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?
Where is my show? Wow this was the best show ever and it’s not on tonight? please keep it on!! My daughter in law was adopted
. I thought that she may find something. by watching this show or if you can help her.
Please renew this show. Great heartwarming show.
Please consider continuing this show. It is amazing!
wow i did love that show please bring it back again.
Love this show gave my daughter up 42yrs ago, she has 5 siblings that are hoping to meet her one day, but due to Catholic. Services Secret Closed Files we have had no luck in finding her.This show is fantastic it has helped so many people on air and given hope to off air people!
Please renew this show, it has such meaning.
Thank you Laura
How could I get in contact with this show I would like to dind my birth father. My birth mother knows his name but won’t tell me. I just need to know there’s a piece missing in my life. I just need to know.
We love this show. Please bring it again.
It’s so nice to have a decent show to watch along with Who Do You Think You Are. This is “real” life and educational. A show for the whole family – any age, any background. Please continue to provide us with these shows.
I love this show!! Please renew this show!!!!!!!!!
I want you to know that my husband and I love the show. Chris and Lisa are wonderful and perfect hosts for this show. I, in particular relate to these families. I have a step brother out there that my mom put up for adoption when I was 18 years old. He was born June 1963, the same year we were married. My mom was a single mom raising my other step brother that was 5 at the time. My mom has long passed and there is no one living that knows anything about the adoption. I only know he… Read more »
This is one of the best shows we’ve seen in so long!! We DVR it and really hope it continues. We tell everyone we can what an awesome series this is. It’s so heartwarming!! The hosts of the show are so compassionate and get right to the point of what the viewer wants to know.
Love, love, love!! I’m a birth mother who was reunited with my son in 2012 after 25 years apart. This show tugs at my heartstrings in so many ways. <3
The stories are all so beautiful and touching, thank you for sharing them with us
Why do all the clean shows get cancelled? Please bring it back. So inspiring.
Love this show! So touching. It would be sorrily missed if you took it off the air. Chris and Lisa are wonderful and so genuinely caring with the people they meet and help. Nice to watch a show that is all about love.
This is the only show I don’t miss!!! Please keep this on!!!