the quiet chap in 'The Office'.
He was also in 'Love Actually' .

K

oh I loved the Kim Caterill one on Wednesday and I was so glad that the mystery was solved but do wonder how children from second family reacted when approached with story as it would seem they had a good childhood unlike Kims mums and Aunts in Liverpool.

I thought Kim Cateral was really interesting,,,much better than David Mitchell from last week

I wonder how the children in Australia reacted to the realisation that they were illegitimate ?

Have just managed to get back to this - I'm very relieved that others don't know who these people are either!

must admit I loved last weeks about David Mitchells family. For one thing the scenery was beautiful and in amongst all the seriousness of the subject there was a lot of humour and the will was so funny. Looking forward to Kim Catteril tonight

I am very upset that they have cancelled Sir Michael Parkinson's show for being too boring.

I would have loved to watch his show more so that loads of others that I do not know. It would have been very interesting to see where he came from, even if there were only ag labs and coal miners.

Such a shame

Gail

1982 Genie Awards Nominated Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role Ticket to Heaven
1991 Golden Raspberry Awards Nominated Worst Supporting Actress The Bonfire of the Vanities
1993 The Saturn Award Nominated Best Supporting Actress Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
1999 Women in Film Lucy Awards Won Lucy Award -
2000 Golden Globe Award Nominated Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV Sex and the City
2001
2003 Won
2004 Nominated
2000 Emmy Award Nominated Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series Sex and the City
2001
2002
2003
2004
2001 Screen Actors Guild Awards Nominated Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series Sex and the City (Shared with Kristin Davis, Cynthia Nixon, and Sarah Jessica Parker)
2002 Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series Sex and the City
Won Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series Sex and the City (Shared with Kristin Davis, Cynthia Nixon, and Sarah Jessica Parker)
2003 Nominated
Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series Sex and the City
2004 Won Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series Sex and the City (Shared with Kristin Davis, Cynthia Nixon, and Sarah Jessica Parker)
2005 Nominated
2004 Satellite Awards Nominated Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Comedy or Musical Sex and the City
2006 Gemini Award Nominated Best Host or Interviewer in a General/Human Interest or Talk Program or Series Kim Cattrall: Sexual Intelligence
2008 Banff World Television Festival Won NBC Universal Award

Cattrall has also been linked with former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, Houston Rockets stars Cuttino Mobley and Steve Francis, actor Daniel Benzali, musician Gerald Casale of the New Wave group Devo, French public intellectual Bernard-Henri Lévy, and her Whose Life is it Anyway? co-star Alexander Siddig.[12] She currently resides in New York City and in East Hampton, New York.


Filmography
Rosebud (1975)
Deadly Harvest (1976)
Tribute (1980)
Ticket to Heaven (1981)
Porky's (1982)
Police Academy (1984)
Turk 182 (1985)
City Limits (1985)
Hold-Up (1985)
Big Trouble in Little China (1986)
Mannequin (1987)
Smokescreen (1988)
Palais Royale (1988)
Masquerade (1988)
Midnight Crossing (1988)
The Return of the Musketeers (1989)
Good Night, Michaelangelo (1989)
Honeymoon Academy (1990)
The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990)
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)
Split Second (1992)
Breaking Point (1992)
Above Suspicion (1995)
Live Nude Girls (1995)
Unforgettable (1996)
Where Truth Lies (1996)
Exception to the Rule (1997)
Baby Geniuses (1999)
15 Minutes (2001)
Crossroads (2002)
The Devil and Daniel Webster (2004)
Ice Princess (2005)
The Tiger's Tail (2006)
Sex and the City: The Movie (2008)
Miss January (2009)
The Ghost (2010)
Sex and the City 2 (2010)



Television
Good Against Evil (1977)
Quincy M.E. (1 episode, 1977)
Logan's Run (1 episode, 1977)
Switch (1 episode, 1977)
The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries (2 episodes, 1978)
What Really Happened to the Class of '65? (1 episode, 1978)
Columbo: How to Dial a Murder (1978)
The Bastard (1978)
Starsky and Hutch (1 episode, 1978)
The Paper Chase (1 episode, 1978)
Family (1 episode, 1978)
The Incredible Hulk (1 episode, 1979)
How the West Was Won (1 episode, 1979)
The Rebels (1979)
Vega$ (1 episode, 1979)
The Night Rider (1979)
Crossbar (1979)
Charlie's Angels (1 episode, 1979)
Scruples (Mini-series, 1980)as Melanie Adams
The Gossip Columnist (1980)
Hagen (1 episode, 1980)
Tucker's Wish (1 episode)
Trapper John, M.D. (2 episodes, 1979-1982)
Tales of the Gold Monkey (1 episode, 1983)
Sins of the Past (1984)
Double Vision (1992)
Miracle in the Wilderness (1992)
Wild Palms (Miniseries, 1993)
Angel Falls (Unknown episodes, 1993)
Dream On (1 episode, 1994)
Running Delilah (1994)
Two Golden Balls (1994)
OP Center (1994)
The Heidi Chronicles (1995)
Every Woman's Dream (1996)
The Outer Limits (1 episode, 1997)
Invasion (1997)
Rugrats (Voice, 1 episode, 1997)
Duckman (Voice, 1 episode, 1997)
Creature (1998)
Modern Vampires (1998)
36 Hours to Die (1999)
Sex and the Matrix (2000)
Sex and the City (94 episodes, 1998-2004)
The Simpsons (1 episode, 2004)
Him and Us (2006)
My Boy Jack (2007)
The Sunday Night Project (2007)
Navtones.com (Voice Download) (2008)
Producing Parker (2009)
Who Do You Think You Are? (Documentary, 2009)

Cattrall is one of seven children and was born in Mossley Hill, Liverpool, England.[1][2] Her mother, Shane, was a secretary, and her father, Malcolm, a construction engineer.[3] When she was 3 months old, her family emigrated to the Canadian city of Courtenay, British Columbia. At 11, she returned to Cheshire when her grandmother became ill, and she studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA), before returning to Canada at age 16 to finish her final year of secondary school.


Career
Cattrall began her career before graduating from high school in 1972, when she left Canada for the United States. There, she attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and upon her graduation signed a five-year movie deal with director Otto Preminger, making her film debut in Preminger's Rosebud in 1975. A year later, Universal Studios bought out that contract and Cattrall became one of the last participants of the Universal Contract Player System. During her time with Universal, she guest-starred in numerous television programmes of varying style and genre. In 1979, she played Dr. Gabrielle White in The Incredible Hulk and would go down in TV Hulk lore as one of the few characters who knew David Banner was alive and was the Hulk. In a successful transition to cinema, Cattrall starred opposite Jack Lemmon in his Oscar-nominated movie Tribute in 1980. The following year, she starred in the critically acclaimed Ticket to Heaven. She also had a guest role in the TV Mini-Series Scruples.

In 1982, Cattrall played Miss Honeywell (Lassie) in Porky's, followed two years later by a role in the original Police Academy. In 1985, she starred in three movies: Turk 182, City Limits and Hold-Up, the latter with French star Jean-Paul Belmondo. In 1986, she played Kurt Russell's brainy flame in the action film Big Trouble in Little China. In 1987, her lead role in Mannequin proved a huge success with audiences. One of her best-known film roles is that of Lieutenant Valeris in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.

Aside from her film work, Cattrall is also a stage and theater actress, with performances in Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge and Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters to her credit. In 1997, she was cast in Sex and the City, Darren Star's series which was broadcast on HBO. As Samantha Jones, Cattrall gained international recognition. She capitalized on her success by appearing in steamy television commercials promoting Pepsi One. She also signed a publishing deal to write a book about sex with her third husband, Mark Levinson. In addition, she can be heard reading the poetry of Rupert Brooke on the CD Red Rose Music SACD Sampler Volume One.

Her film work continued during Sex and the City when she appeared in Britney Spears' first film venture, Crossroads. Sex and the City ended as a weekly series in spring 2004 with 10.6 million viewers. Cattrall reprised the role of Samantha Jones in the Sex and the City film, released on May 30, 2008. She will also appear in a sequel planned for release in 2010.

In 2005, she appeared in the Disney picture Ice Princess, in which she played the ice skating coach of the film's lead character. She portrayed Claire, a paralyzed woman who wants to die, in the West End drama revival of Whose Life Is It Anyway?. In October 2006, she appeared in a West End production of David Mamet's The Cryptogram at the Donmar Warehouse in London. Since late 2005, she has appeared in a number of British television commercials for Tetley Tea.[4] In July 2006, a commercial for Nissan cars, which featured Cattrall as Samantha Jones, was withdrawn from New Zealand television, apparently because of complaints about its innuendo.[5] In 2006, she starred alongside Brendan Gleeson in John Boorman's 2006 film The Tiger's Tail, a black comedy that focuses on the impact of the Celtic Tiger economy on Irish people. On ITV, she starred alongside David Haig, Daniel Radcliffe, and Carey Mulligan in My Boy Jack, the story of author Rudyard Kipling's search for his son lost in World War I.

On 2 June 2008, Cattrall was reported to be set to star in and executive produce Sensitive Skin for HBO, an adaptation of the eponymous British series revolving around a middle-aged wife and mother who rediscovers her sexuality.[6]

On June 16, 2009, it was announced that Cattrall would receive a star on Canada's Walk of Fame in Toronto. The induction ceremony will be held on September 12, 2009.[7]


Personal life
Cattrall has been married three times. Her 1977-1979 marriage to Larry Davis was annulled. Her second marriage was from 1982-89 to Andre J. Lyson; with him, she lived in Frankfurt and learned to speak German fluently, but admits she has forgotten a lot over the years.[8][9][10]

From 1998 to 2004, she was married to audio designer Mark Levinson. The two co-wrote the 2002 book Satisfaction: The Art of the Female Orgasm.[

I recorded this first time it was shown, and thought it was quite interesting, a lot of social history discussed and the reading of the will was, as you said Jill, hilarious. That relative was a bit of a character too.

Lizx

I've tried to watch all of them. I did get slightly bored when they were doing "celebrities" but now, when they're doing people I've not really heard of I find it a bit more interesting.

At least in tonight's one they already had a bit of a family tree to work on and I loved the bit when the Scottish cousin read the gr gr grandfather's will. I was creased up.

Jill

Tomorrow's programme.........

Liverpool-born Kim Cattrall is determined to solve a family mystery that has endured for more than seventy years. When Kim's mother, Shane, was eight years old, her father disappeared. George Baugh walked out on his wife and three young daughters, and they never heard from him again. Now Kim wants to find out what happened to her grandfather and to resolve this mystery for her mother's and aunts' sake, as well as her own.

Kim begins her investigation in Liverpool. Her mother is over from Canada visiting her sisters, so it's the perfect opportunity for Kim to get them all together and find out what they know about their missing father. The sisters don't even know what their father looked like. In the only picture they have of George, he is an indistinct shape peering out from behind a curtain. They are desperate to know what happened to their father.

Kim has very few clues to go on, apart a newspaper article from the 1980s which mentions her grandfather's sister and the address she was living at then. Turning detective, Kim pieces together bit by bit what happened to her grandfather. Ultimately the trail leads to a shocking and painful discovery.

Who was it tonight? I was watching a programme on Autism.

I Have been watching this last series of who do you think you are and I also haven't heard of any of these people, the programs are OK but I am not enjoying them as much as the other programs in the past series's when I reconise the people.

Oh, OK, that would make sense.

Hi, I think the one that was on tonight was the same one that was first broadcast last Weds evening. Wasn't this the BBC2 repeat at 7pm??
Think I'm right in saying this!
Tina

I have recorded them but so far not watched, didn't realise tonights was on so early