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Have a family mystery? Apply to the “Finding Your Roots” Casting Call!


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FINDING YOUR ROOTS CASTING CALL

 

In response to the overwhelming comments from fans asking for a non-celebrity guest to be featured in the series, FINDING YOUR ROOTS will be casting a viewer for Season 10 of the long-running PBS series.

HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR
Henry Louis Gates on the set of Finding Your Roots
Credit: Stephanie Berger.

The nationwide casting call begins November 21 and will conclude on or around January 27, 2023. The series is looking for anyone with a “family mystery” that the team from FINDING YOUR ROOTS can help solve! The chosen viewer will be publicly announced in the summer of 2023, and will appear on Season 10, which is expected to premiere in early 2024.

A special URL, findingyourrootscasting.com, has been created for applicants to apply.

Follow social accounts for FINDING YOUR ROOTS and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., for the public announcement on Monday, November 21 at 4 PM ET.

FINDING YOUR ROOTS is a production of McGee Media, Inkwell Media, Kunhardt Films and WETA.