The four-part mini-series, starring Malachi Kirby, Forest Whitaker, Anna Paquin, Laurence Fishburne, Jonathan Rhys Myers, Anika Noni Rose, and T.I. premiered in the US on Memorial Day, May 30, 2016.
Takahiro Sakurai (Osomatsu, Berserk’s Griffith) has been announced as the voice of Kunta Kinte, a Mandinka youth brought to America as a slave.
Plans have been announced for a History Channel Japan broadcast of the 2016 adaptation of Alex Haley’s classic multi-generation family history Roots this August.