OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network has tapped Karen Grant-Selma as senior vice president, business & legal affairs, overseeing all business affairs and legal matters at OWN LLC. In her new role, Grant-Selma will also include overseeing OWN standards & practices, international sales, union administration, insurance…

Netflix and OWN will air Sunday’s Oprah Winfrey Presents When They See Us Now Emmy FYSEE panel on Wednesday, June 12 at 10 PM ET/PT. The conversations, hosted by Winfrey and DuVernay, will be recorded and will air immediately following the Season 4 premiere of DuVernay's Queen Sugar drama series at 9 PM June 12 on…

EXCLUSIVE: Ahead of next week’s Season 4 premiere of Queen Sugar, the OWN drama has announced five more directors and a pair of guest stars for the upcoming run. Lacey Duke, C. Fitz, Pratibha Parmar, Deborah Kampmeier and Stacey Muhammad are set as helmers for S4, bringing the total number of female filmmakers to make…

OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network has teamed with producer and content creator Steve Jones to broadcast a special on the WACO (Where Art Can Occur) Foundation annual flagship charitable costume event, The Wearable Art Gala, for the first time in its three-year history. Founded by Tina Knowles Lawson and Richard Lawson, the…

"Have you lost your mind?' screams Dawn-Lyen Gardner's Charley Bordelon in the upcoming fourth season of Queen Sugar. One look at the new trailer (SEE ABOVE) of the Ava DuVernay and Oprah Winfrey executive produced OWN drama certainly gives the impression that the world and the tight-knit Louisiana family have done…

Actor and comedian David Alan Grier let out a little secret on Saturday. The Native Son star and In Living Color alum is set to guest star on Season 4 of Ava DuVernay’s Queen Sugar. He took to Twitter and posted an image of a Queen Sugar script with the caption “Shhhhhhhhhhh!!!!” Deadline has confirmed that he will be…

Ava DuVernay (Queen Sugar) has set her next series at OWN. The network has given a straight-to-series order to Cherish the Day, an original anthology series from DuVernay and Warner Horizon Scripted Television. The project is part of DuVernay’s overall deal with Warner Bros. TV. Oprah Winfrey will executive produce…

Ava DuVernay’s Queen Sugar will return for its fourth season on OWN Wednesday, June 12 with Erica Tazel and Kendall Clark joining as recurring guest stars and Walter Perez upped to series regular. The new season also continues the series’ use of an all-female directing team, a “creative initiative” established in the…

Oprah Winfrey will interview Michael Jackson accusers Wade Robson and James Safechuck for a special to air on HBO and OWN immediately following Monday night’s HBO presentation of Dan Reed’s Leaving Neverland. The special, Oprah Winfrey Presents: After Neverland was taped before an audience that includes survivors of…

Series from Oscar winner Tarell Alvin McCraney and Warner Horizon Scripted Television centers on a 14-year-old from the projects in South Florida, as he seeks a path out of poverty.

Two months and one series cancellation after being accused of severe abuse and copyright theft by Amber Dixon Brenner, Black Lightning showrunner Salim Akil yesterday sought to have the whole matter tossed into the legal dustbin. “Defendant denies, generally and specifically, each and every allegation contained in…

Brian Bosworth (What Men Want), Deena Dill (Conrad & Michelle, Vice Principals), Gino Anthony Pesi (Shades of Blue, 42) and Kayla Smith (Star, Black Lightning) are set for recurring roles on OWN’s Ambitions, a soapy family drama from producer Will Packer, Lionsgate and Debmar-Mercury. The series starring Robin Givens…