Best known for his work in Moonlight, David Makes Man is Tarell Alvin McCraney’s debut in television. He serves as series creator and is alongside an impressive team of executive producers that include Oprah Winfrey and Michael B. Jordan. This is the first of a series of projects that Jordan has launched under his Out
Greenleaf has been a major hit for the OWN network, but, according to a screenwriter and a pastor, it’s also stolen. In a lawsuit filed today in federal court in California, Shannan Lynette Wynn and Pastor Lester Eugene Barrie claim that Greenleaf is actually just a ripoff of a show they’d pitched to the network in 2014 called Justice & Glory. Both shows center around a powerful African American family and their megachurch.
The writing team says that after pitching to the network they were g
Discovery Communications is paying $70 million to take a majority interest in OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network.
Until now, OWN had been a 50-50 joint venture between the television star and the cable programming giant. The deal, announced Monday, increases Discovery’s ownership stake in the basic cable channel by an additional 24.5% to nearly 75%.
The transaction marks the first time that Winfrey has taken money out of the venture. The channel launched in 2011.
Winfrey, however, will continue to ser
When Tyler Perry began creating shows for the then-struggling OWN Network four years ago, he’d send the scripts he’d written to Oprah Winfrey for approval — and she’d wince.
“I would say, ‘I think that’s too much! It’s over the top! Oh my God, I can’t believe this is happening!'” Winfrey recounts about Perry’s first OWN show, “The Haves and Have Nots,” a prime-time drama fueled by connivers, sex and blackmail, now in its fourth season.
Others might have acquiesced to Winfrey. But not Perry.
A former employee at the TV-famous Sweetie Pie’s restaurant in The Grove has filed a discrimination suit against the business in U.S. District Court in St. Louis.
Veronica Tate, who worked for one week in October 2012 at the restaurant, claims in her lawsuit that she was subjected to constant sexual advances from “Ike,” who touched her, bumped into her and made sexually explicit comments to her.
Further, she says that when she brought the situation to the management’s attention, she was tol
For Better For Worse is back on OWN and actors Michael Jai White and Tasha Smithhave had some experience playing husband and wife. They were a couple in both of theWhy Did I Get Married movies. Their characters proved to be so popular that Tyler Perry spun them off into a TV show.
White and Smith say it easy for them to play a married couple. although both are married to other people in real life, because they’re good friends. And yes, at one point, they dated.
“Yes, that’s true back in the
Tuesday’s series premiere of Tyler Perry’s If Loving You is Wrong became the most watched series premiere in OWN network history after drawing 1.93 million viewers.
The episode delivered a 1.47 rating in the key “women aged 25-54 (W25-54)” demo, which translates to a 206% increase vs. one year ago, and the ratings built every quarter hour among W25-54 climbing 13% over the course of the hour, the network announced today, citing Nielsen.
The second episode at 10 p.m. delivered 1.92 million v
Visitors take photos outside Wait Chapel at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C., Friday, June 6, 2014. Former President Bill Clinton and Oprah Winfrey are joining First Lady Michelle Obama at a weekend memorial service for poet and author Maya Angelou at Wait Chapel. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)
In a moving tribute to Maya Angelou on Saturday former President Bill Clinton said that her greatest gift during her action-packed lifetime was paying attention to life around her and sharing it
It’s been a very busy 24 hours at Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Winston-Salem.
And it’s just about all anyone, including Pastor Serenus Churn, Senior, can do to keep from drowning in sadness.
“Right now we’re busy making preparations and arrangements so I don’t think it will be real to us quite yet,” said Churn.
Courtney Singleton, a member of the custodial staff added, “It’s an honor to be able to help.”
Churn was Dr. Maya Angelou’s pastor and friend for 30 years at Mt. Zion Baptist Church.
“Sh
OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network will simulcast Dr. Maya Angelou’s private memorial service in celebration of her legacy being held at Wake Forest University in North Carolina this Saturday, June 7 at 10 a.m. ET / 7 a.m. PT.
Winfrey has been in North Carolina helping to organize the service, to be held at Wait Chapel on campus. Wake Forest University spokeswoman Katie Neal said Friday that former President Bill Clinton and First Lady Michelle Obama will be among the attendees. Mrs. Obama will deliv
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The host is in early talks to reboot “The Arsenio Hall Show,” his manager tells TheWrap.
Is there a chance Arsenio Hall could pull off a third return to television? His manager, John Ferriter, tells TheWrap a three-peat is possible.
“There’s been an outpouring of support,” Ferriter says. “We started getting calls over the weekend.”
CBS Television Distribution announced it was pulling the plug on “The Arsenio Hall Show” Friday. Ferriter said other outlets didn’t was
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After becoming the first openly gay player selected in the NFL Draft, former Missouri star Michael Sam now faces the difficult task of making the Rams’ final roster and becoming the first openly gay active player in the history of the NFL. Fans will get an up-close and personal look at the process, as the Oprah Winfrey Network has announced that it will produce a documentary series following Sam as he prepares for the season.
Looking forward to sharing my life and
Media mogul Tyler Perry, 44, is enjoying the success of his ratings-grabbing OWN drama The Haves and Have Nots. Last month, it drew a record-breaking 3.4 million viewers to Oprah Winfrey’s network.
But the success of the show has not negated the negative feelings some carry toward one of the main characters, Hanna Young, a deeply flawed Christian portrayed by actress Crystal Fox—whom Perry defends.The problem?
Hanna’s staunch religious stance seemingly conflicts with her uncharacteristic att
Oprah is on the move, like always. She's gearing up to begin her show, "Oprah's Lifeclass" on her OWN. The talk show will be used to teach viewers lessons worth learning about anything in life.
