History Channel To Remake ‘Roots’ Miniseries

rootsWith the success of films like ’12 Years a Slave’ and ‘Django Unchained’, slavery is totally hot right now, which has inspired the History channel to remake the iconic 1977 miniseries ‘Roots’. The network will produce a new 8 hour series after acquiring the rights to the 12-hour original. Good, people still haven’t gotten the message of how bad slavery was.

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