TLC‘s new Long Lost Family TV series premieres Sunday, March 6, 2016, at 10:00pm ET/PT. The eight-episode docu-series features family members trying to reunite with birthparents, biological families, or children placed for adoption.
Hosted by Chris Jacobs and Lisa Joyner — both adoptees who have searched for their own biological families — each episode of Long Lost Family features the stories of two people or families hoping to find what they are looking for. Watch the Long Lost Family season one trailer, below.
Get more information on the Long Lost Family TV show and its participants, from TLC:
REGRET, LOSS AND REDEMPTION ON TLC’S DOCU-SERIES “LONG LOST FAMILY”
The eight-episode docuseries premieres Sunday, March 6, 2016
Los Angeles, CA – LONG LOST FAMILY features the highly emotional and touching stories of people who have suffered a lifetime of separation and are yearning to be reunited with their birthparents and biological families or find children they had to place for adoption long ago. Either because of circumstance or fate, they’ve barely – if ever – met. The TLC series premieres Sunday, March 6 at 10/9c.
Hosts and well-known television personalities Chris Jacobs and Lisa Joyner are both adoptees who have embarked on their own journeys to discover their biological families. Each episode follows the hosts as they investigate the stories of two individuals or families who have longed to resolve their lifelong searches. The stakes are incredibly high: a successful investigation offers the promise of not just a heartwarming reunion, but also a chance of redemption for people who have wrestled with emotional agony for years.
There is no simple path to find the missing loved ones. With tightly held family secrets in their way, the odds are stacked against them. Lisa and Chris conduct painstaking searches through public records, and utilize the latest DNA technology in their search for answers. But what they discover, and who they find, is anything but expected.
Some incredible stories include:
Rita
A mother who was forced to place her baby boy for adoption 31 years ago. Rita’s boyfriend dumped her when she told him she was pregnant and her mother sent her to a home for pregnant young women for fear of a scandal. Still holding on to his baby blanket from the hospital, she longs to meet her son again and keep the promise she made to find him.
Jenny
Her birth mother was the daughter of a minister who was deeply embarrassed by a pregnancy out of wedlock. Because of the lack of support offered, she ended up placing Jenny with social services. The search for Jenny’s birth mother takes a dramatic turn, when photo evidence suggests they may have been unknowingly connected for years.
Diana and Jeannette
Two women in search for the father who suddenly vanished from their lives when they were just 4 and 5 years old. With no memories of their separation from him, the women have grown up haunted by his sudden disappearance. They hope he can be found so they can see him once again to find out the truth and ask him what happened.
Ancestry, the largest provider of family history and personal DNA testing, is teaming up with TLC as a sponsor of the upcoming season. As part of the show sponsorship, Ancestry provides family history research on each of the featured individuals to help make discoveries possible.
Long Lost Family is produced by Shed Media for TLC.
About TLC
Offering remarkably relatable real-life stories without judgment, TLC shares everyday heart, humor, hope, and human connection with programming genres that include fascinating families, heartwarming transformations, and life’s milestone moments. In 2015, TLC was a top 10 cable network with women and over the past year had 25 series averaging 1 million P2+ viewers or more.
TLC is a global brand available in more than 93 million homes in the US and 312 million households in 189 markets internationally. A destination online, TLC.com offers in-depth fan sites and exclusive original video content. Fans can also interact with TLC through social media on Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest and @TLC on Twitter as well as On Demand services, YouTube and mobile platforms. TLC is part of Discovery Communications (NASDAQ: DISCA, DISCB, DISCK), the world’s #1 pay-TV programmer reaching nearly 3 billion cumulative subscribers in 220 countries and territories.
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412 Comments on "Long Lost Family: New TLC Series Launches in March"
Loved this show please renew
Evidently there was a problem with TLC programming. one of the few shows I enjoyed. Probably the only time I turned to TLC
I like the show very much.
I looked forward to this show it had blessed so many lives..kudos to the hosts they are amazing and so very passionate about helping find the lost ones.. Please don’t cancel.. Very interesting and heartfelt ❤
I know the show is cancelled. However, I was wondering if the producers will do something similar in the future. I’m from Cuba. My mother gave birth to a boy in 1956. She saw the baby but was told later on that he died. There are many details in this story that makes all of us believe that the baby was alive and given to someone else. We will love for the producers to help us find out. But the investigation must be done in Cuba. Please, let me know if is possible.
Would love to contact a producer or network exec to get permission to use :05-:10 of your show open in a documentary that airs in October, 2017.
How do I get in contact? Thanks so much!
Has the show ever contacted anyone here that left a coment? I don’t want to put everything o here if they don’t even respond! .. Thanks .. Don
I have recently discovered this show – first on OWN, and yesterday on TLC. I applied for newsletter, but nothing has come to me as yet.
Please help me find my two brothers and my sister from my father’s first marriage. He lost contact with them before I was born. He remarried my mother. I have since lost both my parents and my two sister and brother to cancer. I am the last one.
Sincerely,
Terri Lee Rand -Heidenstrom
My wife 63 found out she has a brother 60 just found out in April due to a cousin doing a 23 and me check. Mother did not tell anyone about him. He and my wife though they were only child. Will meet in August.
This is the best show on TV. It is real and genuine. Heart issues people struggle with, and get relief and blessings. Huge burdens are lifted. I am so sick and tired of murders and vulgarity on TV. Please keep this show on.
I have watched every show and I loved them. Please don’t cancel.
Thank you
I enjoy the show. I wish there were more episodes on weekly. It shows real people and their feelings about their biological families. I hope this show is not canceled.
My name is diamond Stevens I am 28 and I’ve never had a dad but recent I found him three Facebook. This is something my sister sapphire Stevens and I would like to share with the world. We were placed in foster care as babies then given to my grandmother to raised. My grandmother was all we had, she recently passed away 6 years ago.