The celebrity-packed actuality sequence that uncovers the hidden truths of A-list stars and public figures returns for its twelfth season on PBS, that includes a brand new roster of well-known faces confronted with the chilly, exhausting info of their household lineage.
“I’m thrilled to announce one other season of Discovering Your Roots crammed with inspiring tales from our fantastic company that additional present us that on the degree of the genome, we’re all 99% the identical regardless of the forces that attempt to divide us. It’s particularly necessary to all of us at Discovering Your Roots that our viewers know, regardless of the lack of federal funding for public tv, our present and PBS will not be going wherever,” host and government producer Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. shared in a press release.
“We encourage everybody to help PBS by turning into a member of your native PBS station for those who aren’t already, and persevering with to unfold the phrase in regards to the nice work PBS is doing,” he continued.
Right here is the whole lot we all know to this point in regards to the upcoming season of Discovering Your Roots.
When does Discovering Your Roots Season 12 premiere?
The twelfth season of Discovering Your Roots premieres on PBS on January 6.
What’s Discovering Your Roots about?
The official logline of the present is as follows: “For greater than a decade, famend Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. has helped to broaden America’s sense of itself, stimulating a nationwide dialog about identification with humor, knowledge, and compassion. Professor Gates has explored the ancestry of dozens of influential folks from numerous backgrounds, taking thousands and thousands of viewers deep into the previous to disclose the connections that bind us all.”
Through the years, the sequence has explored the household histories of a few of America’s most celebrated figures, uncovering their connections to the previous. Generally stunning, typically heartbreaking, however all the time compelling, PBS invitations viewers to affix the journey by way of the lives and lineages of those influential folks.
Previous company of Discovering Your Roots have included Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson, Samuel L. Jackson, Julia Roberts, Jeff Goldblum, Kerry Washington, Questlove, Nas, Bernie Sanders, Glenn Shut, and lots of extra.
Who stars in Season 12 of Discovering Your Roots?
The celeb visitor roster for Season 12 contains actors Lizzy Caplan, Kristin Chenoweth, Liza Colón-Zayas, Darren Criss, Danielle Deadwyler, America Ferrera, Sanaa Lathan, Tracy Letts, and Delroy Lindo.
The sequence will even profile businessman Barry Diller, musicians Flea, Rhiannon Giddens, Wiz Khalifa, and Lizzo, filmmaker Spike Lee, athletes Brittney Griner and Chris Paul, journalist Sara Haines, and comic Hasan Minhaj.
There will probably be one further celeb visitor who’s but to be introduced.
Who’s behind Discovering Your Roots Season 12?
Discovering Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates Jr. is a manufacturing of McGee Media, Inkwell Media, and Kunhardt Movies, in affiliation with WETA, Washington, D.C.
Henry Louis Gates Jr. serves as author, host, and government producer of the sequence. Govt producers additionally embrace Dyllan McGee and Peter Kunhardt, with Sabin Streeter as senior producer and Natalia Warchol as sequence producer. Deborah Clancy Porfido is supervising producer, and Kevin Burke is producer.
The sequence is directed by Sabin Streeter, Krista Whetstone, and Natalia Warchol
Is there a trailer for Discovering Your Roots Season 12?
No, not but. However examine again for updates.
Discovering Your Roots, Season 12 Premiere, January 6, PBS