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BET has renewed the top-rated Tyler Perry’s The Oval for a fourth season, just ahead of its Season 3 finale, and Tyler Perry’s Sistas for a fifth season. Sistas and The Oval are currently the No. 1 and No. 2 series, respectively, airing on cable with African Americans P2+, per Nielsen. Executive produced, directed…

EXCLUSIVE: Nick Barrotta, who has recurred as Allan since the first season of BET’s Tyler Perry’s The Oval, has been been promoted to series regular for the upcoming third season, and Kaye Singleton (Don’t Waste Your Pretty) and Russell Thomas (Jane The Virgin) have been cast as new series regulars for season 3, which…

EXCLUSIVE: A week after Tyler Perry's The Oval premiered its second season on BET, the drama series has been renewed for a third. Perry helped BET reclaim Tuesday as a night of original programming with the first TV airing of his Madea's Farewell Play and The Oval‘s Season 2 opener on February 16. Madea's Farewell Play…

The season finale of Tyler Perry's The Oval scored big numbers last Wednesday night. Over 3.2 million viewers P2+ tuned into the season finale of the drama via BET and BET Her with 2.9 million viewers tuning in to BET alone. On top of that, the second episode of the two clocked in as the series’ highest-rated…

BET+ has set Thursday, March 19 for the premiere of Tyler Perry’s Ruthless, a spin-off of the hit series Tyler Perry's The Oval. Multiple episodes of the 24-episode one-hour drama, Perry’s first new original series to stream on BET+, will be available to stream with new episodes launching every Thursday. Tyler Perry's…

The January 22 midseason finale of Tyler Perry’s The Oval and Tyler Perry’s Sistas episode hit series highs in the key P18-49 demo in Live+3 for BET. Tyler Perry's The Oval midseason finale at 9 PM drew a .832 P18-49 rating in Live+3, and 1.7M total viewers on BET alone. Across BET and BET her, the midseason finale…

Tyler Perry has revealed he writes all of his own TV shows, without any assistance from a writers room. Perry made the revelation Monday in a video on Instagram. The clip shows the entertainment mogul narrating as a camera pans across a stack of scripts from his Oprah Winfrey Network drama The Haves and The Have Nots…

The Tyler Perry era at BET officially kicked off last night with the premieres of Tyler Perry's The Oval and Tyler Perry's Sistas, both created, executive produced and directed by the prolific filmmaker and entrepreneur. The Oval premiered to more than 1 million Live+Same Day viewers on BET at 9 PM. That was above the…