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EXCLUSIVE: Queen Sugar has a new boss to take the Ava DuVernay and Oprah Winfrey executive produced drama to its conclusion later this year Shaz Bennett will serve as showrunner for the OWN series in its seventh and final season. Set to start production this month down in Louisiana, Queen Sugar is expected to premiere…

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…

The Bordelon family is returning for season 6 on Sept. 7 at 8 p.m. ET/PT and OWN has your first look at how they’re reclaiming their lives out of the pandemic. The Ava DuVernay series returns as Ralph (Kofi Siriboe) and Darla (Bianca Lawson) are planning for the arrival of their new baby while Nova (Rutina Wesley)…

The ever-burgeoning slate of Ava DuVernay's media collective has a new boss, and it's a familiar face. Paul Garnes, Queen Sugar executive producer and Array’s Head of Physical Production, is now the President of Array Filmworks, the Oscar-nominated DuVernay revealed Thursday. With previous Filmworks chief Sarah…

EXCLUSIVE: "I've said it before, and I'll say it again, I truly treasure the Peabody because of the way in which it is determined, said Array founder Ava DuVernay on Tuesday as she and the decade-old collective were unveiled as this year's recipient of the Peabody's Institutional Award. Citing the "tremendous honor,"…

"We were literally just one episode into filming when we had to shut down because of Covid," Queen Sugar executive producer Paul Garnes says about Season 5 of the Ava DuVernay-created OWN series executive produced by Oprah Winfrey and hailing from Warner Bros Television. "We used that opportunity to reset and repivot…

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…