DIY SOS vs Finding Your Roots
DIY SOS has the higher audience score (10/10 against 6.6/10 for Finding Your Roots). DIY SOS is the older of the two (1999 against 2012). Both are documentary shows, so they suit a similar mood.
DIY SOS
Finding Your Roots| DIY SOS | Finding Your Roots | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 10.0/10 | ★ 6.6/10 |
| Year | 1999 | 2012 |
| Seasons | 28 | 12 |
| Genres | Documentary | Documentary |
| Country | GB | – |
| Creator / director | Colin May, Matthew Skilton | – |
| Main cast | Billy Byrne, Chris Frediani, Nick Knowles, Gaby Blackman, Radha Sivyer | Henry Louis Gates, Jr. |
Synopsis
DIY SOS
DIY SOS is a British DIY television series made for the BBC, presented by Nick Knowles. The first episode was broadcast on 7 October 1999 and the show is still airing today. As well as being a DIY programme it also features comic relief from the cast.
Finding Your Roots
Noted Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. has been helping people discover long-lost relatives hidden for generations within the branches of their family trees. Professor Gates utilizes a team of genealogists to reconstruct the paper trail left behind by our ancestors and the world’s leading geneticists to decode our DNA and help us travel thousands of years into the past to discover the origins of our earliest forebears.
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