There have been a lot of TV crossover episodes over the years, but this may be the most unique one yet: PBS’s Finding Your Roots and host Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. will make a major appearance on Fox’s The Simpsons this Sunday.
NEW YORK (AP) — PBS’ popular “Finding Your Roots” series, temporarily shelved after an episode omitted references to the slaveholding past of Ben Affleck’s ancestor at the actor’s request, will […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — PBS put its Finding Your Roots series on hold Wednesday after determining an episode that omitted references to Ben Affleck’s ancestor as a slave owner violated its […]
PBS and WNET are investigating Henry Louis Gates Jr.’s decision to censor his celebrity-genealogy series Finding Your Roots after getting a request from Ben Affleck that the program not reveal he had a slave-owning ancestor. Affleck has expressed regret for seeking to have the information omitted from the episode that featured the actor and aired last October.
