PBS’ Finding Your Roots will return to television on January 5. Following is a teaser from the October 19 edition of dailymail.com.
PBS’ Finding Your Roots will return to public television for its third season in January after being placed on hiatus because it covered up the slave-holding past of one of Ben Affleck’s ancestors.
A 2014 episode of the popular show omitted references to his ancestor’s slave-holding history after Affleck requested to keep the detail secret, leading PBS to conduct a ‘very thorough investigation’.
PBS had suspended the series after determining that the show’s producers violated standards by allowing Affleck undue influence on its content and failing to inform the network of his request.
Check out the Finding Your Roots website at PBS.org.
