LOS ANGELES — When a newborn Kunta Kinte was lifted triumphantly toward the African sky 25 years ago in "Roots," television seemed to rise along with him. As the mania over the miniseries swept ...

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Amid an already reboot-crazy TV season–a new Ironside here, a new Murder, She Wrote there–History channel now has plans to develop a remake of Roots, the 1977 slavery epic miniseries that remains one ...