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January 19, 2021 4:00 AM Matt Roush, TV Insider
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A selective critical checklist of notable Tuesday TV:
Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (8/7c, PBS, check local listings at pbs.org): You never know what skeletons lurk in someone’s genealogical closet. In the seventh-season premiere of Harvard professor Gates’ captivating series that explores celebrity guests’ ancestries, actress Glenn Close and cult director John Waters are dismayed to learn of slaveholders in their families’ privileged pasts. “It makes me feel a sense of shame,” says Close, who nevertheless feels “stronger” when told of Quaker and Puritan forebears who helped found the nation in its Colonial days. (She’s also delighted to learn one of her ancestral lines connects with Princess Diana.) Waters loves hearing Gates declare, “Your family tree drips with drama,” and blurts, “It sounds like a movie scene I’d write” when treated to a newspaper cli
Gossip Girl reboot, taking on the role of the school headmistress, according to published reports.
Murphy joins an ensemble cast filled with theater stars, including Tony winner Laura Benanti, Adam Chanler-Berat, Tavi Gevinson, and Jason Gotay. Original
Gossip Girl creators Josh Schwartz, Stephanie Savage, and Joshua Safran return for the project, with Safran also serving as showrunner.
Reportedly set in the same universe as the original
Gossip Girl series, the HBO Max show will will follow a new group of wealthy private school students in contemporary Manhattan. The series, filming now, is expected to be released later this year.
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