History Television's genealogical mystery show, Ancestors in the Attic, returns in August for a second season of searching for secrets and skeletons in ancestral closets all over the world. Jeff Douglas stars the as host of the series, which premieres Saturday August 18, 2007 at 6:30PM ET/PT.

Season two promises to be more exciting than ever, with stories including an Icelandic man who traces his family line to the Red River in Manitoba; the discovery of a birth mother in Scotland; a search for Samurai ancestors in Japan and a woman's roots in the Masa tribe of northern Cameroon.

"I've never made a series that so directly affects people's lives in the way Ancestors in the Attic does," says producer Dugald Maudsley. "By connecting Canadians with their ancestors, and helping them find members of their families, we're changing their lives."

Produced by Toronto's Primitive Entertainment, Ancestors in the Attic is an irreverent, fast-paced series that takes viewers on a road trip across Canada and on a worldwide search for their ancestors. Part personal drama, part CSI-like forensic investigation and part historical revelation, Ancestors in the Attic provides emotional, shocking and often life-changing answers to the genealogical questions that haunt many Canadians.

With the high-spirited Douglas hosting, this show is anything but old-fashioned. Douglas and staff genealogist Paul McGrath travel the world pursuing family legends, tracking the genealogy of families, reuniting lost kin, and revealing simple ways to break through genealogical brick walls. At the same time a panel of professional genealogists - McGrath, Dr. Kevin James and Fawne Stratford-Devai - combines its considerable talents to take viewers on a forensic journey that unlocks the answers to some particularly difficult mysteries.

The stories on Ancestors in the Attic cover all the corners of Canada, from Victoria, BC to Pangnirtung, Nunavut, and take viewers all over the world, from Holland to Iceland to Cameroon. In actively helping people uncover the secrets in their family tree, the series connects people, places and moments in history, to tell the extraordinary stories of ordinary Canadians and reveal the unusual and fascinating family histories that together make up the social history of our country.

By telling the story of one person's search for their ancestors, Ancestors in the Attic not only delves into a slice of Canadian history, it reveals the connections that bind us as individuals, as families and as a nation. Those connections are what the program Ancestors in the Attic is all about.

Season two of Ancestors in the Attic will run for 13 episodes, Saturdays at 6:30PM ET/PT.

Ancestors in the Attic is produced by Primitive Entertainment in association with History Television, produced with the assistance of the Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit. The show is produced by Dugald Maudsley and Kristina McLaughlin, executive produced by Michael McMahon, and written and directed by some of the Canada's brightest non-fiction filmmakers.

About Primitive Entertainment

Primitive Entertainment is a leading Canadian production company based in Toronto and specializing in high-quality non-fiction films. The company was founded in 1990 by brothers Kevin and Michael McMahon, with Kristina McLaughlin joining the company in 1994. Primitive Entertainment's impressive roster of award-winning work includes: The Falls; McLuhan's Wake; Stolen Spirits of Haida Gwaii; The Trouble with Boys; Cod: The Fish That Changed the World; I, Curmudgeon; and the series Things That Move. In addition to Ancestors in the Attic, Primitive is currently producing Kevin McMahon's new feature-length documentary, Waterlife and a 4-part series Take This Job And… for History Television. Primitive recently completed Four Wings and a Prayer, a feature-length documentary co-produced with the National Film Board for the Documentary Channel and France 2; the third season of Things That Move, hosted by Jeff Douglas for History Television; and a feature-length documentary by Alan Zweig entitled Lovable, for TVOntario and IFC. More information is available at: www.primitive.net