{"id":22893,"date":"2025-04-29T11:30:05","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T15:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/acorn-tv-bbc-america-slate-debut-of-relative-secrets\/"},"modified":"2025-04-29T13:00:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T17:00:49","slug":"acorn-tv-bbc-america-slate-debut-of-relative-secrets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/acorn-tv-bbc-america-slate-debut-of-relative-secrets\/","title":{"rendered":"Acorn TV &#038; BBC America Slate Debut of Relative Secrets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Acorn TV and BBC America have slated the premiere of the new unscripted series <em>Relative Secrets<\/em>, hosted by Jane Seymour (<em>Harry Wild<\/em>; <em>Live and Let Die<\/em>;<em> East of Eden<\/em>; <em>Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman<\/em>), for June 2.<\/p>\n<p>Each episode of the series investigates an everyday American family\u2019s darkest mystery, aiming both to solve it and explore how it shapes the family today. Every tale connects the American family to their U.K. heritage in some way.<\/p>\n<p>The series features a 99-year-old World War II veteran who worries his absence led to the murder of his grandmother, a daughter of a serial killer who is desperate to forge her own identity separate from her father\u2019s sordid past, a mother who abandoned her three children to start a new secret life and many more.<\/p>\n<p>Seymour oversees the investigation in each episode, which is led by archaeologist Natasha Billson (<em>The Great British Dig<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p><em>Relative Secrets<\/em> is produced by Cream Productions (<em>The Texas Cheerleader Murder Plot<\/em>,\u202f<em>History of the Sitcom<\/em>,\u202f<em>Age of Samurai<\/em>,\u202f<em>Fear Thy Neighbor<\/em>\u202f, <em>Blue Rodeo: Lost Together<\/em>) for AMC Studios, the exclusive international distributor of the series.<\/p>\n<p>Executive producers are David Brady, Kate Harrison Karman, John Ealer and Seymour. 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