My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding - Season 1 - Eps 6: My Big Fat Gypsy Christmas
Christmas is a time for family, a time for peace and harmony - but it is also a time to celebrate. This film follows the celebrations and traditions of members of the Irish traveller community at Christmas, as well as two of the most jaw dropping weddings ever shown. Filmed last year, the programme follows a mass-Yuletide First Communion ceremony. It also follows some of the unique traveller preparations that go on in the run up to Christmas, and spends Christmas Day itself with Paddy and Roseanne at their home on a traveller site in Salford.
About My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding
Title: My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding
First Air Date: 2010-02-18
Last Air Date: 2012-03-27
Status: Ended
Rating: 5/10 (from 13 votes)
Language: EN
Seasons: 3
Total Episodes: 14
Network: Channel 4
Genres: Documentary, Reality
Production Companies: Firecracker Films
Synopsis
Big Fat Gypsy Weddings is a British documentary series broadcast on Channel 4, that explores the lives and traditions of several Irish Traveller families as they prepare to unite one of their number in marriage. The series also featured Romanichal in several episodes, and has been criticised for not accurately representing England’s Romani and Travelling community. It was first broadcast in February 2010 as a one-off documentary called My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding, filmed as part of the Cutting Edge series and voted Most Groundbreaking Show in the Cultural Diversity Awards 2010. A series of 5 episodes were later commissioned, and the series first aired in January 2011. A second series began airing in February 2012. A third series was not made, rather the show ended with six stand-alone specials.
Cast
Barbara Flynn
Narrator (voice)
Paddy Doherty
Himself
