BBC/HBO's "Family Tree" premieres in the spring of 2013...

[Little Star]

It's a comedy/mockumentary eight-part tv series.

Family Tree follows the world and journey of 30-year-old Tom Chadwick (Chris O’Dowd). Having recently lost his job and girlfriend, Tom has a rather unsure sense of his own identity. But when he inherits a mysterious box of belongings from a great aunt that he never met, he starts investigating his family lineage and uncovers a whole world of unusual stories and characters and a growing sense of who he is and who his real family are.

Family Tree will be a single-camera, improvisational, documentary-style comedy, a style that Christopher Guest's films have pioneered.

http://www.hbo.com/family-tree

I think the first four episodes are placed in England and the second four are in the USA? I'm not sure I'll like genealogy done as comedy but what the hay, I'll give it a shot.

[CanonRay]

1. Thanks for posting this.

[kdmorris]

2. Cool!

Sometimes I think that genealogy is the ultimate in comedy. I had to laugh when I went through a slew of court records for one of my ancestors. He was in court every year, refusing to pay his taxes because it was "his land". And every year, they fined him 2X the amount of the taxes, which he paid, so it wasn't a money issue - it was just the principal of the thing. As dumb as it might seem now to voluntarily pay 2X the amount of the taxes, I had to admire him for sticking to his principals.

[Little Star]

3. That's a cute story.