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Queen Sugar creator and executive producer Ava DuVernay, who directed the pilot, will return to direct the series’ final episode. Production on the seventh and final season has begun in and around New Orleans. DuVernay will wrap up seven seasons of an all-women directorial team for OWN’s award-winning drama series. In…

EXCLUSIVE: OWN’s Black Love is returning for one last go-round. The network has renewed the four-time NAACP-nominated docuseries for a sixth and final season. Season 6 will premiere Saturday, July 23 at 10 pm on OWN. You can watch the trailer for a sneak peek at the new season above and see key art below. Black Love,…

Oprah Winfrey Network announced that courtroom drama series All Rise, starring Simone Missick, returns for a third season on Tuesday, June 7 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on OWN.  The All Rise season three all-star cast includes Simone Missick as 'Judge Lola Carmichael,' Wilson Bethel as Judge Carmichael's best friend, Deputy…

EXCLUSIVE: Carlos King, creator and exec producer of OWN's Love & Marriage, is hosting a late-night series for the Oprah Winfrey-led cabler. The Discovery-backed broadcaster is moving into the genre with The Nightcap with Carlos King. The series, which is in the same vein as Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen…

EXCLUSIVE: Ashley Blaine Featherson-Jenkins, one of the stars of Netflix's Dear White People, is launching her own podcast series. The actor, who is currently recurring on NBC's Grand Crew and starred in feature film Bad Hair alongside Lena Waithe and Vanessa Williams, has teamed with OWN Podcasts to launch Trials to T…

For decades, WarnerMedia and Discovery had largely co-existed independently. They have lived in separate universes with virtually no business interactions, as unscripted television is their main area of overlap. The Discovery networks work primarily with independent producers and not studios like Warner Bros TV, which…

OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network is expanding the Love & Marriage franchise with Love & Marriage: DC, the first spinoff of its successful reality series Love & Marriage: Huntsville, from Carlos King’s Kingdom Reign Entertainment. The new series, starring Real Housewives of Potamac alums Monique and Chris Samuels, is set for…

Marg Helgenberger will reprise the role of Supervising Judge Lisa Benner in OWN’s All Rise for Season 3. The network revealed the new season will premiere in June and will pick up 6 months after the events of the Season 2 finale. The first two seasons ran on CBS before it was canceled last May. OWN announced it had…

UPDATED with latest: Networks are marshaling to set programming this month in tribute of Sidney Poitier, the groundbreaking and Oscar-winning actor and civil rights activist who died in January at age 94. OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network will feature special programming this Sunday that includes the iconic actor’s 2000 and…

A first look at the new series The Kings of Napa is out, spotlighting the drama before its season premiere on January 11 at 8 PM ET/PT on OWN. The Kings of Napa is from writer and executive producer Janine Sherman Barrois (Claws, Self-Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker) and Warner Bros. Television. The…

OWN has revealed The Kings of Napa will premiere on at 8 p.m. January 11. Created by Janine Sherman Barrois, the series is focused on a picturesque Napa Valley, California vineyard owned by the Kings, an aspirational African American family whose wealth and status land them on the pages of design magazines and society…

EXCLUSIVE: Queen Sugar is coming to an end with its seventh season in 2022. “It's a radical act that it lasted this long, and it's a testament to every single pair of hands that touched it and I am so proud of that," series creator Ava DuVernay told Deadline today of the acclaimed OWN drama executive produced by Oprah…