Queen Sugar Season 7 Release Date: Ava DuVernay is Returning!

Ava DuVernay (Selma, A Wrinkle in Time) is set to direct the series finale of Queen Sugar, returning one of her original voices to the director’s chair. Based on the book of the same name by Natalie Baszile, the OWN series made its debut in 2016. The show’s creator is DuVernay, while Oprah Winfrey serves as executive producer.

Over the years, the filmmaker has continued to work on Queen Sugar and has written additional episodes. At the end of this year, the eighth and final season of the project will debut, which will add seven in total. Since only women are chosen to direct each episode, OWN has made an effort to cater the series to first-time female directors. Current showrunner Shaz Bennett will direct an episode for the first time in the upcoming season. Patricia Cardoso, Stacey Muhammad and Kat Candler will also be in charge of the final episodes.

What are Ava DuVernay? It’s work?

In recent years, DuVernay has largely allied himself with television. He has specialized in projects related to social justice for shows like When They See Us and Colin in Black and White. She co-created Naomi with Jill Blankenship, a recently canceled CW series about comic book superfan Naomi McDuffie who investigates a paranormal occurrence in her hometown. DMZ, directed by DuVernay for HBO Max, also recently debuted. The series, starring Rosario Dawson, centers on a doctor (Dawson) searching for her son in the harsh political climate of the present.

What is Queen Sugar about?

The movie Queen Sugar tells the story of three brothers, Ralph (Kofi Siriboe), Charley and Nova (Rutina Wesley), who take over their father’s sugar cane field in rural Louisiana. Nicholas L. Ashe, Omar Dorsey, Dondre Whitfield, Timon Kyle Durrett and Greg Vaughan are more cast members. Reagan Gomez-Preston, True O’Brien, and Glynn Turman have all made notable guest appearances.

Queen Sugar has received critical acclaim for accurately portraying class and ethnicity, as well as the black experience. It’s been running the longest among original OWN shows at this point. Cherish the Day, a romance anthology series starring Xosha Roquemore, Alano Miller and Cicely Tyson, is one of numerous shows currently airing new episodes on the network. The soap opera The Kings of Napa, which debuted in January and just finished its first season, is another option.

Later this year, OWN will broadcast the seventh season of Queen Sugar.