This Is Your Life is also a long-running British TV series,
hosted in recent years by Michael Aspel. The premise is that
they arrange a spurious event for a celebrity to host or speak
at, and then Aspel pops out brandishing a red book, from which
he presents the audience with a potted biography of the
celebrity. As the story unfolds, various guests are brought on
(such as relatives, teachers, famous friends) to tell their
anecdotes. Sometimes the subject hasn't seen some of the people
in years.  Since the BBC acquired the format, they've run the
show into the ground (as they have done with Through The
Keyhole). The "celebrities" are often hardly famous -
pointlessly, they even resort to scraping through the bottom of
the barrel by profiling the "stars" of fly-on-the-wall
documentaries such as fuckwitted talent vacuum Jane MacDonald
and simpering, senile Maureen from Driving School. I don't doubt
that the Big Brother cast of cretins are lined up for future
episodes of the show, should the Beeb be able to affor