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On the eve of Valentine's Day, there is a lot of love in the air and on the small screen this week, in many forms. As my TV review above displays, there was the debut of the Ava DuVernay created Cherish the Day on OWN on February 11, and the launch of the bloody second season of Narcos: Mexico on Netflix today. Then…

The end is in sight for Tyler Perry’s If Loving You Is Wrong. OWN said today the drama series will end with the upcoming fifth season, which premieres at 10 PM Tuesday, March 10. "We are grateful to Tyler Perry and the talented cast and crew for giving us five incredibly entertaining seasons," OWN president Tina Perry…

Jennifer Giddens, a veteran TV network executive who most recently worked at Netflix, has joined OWN as head of marketing. She will report to Tina Perry, president of the Oprah Winfrey network, which launched in partnership with Discovery in 2011. Giddens will oversee strategic marketing for OWN’s slate of programming…

UPDATED with OWN statement: Ambitions will not return for a second season on OWN. Robin Givens, who stars as Stephanie Carlisle Lancaster on the series, revealed the news on Instagram. “Found out last week #Ambitions wouldn't be returning for a second season ….,” Givens wrote in a post preceded by a sad emoji. OWN…

OWN will premiere its first anthology series with Ava DuVernay’s Cherish the Day starring Xosha Roquemore (The Mindy Project), Alano Miller (Underground) and the legendary Cicely Tyson. It will debut on February 11 at 10 PM, followed by a second night on February 12 at 8 PM. DuVernay, Roquemore, Miller and Tyson took…

EXCLUSIVE: "You want one thing, and I want something else," declares Xosha Roquemore's Gently James in the new trailer for Ava DuVernay's upcoming OWN anthology series Cherish The Day. Honestly, as you can see in the video above, it is hard to go wrong with that directness, some Sade, and the legendary Cicely Tyson…

OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network has hired Robyn Lattaker-Johnson to oversee its unscripted slate. She joins from Sean Combs' Revolt Media & TV. Lattaker-Johnson has been appointed Head of OWN Unscripted Development, Programming & Specials, reporting to president Tina Perry. She will focus on developing unscripted shows for…

Tyler Perry has revealed he writes all of his own TV shows, without any assistance from a writers room. Perry made the revelation Monday in a video on Instagram. The clip shows the entertainment mogul narrating as a camera pans across a stack of scripts from his Oprah Winfrey Network drama The Haves and The Have Nots…

SPOILER ALERT: This video contains details of some of the greatest series that TV had to offer this year. In fact, it lists series that Deadline's Chief TV Critic thinks are the Top 5 New Shows of 2019. You have been warned.  Happy New Year and welcome to the roaring twenties, 21st century style. Coming off a decade…

OWN has renewed the critically acclaimed drama David Makes Man from Oscar winner Tarell Alvin McCraney (Moonlight) for a second season. Dee Harris-Lawrence is set to return as showrunner while she, along with McCraney, Michael B. Jordan, Mike Kelley, Melissa Loy and Oprah Winfrey will serve as executive producers. The…

Blitz Bazawule, Aurora Guerrero and Deborah Kampmeier have been added to the director roster for Ava DuVernay’s forthcoming romantic anthology drama Cherish the Day. The OWN series has also added Michael Beach (ER), Anne-Marie Johnson (For The People) and Kellee Stewart (Guess Who) in recurring roles. The new trio of…

EXCLUSIVE: OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network is expanding its Saturday night lineup of unscripted shows that focus on love and relationships, giving a straight-to-series order to #LoveGoals. The celebrity relationship series hails from John Irwin’s Irwin Entertainment, which has a track record in the celebrity/relationship…