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.
What do you think? Do you like the sound of the Long Lost Family TV show? Do you plan to check out the series premiere on TLC?
Please don’t cancel this show. I have watched faithfully! I need this show!
Everyone should really stop and think about how much lives change. I had thought I thought about all of the changes it would make / boy was I ever wrong. There was so much I realized that I didn’t think about till time went on with my bio family. Yes it’s natural to wonder who they are where we came from who do we look like etc. I think you should do a show of what happens a few years after the reunions. When I found my bio parents both of them along with many siblings It was just like… Read more »
Wonderful show do touching and emotional. Class act program
Wish there were more of these kind of shows let’s face it not all TCL shows are like this
Im a fan of the show as well. My reason is im a grieving mother and grandmother. I have lost a granddaughter and now my daughter. My grand daughter was born in seattle in 2006 and adopted at about 2 or 3 months old. We desperately want her to know she is and was loved and wanted. Show always makes me cry. I relate to their heartache.
I adore the show!! TLC has so much garbage on, that this is a breath of fresh air!! Please continue LONG LOST FAMILY!!
So sorry that you cannot allow my comment, it’s still a worthwhile show, I just don’t like the ‘sincerity’ being falsified in the last one.
The season finale has shocked me…I suppose reality shows shouldn’t shock me anymore but the story with the man “Chris Hansen” looking for his mom who left him in a grocery store parking lot …I saw them reunited previously it was either on Dr. Phil or some show like that a couple of years ago…so just how authentic is this program….by the way, if you take down my post I will repost on other sites so people can look up for themselves. I so LOVED watching this show with my mom until tonight when I am left wondering just how… Read more »
I saw his story on “The Locator” with Troy Dunn.
Thank you! My husband and I just said the same thing!!
I know I was thinking the same thing, how strange, because of that I decided do a little research because it didn’t look fake and I know I have heard this story before, these were shown back in 2011 not sure if same show or how they did it, but these shows are more like reruns… this wasn’t a new series. Which I thin they should have mentioned that.
I too remember seeing this story previously somewhere so the young man seeking his mother is after more than just answers.
Here’s a good story for you my name is Daniel Cecil Lambert I found out that I have brothers and sisters all across the continental United States as well as whales fathered by one man and multiple women.
Oh please keep producing this show! ? There are not that many new shows worth watching,and I just LOVE this one!!!!
I am adopted. This has been one of my favorite. I Was adopted at 11 days old and was told I was adopted from the time I can remember. I was 66 years old and a friend of mine did some research. I never looked for them for maybe hurting their family. I did know my mother’s name and that I had a brother about 2 years older then myself. It only took 2 weeks and I found my family. My mother passed in 93 along with my oldest brother in 93. I met the some of my siblings. I… Read more »
This is one of the best shows on tv and they would be crazy to ever cancel it. This show does more good for people in helping them to find their loved ones. I watch every time it’s on and I cry when I see the family reunited with their loved one. I have been searching for my brother for years. He left home when he was 16 years old and he would be 69 now. Most of my siblings believe he is deceased but I don’t feel that way because in my heart I can feel he has been… Read more »
Hello, I’ve never seen your show. My niece thought I should let you know, my husband will be meeting his birth mother for the first time next Wednesday. He has been adopted since birth. Our daughter in law searched his birth mothers name and found her. After 59 years the two will be reunited. Let me know, and I will let them know, if you are interested.
I just want to thank Long Lost Family for helping me find my father.I was watching the show and saw Chris get on Ancestry.com, I did the same and sure enough there he was. Or at least the picture of his grave. I started a tree and someone from the town my father lived in contacted me with more information, including that I have a step brother who didn’t know anything about me. I am 62 and he is 51. My dad married his mom and raised him as his own son. I live in new Orleans and John lives… Read more »
Thank you for this wonderful show. I am a birthmother who was happily reunited with my grown child in 2001 following an 18-year search, but even though one might think all the pain goes away at the point of a happy reunion, I can say that for some of us the wounds of that original loss run deep. It is very therapeutic to see others finding their way. Thank you for the work you are doing!!
I will be turning 60 this year and all these years wondered about my father, he was never in my life, my Mom is deceased for sometime but told me my she had an affair with a married man with children, his name was on my birth certificate and mom told me there was an error with the spelling of his last name. Talk about being confused. I just wonder if there is some family members still living.
Thank you so much for this wonderful show. Finally, light is being shone on the pain and suffering (unnecessary) caused by the horrible stigma society put on unwed pregnancy especially during the “Baby Scoop” era. I reunited with my beautiful daughter at the Roosevelt Hotel in NYC two years ago after loosing her to adoption 36 years prior. It was the happiest day of my life! She was afraid to tell her parents that she had met me. She was an only child and they are separated and she thought it would be too much for them given the circumstances.… Read more »