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Finding Your Roots

2012 to present Documentary 13 seasons

TMDB rating 6.2/10 Returning Jan 12, 2027

Noted Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. has been helping people discover long-lost relatives hidden for generations within the branches of their family trees. Professor Gates utilizes a team of genealogists to reconstruct the paper trail left behind by our ancestors and the world’s leading geneticists to decode our DNA and help us travel thousands of years into the past to discover the origins of our earliest forebears.

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    TMDB rating 6.0/10

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    Premieres Jan 12, 2027. Episode 1 arrives Jan 13, 1:00 AM

Cast and details

  • Henry Louis Gates, Jr.Self - Host
  • CeCe MooreSelf - Genetic Genealogy Expert
  • Derek JeterSelf
  • Anderson CooperSelf
  • Tom ColicchioSelf
  • Angela BassettSelf
  • Valerie JarrettSelf
  • Alan DershowitzSelf
  • Tony KushnerSelf
  • Sally FieldSelf
  • Tina FeySelf
  • NasSelf
Network
PBS
First aired
Mar 24, 2012
Latest episode
Apr 14, 2026

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