Danny Dyer's Right Royal Family: What the Must Watch reviewers think
Must Watch reviewers Scott Bryan, TV Editor at Buzzfeed, and Anna Leszkiewicz, Deputy Culture Editor at the New Statesman, share their thoughts on Danny Dyer's Right Royal Family, which starts on BBC One on 23 January.
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Anna says: 'It's just fantastic, what more can you want?'
"For anyone who doesn't know, Danny Dyer did a 'Who Do You Think You Are' that went viral when he discovered he was a direct descendant of King Edward III - it was a moving sequence when he teared up. It was brilliant.
"You have to put aside the fact that if you were born in Britain in 1970 you probably are a direct descendant of Edward III - it's quite a high probability.
"This is what Dyer calls his 'blue-blooded binge' - it's him tracing his family line back, from Edward III - we start with a viking, and go through loads of kings. He goes and dresses likes them, eats like them and find out exactly what it's like to be like them.
"It's not a very informative history programme. It's like a kids' history programme in some ways.
"But it is really good.
"There was a moment where I realised it was special which is when he started eating the wobbling tongue straight out of a decapitated sheep's skull and then says 'as tongues go, that's beautiful.'
"It's just fantastic, what more can you want?"
Scott says: 'Yes, yes, yes - this is a Must Watch'
"All I'm going to say is - it's made for Twitter, and for people to laugh with it.
"I find it so confusing - is it a documentary, a mockumentary, is he in on it? It's baffling - but it's been given BBC One prime time - so good on them!
"Yes, yes, yes - this is a Must Watch."
Danny Dyer's Right Royal Family starts on BBC One on Wednesday 23 January at 21:00 GMT.
Part two is at the same time next week.
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