Jack Thompson to host Find my Family

Legendary Australian actor Jack Thompson knows there can be no stronger bond than blood.

As a bloke adopted as a child and reunited with his father as an adult, Jack also knows that two people don’t need to have met for them to share unconditional love.

On that note, Channel Seven is proud to announce Jack Thompson as the host of its brand new program, FIND MY FAMILY.

FIND MY FAMILY shares Jack’s sentiment as it reunites lost souls and mends hearts that have been broken for a lifetime.

So many Australians have grown up without a mother, father, brother or sister, and often that absence leaves a gaping hole in their identity.

On FIND MY FAMILY, long-lost loved ones are reunited and that hole is filled with tears of joy.

The hardest heart will be moved by the mother, pregnant too young and forced to bravely give her baby up for adoption, when she is reconnected with her son, grown up and with a child of his own.

Or there’s the elation and devastation when a young woman looking for answers about her absent father, finds both a devastating truth from her long-lost uncle and a whole other family she never knew existed.

“When I was invited to host Find My Family I recognised immediately that in reuniting families I would be involved in something very dear to my heart,” says Jack.

“I was adopted by a wonderful family, The Thompsons, but the reunion with my birth father that occurred after 42 years was an important moment of resolution in both his life and mine.”

Channel Seven’s Director of Programming and Production Tim Worner says Thompson’s personal experience adds empathy and authority to these emotional moments.

“Find My Family is intensely human. It’s deeply moving, joyous, sad, but enormously uplifting, all at the same time,” says Tim.

Thompson’s warmth and career-long association with distinctly Australian stories of trial and triumph, such as the films Breaker Morant and The Man from Snowy River, offers a welcome tender touch as the show deals with the repair of fractured family relationships.

“Above all, this show is a hero. The bonds that it has already created and will create for many years to come are something that makes Channel Seven immensely proud,” Tim adds.

FIND MY FAMILY is produced by Quail Television for Channel Seven. Executive Producers are John Rudd (Channel Seven) and Greg Quail (Quail TV).

The series will premiere on Channel Seven in 2008.

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  • kristy

    my best friend and i had a major falling out, we talk now but arent as close. she wants to find her mum who left her and her dad when she was 16 months old. im doing everything i can for her to help her out.. we dont have many details on her mum as shannons father isnt willing to help… all we know is that her name is melissa jane joans. she was born in sydney. and she was born in either 1975 or 1976!!

  • Wayne Lynch

    I watch “find my family” often and it frequently brings me to tears. I am 48 years of age and through a lengthy process I found my father by myself – after about 34 years I found him and went to see him. i think viewers need to know that it is not all good news. I found him and it is the worst thing I have ever done. I will never see him again. It was such an anti-climax which brought in to my life nothing but grief and regret. He wa a derilect, and incapable of love. I now have the burden of being his next of kin. I suppose I had to do it to satiate my own curiosity, I admire your program and the work you do, but there is the flipside to tracking down a parent or sibling. I found him only to learn that I need never see him again. It’s a lovely initiative on the face of it, but for me, a nightmare and one that i wish I had never pursued. Perhaps viewers need to know about the alternative experience,
    regards and thanks for taking the time to read this
    Wayne

  • Wendy

    Its great that you help people find relatives they have never met and enable people to reconnect. But to say there are no stronger bonds than blood isn’t true. Blood is one bond a person can have in a family but the not the only bond nor the only way a family is formed or unconditional love is found and expressed. We aren’t “just the family they grew up in…”we are their family too. Inverted commers when talking about the adoptive family is very hurtful. Its not that many adoptive parents are against reunions. (The opposite in most cases as many adoptive parents support their children when it comes to reunions.I’m very supportive of my children when it comes to their birth family and information about their adoption.) But please try not to ignore that side of it or devalue it in the process of producing your show. With open adoption these days the dymanics have changed for children placed for adoption after 2000 in the future a note of those changes would be appreciated. (They know who the birth family are, and have opportunities to see them from a young age.)