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Finding Your Roots Looks To Find Its Footing, Again, After Misstep on Affleck's Slave-Owning Ancestor

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One of the last TV shows you’d expect to find dusting itself off from a small, but embarrassing content-suppression scandal would be Finding Your Roots, Professor Henry L. Gates’s genealogy program on PBS.

But the show’s third season, which premieres Jan. 5 at 8 p.m., will have to explore the roots of several dozen new subjects in the mildly uncomfortable shadow of previous guest Ben Affleck.

Gates’s lineup this season will include the likes of Bill O’Reilly, Shonda Rhimes, Jimmy Kimmel, Dustin Hoffman, Mia Farrow, Julianne Moore, Norman Lear, Senator John McCain, LL Cool J, Puffy Combs, Maya read more >>>

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