Last year, the Queen Sugar TV show on OWN saw a huge drop in the ratings. Still, it’s back for a fourth season, but is the Oprah Winfrey Network still sweet on it? Will Queen Sugar be cancelled or renewed for season five? Stay tuned. *Status update below.
An OWN original drama from Ava DuVernay, Queen Sugar stars Rutina Wesley, Dawn-Lyen Gardner, Kofi Siriboe, Bianca Lawson, Tina Lifford, Ethan Hutchison, Omar J. Dorsey, Dondré Whitfield, Timon Kyle Durrett, Henry G. Sanders, Erica Tazel, Kendall Clark, and Walter Pere. Based on the Natalie Baszile novel, the story unfolds in the fictional Louisiana town of Saint Josephine. It chronicles the lives and loves of the estranged Bordelon siblings who try to save the family sugarcane farm, after a family tragedy.
Below are the show’s TV ratings, typically the best way to tell if the series will be cancelled or renewed. These figures will be updated as the weeks progress.
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For comparisons: The third season of Queen Sugar on OWN averaged a 0.25 rating in the 18-49 year old viewer demographic and an average total audience of 1.098 million viewers.
Cable ratings are typically released within a day or so of the show’s airing, except for in the case of weekends and holidays. They are sometimes harder to come by so there may be occasional delays or gaps.
What do you think? Do you like the Queen Sugar TV series? Should OWN cancel or renew this TV series for a fifth season?
*9/12/19 update: OWN has renewed Queen Sugar for a fifth season.
Yes, I love all season of Queen Sugar!! I’m ready for season to start!!
Queen Sugar MUST return for Season 5! It is such an inspiring look at family and the dynamics that come with it. This show, with its portrayal of beautiful Black women in their various and striking hues of skin color is an important contribution to positive images of Black women in cinema and in life! We need this show!!!
Ratings may be down because it costs extra now. It never used to. I love this show. Bummed I don’t get it anymore
Love Queen Sugar & All Characters…Please do not cancel the show! Looking forward to Season 5 and beyond.
Please do not cancel Queen Sugar. I hate that season 4 has ended already.
Queen Sugar is by far my favorite show.
Please renew for another season. This show
Gives me something to look forward too.
Please please please renew Queen Sugar for many more season, I love me some Queen Sugar, the actors are amazing, the story lines speaks volumes and very very relatable.
Please do not cancel Queen Sugar!!!
It is by far one one of the best drama on
TV…I look forward to Wednesday night!
Don’t understand why it hasn’t won an
NAACP award.
Please don’t cancel Queen Sugar; it is one of my favorite shows on tv right now!!!
Love love love this show. Please keep it going
I love queen sugar. Please renew it for season 5!!!!
Great show.. Just so many other shows and new streaming and channels being created. Being in TV and Production the numbers will continue to drop due to the way people have to FIND time to watch the shows that matter most to them and or simply not watch. Keep Queen Sugar. Maybe we will need to decrease the numbers as most show do not average the high number any more like in the past when we had less channels. Neilson has a way to widen their reports to different demographics. Heck, it may not be getting the correct numbers and… Read more »
I absolutely LOVE Queen Sugar. Been loving the series ever since the very first day and time it aired on back in Sept. 6,7 2016, 2 night season premiere. Still loving and looking at it now and always will. I hope this series last for other generations to come to view it. My favorite on Queen Sugar is Nova Bordelon, played by Miss Rutina Wesley. She’s such a blessings to soooo many people.