*”Roots,” the classic 1977 miniseries that aired on ABC, is making a return to the small screen as a remake equipped with three networks on tap to reintroduce it to viewers as an event series. “My ...

LOS ANGELES — When a newborn Kunta Kinte was lifted triumphantly toward the African sky 25 years ago in "Roots," television seemed to rise along with him. As the mania over the miniseries swept ...

The feelings towards The History Channel’s remake of Alex Haley’s Roots miniseries are almost as complicated as the history explored in the eight-hour epic about Kunta Kinte, an African man sold into ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Laurence Fishburne is joining the “Roots” miniseries remake. A&E Networks said Wednesday that Fishburne will play writer Alex Haley, whose novel about his African-American ancestry ...

LOS ANGELES — The History channel is moving closer to a remake of the groundbreaking TV miniseries “Roots.” The channel said Allen Hughes, whose credits include “Menace II Society” and “The Book of ...

The groundbreaking 1977 miniseries "Roots" returns to television Easter Sunday, giving generations of African-Americans the chance to reconnect with their roots. TV One, a national cable station ...

Amid an already reboot-crazy TV season–a new Ironside here, a new Murder, She Wrote there–History channel now has plans to develop a remake of Roots, the 1977 slavery epic miniseries that remains one ...