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The fifth and final season premiere of Greenleaf delivered solid ratings for OWN, drawing 1.9 million viewers in Live+3, up 1% from the season 4 premiere. It also ranked as Tuesday night’s No. 1 cable telecast among women 25-54, up 2% vs. prior season premiere in L+3, and was the No. 1 telecast across all of broadcast…

The first season of David Makes Man from Oscar-winning screenwriter Tarell Alvin McCraney (Moonlight) is making its way to streaming. HBO Max has acquired exclusive streaming rights to the Peabody Award-winning drama and will debut on the streamer on July 16. The series, which is loosely based on McCraney's…

The Global numbers aren't in yet, but domestically Oprah Winfrey's two-night OWN Spotlight: Where Do We Go From Here? certainly had people taking and watching. Airing on OWN and 18 other Discovery-owned networks on June 9 and June 10, the pre-recorded wide-ranging conversation about the killing of George Floyd…

"No one’s talking about the economic inequalities that may lead people to want to go through a glass door to get a pair of shoes," said Ava DuVernay tonight on the Oprah Winfrey hosted special OWN Spotlight: Where Do We Go From Here? "No one’s talking about the systems that encompass all of the actions that we’re…

Amid continuing civil unrest in America following the death of George Floyd, OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network has set OWN Spotlight: Where Do We Go From Here?, a two-night special that will simulcast on OWN and across all of Discovery's 18 other U.S. networks.. The special, which airs Tuesday, June 9 and Wednesday, June 10…

OWN has confirmed that its church drama Greenleaf will end with its Season 5, set for a June debut. The show has been the No. 1 scripted show on cable among black viewers and averaged 1.1 million viewers in Season 4. In its final season, the Greenleaf family will be trying to save their Memphis megachurch from being…

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…