Family Tree (TV series)
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| Genre |
Comedy Documentary-Style |
| Created by |
Christopher Guest Jim Piddock |
| Written by | Christopher Guest Jim Piddock |
| Directed by | Christopher Guest |
| Starring | Chris O'Dowd |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 8 (list of episodes) |
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| Camera setup | Single |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
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| Original release | May 12 – July 8, 2013 |
| External links | |
| Official website | |
Family Tree is a documentary-style television comedy created by Christopher Guest and Jim Piddock. The series premiered on 12 May 2013, on the American pay television network HBO, and appeared on the British channel BBC Two in July 2013. Guest, Piddock, Karen Murphy, Deborah Oppenheimer, and Mario Stylianides serve as the show's executive producers.
On 23 January 2014, it was announced that HBO had cancelled the series.
The series is written by Guest and Piddock and directed by Guest. The dialogue is improvised by the actors. The show's first series consisted of 8 episodes. Filming took place in London and Los Angeles.
The closing credits song "I'm Alone But That's OK" is performed by Ron Sexsmith and was written for the series by Christopher Guest and Harlan Collins.
Oddball inventions: Tom's father has invented a shoe tree that can cool or heat up a shoe; a woman whom Tom and Pete meet has invented a glass, attached around her aged mother's neck, that allows her to see if she's still breathing. Kitty Chadwick has invented flavoured enemas.
Awkward dates: Pete sets up Tom on bad first dates. One woman talks about how dinosaurs still exist; another is obsessed with bones.
Eccentric hobbies, quirks and obsessions: Tom's sister Bea uses a hand puppet that tends to blurt out sentiments best left unspoken. Tom often talks to neighbour Mr. Pfister, an antique-store owner trying to make "landmarks in a bottle" when he's not checking the website "Is It Fatal?" to see if he suffers from a life-threatening disease. In the first episode, Pfister sends Tom on to Neville St Aubrey, a manic-looking antique photo expert whom Pfister calls "as mad as a box of frogs". In California, Julie, Tom's cousin Rick's girlfriend, is obsessed with owls—she collects owl figurines and owl pillows and draws owls in a notebook. Rick is preoccupied with Civil War re-enactments.
British TV: Tom's father loves to watch DVDs of (fictional) British sitcom, full of broad stereotypes and Carry On-like humour. One, There Goes The Neighbourhood, features an Alf Garnett-like Anglo-Indian. Another, set in a police station, is called Move Along, Please! Tom sees a bit of The Plantagenets, a Tudors-like historical drama, while Pete likes to watch "the new Sherlock Holmes," which parodies Star Trek and is called Sherlock Holmes: The New Frontier.
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