Monday Morning Maybe

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Finding Your Roots

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2012 | 13 seasons | 60 min | Documentary

Sunday Safe Betearly rating

Why it’s a Sunday Safe Bet

Solid across the board without standing out anywhere. A safe bet when you want something reliable.

Based on critics, audiences, awards, box office and buzz. Details below.

Is it for you?

Who'll love it
Made for the curious.
The mood
Eye-opening.
The pace
13 seasons and 127 episodes: a long-haul commitment, hour-long episodes, about 127 hours in all.
What might put you off
  • Rated TV-PG. Worth a look first if you have very young kids.
  • A big time investment at 13 seasons.

Noted Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. has been helping people discover long-lost relatives hidden for generations within the branches of their family trees. Professor Gates utilizes a team of genealogists to reconstruct the paper trail left behind by our ancestors and the world’s leading geneticists to decode our DNA and help us travel thousands of years into the past to discover the origins of our earliest forebears.

How it earned its rating

  • CriticsNot counted

    Not enough reviews on record yet

  • AudiencesNot counted

    Not measured yet: not enough ratings

  • AwardsNot counted

    No major awards or nominations

  • Reach & staying powerSolid

    Ran for 13 seasons and reached a small audience so far; still draws a steady audience long after release

  • Buzz & cultural impactSolid

    About 156K people sought it out in the past year

Season by season

The show overall is a Sunday Safe Bet. Here's how each season stacks up; Season 9 is the high point.

  1. Season 12012 · 10 episodes
    Not rated yet
  2. Monday Morning Maybe
    Season 22014 · 10 episodes · 6.0 out of 10
    Monday
  3. Season 32016 · 10 episodes
    Not rated yet
  4. Season 42017 · 10 episodes
    Not rated yet
  5. Season 52019 · 10 episodes
    Not rated yet
  6. Monday Morning Maybe
    Season 62019 · 16 episodes · 1.0 out of 10
    Monday
  7. Season 72021 · 10 episodes
    Not rated yet
  8. Season 82022 · 10 episodes
    Not rated yet
  9. Saturday Special
    Season 92023 · 10 episodes · 8.0 out of 10
    Saturday
  10. Season 102024 · 10 episodes
    Not rated yet
  11. Monday Morning Maybe
    Season 112025 · 10 episodes · 1.0 out of 10
    Monday
  12. Monday Morning Maybe
    Season 122026 · 10 episodes · 2.8 out of 10
    Monday
  13. Season 132027 · 1 episode
    Not rated yet

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Cast & crew

  • Henry Louis Gates, Jr.Self - Host