New season of Finding Your Roots starts tonight

Season 11 of the genealogy docuseries, Finding Your Roots, begins tonight at 8:00 p.m. Eastern time on PBS.

Hosted by Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., the guests will include Joy Behar, Kristen Bell, Laurence Fishburne, Debra Messing, Michael Imperioli, Melanie Lynskey, Natalie Morales, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Lea Salonga, Amanda Seyfried, Dax Shepard, Sharon Stone, Chrissy Teigen, celebrity chefs José Andrés and Sean Sherman, novelist Amy Tan, poet Rita Dove, historian Lonnie Bunch, and musician Rubén Blades.

There will also be a special reveal: the solution to a mystery that has haunted Dr. Gates’ own family for generations.

Tonight’s episode features actors Lea Salonga and Amanda Seyfried.

Thomas MacEntee has published the schedule for this season on his blog, Genealogy Bargains.

New series: Great Migrations
Starting January 28, PBS will air a new four-part docuseries from Dr. Gates, called, Great Migrations: A People on the Move.

The series tells the story of African American movement over the 20th and 21st centuries, and how it shaped the United States by exploring the meaning behind those movements. 

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