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A remake of the Roots<\/em> miniseries has been announced.<\/p>\n The reboot will air on the History Channel, A&E<\/em> and Lifetime<\/em> in 2016.<\/p>\n LeVar Burton<\/strong>, who starred in the original series as Kunta Kinte, will be one of the executive producers on the project.<\/p>\n Root<\/em>s aired in 1977 and the miniseries was nominated for thirty-seven Emmy<\/em> nominations, winning nine Emmys<\/em>.<\/p>\n The reboot will “[incorporate] more material from Alex Haley’<\/strong>s novel, Roots: The Saga of an American Family<\/em>,” and will benefit from “carefully researched new scholarship of the time.”<\/p>\n “My career began with Roots<\/em> and I am proud to be a part of this new adaptation,” said Burton. “There is a huge audience of contemporary young Americans who do not know the story of Roots<\/em> or its importance. I believe now is the right time to tell this story so that we can all be reminded of its impact on our culture and identity.”<\/p>\n “Roots<\/em> was a groundbreaking television milestone that has had an enduring effect on American culture,” said the History Channel<\/em>‘s Dirk Hoogstra.<\/strong> “We are proud to bring this saga to fans of the original, as well as to a new generation that will experience this powerful and poignant tale for the first time.”<\/p>\n Roots<\/em> will be written by Lawrence Konner, Mark Rosenthal, Alison McDonald<\/strong>, and Charles Murray<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A remake of the Roots miniseries has been announced. The reboot will air on the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413],"tags":[2451,2864],"class_list":["post-40599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","tag-burton","tag-roots"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T'Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"Cast & Crew<\/a>","tag_info":"Cast & Crew","comment_count":"9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40601,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40599\/revisions\/40601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}