Gregory Doran, the RSC's chief associate director, said that he had first thought of Tennant in the role when he had seen the actor on the TV programme Who Do You Think You Are? in which celebrities trace their ancestors.
NBC will move its new newsmagazine "Rock Center," to Wednesdays at 9. "Law & Order SVU" will remain at 10. NBC will insert the return of the reality entry "Who Do You Think You Are?" (about celebrities tracing family roots) on Fridays at 8. Sundays, after the run of potent N.F.L. games, will be completely revamped.
It got another boost in 2012 when PBS began running "Finding Your Roots," a show where celebrities traced their ancestry with genotyping from 23andMe.
The arms race in celebrity infotainment traces neatly back to the big success of TMZ.com, which publishes a seemingly limitless supply of juicy photos and snide tidbits about stars, presented in a blog format.
In their as-yet-unpublished research paper on the topic, the economists trace celebrity endorsements back to the 1920 campaign of Warren Harding (who had Al Jolson, Lillian Russell and Douglas Fairbanks in his corner), and call Ms. Winfrey "a celebrity of nearly unparalleled influence".
BBC1's genealogy series Who Do You Think You Are? won the 9pm to 10pm time slot, with 6.1 million, a 26.9% share, watching celebrity chef Nigella Lawson trace her roots.
Diane Keaton's design fixation bears not a trace of celebrity dilettantism.
The cultural genesis of the downsizing of eyewear to the tiniest lens in celebrity circles can be traced back -- like most trends, tbh -- to the Kardashians, and a particular episode of Keeping Up with the Kardashians that aired this January, where Kim declared bug-eye sunglasses as good as six feet under.
Here we discover that the "first sexual revolution" can be dated to the 18th century; even our prurient interest in the sex lives of celebrities can be traced to this time with the rise of media-savvy courtesans such as Kitty Fisher, who gazes out seductively from the book's front cover.
What is it about the star that makes her such an enduring object of fascination, despite the skimpy electronic record? Certainly traces of her celebrity remain.
