Actually, I make a notable exception for Dyer. In fact it’s better if it’s an emotional journey, like when Danny Dyer found out he was royalty (sort of) on Who Do You Think You Are. The journey doesn’t always have to cross oceans.
Let’s follow him on his spurious, entirely arbitrary journey to see if his journey is what Robson Green hoped it might be.
Results range from Stephen Tompkinson’s African Balloon Adventure to Robson Crusoe: A Surprising Adventure, in which Robson Green is stranded (for a week) on a paradise island because he’s always wanted to do that, not just because his name sounded good in the title. Where: Who Do You Think You Are?, all pop docs presented by a celebĮver since it dawned on a TV producer that literally any old layperson can present a documentary as long as it’s couched as a voyage of discovery, we’ve been buried under an avalanche of these shows, seemingly created by randomiser software.