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[06/30/16 - 12:33 PM]
"Queen Sugar" to Debut with Two-Night Premiere Event Tuesday, September 6, and Wednesday, September 7 at 10 PM ET/PT on OWN
Led by acclaimed film director Ava DuVernay, who directed the first two episodes, all episodes in the series' debut season are directed by women.

[via press release from OWN]

"QUEEN SUGAR" TO DEBUT WITH TWO-NIGHT PREMIERE EVENT TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, AND WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7 AT 10 PM ET/PT ON OWN

New Original Drama Series From Award-Winning Filmmaker Ava DuVernay and Executive Producer Oprah Winfrey and Warner Horizon Television

All Episodes In First Season Directed By Women

Los Angeles - "Queen Sugar," the new original one-hour weekly drama series from award-winning filmmaker Ava DuVernay and executive producer Oprah Winfrey, debuts as a two-night event on Tuesday, September 6 and Wednesday, September 7 at 10 p.m. ET/PT on OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network. The series will regularly air Wednesday nights at 10 p.m. ET/PT for the remainder of its 13-episode first season. Led by acclaimed film director DuVernay, who directed the first two episodes, all episodes in the series' debut season are directed by women.

Produced by Warner Horizon Television, the contemporary drama "Queen Sugar" chronicles the lives and loves of the estranged Bordelon siblings in Saint Josephine, Louisiana: Nova (Rutina Wesley "True Blood"), a world-wise journalist and activist; Charley (Dawn-Lyen Gardner "Unforgettable"), the savvy wife and manager of an NBA star; and Ralph Angel (Kofi Siriboe "Awkward"), a formerly incarcerated young father in search of redemption. After a family tragedy, the Bordelons must navigate the triumphs and struggles of their complicated lives in order to run an ailing sugarcane farm in the Deep South. "Queen Sugar" is produced for OWN by Warner Horizon Television. The executive producers are Ava DuVernay, Melissa Carter and Oprah Winfrey. The series is inspired by the book by Natalie Baszile.

The contemporary drama begins as Charley, a savvy and spirited woman living an upscale Los Angeles lifestyle, returns to her family home - an 800-acre sugarcane farm in the heart of Louisiana - when her father has a stroke. There, she reunites with her estranged siblings Nova and Ralph Angel, who are each navigating their lives and love relationships. Together, they must learn to rely on one another as they inherit the family farm and attempt to rebuild both the land and their relationships.

The expansive cast includes Tina Lifford ("Parenthood") as Aunt Violet; Omar J. Dorsey ("Ray Donovan," "Selma") as Violet's much younger boyfriend Hollywood Desonier; Dondré Whitfield ("Mistresses") as trusted Bordelon family friend Remy Newell; Timon Kyle Durrett ("Single Ladies") as Charley's husband, pro basketball player Davis West, Nicholas L. Ashe (The Lion King - National Tour) as Charley and Davis' teenage son, Micah; Greg Vaughan ("Days of Our Lives") a local cop and Nova's lover, Calvin; and Ethan Hutchison ("The Path") as Ralph-Angel's son, Blue. Additionally, Emmy and multiple NAACP Image Award-winning actor Glynn Turman ("The Wire") guest stars as Bordelon patriarch Ernest; Henry G. Sanders ("Rocky Balboa") recurs as Prosper Denton, a farmer and longtime friend of Ernest's, Bianca Lawson ("Rogue") guest stars as Ralph Angel's ex-girlfriend Darla and Marycarmen Lopez ("From Dusk 'Til Dawn: The Series") as Blue's elementary school teacher.

Created for television by DuVernay, she directed the first two episodes of "Queen Sugar" and hand-picked an all-female roster of directors to helm the subsequent episodes of the series' first season. The slate of both seasoned and emerging directing talent includes Tina Mabry ("Mississippi Damned"), Victoria Mahoney ("Yelling to the Sky"), Tanya Hamilton ("Night Catches Us"), So Yong Kim ("Lovesong," "Treeless Mountain"), Kat Candler ("Hellion"), Salli Richardson-Whitfield ("Eureka") and Neema Barnette ("Woman Thou Art Loosed: On the 7th Day," "Being Mary Jane").

About OWN: OPRAH WINFREY NETWORK

OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network is the first and only network named for, and inspired by, a single iconic leader. Oprah Winfrey's heart and creative instincts inform the brand - and the magnetism of the channel. Winfrey provides leadership in programming and attracts superstar talent to join her in primetime, building a global community of like-minded viewers and leading that community to connect on social media and beyond. OWN is a singular destination on cable. Depth with edge. Heart. Star power. Connection. And endless possibilities. OWN is a joint venture between Harpo, Inc. and Discovery Communications. The network debuted on January 1, 2011 and is available in 85 million homes. The venture also includes the award-winning digital platform Oprah.com. For more information, please visit http://www.oprah.com/own.

About Warner Horizon Television

Warner Horizon Television (WHTV) is one of the entertainment industry's leading producers of scripted series for the cable and subscription/on-demand marketplace, and primetime reality series for both network and cable. A division of the Warner Bros. Television Group, WHTV was founded in 2006. Its current scripted programs are Rizzoli & Isles and Animal Kingdom for TNT, People of Earth for TBS, Pretty Little Liars and Famous in Love for Freeform, Longmire and Fuller House for Netflix, and Queen Sugar for OWN. WHTV's unscripted series are The Voice and Little Big Shots for NBC, as well as The Bachelor franchise - which also includes The Bachelorette, Bachelor in Paradise and After Paradise for ABC, as well as Ben and Lauren: Happily Ever After for Freeform - and 500 Questions for ABC, among others.





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