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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…

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’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…

EXCLUSIVE: Kofi Siriboe, best known as part of the main cast of OWN’s Queen Sugar, has signed with WME for agency representation. Siriboe, who was previously with Innovative Artists, has starred as Ralph Angel, one-third of the Bordelon siblings, for the past three seasons of the Ava DuVernay-created series, which is…

EXCLUSIVE: Ava DuVernay's relationship with Warner Bros Television Group just got a lot deeper and richer, literally and figuratively. The Emmy-winning and Oscar-nominated director has signed a multi-year and multi-genre overall deal with the Peter Roth-run studio. It’s a big leap for a filmmaker primary known as a…

The Aug. 8 episode of OWN’s Queen Sugar marked the TV directing debut of Rachel Raimist. Now, after 20 years of being a college professor at University of Alabama and indie filmmaker, Raimist is looking to break into Hollywood and is asking for the public’s help. In a GoFundMe post titled “It's Never Too Late For Yr…

Ahead of Queen Sugar‘s Season 3 finale, OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network has ordered a fourth season of Ava DuVernay’s critically acclaimed drama, with writer-co-executive producer Anthony Sparks set as new showrunner/executive producer. Sparks replaces current showrunner Kat Candler in the new season. The move continues…

This week, Amanda N’Duka and I are excited to bring you a special live episode from the ATX Television Festival featuring Queen Sugar cast Dawn Lyen-Gardner, Rutina Wesley and Kofi Siriboe as well as season three showrunner Kat Candler. After an advanced screening of an episode of the OWN drama series from Ava DuVernay…