Long Lost Family


11:00 pm - 12:00 am, Wednesday, December 24 on Really (17)

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Season 8, Episode 7

An extraordinary double search within one family, beginning as sister Maureen looks for her brother Keith to tell him the truth about their father, followed by a further search with Keith to find out more about the birth mother he never knew. Keith now lives in Australia, but the news that Maureen is looking for him and the information she brings about their father is life changing for him, causing him to travel back to his childhood home in Wales and dig deeper into his past


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Cast & Crew

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Davina McCall (Presenter)
Nicky Campbell (Presenter)
Fiona Caldwell (Executive producer)
Caroline Miller (Series producer)
Claire Lewis (Director)
Selina Tso (Director)
Ed Harris (Editor)

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Davina McCall (Presenter)
Born: October 16, 1967 in London
Best Known For: Hosting Big Brother.
Early-life: Davina Lucy Pascale McCall was born in London on October 16, 1967, to Florence and Andrew. At the age of three, Davina went to live with her grandparents in Surrey after the break-up of her parents' marriage. She moved in with her father and his new wife in London when she was 13.
Career: Davina started out as a singer (her demo was produced by Eric Clapton) and worked for the Models One agency before securing a presenter's job on Ray Cokes' Most Wanted on MTV Europe. ITV's middle-of-the-night series God's Gift led to the higher profile Streetmate, Don't Try This at Home and Popstars: The Rivals, although she tasted failure with her sitcom Sam's Game, series He's Having a Baby, and her self-titled BBC chat show. She's also fronted Love on a Saturday Night and co-hosted both Sport Relief and Comic Relief. Big Brother remains her biggest hit (she quit after 11 series as host in 2010), but has another hit on her hands with The Million Pound Drop. In August 2013, she began presenting ITV's dancing reality series Stepping Out, and in January 2014 began co-hosting Channel 4 reality series The Jump alongside Alex Brooker. The following month she ran, swam and cycled her way across the UK for Sport Relief.
Quote: "I've been on telly for 20 years, and I've done some awful TV."
Trivia: Davina performed in a band at school called Foghorn. She has released several workout DVDs.
Nicky Campbell (Presenter)
Born: April 10, 1961 in Edinburgh
Best Known For: Presenting consumer shows.
Early-life: Nicholas Andrew Argyle Campbell was born on April 10, 1961, and given up for adoption by his mother, Stella Lackey-Newton. He was brought up in Edinburgh by Frank and Elizabeth Campbell and started looking for Stella after his adoptive dad died. Mother and son were reunited in 1996, and after becoming a dad himself, he decided to find out more about his birth father. He studied at Aberdeen University where he and his friends, including the actor Iain Glen, were the driving force behind the drama society.
Career: Campbell cut his broadcasting teeth on Aberdeen's Northsound, joining Radio 1 in 1987 with a late-night Saturday programme. He launched the station's new drive-time slot in 1994, and took over the afternoon show in 1995. He has also branched out into TV, fronting the regional debate programme Central Weekend, which gained notoriety for its raucous arguments, and hosting game show The Wheel of Fortune between 1988 and 1994. Campbell joined Radio Five Live in 1997, and in 2004 he launched daytime chat show Now You're Talking. He hosted Watchdog for eight years until 2009, and now co-hosts Long Lost Family with Davina McCall, and consumer show Your Money Their Tricks.
Quote: "Too many DJs have shallow personalities."
Trivia: He is a patron of the British Association for Adoption and Fostering.
Fiona Caldwell (Executive producer)
Caroline Miller (Series producer)
Claire Lewis (Director)
Selina Tso (Director)
Ed Harris (Editor)
Born: November 28, 1950 in New Jersey
Best Known For: Being the best actor not to yet win an Oscar.
Early-life: Born in New Jersey, in 1950. His father Robert was a singer with the dance-band leader Fred Waring and made many TV and radio appearances. Growing up, Ed preferred sport to performing - his prowess on the American football field won him a scholarship to Columbia University. However, he eventually realised that he didn't want to be a professional athlete and dropped out to join his parents, who had relocated to Oklahoma. That's where he first started appearing in local theatre productions, and realised he wanted to be an actor. He returned to college, this time to study drama.
Career: He initially worked as a house-painter to make ends meet, but acting jobs soon started flooding in, mainly in theatre and TV. He bagged his first leading movie role in the cult film Knightriders in 1981, but it was his performance as John Glenn in the acclaimed The Right Stuff that marked him out as a rising star. In 1995, another fact-based drama about astronauts, Apollo 13, earned him his first Oscar nod. He's been nominated three more times for The Truman Show, Pollock (which he also directed) and The Hours. His other notable films include The Abyss, The Rock, Nixon, A Beautiful Mind, A History of Violence and Man on a Ledge.
Quote: "I don't feel like I've sacrificed my career for my family or vice-versa. It's been a pretty good balancing act."
Trivia: Harris has directed a number of theatre productions.

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