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Roots: The Next Generations is an American television miniseries based on the last seven chapters of Alex Haley's 1976 novel Roots: The Saga of an American Family.First aired on ABC in February 1979, it is a sequel to the 1977 Roots miniseries, tracing the lives of Kunta Kinte's descendants in Henning, Tennessee, from 1882 to 1967.
The Next Generation was developed by creator Gene Roddenberry, who served as an executive producer until his death in 1991, [6] along with Maurice Hurley, Rick Berman, [7] Michael Piller and Jeri Taylor. [8] [9] The series was filmed primarily on the Paramount Studios lot in Los Angeles, California. [10]
Howard Ellsworth Rollins Jr. (October 17, 1950 – December 8, 1996) was an American stage, film, and television actor. He was best known for his role as Andrew Young in 1978's King, George Haley in the 1979 miniseries Roots: The Next Generations, Coalhouse Walker Jr. in the 1981 film Ragtime, Captain Davenport in the 1984 film A Soldier's Story, and as Virgil Tibbs on the NBC/CBS television ...
Roots: The Next Generations, miniseries and a sequel to the phenomenally popular miniseries Roots; Speed Racer: The Next Generation, American animated television series based on the classic Japanese Speed Racer franchise; Star Trek: The Next Generation, science fiction television series set in the Star Trek universe created by Gene Roddenberry
A sequel, Roots: The Next Generations, first aired in 1979, and a second sequel, Roots: The Gift, a Christmas television film, starring LeVar Burton and Louis Gossett Jr., first aired in 1988. A related film, Alex Haley's Queen , is based on the life of Queen Jackson Haley, who was Alex Haley's paternal grandmother.
Dailymotion is a French online video sharing platform owned by Canal+. Prior to 2024, the company was owned by Vivendi. [3] North American launch partners included ...
The last seven chapters of the novel were later adapted in the form of a second miniseries, Roots: The Next Generations (1979). It stimulated interest in African American genealogy and an appreciation for African American history. [1] Although Roots was originally described as fiction, it was sold in the non-fiction section of bookstores. Haley ...
Roots is a 2016 American miniseries and a remake of the 1977 miniseries with the same name, based on Alex Haley's 1976 novel, Roots: The Saga of an American Family, which follows an 18th-century Mandinka man who is enslaved and shipped from the Gambia to the Colony of Virginia and his descendants.