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Family Tree(TV show/series, 2013)

30min per episode | Genre: Comedy

Scripted Reality in 1 season with 8 episodes

Family TreeRating: 3.3/5 (with 15 votes)
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. ()
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About Family Tree

Having recently lost his job and his girlfriend, 30-year-old Tom Chadwick has a rather unsure sense of his own identity. But when he inherits a mysterious box of belongings from a great aunt he never met, Tom starts investigating his lineage and uncovers a whole world of unusual stories and characters, acquiring a growing sense of who he and his real family are.

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Trailer for Family Tree + Featurettes/Teaser/Clips

Family Tree Series 1 DVD Trailer(Trailer, 1:11)

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Family Tree Seasons and Episodes

05/12/2013Season 1 - 8 episodes
#1 | 05/12/2013The Box
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)
Tom Chadwick and his sister Bea find out from their father that a great-aunt, Victoria, has died. An old picture in the box of things that she's left for Tom sends him on a search, accompanied by his pal Pete, to discover the identity of the man in the photograph.
#2 | 05/19/2013Treading the Boards
4.5/5 (with 1 vote)
Tom learns that his great-grandfather, Harry Chadwick, was an actor and visits Hove, where he performed. He and Pete decide to run a kind of race in honour of Harry's famous comic act.
#3 | 06/02/2013The Austerity Games
4.5/5 (with 1 vote)
After discovering grandfather William was on the GB team in the cash-poor 1948 Olympics, Tom hears about his and Victoria's athletic feats from a close friend she bequeathed her flat to; he learns that William and Victoria had a brother, Brian. Bea and Monkey try performing. His great-great-grandfather Charles, Tom finds, was born in the USA.
#4 | 06/09/2013Country Life
4.5/5 (with 1 vote)
Along with Bea, his father, and Luba, Tom visits his cousins in rural Derbyshire and learns why they have red hair. His American cousins in California invite him to visit.
#5 | 06/16/2013Welcome to America
4.5/5 (with 1 vote)
Tom stays in Glendale with his American cousins Al and Kitty Chadwick, who host an extended-family BBQ. Dave Chadwick, visiting from North Carolina, reveals a record of Charles Chadwick's departure for England on April 16, 1865.
#6 | 06/23/2013Civil War
4.5/5 (with 1 vote)
After learning that Charles had both Union and Confederate uniforms, Tom gets into some petty skirmishes during a Civil War re-enactment.
#7 | 06/30/2013Indians
4.5/5 (with 1 vote)
Tom, Bea, and Pete drive to Barstow, where they find that great-great-grandmother Rebecca was not Native American, as Tom had thought.
#8 | 07/07/2013Cowboys
4.5/5 (with 1 vote)
Tom learns more about his Jewish ancestor, Bea has a breakdown on the beach when she loses Monkey, and Tom has to say goodbye to Ally as his departure from LA approaches.

Additional Information

Official websites:
Made by: Lucky Giant
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 7 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Bosnian (BS), German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Russian (RU)
Status: Canceled
First episode released on: 05/12/2013
Last episode released on: 07/07/2013
Keywords: family, mockumentary

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