Some sweet news for Queen Sugar fans! OWN just announced they’ve renewed the TV show for a fifth season.
From Ava DuVernay, the drama series chronicles the lives and loves of the estranged Bordelon siblings who try to save the family sugarcane farm after a family tragedy. The cast includes Rutina Wesley, Dawn-Lyen Gardner, Kofi Siriboe, Bianca Lawson, Tina Lifford, and Ethan Hutchison.
Queen Sugar has been a ratings and critical hit for OWN since it debuted in 2016. Even though season four faltered a little in the ratings, the season still averaged a .20 in the 18-49 demo and 1.041 million viewers.
Season five of Queen Sugar is slated to debut on OWN in 2020.
Read more info below:
Los Angeles – OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network announced today it has renewed for a fifth season Ava DuVernay’s critically acclaimed drama series “Queen Sugar” to air in 2020. Produced by Warner Horizon Scripted Television, “Queen Sugar” has been lauded for its powerful portrayal of an African-American family in the Deep South and for DuVernay’s initiative since the series’ inception to hire an inclusive crew and all-female directing team, many of whom were first time TV directors. Current season four showrunner Anthony Sparks returns for the fifth season.
“Every character feels like family. Our own. I am excited to see what Ava has unfolding next for the Bordelons,” said Oprah Winfrey.
“I’m thrilled to further explore the beauty, pain and triumph of this African-American family, with hopes that their story will continue to resonate with audiences who see themselves in the Bordelons,” said DuVernay. “It’s a real honor to create this work with Warner Horizon and OWN as their support is rock-solid and wonderful.”
“Ava’s vision for ‘Queen Sugar’ is one of inspired storytelling, and her execution of that vision has given us a remarkable series that makes us so proud,” said Tina Perry, president, OWN. “Her leadership and creative spirit – including the commitment to exclusively hire female directors and establish an inclusive crew – is unprecedented and evident throughout each episode of this beautiful series. We are grateful to Ava and her entire team of talented writers, producers, cast and crew and look forward to another season.”
Led by the talented cast of Rutina Wesley, Dawn-Lyen Gardner and Kofi Siriboe, “Queen Sugar’s” storylines have delved into important topics such as police brutality, addiction and recovery, and systemic racism to name a few. The series has been awarded the NAACP Image Award for best drama and for three consecutive years was named Best TV Show Drama by the African American Film Critics Association (AAFCA) and nominated as Television Show of the Year by the American Black Film Festival (ABFF).
“Queen Sugar” is currently Wednesday night’s #1 original series across all of broadcast and cable for African-American women and total viewers. It has averaged a 1.54 rating W25-54 and 1,655,000 total viewers. The series’ W25-54 rating is up +2% over last year and it’s the #6 original scripted series on ad-supported cable (W25-54).
At the outset of production DuVernay established an inclusive initiative to hire an all-female directorial team. Since its debut in September 2016, 35 women have directed episodes of “Queen Sugar,” 32 of whom made their television directorial debut on the series. The inclusive hiring extends in front of and behind the camera, with a dozen female department heads from casting and production design to post-production and music supervision.
The overwhelming response to the series was also evident each week on social media demonstrating the strong connection viewers have to seeing multi-faceted portrayals of an African-American family on television. On a recent episode where two characters experience separate triggering events with sexual assault and police brutality, OWN and Warner Horizon Scripted Television worked in partnership with DuVernay’s ARRAY Impact to host a live social conversation #QUEENSUGARTALKS, featuring industry leaders such as Common and Iyanla Vanzant who answered questions and provided resources to those who may be personally affected by these issues.”
What do you think? Are you a fan of Queen Sugar? Are you glad it’s been renewed?
Thank you for another season! I always look forward to Wednesday nights to watch Queen Sugar 🙂
I love Queen Sugar, the characters seem like family. Very good actors. Glad there will be a season 5.
Yes I’m glad. I love the show. It’s so real
Please keep this show on the air. Love it. One of the best shows ever. Look forward to watching it every week. Cast is wonderful
Yes, Im a huge fan and am so happy to hear it’s been renewed but why do we have to wait so long? Ok, well as long as is coming back and Nova and Calvin stay together. At least I have my recordings to keep looking at. Thanks Ava and crew for such great work. Aunt Vi, you and Hollywood are the bomb too.❤❤
Yes, love the storyline & actors. Look forward to seeing each segment.
Thank you. I love watching an African American family drama that is not centered around drugs. QS deals with it as most do: with the impact that drugs have on families.
Yes, a very good show. It makes you feel like you are part of the story
Yes I am a fan of Queen Sugar. So glad that there will be a season 5 and maybe more to come. Love all the characters.
Last Wednesday, 9/11, I watched my “favorite ‘ TV show ‘Queen Sugar”. I LOVE THIS TV DRAMA! This last episode was absolutely ENTERTAINING! First – to see so much love, forgiveness, and acceptance expressed through the main characters was an expression of – what “FAMILY” is all about! For example to see Nova ask forgiveness from Ralph Angel and for her to remind him of their closeness when they were children, and for him to forgive her was “beautiful”. All the characters are excellently portrayed by the actors. Secondly, to see Ralph Angel to lovingly express his true feelings to… Read more »
I am excited that we have another season. The show is truly amazing.
I’m a big fan of queen sugar. I’m from this part of the South. It teaches us about love , forgiving, betrayal, togetherness , the struggles that we still encounter day to day if we try to take back whats rightfully ours. It also shows you how powerful people can try to under mind and sabotage people if we don’t stand up and fight for what’s right. Everyone has a past that can come back to haunt us. Queen sugar is beautiful and everyone should watch it because it has something that we can all learn from it.
Queen Sugar is about love, struggle, conflicts, and triumphs of an American family. The Bordelon characters displays strength, and weakness that we all share and have experience in our lives.
The scenes are beautiful, intense and so colorful. I am so touched and moved by the directing of each episode. Its an inspiration and a well written drama. Love, love, love!
Yes!!!!!! Live everything about this show!!!
Yes I am a die hard fan so glad it is renewed