A "Roots" TV series for a new generation begins Monday night. Here's what some of the actors who star in the four-part event say about bringing this history to the screen in a remake of the 1977 ...

The original series ... new Roots needed to be made. For a new generation, Roots is only a legend. They know of it. But they haven’t seen it. Tracking down VHS tapes of a 40-year-old TV show ...

The 1977 series starred LeVar Burton (pictured ... at History “Roots” spawned two sequels, “Roots: The Next Generations” and the TV Christmas movie “Roots: The Gift.” ...

Roots: The Next Generations is a television miniseries, introduced in 1979, continuing, from 1882 to the 1960s, the fictionalized story of the family of Alex Haley and their life in Henning ...

The classic 1970s TV series "Roots," about one African family's struggle to survive slavery over generations, is to be remade for U.S. television next year, the companies behind it said Friday.

There are three kinds of TV watchers ... in the landmark miniseries "Roots"; those who came to know him for his role on "Star Trek: The Next Generation"; and those who grew up on Burton, watching ...

HISTORY, A&E and LIFETIME greenlight the scripted event series ROOTS for a new generation of viewers to simulcast on all ... Families were glued to their TV’s night after night to watch the original ...

Roots, the mini-series that was shown to pupils for generations, is 'Eurocentric' and has no place in the classroom, teachers have heard. Members of the National Education Union were told it was ...

Nearly 40 years after its original airing, the record-breaking miniseries ROOTS is being reimagined ... Spanning multiple generations, the lineage begins with young Kunta Kinte who is captured ...