The host of the PBS show "Finding Your Roots" has apologized after a PBS review faulted him for his handling of a show about Ben Affleck.
The review found that Emmy-winning Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., who hosts the program that examines the family trees of celebrities, inappropriately bowed to pressure from Affleck that one of his slave-owning ancestors be excised from the show.
Gates and his fellow producers "violated PBS standards by failing to shield the creative and editorial process from improper influence, and by failing to inform PBS or WNET [the PBS member station where the program originates] of Mr.