Monday, April 5, 2010

Season Two Confirmed for Who Do You Think You Are? in the U.S.

It's the news we've been waiting for!  Who Do You Think You Are? has been picked up by NBC for another season.  Here are the highlights from their press release:

UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. - April 5, 2010 - NBC has picked up three freshman alternative series as "The Marriage Ref," "Minute to Win It" and "Who Do You Think You Are?" are renewed for the 2010-11 season. The announcement was made today by Paul Telegdy, Executive Vice President, Alternative Programming, NBC and Universal Media Studios...

..."All of these new series have demonstrated increasing popularity and generated far-reaching interest among viewers," said Telegdy. "Equally important, each has a compelling and innovative format, and a second season will allow these shows to grow creatively and attract an even wider audience."...
 
..."Who Do You Think You Are?" from executive producer Lisa Kudrow is averaging a 1.6 rating, 6 share in adults 18-49 and 6.8 million viewers overall in "most current" results for its season thus far. In preliminary results for last Friday, "Who Do You Think You Are?" won the 8-9 p.m. ET hour in adults 18-49, marking the first time any regular competitor in this slot has beaten an original episode of CBS's "Ghost Whisperer" in 18-49 rating since November 17, 2006. "Who Do You Think You Are?" has improved the time period by 23 percent in adult 18-49 rating versus NBC's average for the traditional 2008-09 season in "live plus same day" results...

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Good news,but what happened to the other show Find My Family, it was a good program also.

Anonymous said...

I'm so glad they are renewing it. I think it gives an understand why we love genealogy.

Anonymous said...

I agree with Anonymous post--I would love to see BOTH Who do you think you are? and Find my family come back!