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Oh Neil!! I do hope your presentations to potentional clients dont carry such bad grammer as they will undoubtly belive its a wind-up --eh.

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An interesting post from you Neil. I really do hope that we get more HH. You say that you probably won't be doing a seventh series (a real shame) because Flame are now working with NB. I presume that you are happy to be involved with the programme alongside Celtic Research for instance.

Produced by the same company or not, because there was absolutely no style or quality, this was nowhere near HH in production quality or interest. I watch and enjoy HH tremendously and I know I'm going to learn something from it but I won't be watching MM again.

And as VIVinHERTS says 'A lot of members on this site could have done a better job at the research'

I bet we could have made it seem a lot more educational and interesting too.

Jill

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Missing Millions was not a great programme whoever produced it. A lot of the members on this site could have done a better job at the research.


And they usually do :-)

Neil

Probably better to be a Heir Hunter than an English Teacher ;-)

genealogy, especially



Missing Millions was not a great programme whoever produced it. A lot of the members on this site could have done a better job at the research.

GB

first an introduction I am Neil Fraser from Fraser and Fraser (Heir Hunters)

now that is out the way, some quick facts.

"Missing Milions" and "Heir Hunters" are both made by Flame TV infact they have a lot of the same production staff. explaines the simularity.

Fraser and Fraser helped with the pilot of the "Missing Millions" program (dont know if it will be shown at a later date) we never did interviews or bits to camera for them just the background geneology.

We are not happy about what the program is trying to do espeshaly as they are using Nick Barret, who runs his own firm of researchers, and if he did the research on this it dosnt look great. Although not finding a recent death is easy not many people have deaths 2005 even fewer post 2007.

Heir Hunters is currently being addapted to a prime time spot BBC2 I think an probably before Christmas, I know I am filming next week if all goes to plan. it will be some of the last series (HH5) and some of the next HH6 that is in the can but probably wont be shown until the new year. The Heir Hunters Extra as it is currently called (its name will change) is an 1 hour program taken from the original 45 min daytime program hence the Extra.

We have been asked to do HH7 but at the moment it is looking very unlikly as flame are now working with Nick Barret. May work with one of the other production firms who call us.

Neil Fraser
Fraser and Fraser

I must have missed the bit about remarrying Bobtanian. Mentally I had switched off long before I hit the off button but I don't remember them doing much checking at all. Seemed to me they were talking about how to find people using information 'free' in the public domain. Maybe that's why I thought it was all so slipshod. Perhaps the fact that I can remember very little of the programme just twenty-four hours later is a blessing.

Bring back HeirHunters.

J

A,bit like Heir Hunters . didnt watch much .as couldnt get into it .nice veiw of Morecambe Bay x Barbra

Bobtanian...I heard them say that she had remarried .......so yes you are right - think the difference with this program and Heir hunters is that they start at the very end of someone's life whereas this program carries on from the last known address and moves toward the present day.Slightly different. -jl

Yes Bob she remarried,,,so no death whats the next possible logic thinking ,,,,,,,,,have a look to see if they remarried and any possible children from a 1st and 2nd marriage.

Boring show...same old formula.

am I right? they wouldnt have found a schofield death for had she not remarried?

I was hoping they put heir hunters on at night as much better then some of the programmes that are on about this.

It wasnt too bad at the start. But having Nick Barratt on it was thinking they going to show how to find people.

Hazelx

Phew. Thought it was me. And as you say Izzy, not checking the death records as a starting point....

The portion of the programme I watched just didn't feel right to me in so many ways including the apparent door-stepping and everyone appearing to be so happy to do a piece to camera. If someone knocked on my door they'd get nowhere. Maybe I should make a fancy camera out of cardboard, paint it with metal paint, get a mate to 'work' it, stick some fur fabric on a Fairy Liquid bottle and shove it on a peice of broom handle to make a microphone and knock on a few doors just to see how eager people are to give me any information I ask for. Ok so I'm a bit too cynical but....

I'd wondered if this would be an attempt to recreate Heir Hunters in another guise but if that is what the makers of the prog were trying to do, they didn't manage it. Jill

well so much for the " acting expert",,,,not that interesting, not convincing enough that events took place as it happened,,,,,,,a stranger alibit tv personallity !asks to meet you and you go without questions why !!,nah.........

Well i didnt really enjoy it so won't be watching it again...

Jules..

Yes i was thinking that. It wasnt that good but better most of whats on tv at the mo.

Hazelx

me too jillian, i found it a bit boring, couldn't understand why they didn't check the death records first for the Schofield case. seems obvious starting point to me.

Is it me then? I didn't warm to it so after about 20 minutes or so I turned it off. Had no preconcieved ideas for what it would be like but I was a bit bored. Jill

Yes it is looking good

Joan i am no good explaining how you can use the iplayer it is easy. but lets hope someone else can tell you better then i can

Just had a look in tvtimes but cant see any channel that its on for sky.I only get few of the sky listing in the one i get. I use free view.

Sorry cant help