Long Lost Family (UK TV series)
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| Genre | Documentary |
| Presented by |
Davina McCall Nicky Campbell |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 6 (regular) 2 (revisited) |
| No. of episodes | 42 (regular) 6 (revisited) |
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| Producer(s) | Juliet Singer Thea Hickson |
| Running time | 60 minutes (inc. adverts) |
| Production company(s) | Wall to Wall |
| Distributor | Warner Bros. Television Productions UK |
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| Original network | ITV, STV, UTV |
| Picture format | 16:9 |
| Original release | 21 April 2011 – present |
Long Lost Family is a BAFTA award winning British television series that has aired on ITV since 21 April 2011. The programme, which is presented by Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell, aims to reunite close relatives after years of separation. It is made by the production company Wall to Wall.
Presented by Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell, the series offers a last chance for people who are desperate to find long lost relatives. The series helps a handful of people, some of whom have been searching in vain for many years, find the family members they are desperately seeking. It explores the background and context of each family's estrangement and tracks the detective work and often complex and emotional process of finding each lost relative before they are reunited. With the help and support of Davina and Nicky, each relative is guided and supported through the process of tracing the member of their family they have been desperately seeking, in some cases for most of their lives. Long Lost Family reveals the background to each case, the social context and reasons why these estrangements occurred, from the single teenage mums who felt unable to keep their babies to the fathers who left and the twin sisters who were separated at birth.
A revisited series called Long Lost Family: What Happened Next aired on ITV for three episodes in 2014 and 2017.
Michael Deacon of The Daily Telegraph gave the show a mixed review stating "the presenters seemed to be trying slightly too hard to squeeze tears out of their interviewees". Deacon also stated "I wonder what the producers would do if the two people they brought together, instead of embracing joyfully, launched into a furious rally of accusations and blame. Perhaps I'll tune in next week to see whether it happens, although that will depend on whether I can stomach more of Pavlov’s Piano, or for that matter Davina McCall's habit of talking to her interviewees, even the elderly ones, as if she were their proud mother, waving them off at the school gate". Lucy Mangan of The Guardian gave a more positive review commenting "Within its own parameters, it succeeds quite nicely. Davina's common touch remains infallible and her co-host Nicky Campbell's almost pathological lack of charisma is obscured and alleviated by his status as an adopted son himself, makes the whole thing slightly less painful than it might have been". Mangan summed up the show as a "lovely documentary"
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