As recent email exchanges between actor Ben Affleck and the hit PBS show 'Finding Your Roots' executives were leaked online showing that Affleck requested to omit a few parts of one episode of his family's story led the show to postpone its next season.

Not only that PBS recently announced through a statement that Affleck influencing the documentary series violated its standards and has caused not only the indefinite postponing of the upcoming season but also the removal of the Affleck episode in October from all of PBS' methods of distribution, including DVDs and digital platforms.

The email exchanges surfaced back in April between a few executives including Henry Louis Gates Jr., the Harvard professor who is an executive producer on the series as well as Sony Entertainment CEO Michael which all talked about Affleck wanting to remove a segment from the episode that mentioned that slave owners were part of his family history.

Affleck even posted on his Facebook account about the matter. "I didn't want any television show about my family to include a guy who owned slaves. I was embarrassed," he wrote in April adding, "The very thought left a bad taste in my mouth."

"Skip [Gates] decided what went into the show. I lobbied him the same way I lobby directors about what takes of mine I think they should use. This is the collaborative creative process. Skip agreed with me on the slave owner but made other choices I disagreed with. In the end, it's his show and I knew that going in. I'm proud to be his friend and proud to have participated," Affleck continued.

And so just last Wendesday, PBS released a statement announcing their latest action regarding the matter. The statement said that they have "determined that the series co-producers violated PBS standards by failing to shield the creative and editorial process from improper influence, and by failing to inform PBS or WNET of Mr. Affleck's efforts to affect program content," the statement from PBS and its producer New York's WNET said jointly.