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SPOILER ALERT: This post contains details of Queen Sugar’s Season 5 finale "Looking back over the season, as emotional as it was for people to watch it when it aired, it was very emotional even when we shot it," says Queen Sugar executive producer Paul Garnes of the fifth season of the Ava DuVernay created series and…

EXCLUSIVE: Tammy Townsend (K.C. Undercover) has been tapped as a new series regular on the upcoming sixth season of Ava DuVernay’s drama Queen Sugar, which is currently in production in New Orleans. Paula Jai Parker (The Wayans Bros.), Marquis Rodriguez (When They See Us) and McKinley Freeman (Titans) have joined the O…

On the evening of March 12, 2020, Grey’s Anatomy executive producers Krista Vernoff, Debbie Allen and James Williams sent a note to the series’ cast and crew, informing them that “Out of an abundance of caution, production is postponed effective immediately. We are going home now for at least two weeks and waiting to…

The Bordelons are back, and coming back again. A month before the fifth season of Queen Sugar is set to debut, OWN has renewed the Ava DuVernay-created drama for Season 6. "What a joy and an honor to continue the stories of Queen Sugar with our partners at OWN and Warner Bros.," said EP DuVernay today of the early…

EXCLUSIVE: Anthony Sparks, showrunner of Ava DuVernay's OWN drama Queen Sugar, has struck a first-look deal with Blumhouse Television. Sparks, who has written and produced series including The Blacklist and Undercovers, is working with The Loudest Voice producer to develop and produce scripted series. It comes after…

OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network is set to resume production in New Orleans on the remainder of the 10-episode season 5 of Queen Sugar, shut down in March due to COVID-19. Since filming came to a halt nearly seven months ago, creator Ava DuVernay decided to completely revamp the remainder of the season to reflect the very…

UPDATED with date, time of ceremony: The 13th Television Academy Honors will be hosted by Jameela Jamil as a virtual event and will stream live Tuesday, September 8 at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT on the Television Academy’s website. Winners of the honors, which recognize TV shows that shed light on complex issues and…

One of the busiest people in Hollywood just got a little bit busier with a Queen Sugar reunion of sorts. Ava DuVernay and her ARRAY Filmworks have re-teamed with Kat Candler to develop a one-hour drama series for TNT centered on the Texas oil industry. The latest project out of the sprawling nine-figure overall deal…

EXCLUSIVE: If you saw the Season 4 finale of Queen Sugar last night, you know that the series created by Ava DuVernay and from executive producer Oprah Winfrey didn't bring a heavyweight like Amirah Vann on board for the closing minutes to wrap things up. And they haven't – Queen Sugar is coming back next year for a…

SPOILER ALERT: This story includes details about tonight’s Queen Sugar Season 4 finale on OWN. "As we've gone through the four seasons it's been a juggling act to make sure that this feels relevant, but also has the intimacy of the black family dynamic that so many of us who work on it know to be true and want the…

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…

"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…