OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network is continuing its reality push and has ordered a new gospel-based non-scripted series in addition to renewing five existing franchises.
This comes after the Discovery-backed network expanded its Saturday unscripted programming block to Fridays last year.
Young & Gospel will follow the lives of four young gospel artists as they pursue their dreams and live life on their own terms while staying true to their faith and their families.
It stars singers Koryn Hawthorne, Bri Babineaux, Jekalyn Carr and Christian rapper Wande.
The show is produced by ITV America’s Thinkfactory Media and is exec produced by Adam Reed, Adam Freeman, Jordana Hochman, Phil Thornton and Jen McClure-Metz.
Elsewhere, Ready to Love, Black Love, Put a Ring On It, Family or Fiancé and Love & Marriage: Huntsville have all been renewed.
Ready to Love, a dating series from Will Packer Media and Lighthearted Entertainment, returns with...
This comes after the Discovery-backed network expanded its Saturday unscripted programming block to Fridays last year.
Young & Gospel will follow the lives of four young gospel artists as they pursue their dreams and live life on their own terms while staying true to their faith and their families.
It stars singers Koryn Hawthorne, Bri Babineaux, Jekalyn Carr and Christian rapper Wande.
The show is produced by ITV America’s Thinkfactory Media and is exec produced by Adam Reed, Adam Freeman, Jordana Hochman, Phil Thornton and Jen McClure-Metz.
Elsewhere, Ready to Love, Black Love, Put a Ring On It, Family or Fiancé and Love & Marriage: Huntsville have all been renewed.
Ready to Love, a dating series from Will Packer Media and Lighthearted Entertainment, returns with...
- 3/18/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Iyanla Vanzant is getting out of the life-fixing business — at least on television. The life coach’s hit OWN series Iyanla: Fix My Life will end with its upcoming eighth season, our sister site Deadline reports.
Iyanla: Fix My Life will kick of its eighth and final season on Saturday, April 10 (9/8c), which will culminate with a two-hour series finale on Saturday, May 22.
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Iyanla: Fix My Life will kick of its eighth and final season on Saturday, April 10 (9/8c), which will culminate with a two-hour series finale on Saturday, May 22.
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- 3/17/2021
- by Andy Swift
- TVLine.com
After ten years, eight seasons and nearly 150 episodes, OWN’s award-winning hit unscripted series Iyanla: Fix My Life will end with its eighth season.
Iyanla: Fix My Life will premiere its final season on Saturday, April 10 at 9 pm Et/Pt. A two-hour farewell special will air on Saturday, May 22 at 9 pm Et/Pt, featuring memorable moments and never-before-seen footage from the series.
Iyanla: Fix My Life, featuring six-time New York Times bestselling author, spiritual life coach, host, and executive producer Iyanla Vanzant, has been the highest-rated unscripted series in OWN history across all key demos. The long-running series is a four-time NAACP Image Award winner for Outstanding Reality Series and Vanzant has been nominated four times as Outstanding Host in a Reality/Reality Competition or Game Show category, recently for the 2020 season. During its most recent season (10/31-12/19/20), Iyanla: Fix My Life was Saturday night’s #1 original series across broadcast...
Iyanla: Fix My Life will premiere its final season on Saturday, April 10 at 9 pm Et/Pt. A two-hour farewell special will air on Saturday, May 22 at 9 pm Et/Pt, featuring memorable moments and never-before-seen footage from the series.
Iyanla: Fix My Life, featuring six-time New York Times bestselling author, spiritual life coach, host, and executive producer Iyanla Vanzant, has been the highest-rated unscripted series in OWN history across all key demos. The long-running series is a four-time NAACP Image Award winner for Outstanding Reality Series and Vanzant has been nominated four times as Outstanding Host in a Reality/Reality Competition or Game Show category, recently for the 2020 season. During its most recent season (10/31-12/19/20), Iyanla: Fix My Life was Saturday night’s #1 original series across broadcast...
- 3/17/2021
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
OWN’s “Iyanla: Fix My Life” will end after its upcoming eighth season, the network announced Wednesday.
The series will premiere its final season on April 10, with a the finale on May 15. A two-hour special farewell episode will air on May 22.
“Iyanla,” the highest-rated unscripted series in OWN history across all key demos, will have produced 150 episodes by the end of its run.
“The minute Iyanla stepped onto the stage of ‘The Oprah Show,’ I knew she had a talent that was meant to be shared and I am glad that she created the perfect vehicle to provide OWN viewers with her healing magic,” OWN founder Oprah Winfrey said in a statement. “Sunsetting the series is bittersweet. I’m very thankful for her and the work she does and look forward to what unfolds next from her gift of teaching people to be better versions of themselves.”
“We are grateful...
The series will premiere its final season on April 10, with a the finale on May 15. A two-hour special farewell episode will air on May 22.
“Iyanla,” the highest-rated unscripted series in OWN history across all key demos, will have produced 150 episodes by the end of its run.
“The minute Iyanla stepped onto the stage of ‘The Oprah Show,’ I knew she had a talent that was meant to be shared and I am glad that she created the perfect vehicle to provide OWN viewers with her healing magic,” OWN founder Oprah Winfrey said in a statement. “Sunsetting the series is bittersweet. I’m very thankful for her and the work she does and look forward to what unfolds next from her gift of teaching people to be better versions of themselves.”
“We are grateful...
- 3/17/2021
- by Tim Baysinger
- The Wrap
OWN is developing the network’s first animated comedy series The Mound from Munirah Safiyah Jones — who is no stranger to the animation space. Jones is the creator of OWN’s NAACP Image Award-nominated animated short form series Sincerely, Camille and the viral hit Junt Land.
The Mound is set in the 1980s in the Orange Mound neighborhood of Memphis, Tennessee, which is the first Black neighborhood in American history built by and for Black people. The animated comedy series follows the lives of Duke and Naomi Wiley-King as they balance marriage, family, and careers with the more pressing community issues of salon gossip, bougie aunties, suspect potato salad, and aerobicized colonizers.
“Munirah’s incisive wit makes you laugh out loud and think critically at the same time,” said OWN President Tina Perry. “We can’t wait to see what she does with the backdrop of such a unique Southern setting in the ‘80s.
The Mound is set in the 1980s in the Orange Mound neighborhood of Memphis, Tennessee, which is the first Black neighborhood in American history built by and for Black people. The animated comedy series follows the lives of Duke and Naomi Wiley-King as they balance marriage, family, and careers with the more pressing community issues of salon gossip, bougie aunties, suspect potato salad, and aerobicized colonizers.
“Munirah’s incisive wit makes you laugh out loud and think critically at the same time,” said OWN President Tina Perry. “We can’t wait to see what she does with the backdrop of such a unique Southern setting in the ‘80s.
- 3/15/2021
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
In today’s TV news roundup, PBS SoCal and Kcet announced it’s revamping its upcoming schedule in solidarity with Black community following the death of George Floyd, and the Television Academy Foundation has announced four new members will be joining its board of directors.
Programming
PBS SoCal and Kcet have announced a restructure of its upcoming programming schedule to stand in solidarity with the Black community following the death of George Floyd, who died in Minneapolis police custody on memorial day. The revamped schedule will feature previously produced local productions highlighting relevant content from series such as “Socal Connected,” “Lost La,” “Artbound” and “Broken Bread.” In addition, the networks will also broadcast the PBS newshour special “Race Matters: America in Crisis,” as well as an updated look at the 2016 special “America in Black and Blue 2020” and other past noteworthy titles. The lineup of programs are intended to help viewers...
Programming
PBS SoCal and Kcet have announced a restructure of its upcoming programming schedule to stand in solidarity with the Black community following the death of George Floyd, who died in Minneapolis police custody on memorial day. The revamped schedule will feature previously produced local productions highlighting relevant content from series such as “Socal Connected,” “Lost La,” “Artbound” and “Broken Bread.” In addition, the networks will also broadcast the PBS newshour special “Race Matters: America in Crisis,” as well as an updated look at the 2016 special “America in Black and Blue 2020” and other past noteworthy titles. The lineup of programs are intended to help viewers...
- 6/10/2020
- by Klaritza Rico
- Variety Film + TV
The Television Academy Foundation has added four new members to its board of directors: Endemol Shine’s Cris Abrego, Bunim/Murray Productions co-founder Jonathan Murray, Own president Tina Perry and composer Rickey Minor.
Abrego is chairman, Endemol Shine Americas, and CEO, Endemol Shine North America, and oversees shows in the U.S. including Big Brother, MasterChef and Lego Masters.
Minor is a music director, composer and producer whose credits include The Tonight Show Starring Jay Leno, American Idol and America’s Got Talent. He picked up an Emmy in 2017 for Taking The Stage: African American Music and Stories That Changed America and also serves as a board appointee to the Academy’s Executive Committee and co-chair of the Academy’s Diversity Committee.
Murray co-founded The Real World and Keeping Up With the Kardashians producer Bunim/Murray. He has served multiple terms on the board of the TV Academy representing the Reality...
Abrego is chairman, Endemol Shine Americas, and CEO, Endemol Shine North America, and oversees shows in the U.S. including Big Brother, MasterChef and Lego Masters.
Minor is a music director, composer and producer whose credits include The Tonight Show Starring Jay Leno, American Idol and America’s Got Talent. He picked up an Emmy in 2017 for Taking The Stage: African American Music and Stories That Changed America and also serves as a board appointee to the Academy’s Executive Committee and co-chair of the Academy’s Diversity Committee.
Murray co-founded The Real World and Keeping Up With the Kardashians producer Bunim/Murray. He has served multiple terms on the board of the TV Academy representing the Reality...
- 6/9/2020
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
In Today’s TV News Roundup, Netflix announced the premiere dates for part two of the “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” and season five of “Grace and Frankie.”
Dates
The fifth season of Netflix’s hit comedy series “Grace and Frankie” is set to premiere Jan. 18. In “Grace and Frankie,” Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin star as enemies turned friends after their husbands come out as gay and leave them for each other. This season will deal with the fall out of last season’s finale, in which Grace and Frankie lost the beach house where they had lived for the majority of the show.
First Looks
Netflix released a new teaser trailer for part two of Season 1 of its “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” series, premiering April 5. In the new trailer, Sabrina sports a new white hairdo while once again navigating her complicated relationship between the witch world and the human world.
Dates
The fifth season of Netflix’s hit comedy series “Grace and Frankie” is set to premiere Jan. 18. In “Grace and Frankie,” Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin star as enemies turned friends after their husbands come out as gay and leave them for each other. This season will deal with the fall out of last season’s finale, in which Grace and Frankie lost the beach house where they had lived for the majority of the show.
First Looks
Netflix released a new teaser trailer for part two of Season 1 of its “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” series, premiering April 5. In the new trailer, Sabrina sports a new white hairdo while once again navigating her complicated relationship between the witch world and the human world.
- 12/3/2018
- by Nate Nickolai
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Ryan Seacrest, Tyler Perry and interim CBS chairman Strauss Zelnick are among seven new members of The Paley Center for Media’s Board of Trustees, with top execs from Hulu, Amazon and Turner joining the organization’s Los Angeles Board of Governors.
The nonprofit organization has unveiled seven new trustees and five new governors, chosen from the realms of television, music and technology.
Joining the Paley Board of Trustees will be Adam Bird, Senior Partner, McKinsey and Company; Steve Cooper, CEO, Warner Music Group; Jennifer Mullin, CEO, Fremantle; Tyler Perry, Founder & Owner, Tyler Perry Studios; Jimmy Pitaro, Co-Chair, Disney Media Networks & President, ESPN; Ryan Seacrest, Creative Entrepreneur, TV Radio Host and Producer; and Zelnick, who is chairman and CEO, Take-Two Interactive Software as well as his CBS role.
New members of the Los Angeles Board of Governors will include Randy Freer, CEO, Hulu; Tina Perry, General Manager, Own: Oprah Winfrey Network; Kevin Reilly,...
The nonprofit organization has unveiled seven new trustees and five new governors, chosen from the realms of television, music and technology.
Joining the Paley Board of Trustees will be Adam Bird, Senior Partner, McKinsey and Company; Steve Cooper, CEO, Warner Music Group; Jennifer Mullin, CEO, Fremantle; Tyler Perry, Founder & Owner, Tyler Perry Studios; Jimmy Pitaro, Co-Chair, Disney Media Networks & President, ESPN; Ryan Seacrest, Creative Entrepreneur, TV Radio Host and Producer; and Zelnick, who is chairman and CEO, Take-Two Interactive Software as well as his CBS role.
New members of the Los Angeles Board of Governors will include Randy Freer, CEO, Hulu; Tina Perry, General Manager, Own: Oprah Winfrey Network; Kevin Reilly,...
- 12/3/2018
- by Dade Hayes
- Deadline Film + TV
It is an end of an era at Own: Oprah Winfrey Network as Erik Logan departs after seven years as president. An avid surfer, he is joining the World Surf League as President of Content, Media and Wsl Studios. At Own, Logan will be succeeded by the network’s Evp, business and legal affairs and board member Tina Perry who is being promoted to general manager. Her title aligns Own, a joint venture between Discovery Communications and Winfrey’s Harpo, with the other Disney networks which are led by General Managers.
Logan will remain at Own for four months to help with the transition before starting at Wsl in January. Perry, who will assume her new role in January, will oversee all business and creative areas of Own. The network’s programming team under her includes Jon Sinclair Evp, Programming & Development, who shepherds unscripted; Tara Montgomery Creative Evp, Programming, Production & Development,...
Logan will remain at Own for four months to help with the transition before starting at Wsl in January. Perry, who will assume her new role in January, will oversee all business and creative areas of Own. The network’s programming team under her includes Jon Sinclair Evp, Programming & Development, who shepherds unscripted; Tara Montgomery Creative Evp, Programming, Production & Development,...
- 10/8/2018
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Oprah Winfrey Network (Own) president Erik Logan is stepping down after seven years at the cable network, Own announced Monday.
Logan will be departing to become the president of content, media and Wsl Studios for the World Surf League. Tina Perry, executive vice president of business and legal affairs a and board member of Own, has now been named general manager of the network effective January 2019. In the new role, she will report to Own chairwoman and CEO Oprah Winfrey, overseeing all business and creative areas of the network.
“Erik has been a great leader and was the driving force in the network’s turn around,” Winfrey said. “Everyone who knows Erik knows he has a passion for surfing and this is a perfect opportunity for him. Tina has been an important and valued member of the executive team at Own since before launch and played a vital role in...
Logan will be departing to become the president of content, media and Wsl Studios for the World Surf League. Tina Perry, executive vice president of business and legal affairs a and board member of Own, has now been named general manager of the network effective January 2019. In the new role, she will report to Own chairwoman and CEO Oprah Winfrey, overseeing all business and creative areas of the network.
“Erik has been a great leader and was the driving force in the network’s turn around,” Winfrey said. “Everyone who knows Erik knows he has a passion for surfing and this is a perfect opportunity for him. Tina has been an important and valued member of the executive team at Own since before launch and played a vital role in...
- 10/8/2018
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
Tina Perry will replace Erik Logan atop Oprah Winfrey’s Own TV network. Logan is leaving for a role at the World Surf League — a surfing-event company that dabbles in TV.
Perry will technically be the cable channel’s general manager, while Logan was its president. The difference in title is merely due to how Discovery does things — Perry will still report directly to Own chairman/CEO Winfrey and oversee all business and creative areas.
Discovery, Inc. paid $70 million late last year to become the majority shareholder in Own, hence the title thing. Own was previously owned 50-50 by Discovery and Oprah’s Harpo.
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Logan was Own president for seven years. He’s soon to be the World Surf League’s president of content, media and Wsl Studios.
“Erik has been a great leader and was...
Perry will technically be the cable channel’s general manager, while Logan was its president. The difference in title is merely due to how Discovery does things — Perry will still report directly to Own chairman/CEO Winfrey and oversee all business and creative areas.
Discovery, Inc. paid $70 million late last year to become the majority shareholder in Own, hence the title thing. Own was previously owned 50-50 by Discovery and Oprah’s Harpo.
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Logan was Own president for seven years. He’s soon to be the World Surf League’s president of content, media and Wsl Studios.
“Erik has been a great leader and was...
- 10/8/2018
- by Tony Maglio
- The Wrap
Own will soon see some changes in its top creative post. Network president Erik Logan is departing at the end of 2018, and current business and legal affairs topper Tina Perry will fill his void as the network's new general manager.
Perry, who joined Oprah Winfrey’s media empire in 2009, has been instrumental in negotiating deals with such marquee talent as Ava DuVernay, Will Packer, Mara Brock Akil and Salim Akil. Her new post will see her running one of cable’s most thriving scripted rosters, one that includes Queen Sugar, Greenleaf and, at least for the next year, a ...
Perry, who joined Oprah Winfrey’s media empire in 2009, has been instrumental in negotiating deals with such marquee talent as Ava DuVernay, Will Packer, Mara Brock Akil and Salim Akil. Her new post will see her running one of cable’s most thriving scripted rosters, one that includes Queen Sugar, Greenleaf and, at least for the next year, a ...
- 10/8/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
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